The effect that Musk mentioned was, “you can’t really get work done,” which feels less like “Google search” and more like “personal experience.” And I said that “it seems to me like he’s probably abused it at some point,” which feels like the right sort of certainty for this sort of conclusion from that evidence.

I wasn’t surprised when reading the rest of the comments in this comment section that somebody mentioned that he’s been known to use ketamine recreationally.

Hot Tub Time Machine 3 practically writes itself.

Last year, Musk told CNN’s Don Lemon that he has a ketamine prescription and uses the drug roughly every other week to help with depression symptoms. When Lemon asked if Musk ever abused ketamine, Musk replied, “I don’t think so. If you use too much ketamine you can’t really get work done,” then said that investors in his companies should want him to keep up his drug regimen.

I’m not completely sure what the criteria is for “abusing” ketamine, but since Musk seems to know what happens when you use too much ketamine, it seems to me like he’s probably abused it at some point.

In America, shots get fired into people’s homes on a daily basis. That sort of thing doesn’t usually make even statewide news.

We should worry about fixing those other problems before worrying about some rich prick. If the rich person is so concerned about their safety, why don’t they just hire some private security?

I don’t see any reason why this is being treated as news.

The 14th Amendment states that people exactly like Trump have a “disability” that prevents them from holding office, which can be removed by congress. It also states that congress has the power to enforce it. The criteria for this disability is listed in the amendment.

The moment that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court swore in Donald Trump as President, while Congress refused to enforce the Constitution, all three branches of our Federal government conspired to overthrow the US Constitution.

If we don’t even follow the Constitution, then we are truly a lawless country.

I guess you could then infer my comment to mean that they were the type of person who wouldn’t be able to achieve such a goal, even with your conditions.

Certainly I wouldn’t be the sort to write such a comment!

BTW IIRC, the Death Note can only control people’s actions for a limited time. Something like 20 or 24 days.

For some unknowable reason, I am reminded of this exchange in an X-Files episode about a psychic who could supposedly predict people’s deaths.

Psychic: You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can’t think of a more undignified one than autoerotic asphyxiation.

Mulder: Why are you telling me that?

The Death Note doesn’t control the actions of anybody except the people named in the note, and if the condition cannot be fulfilled then they simply die of a heart attack.

So you’d have to be a truly terrible person to make that one happen.

“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”

I remember when Musk bought Twitter and then immediately started trying to save money by literally just turning off services to see what breaks.

That actually wouldn’t have been the stupidest idea if he had done it in a test environment rather than production, or even if Twitter was a small website that didn’t mind downtime. But he did it in production on a huge site that people relied on being up, so it actually was the stupidest idea.

And now he’s bringing the same stupidest energy to government. No investigation. No calculation. Just a toddler who has been put in front of a lot of switches.

It’s not just sports. It can also be intellectual pursuits.

Look at the kids who are in the top tier spelling bee competitions, and then look at their parents, and tell me whose dreams are coming true.

Same thing for a lot of child prodigies. A lot of child prodigies suddenly become less “prodigious” the moment they move away from their parents.

Same goes for so many different things. Child beauty pageants are another famous example.

Obviously this doesn’t mean all of the kids who do these activities are being pushed by their parents. Some of them are self motivated. Some are not.

I’m guessing you’re basing it off of this official legal correspondence, which I am including below for people who haven’t seen it:

Dear Mr. Cox:

Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters.

Very truly yours,

CLEVELAND STADIUM CORP.

James N. Bailey, General Counsel

cc: Arthur B. Modell

If you read into the article, it states

The annual CPJ report, which represents a snapshot of journalists jailed for their work as of Dec. 1, 2024, found 361 journalists behind bars around the world. That’s the second-highest number that CPJ has documented since it started keeping track in 1992.

So, in case anybody was wondering, yes, this is referring to journalists who were “jailed for their work,” and not just journalists who are in jail for whatever reason. I know you might have thought that was obvious, but I think it’s important to point these things out for other cases where the reporting might be more misleading.

It says they use publicly exposed or leaked IAM keys with RW permission to do this, in case anybody is interested in how they get in.

I don’t know too much about HV, but I thought that even the crazy path shown in the picture was still the path of least resistance. Is that wrong?

Some monks train their bodies either as part of their prayer or meditation, or train in order to be able to pray or meditate longer. They don’t usually end up with arms that look like that, though.

He was a recurring character on the show. According to imdb, he was in 7 episodes.

This is what happens when politicians pander instead of listening to science.

I didn’t read the full article, but here are a couple of points from the part I read.

There is a movement called “harm reduction” that has been effective at fighting drug related deaths. (Last Week Tonight did a good piece on it.) The idea is that first, you try to make sure drug users aren’t harmed. So, drug testing strips and clean needles are provided. There may be safe injection locations where people can go to inject themselves. And obviously, they don’t get in trouble with police for doing this.

Only once you do your best to ensure their safety do you need to start helping them to kick the habit.

Texas has basically done the opposite and even fentanyl testing strips are classified as drug paraphernalia. And if you give someone fentanyl and they die, you can be charged with murder. So people in Texas are even afraid to call an ambulance when someone is overdosing.

The article asserts that these harmful policies are why Texas has a drug related death rate that remains high when the same statistic has been falling elsewhere in America.

That guy Newton didn’t even know that inertial frames of reference weren’t absolute.

I used to live in Japan, and let me tell you, a lot of typical Japanese cooking is unexpectedly quite lightly seasoned. I don’t mean all food, but especially common things like rice and fish dishes.

It lets you taste the food itself more than the seasoning. If you start with good ingredients, you don’t need to dress it up as much.