Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

@lauren Well put. I wouldn't either.

@PadreSJ You stated this correctly. Not the vision of Elon Musk but a *belief* in the vision of Elon Musk. Fortunately for both companies, the brains behind Tesla and SpaceX is not Elon Musk

People have been fooled all along that the carnival hawker out front is the thing itself.

@psetnik We could do it together. All we have to do is come up with the correct theory that unifies quantum mechanics and gravity, and bingo. Eternal fame.

@MissingThePt Well, after all, those silly doors are just in the way.

@TomWellborn @GottaLaff Yes indeed. Without knowing anything else, this can be surmised from the fact that they constantly talk about fake news.

@psetnik Me too. ;-)

@chemoelectric @alfredo_liberal@universeodon.com Exactly. This is the simple driving force behind the whole modern Republican movement. And it didn't start with Trump. I saw it here in West Virginia long before 2016.

Cruelty to others is the point.

@Kclemson Yes, very creepy, and I'm a guy.

To me it signals mental illness and great danger. But our society doesn't do anything about people like this until they do something horrible, and then we throw them in prison. The mental illness is never addressed.

@vanbadham Welcome to the New Age of Defenestration.

@cobalt @olavf Posting this reply public in case anyone else is reading along.

Be aware that DMs here work well enough for informal stuff but don't provide real privacy. (Nor do DMs on Twitter). For anything serious, take it to Signal or similar platform.

Also be aware that if you're talking shit about somebody and include their Mastodon address in your comments, TA-DA, they'll be included in the conversation(!)

Hahaha.

@cobalt @olavf When you compose a post, there are several things you can do to it like add a content warning, etc. You can also set "toot privacy". On my instance the icon is a little Earth. Here's there are five options for the visibility of the post. If you set it to Direct then only the people reference in the post can see it.

I'll post this one public. Then I'll reply again and set it to Direct. Then only you and Olav will be able to see it and you'll see how it looks.

@Deglassco @kims Agreed. However, racists get around the "all men" part by claiming that people of color are not really human. Only white people are. Everyone else are "animals".

I'm white so I get to listen to how white racists really feel about it, how they talk about it in private. It's ugly.

As an engineer with both feet in science, their whole argument is ridiculous. Homo sapiens was originally black. White skin is an adaptation.

Will they consider this? No. Beliefs indoctrinated from childhood are very hard to overcome.

How to fix this I don't know. Racist parents are right now indoctrinating their children to react viscerally to people of color without even knowing why. They see a person of color across the street and their blood pressure spikes by instinct, like they saw a tiger, because they were taught as children. We have to somehow break this cycle.