Hey now, it was slightly more than a third, not half!

Isn’t the implication that he’s saying Tesla will fail if America fails, not that America will fail if Tesla fails? He’s basically saying he has tied his fortunes to America’s future, not necessarily the other way around.

Tobias getting around.

Life is unfair, but unless we acknowledge our own failings it will never get better.

You want to walk through life blaming everyone else for everything that goes wrong in your life and take no responsibility for your own actions? Feel free. But just know nothing will ever get better for you.

I even acknowledge, multiple times, that it is not solely the fault of the person. But that does not mean they have no will of their own, no ability to change their circumstances. Sometimes that freedom is not enough, but unless you do something to take charge of your own life, again, nothing will ever change.

Failure often comes at multiple points, it doesn’t just fail at one. It’s a failure of education, of social pressures, of lack of positive environments, and yes of choice. The problem with free will is that you have the chance to choose wrong. You can blame everyone in the world, but if you don’t take accountability for your own actions and choices, nothing will change.

There has never been a time with as much access to information as now. While there as much, likely more, misinformation… that does not mean individuals have no culpability for their own lack of knowledge or understanding.

That doesn’t mean it’s exclusively their fault, or even anywhere near a majority. But that does not mean they lose all free will for their own actions. It does not mean they have no ability to be better.

Should we place the weight of the world on their shoulders? Absolutely not, that is liable to break them. But we also shouldn’t hide them from the burden of their own free will. That only weakens them.

He steps down, then it’s Vance. If Vance steps down it’s Johnson. It doesn’t really get better from there.

I don’t recall Hegseth being any ballot I’ve used.

That sounds like an emotional chain of logic, we must dispose of it immediately.

As I recall that hypothetical requires that you start with the ship and replace things over time, not that you saw it once and try to replicate it.

No, but it does help with the flow of the joke. If you have to make that kind of leap for the joke to land, it’s a bit arcane and won’t reach quite as many people.

You know they dont remove the testicle during a vasectomy… right?

The odds are 1000:0 that they won’t, and I still wouldn’t take that bet.

Not nobody, just not the 85 million people who decided to fall asleep on election day.

One data point a life cycle does not define.

That was the assumption that was subverted, yes.

We don’t really know what their lifecycle is like. For that matter, we don’t really know that he’s actually an infant, just that he doesn’t verbally communicate, is smol, and primarily traveled in a hover-crib in the first season or so. He could be a teenager in the yoda-species lifecycle.

He was on Mars for that one movie…

https://youtu.be/Vd2sLavGofc

So we should make one with human intelligence, you’re saying?

Okay, but hear me out, what if we make one that isn’t dumb?