Comments From People With Personal Experience With Elon Musk. "He is a polymathic engineer of rare but not unparalleled breadth, and the sequence of areas he attained expert-level knowledge in, and hands-on skill, are a first-order factor in the probability of success of the series of companies." by Chipit in interestingasfuck

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He's not an engineer. He's got a BA in Physics and a BSc in Economics from UPenn.

And a Ph.D. in being most dick parent imaginable to his transgender daughter.

Who created the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? Who threw all the trash into the ocean? by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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Asians

In Thailand they all have a little house for the land gods outside their house and everyday they put a plastic water bottle and a plastic milk bottle on it and every day those go into the bin.

Every Asian country has some habit like that going on. They don't give two shits about the environment. They don't have the same mindset as westerners about waste or recycling. Being able to just waste things shows wealth or generosity.

Four Wyze cameras by Brewdabier in interestingasfuck

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I have 4 cameras and within the last 5 hours someone broke into my garage and took two bicycles, camera did not pick up anything and when I checked the camera all I saw was me closing the door after the theft. Camera did not notify me of anything. I've filed a police report and the 4 cameras are going in the trash.

This works. I need it to become standard on everything I read. Everything. by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Someone should draw up a version of that with a few unexpected words so the lazy readers read it wrong.

This works. I need it to become standard on everything I read. Everything. by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

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Bionic?

What It’s Like To Suddenly Start Completely Believing In God. “The world around you is a language,” Jason said to me. “Forces are moving that we don’t understand. Reality is the mind of God.” by Chipit in interestingasfuck

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's even worse than that.

What It’s Like To Suddenly Start Completely Believing In God. “The world around you is a language,” Jason said to me. “Forces are moving that we don’t understand. Reality is the mind of God.” by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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I don't know what that means, but there are other ways of looking at the world than a pile of atoms. People who believe in that shit are frequently angry and hostile, and make the world a worse place.

What It’s Like To Suddenly Start Completely Believing In God. “The world around you is a language,” Jason said to me. “Forces are moving that we don’t understand. Reality is the mind of God.” by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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matrix

What It’s Like To Suddenly Start Completely Believing In God. “The world around you is a language,” Jason said to me. “Forces are moving that we don’t understand. Reality is the mind of God.” by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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Why does everything have to be literal and material? There are all sorts of ways of thinking about this world. Some are clearly better than others.

What It’s Like To Suddenly Start Completely Believing In God. “The world around you is a language,” Jason said to me. “Forces are moving that we don’t understand. Reality is the mind of God.” by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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mind of God

🤔

What It’s Like To Suddenly Start Completely Believing In God. “The world around you is a language,” Jason said to me. “Forces are moving that we don’t understand. Reality is the mind of God.” by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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Nah, it's people gaining a larger understanding of the world. It happens as you get older. Or, it should happen. If you continue a youthful life of sarcasm and cynicism, that's such a horrible waste of a lifetime.

What It’s Like To Suddenly Start Completely Believing In God. “The world around you is a language,” Jason said to me. “Forces are moving that we don’t understand. Reality is the mind of God.” by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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classic signs of schizophrenia

Twitter thread claiming that cell phones help explain the secular decline in crime since 1990. As “texting your drug dealer” replaced “finding your drug dealer on a street corner”, control of territory became less important, and violent drug gangs were replaced by less violent ordinary people. by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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When I was living in Wales my road was a drugs drive thru.

People would park up their cars, call someone on their phone and then within 10 mins a black kid on a bike would knock on their window and give them a little plastic package.

Han Solo's DL-44 Heavy Blaster Pistol From 'Star Wars' Is Going Up For Auction. Included is a letter about the provenience of the blaster which is really interesting to read. by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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Hmmm if you read through the text they describe how it was built from parts which they believed had been used to make 3 of those prop weapons for the movie but compare it with the gun in Han Solo's hand in this original photo.

https://spacequotations.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/han-solo-quotes.jpg

The scope is similar but the mount is not even close. In the text they say the original was a probably a complicated slide on dovetail which they did not try to replicate but you can see in the picture it was not that. It was a side mount bolted on with a single bolt that held the scope out to the side and if you look at the gun, you can see why the scope would have had to be side mounted because the ejection port is on the top and as they used real blank rounds in the movie the gun had to be able to function.

Mayor Harry Baals by Brewdabier in interestingasfuck

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I went to school with a guy named Ben Dover.

Mayor Harry Baals by Brewdabier in interestingasfuck

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When I heard his name I thought harry balls.

Recently, someone discovered Adam Lanza's abandoned YouTube channel. Adam Lanza committed the Sandy Hook school shooting. His worldview could be broadly described as efilist (anti-life). He was aware of the efilist and antinatalist circles on YouTube. This is a summary of his views. by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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a product of a single mother. If he had a father around his dad would cure him of autism with discipline.

What Airports Were Like in 1987. How times have changed. Imagine a time when you could pull up to the airport 20 minutes before a departing flight and know that you—and your bag—had a good chance of making the flight. by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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I know a guy who still does this.

It panics the staff so they rush him through.

He only flights between England and Ireland though so if he misses a flight there's usually one in another couple of hours so it's not too big of a risk.

What Airports Were Like in 1987. How times have changed. Imagine a time when you could pull up to the airport 20 minutes before a departing flight and know that you—and your bag—had a good chance of making the flight. by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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why is this kid mad

What Airports Were Like in 1987. How times have changed. Imagine a time when you could pull up to the airport 20 minutes before a departing flight and know that you—and your bag—had a good chance of making the flight. by Chipit in interestingasfuck

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Shut up, liar

What Airports Were Like in 1987. How times have changed. Imagine a time when you could pull up to the airport 20 minutes before a departing flight and know that you—and your bag—had a good chance of making the flight. by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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now you even need a passport to travel by plane to somewhere else in the united states

What did the dinosaurs see before the Chicxulub asteroid impact? by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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Their last day on the Earth.

On Smoking Weed in North Korea. We were just walking past the tobacco sellers when we spotted another stall ahead, piled with mounds of green, rather than brown, plant matter. It turned out to be exactly what we first suspected: a veritable mountain of dried cannabis plants. by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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They were smoking the leaves, it would have been harsh.

On Smoking Weed in North Korea. We were just walking past the tobacco sellers when we spotted another stall ahead, piled with mounds of green, rather than brown, plant matter. It turned out to be exactly what we first suspected: a veritable mountain of dried cannabis plants. by Chipit in interestingasfuck

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My eyes got red and I got the munchies just thinking about this.

What it's like being a radical anarchist from the inside. "Toxicity in radical communities is not a bug. It is a feature. The ideology and norms of radicalism have evolved to produce toxic, paranoid, depressed subjects. What follows is a picture of what happens in their communities." by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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I used to be part of a 'community' like this. Direct action protest stuff.

Those people who were fighting the state 'for the love of people' are now the most toxic haters I know.

that article is deep, though. good find

In 1996, four German tourists - Egbert, Cornelia, Georg, and Max - entered Death Valley National Park and vanished without a trace. They were NEVER seen again. This is the true story surrounding their disappearance into Death Valley National Park. by Chipit in interestingasfuck

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Europeans have no clue how big the US is and no clue how to survive without a nanny state wiping their ass.

Small free library made out of a tree stump by Drewski in interestingasfuck

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