One of the most inspiring visions of the future I have ever seen! Everyone should watch this. ❤️🤘 pic.twitter.com/16EuvDt5BS

— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) October 11, 2024

Amazing technology, that’s for sure. I didn’t understand Elon’s vision for the retail uses of the Optimus robot, however. The domestic tasks the video showed Optimus performing are kind of trite.

Optimus as a retail product is aimed at the high-earning, high-achieving people in creative jobs who are over-scheduled and massively into productivity. For such people, simple, mechanical tasks are a necessary counterbalance to intellectually overcharged lives. Taking in the groceries or laying the table are activities of mental hygiene.

The people who do need help unloading the car trunk or pouring a drink are precisely those whose jobs Optimus will destroy. They’ll have all the time in the world to put away groceries and no money or need for a robot.

Great technology, though. Very impressive.

I saw the footage from the Hurricane Milton surge in Fort Myers Beach, and my heart is sore. Such a beautiful place so cruelly battered. It only just came back from Ian, and then Milton came.

The really creepy footage comes from the street cameras that filmed not just the result but the process.

Women would do absolutely anything to avoid noticing that the dude in their lives is a raging pedo.

That poor child from “a previous relationship.” People are such shits sometimes.

Emotional processing happens on a scale. Its extremes are unhealthy while the mid-range state is optimal.

“I feel everything and then some” and “I feel nothing” are equally unhealthy. A permanently overheated emotional state is as bad as a permanently frozen one. People in the two extremes often take a moralistic position vis-à-vis each other, but they are equally unhealthy.

People who exist in the state of a permanent emotional dysregulation tend to present it to others as a particular kind of sensitivity that makes them special and unique. Those who are dissociated advertise themselves as particularly stoic and strong. Both use their dysfunction as a cudgel to beat those around them into servicing and feeding their unhealthy state.

This is exactly, EXACTLY the tone and the vocabulary that the Soviet press used to write about the Secretary General of the Communist Party:

Only rarely are individuals summoned for acts of national rescue, but in July, Vice President @KamalaHarris received one of those calls. With President Joe Biden’s decision to end his reelection campaign, the world looked to Harris with hopes and doubts. https://t.co/NtOIMM2L1R pic.twitter.com/4u1mbmDJ6i

— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) October 11, 2024

The only difference is that the Soviet journalists who wrote like this didn’t have a choice. The whole weight of a totalitarian regime pushed them to do it. Americans, on the other hand, gave away their free press completely willingly.

Also, Harris can’t even find a non-fake pose for a staged photoshoot. Look at the hands. Whoever sits like this in real life?

What an incredibly fake, vapid person. This fawning over her is especially galling given what an utter non-entity she is.

President Zelensky: "Russia must accept that Europe has borders, independent nations, and each nation has the right to choose its future. The truth is that Russia’s acceptance of this reality can only begin with the understanding that #Ukraine will never again be subjugated by… pic.twitter.com/bLJ1R08qri

— Glasnost Gone (@GlasnostGone) October 10, 2024

It would be great if Europe accepted that too, of course, but you know.

Trump to announce in Detroit that he plans “make interest on car loans fully tax deductible.”

— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) October 10, 2024

Once again, people who do the responsible thing and buy used cars for cash to avoid debt are screwed.

https://twitter.com/FreeTrevian/status/1844209990124671018?t=WZ6Kj1kiOkTZKOjreVkM4g&s=19

I’m so sad for these people. So deeply sorry. They are telling themselves these absolute fairytales about winning the black vote, getting a landslide in New York, turning Cali red. And it’s all absolute lunacy. Instead of concentrating on what’s actually winnable, they convince themselves of these insane fantasies and then can’t comprehend when reality turns out to be different.

https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1844387359036669967?t=BL5qPBR52jZuAT_ye25PTQ&s=19

This is why I just can’t bring myself to vote for him. This. Unpatriotic, inane drivel that repeats what our worst enemies try to convince themselves of.

This is an amazing country. The best place to live in the world. And it has problems. It’s not heaven on Earth. Heaven on Earth is not going to happen. But our problems are pinpricks compared to what other countries are experiencing. I don’t even mean really failed nations like in Africa or, increasingly, Mexico. I mean Canada, UK, rich developed countries that are doing worse than we are.

If we are a failure, then who isn’t? I want to hear the names of those much more successful countries.

Yes, Kamala is just as bad with her libels about how we are “structurally racist” and all that crap.

Can we get a leader who admires this country and doesn’t call it names every two seconds? Is that too much to ask?