Posted on 04/29/2022 5:02:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
Time will tell....But I can assure you....Musk has this thought out 10 years down the road.
He wants the data on all the Twitter users.
The article says “Dorsey’s hand-picked successor as CEO, Parag Agrawal”.
That’s strange because it seems clear Dorsey didn’t leave on his own but was fired (again).
I wonder if Musk bought Twitter just so he could censor conservatives and anyone who did not agree with the Leftist lies and propaganda.
Trust but verify.
Bill Barr comes to mind.
So you think Musk paid $40billion to buy twitter so he could do exactly what they have been doing for years? You or Musk one need to put down the crack pipe.
“Time will tell....But I can assure you....Musk has this thought out 10 years down the road.”
Yep, I agree time will tell, and I hope he has indeed looked down the road aways and plans to be straight up. But this new trend is a bit scary: lol
https://twitter.com/Dewert_Ent_CEO/status/1520007244397662209?s=20&t=w-nXhUQ9gZOp32YyvDVUbQ
Correct. Musk voted for homobama. 'nuff said.
He says he wants more free speech. There are three things that make me uneasy about him.
1) He is exposed to blackmail by China through Tesla having a lot of business there.
2) He wants to sell grid-level batteries, which I think is an unworkable pipe dream, but he might try to silence opposing voices by labeling them “climate deniers”.
3) He is one of the Crypto Coin guys and while I don’t know enough to argue about these it looks to me as a giant scam.
if you look at that cartoon he posted his position hasn’t changed...it was the leftists that changed further left.
He is not on the right. Perhaps he fits into the RINO wing of the right...if that.
He seems to be more of a Libertarian than anything.
Musk is a wealthy, Bonafide genius.
He will not fit into an ordinary character mold. He is Elon, a singular entity that defines itself, unique and without present comparative equal
“So you think Musk paid $40billion to buy twitter so he could do exactly what they have been doing for years? You or Musk one need to put down the crack pipe.”
That is my point exactly.
You can’t recognize sarcasm?
I don’t need a crack pipe, but you need additional IQ.
My first thought was, "Heck, no! Libertarians don't lobby governments large and small to force companies to buy 'carbon credits' from companies like Tesla."
But then I remembered the main reason I didn't vote in 2016 for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate: He came out in favor of a carbon tax!!! OMG! Us libertarians ought to be ashamed that the only one on the general ballot against a carbon tax was Big Government Republican Trump. The last thing I wanted was a new carbon tax.
And I'm the one who installed a lot of solar onto my house. So if I of all people can see how bad a carbon tax is, I can appreciate people's unwillingness to accept Musk as their new political savior.
Grid-level battery is unworkable nonsense that Musk sells and I suspect some states might force the taxpayers to pay for.
I follow Alex Epstein on Twitter and he says Musk is lying his ass off. Alex is already called a “science denialist”. Will he still be allowed to post on Twitter after Musk owns it?
https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein
But if Musk is saying grid-level battery helps smooth the power (getting rid of what electricians call "dirty power") then he's got my attention.
The power coming through my inverter from battery is cleaner than when my inverter has to pull from the grid (because my batteries are discharged and my solar isn't creating enough power for my house's needs). I can see something good coming from a large battery at power relay stations -- but that's to smooth the power not to replace dependency on fossil fuels.
I'm a yuge proponent on decentralized solar power done completely voluntarily. If you live in the southern half of the U.S., own your home and plan to be there at least 10 years, have a metal roof (assuming you'd put the panels on the roof), and a way to mount most or all panels facing south, then solar will pay for itself on about the 10th year and free part of your budget from energy inflation. (My fixed cost of installing solar is being paid through making payments on the HELOC loan I took out to pay for it, now my power bill is small and I no longer have a natural gas bill because I converted my 2 natural gas appliances to high efficiency electric ones. The end result is that the small power bill is the only part of my home energy budget that is susceptible to rising with energy inflation. My HELOC payment with a fixed interest rate won't go up.) But that works only if you do your homework ahead of time, study your power bills each month throughout the year, the average peak solar hours you get at your zip code each month, the angle of your south facing roof, etc.
Truth be told I’ve met my limitations. I don’t know what an inverter is and what I remember from my woodworking class is “ampere kills”.
I try to navigate this area by managing to determine who is trustworthy and who is not.
So far the statement saying “advanced civilization can’t survive on the battery-windmill grid” has seemed true, but I don’t understand the formulas behind it.
AC is great as far as carrying power across distances. The past century plus of homes having power wouldn't have happened with DC power because DC power travels long distances poorly (i.e. the distance from the power plant to your home). So all of our appliances depend on AC power, which means the solar system is no good for your home unless the DC power coming in from solar can be converted to AC.
/s denotes sarcasm in the written word, on the internet any way. The spoken word along with tone/inflection and facial expression denote the sarcasm and easily picked up on. My IQ is just fine, thanks. Since we apparently agree, my bad!
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