Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
Let's count the ways this is stupid:
1) Preventing jackasses from committing fraud against their investors isn't a free speech issue.
2) If I understand correctly, consent decrees are agreed to by both parties. So, he's suing them for something he agreed to?
3) Suing the SEC and taking it straight to SCOTUS is an incredibly poor choice for someone who is currently being widely and justly criticized for losing touch with reality due to the insulatory nature of his obscene wealth.
This is the latest in our series with Capital & Main, investigating LA's lost residential hotels. Catch up here: https://www.propublica.org/ser...
As much as I dislike the guy, I'm glad he wasn't hurt.
"This morning, the governor was in a car accident while traveling to an event in Chattanooga, Tennessee," says DeSantis spokesperson, Bryan Griffin...
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Uh oh, which one of you works for Fox News? I think you may need someone to explain my account to you. Preferably slowly and in very simple terms.
@ThinkingSapien 1.6 terabytes of photos? Are they all massive bitmaps or raw files or something? How many photos is that?
Planning to perform my first solo flight tomorrow. Excited and nervous! Got 5 safe landings myself today, so I'm feeling good about it.
@Pat
> "Consumer can choose to buy their electricity from non-polluting sources"
I don't know where you live, but I certainly don't have that choice anywhere I've ever lived. There was always only one choice, a local monopoly, sometimes subsidized by local government.
@Pat
>"Individuals work at those companies"
You're not going to convince the individuals who run the oil companies to have a change of heart by individually switching to an electric car. If enough people do that, then the oil man will just sell his oil to power plants to burn to make the energy for your car chargers.
>"If you're concerned about plants"
I'm not concerned about either. I'm asking why you choose to draw the line where you do, and whether you think it's any less arbitrary a decision than where I draw it.
@cshentrup It really is.
Step 1: Inherit millions from your parents
Step 2: Hire an investment firm
In Elon's case, he used his father's Apartheid emerald mine money to invest in things like PayPal and Tesla, which is where all his wealth comes from. Literally, all his billions come from him giving his daddy's money to the right people, who were smarter than him.
@cshentrup Lmao. I've heard Elon himself speak often enough to know he's an idiot. He talks with smart people and latches on to buzzwords and pretends to have deep knowledge.
Also, fwiw, real geniuses don't need to fire and sue anyone who criticizes their easily-predictable failures.
@Pat Individual action, even collectively, is a drop in the bucket compared to the contributions of governments and industry. It's like trying to solve a crack in Hoover Dam by getting the locals to line up with buckets.
As for your second statement, why is meat any more murder than salad? In both cases, you're eating the dead carcass of a once-living being killed for your consumption, right?
@cshentrup I also "desperately want to believe that" the sky is blue and gravity pulls me down towards the ground.
@ThinkingSapien Ah, the "LiveJournal Method", lol
When I was younger, I used to love cilantro. But the older I get, the more it tastes like bad medicine to me. Anyone else experience that?
@ThinkingSapien Right, but what about Threads appeals to you?
@stevesilberman For that take to be true, Elon would have to have had clear goals beforehand and would have needed the necessary focus and dedication over the course of months to work towards those goals.
That seems to be vastly overestimating his abilities.
Occam's Razor says he bought a fun toy and the rest is just rich guy flailing.
Attributing malice to his incompetence is a fool's errand.
If you live in #Florida, be sure to request a new mail-in ballot, because the governor cancelled yours because he's a small-minded autocrat who doesn't want you to vote against him.
American industry is burning 1.5 tons of coal per day, but the NYT thinks you should feel guilty about occasionally eating hamburgers.
“The study found that, compared to meat-heavy diets, vegan diets resulted in 75 percent less land use, 54 percent less water use, and 66 percent le...
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
