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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • You’ve seen the headlines about telsa sales tanking right? In some markets by 50% or 60%. That’s a big deal.

    First movers do enjoy a special privilege but I’m not sure how sticky that will be in this case. Musk’s political views are at odds with people that are environmentally conscious.

    Those views are now indefeasible from the brand and this kind of “vandalism” (provided it doesn’t significantly damage the vehicle) is a great way to reinforce that connection.












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    Of course its totally fine to not like a movie, but I wanted to clarify the memory as time travel thing.

    I can’t remember where I first heard this, it wasn’t this movie, but suppose humans are oddly fixated on the flow of time. To us the flow of time is immutable we exist in the present and remember the past. What if other races could “remember” things that haven’t happened yet as easily as we remember things from the past.

    The movie kinda proposes that learning human languages traps us into this linear / temporal mode of thinking. As in, as children we learn to parse things start to finish and that’s it… we just never do it the other way future to now.

    Turns out I’ve done a shit job at explaining this.

    As I said, it’s fine to hate the movie. I just thought I’d try to explain this part because I felt like I understood it, although I’m not sure anymore.



  • That’s not really what I’m saying… at all.

    Everyone encounters unsolvable problems, whether or not they favor thought terminating cliches. However, we also encounter problems which only appear to be unsolvable. My point is, if you take the attitude that “it is what it is”, you’ll never know the difference.

    You can call me captain solveitall if you wish, but I suspect that won’t make you any less miserable.