<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Personality is inextricable from behavior. will</div><div><br></div><div>Private thoughts may be to the contrary, but what you do is who and what you are. No bad or good people. Agreed. </div><div>bill w</div></div></div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU" style="outline:none;padding:10px 0px;width:22px;margin:2px 0px 0px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div id="gmail-:111" class="gmail-ajR" role="button" tabindex="0" aria-label="Show trimmed content" aria-expanded="false" style="background-color:rgb(232,234,237);border:none;clear:both;line-height:6px;outline:none;width:24px;border-radius:5.5px"><img class="gmail-ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif" style="background: url("https://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/material/system_gm/2x/more_horiz_black_20dp.png") 50% 50% / 20px no-repeat; height: 11px; opacity: 0.71; width: 24px;"></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 4:40 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>First off, being against high-speed rail is painfully retarded. The amount of good it does for commerce, culture, economy is massive. Not to mention ou country looks like shit when everyone else does it better. Rail is economically efficient.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 4:43 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Will Steinberg via extropy-chat<br><br><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…Btw spike as someone who seems to be aware of propaganda and cults of personality…<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I know nothing and care nothing about personalities or lack thereof. Reasoning:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Anyone who spends 44 billion dollars on anything, It doesn’t matter what it is, benefits society. The act of dropping 44 billion dollars back into the economy is a good thing, without exception. All that capital stimulates the economy, encourages investment in other businesses and enterprises. There is no downside. None! </p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is an unbelievably juvenile understanding of 'the economy'. I don't really have the time to deal with the incorrectness here but I would encourage you to read some college-level economic textbooks or even just try and think about the flow of that 44 billion and where it goes and how it might stimulate the economy better or worse depending on where it goes. All spending is NOT equal, holy moly. Gimme 44 bil I promise it will be good for the economy! </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Anyone who fixes the huge obvious problem with the space business is a good guy. Rocket building was spread out all over the map, intentionally, because of the cold war and political considerations when the US government was the prime customer. The US government isn’t the primary customer now, communications companies are. SpaceX preferentially chooses subcontractors located near the launch site, which saves a lot of cost and helps the environment. This is a good thing.</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There are no good guys or bad guys, there are people who do things. Those things might help or hurt society or themselves. I think Elon does some good stuff and also a whole lotta nothing, and spends way too much time being weird on social media.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Anyone who buys Twitter with the intention of exposing illegal activity on the part of the US government is a good guy. To say otherwise is to argue that illegal activity on the part of the US government is OK under some circumstances. I am at a loss to imagine what circumstances illegal activity by the US government is OK. The FBI practiced censorship of US citizens on Twitter, which is a violation of civil rights, which is illegal. Illegal activity by the US government is never OK. It’s double plus ungood.</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This wasn't why he bought Twitter, man. He didn't even mean to buy Twitter at that price. He is a control freak and thought he could make some slick moves but ended up stuck with a company he had to have known was vastly undervalued. The stuff he did recently is some of the most foolish economic decisions by a mogul that I have seen in a long time.</div><div><br></div><div>The government being shitty and evil and censoring Twitter isn't related to Elon. He's mostly just an insecure grifter who knows how to throw YOU a bone. I'm glad he cares about revealing those truths but he also spins plenty of manipulation and lies about himself for personal gain. Again, your bias makes it really hard to have a truthful conversation with you.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Electric cars: anyone who builds a successful car factory four miles from my house gets a permanent spot on my list of people who can do no wrong.</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Do you actually think this?????</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Will, notice none of that has anything to do with personality, flawed anything. All those considerations are irrelevant. I don’t care about anyone’s personality or political leanings if they do the kinds of things listed above. Do you?</p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Personality is inextricable from behavior. </div></div></div>
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