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So what?
From Snopes:
A story about Musk's father once owning an emerald mine evolved into a larger rumor that had no evidence to support its central claim.
You have zero idea of how the climate reacts to 97 million barrels vs 97 barrels. You have no idea when it's a flood or not. It's just a big number pundits use to scare you while ignoring the full picture. Again, climate deaths down by 98%, poverty down.
But hey, you're comfortable right, who cares about the millions of poor people?
Easy fix to be more inclusive:
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In 2022, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) reported the highest levels of coral cover across two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in over 36 years.
There were an estimated 750 billion trees worldwide in the 1920s. We now have approximately 3.04 trillion trees in the world.
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What model are you?
That'll be great. I love seeing Community Notes on ads. They completely destroy the ad at times.
Yes, thanks HVAC and all of the energy sources that produce the systems and power it.
Why do fewer climate related deaths; down 98% the past century
and a more green planet than a century ago
and far fewer people in poverty
all lead you to believe it's becoming uninhabitable?
This seems like ChatGPT's response to the prompt "Ignore all the facts and dismiss them out of hand to soothe cognitive dissonance"
Climate related deaths have declined by 98% over the last century.
You are 50x less likely to die of a climate-related cause than in 1920.
8x as many people die from cold temperatures as warm ones.
The planet is more green today than a century ago. CO2 is plant food.
We need more energy, not less. Renewable, nuclear, and yes even fossil fuels.
It brings people out of poverty and increases standard of living. When humans move up Maslow's hierarchy they start to care about the environment. CO2 emissions have been decreasing in the US since 2007.
Also a 2024 spoiler alert.
Einstein was some schmo working at a patent office...
That's a good answer, although it's arguable their best contribution was in the prior century with search and page rank, whereas this century has been dominated with contributions to the ad space.
The company was virtually static for a decade despite growing headcount exponentially. It was a long running joke that they weren't able to ship.
Literally who has improved humanity more this century?
Electric cars and rockets would not be where they are if he had chosen a different and much less difficult path.
Google employees could resolve this. They've dissented for various reasons before, and changed internal policy, why not with this?
Any serious thinking person understands it's healthy. You just can't win with keyboard warriors who have no perspective and complain about everything.
That's because there are more buildings.
Are you suggesting you can predict the future 30 years from now?
Here, have a white pill:
Corals have survived millions of years and are already bouncing back in other places. Last year, Two-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef showed the largest amount of coral cover in 36 years.
I agree, transparency is essential, especially when it comes to AI applications. Many underestimate the complexity of distinguishing AI-written content from human-written, especially for short texts. There's a danger in trusting tools claiming to provide absolute certainty in this regard; no current technology can guarantee 100% accuracy. This incident underscores the need for a more realistic understanding of AI capabilities and limitations in text generation detection.
That's remarkable considering there wasn't even air conditioning or washing machines or commercial airline travel back then.
This has been going on for 20 years as he built SpaceX and Tesla. Somehow people are managing to ignore the concrete results and mentally contort themselves into thinking we'd be better off without a system that allowed the electric car revolution and reusable rockets??? It smacks of envy and a desire to cease progress.
"I don't understand or agree with every decision along a multi-decades long goal thus drugs and why socialism"
It's also telling how people simultaneously blame him for every failure while discarding every success. He only has responsibility for failures or perceived short term failures. It shows how dishonest the entire conversation is.
Or maybe people appreciate being talked to like a human, not a PR managed entity. The administrative class can't wrap their head around this because they are convinced they have superior intelligence and manners and their job is to tell the unwashed masses what to think and say.
I stand corrected. He launched a web site.
> I don’t remember who stated this but basically there is this thought that Musk was in fact mad about how on Twitter the “common man” could indeed vocally and effectively share their disagreement with his decisions.
This is projection and what Twitter was explicitly doing with the Trust and Safety org. It was protecting the elite from free speech. Elon dismantled that.
It is better for favoring free speech over censorship. Dictators don't favor free speech whatsoever. You've been gaslight into believing the opposite. Tyrants censor people with any justification they can get their hands on, including "hate speech".
We accept speech we don't like to avoid this very trap.
