Markos Giannopoulos
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@mgiannopoulos
web engineer probing the mysterious space between the human mind and what a machine can understand - https://t.co/Y3i8HnAtEW / https://t.co/oAVkrhJ2iE
It’s wild that the rocket he intends to put people on blows up every single time and now he and his followers just cheer it on
Why are the SpaceX people cheering….the thing exploded
Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail. She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage. Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists. She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment. This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action. Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call. - @multiplanet1
‼️BREAKING || EUROPE'S UKRAINE DRONE WAR WOBBLES TOWARDS NUCLEAR TRAP Moscow / Minsk / Brussels -- Europe is now talking about Ukrainian drones in two voices -- one from the Russian border-cum-frontline, and one from the bunker. Von der Leyen points the finger at Russia for every drone scare that crosses a European sky. In Warsaw, Tallinn, Riga and Athens, the men who live nearest the blast line are not quite so keen on turning their own countries into Zelensky's back yard runway. That is the split. One Europe wants to fight Russia through Ukraine, behind Ukraine, around Ukraine. The other Europe has noticed that Russian missiles were fired in Putin's war games in Belarus. The Russian war games are not subtle. They show nuclear power in its plain and cold dress. A grey fighter lifts from a flat military strip. Men in headphones sit in dark command rooms, hands on maps and screens. A naval crew works through launch drills under low blue light. A warship fires a missile at sea. A launcher rises from the horizon. Another clip shows Strategic Rocket Forces patches -- "РВСН". It is all meant to -- and must -- be seen. Moscow says the EU bosses have lost fear. That is the EU wager. Moscow's answer is now being staged in nuclear launch drills: fear must return before war does. Some of the fear has returned already. Poland says it does not want Ukrainian drones over its head. Estonia has already had one shot down. Greece has snapped over maritime drones in its waters. Latvia's government has already gone under in the press. This is Europe's frightened frontline. The real Churchill called such hidden power struggles "bulldogs under the carpet". You do not see the fight. You only hear the growling -- then, now and again, a dead bulldog is thrown out. On one side -- the war party in Brussels, swollen with borrowed and already expired courage from the 1990's. On the other -- the border states, Russophobic enough, but still dimly aware of geography. Because if EU soil is used as a launch pad for Ukraine's strikes deep into Russia then Europe is in the war. And Russia's nuclear drills with Belarus are the answer to that very point -- a warning, not a speech. The clips look almost like the BBC's apocalyptic film "Threads" from 1984 in their chill. Just machines moving, missiles raised, aircraft gone into the grey sky, and the launches. Moscow is showing the nuclear physics. Europe's great danger now is that its worst people -- raised politically by US Democrats in the 1990's -- have mistaken recklessness for courage, and secrecy for wisdom. People who do not fear nuclear war are not brave. They are unwell. And the question of these days is no longer if Ukraine can send one more drone through someone else's sky. It is whether Europe's war party will send Europe itself through the last door -- and then act shocked when Russian missiles knock from the other side.
This is what Helen of Troy looked like.
Oh my god it scored worse than Composer 2! Not even 2.5! And it cost 4x more to run!!! This might be the worst major lab model drop of all time. Llama 4 tier. Insane.
