• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    Once you have your brain chip, you will finally understand that Elon Musk is the greatest genius of all time.

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      But when you try to explain this newfound knowledge to somebody else, all that comes out of your mouth is telling them to buy a brain chip.

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    Elon keeps picking companies that give big government grants. Space, electric vehicles, medical, infrastructure. Twitter is like the only company I don’t see getting direct government handouts.

    He made his money from duping the people who give out our tax dollars.

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      Twitter is just the same thing Billionaires always do, get a social media platform or news company under their control to try and make them look good.

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    Yeah, people have said that they thought I’d love the idea of a brain implanted computer so I could do cool hacker shit or VR.

    Like, noooooo that’d be like the Matrix run by the upper management suites of Boeing and Microsoft.

    “Yeah we’re sorry hackers broke in and stole all your childhood memories but we couldn’t apply any security updates because the QA team had to be fired after the last one left them all barking like dogs and pissing on trees, . Don’t worry, we’ll fix it in BrainOS 9.8. You’ll need to pay for that updated but we’re now offering a choice between our premium $1500/mo subscription model or new ads-in-your-dreams model for $600/mo”

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        Never, and we’re going under so we’re locking everything down and closing up shop, woops.

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        While I am on the shitter might actually the most effective time for an ad. It used to be pretty common to keep magazines by the can and those had ads for sometimes interesting stuff

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            They don’t read them for the ads , but if you’re bored and on the shitter for an extended period you may read them anyways

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              If they were replaced with articles you would read those too. Regardless of that I’m never going to be okay with advertising being beamed into my brain. I don’t care how bored I am.

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    I have no qualms getting a brain chip implanted that’s been properly tested and vetted, especially if it enables me to do cool stuff.

    But I want fucking touch one that Mushk has been anywhere near

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      Hahaha they are gonna offer poor people money to basically donate their brain and quite potentially their life. Hahaha

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          Prison system? who needs that when you have millions of fanboys willing to pay for the privilege of trying the latest Musk genius-tech-definitely-not-hare-brained-bullshit™

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            Good point. Until Musk, I have always been happy with the idea of getting destructibly uploaded as an alternative way to end one’s life while advancing science. But Musk doesn’t do Science. He seems to mostly make business.

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    Ok, my turn:

    I want to be able to retire before I’m 70 and have some semblance of a “good” retirement.

    Oh this is fun. Who’s next?

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      Was thinking the same thing lately.

      About tech in general.

      I used to be a disciple, imagining the beautiful future, spreading the hope of a better world.

      Now, I kinda think old man Kaczynski was a prophet.

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        He went about it all wrong but he definitely had a couple observations that weren’t 100% incorrect. He was Harvard educated after all.

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        “I hope someday Selmers rides her fucking train”

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      I’m still excited that it’s a possibility, but I don’t trust Musk with it. It’s one step closer to me becoming a brain in a jar.

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    Can I start a conspiracy theory? The reason he wants this, is he earnestly believes in the collapse of civilisation and he wants to use this as a back up plan to ensure he has a source of compliant slaves

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    Kanye West showed up to a Trump rally somewhere in California recently in a Cyber truck. It was like a jambalaya of stupid people.

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    Didn’t it already fuck up in the first human guinea pig? Not to mention all the dead monkeys.

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    At a certain time in my life, I wrote to Tesla HR to thank them for not hiring me.