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Rand Paul floats Elon Musk for House Speaker (www.axios.com)

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (29 children)

I keep having this feeling like all these GOP idiots think musk is really super duper smart because he can at a really basic level speak in some technical terms they just don't understand. So as a result they think he's just sooo smart.

This is a party full of ancient people. "A series of tubes" party. So anyone who has a little bit of technical knowledge will sound like a wizard to them with the bonus that they might be able to grift off of it all.

Or musk is just a rich asshole and they all want to be rich assholes so they cozy up to him.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I know this is damning to admit here, but back when I was willing to watch Joe Rogan I distinctly remember during Elon's episode (the one where he hit a joint and tanked Tesla stock, not the latest one), the topic went to electric airplanes. Elon was talking technical about it and Joe was sitting there wide-eyed like he was revealing the secrets of the weave of the universe, sure that aerospace was going to be revolutionized by this man.

Maybe I'm the stupid one here, but I'm pretty sure he was just talking about how airfoils generate lift. You know, the stuff the Wright brothers figured out in the 19-aughts. Its in high school physics textbooks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Angela Collier just released a video about how billionaires really want to be seen as physicists, whilst most of them dropped out of college. "I could've become", "I considered to" and so on.

They really want to be perceived as smart. I don't get any brownie points for saying "I thought about getting a PhD", why should they?
Especially when they can hire several professors to teach them personally with their billions of dollars.

It's a long video, but well worth the watch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Especially when they can hire several professors to teach them personally with their billions of dollars.

But they never do, do they?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Most technology is magic to the average person. It doesn't take much to sound like an expert.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (4 children)

For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument is the turbo encabulator.

Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.

The original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.

The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdle spring on the “up” end of the grammeters.

The turbo-encabulator has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of novertrunnions. Moreover, whenever a forescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Exactly. Why dazzle them with brilliance when you can baffle them with bullshit?

[–] sp3tr4l 3 points 3 days ago

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation.

The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is.

Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't.

If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.

The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Turboooo-encabulatorrr mannn!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

We should have you as House Speaker!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Joe Rogan does that with anyone that comes on and talks techno babble. He's really clueless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not everyone, only the rich ones.

I remember Neil deGrasse Tyson, and it was a completely different attitude than anyone rich, no matter how technical or dumb they are.

Joe is a motherfucking asshole, nobody should listen to anything he says, or anyone else willing to go talk to him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I agree he's an asshole. I hate how he gives credibility to people that don't deserve it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I understood lift pitch roll yaw etc in grade school when I became obsessed with making paper airplanes.

I speak house now?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

This is a party full of ancient people. "A series of tubes" party.

Hey now, I’m not that old.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is pretty standard, and not limited to Republicans. A significant part of Jordan Peterson's appeal came through the same process.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've always thought that Elon Musk is a stupid person's idea of what a smart person acts and looks like.

He never really says anything of substance, but he says it while using big words and some unfamiliar accent (at least unfamiliar to those idolizing). That's enough for many really stupid people. The fact he always pretends to be thinking about anything for the first time completes the aesthetic.

A similar effect can be seen with Trump himself. A lot of dumb people read his nonsensical, stream of consciousness rambling style as intelligence. To someone with a brain, Trump is clearly just babbling with no overall point, except maybe repeating sound bites. But to many of his supporters, the fact he jumps around so much means they can't keep up, and if they can't keep up, welp, he must be real smart.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hey, don't paint mister Series of Tubes with that brush, that analogy is still more accurate than 99% of the bullshit about the internet coming out of DC

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Yeah...let's not canonize Ted stevens. He was a massive piece of shit.

That meme was him rallying against net neutrality while head of the senate commitee that regulated the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think it's just secular prosperity gospel. He's rich, therefore he must be smart. Right?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 days ago

They really are the party of ass kissing. Republicans are embarrassing.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Can we get some more Luigis please?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would never be a Luigi because i couldn't take a life, but i'd LOVE to have some more Luigis

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

~~taking~~

Nah nah...

saving

Take one, save a ton.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Don't you have to be, like, I don't know, an ELECTED FUCKING REPRESENTATIVE to be speaker??????

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

Interestingly, no. There's never been one who wasn't, but there's no actual law that says so. Some people floated the idea of appointing Donald then impeaching and convicting Biden and Harris on some bogus charge (or assassinating them, but that was usually an unsaid "wink wink, nudge nudge") to get him back in. Musk should be out of the line of succession for President at least if it does happen though since unless I'm mistaken the "natural born citizen" part of the requirements still stands

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

By convention, not by law

The Constitution does not explicitly require the speaker to be an incumbent member of the House of Representatives, although every speaker thus far has been, and as a member the speaker also represents their district and retains the right to vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is one of those Air Bud moments where they point out that there's no rule saying an unelected person CAN'T be speaker...

One problem with government is that there are lots of unspoken rules that have been followed as tradition but never formalized.

[–] treadful 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hold up. Can we get Air Bud as speaker? That would be rad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I... I think Air Bud has likely been dead for some time now

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm convinced none of them take any of this seriously and we're the only ones not in on the joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It's definitely the case that the joke's on us.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Trump isn’t even president yet and this is a shitshow.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

So we’re just gonna go full send on stupid. Wonderful.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

..... They're not going to impeach trump and Vance to get Musk in....right...?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Since Elon is a naturalized citizen he'd be skipped in the line of succession. Unless the Republicans want to go ahead and wipe with the constitution.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I mean that's fully what they're trying to do... So

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

First of all, where is Rand Paul's neighbor now that we need him?

Secondly, Elmo would be no more successful than Johnson. Which is to say not successful at all.

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