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[–] [email protected] 130 points 2 months ago (12 children)

"The last thing I would do is trust a computer program," says the owner of a car company developing self driving & rocket company building automation into rocket launches.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

not to mention brain chips. Remember, every accusation is a confession with the MAGA crowd. I bet we'd find a few gems in the code for tesla and twitter now

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Software that killed a pedestrian recently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's why you're supposed to have paper backups. And you audit things.

Edit: I think you could even get a real time audit and still be electronic with backups

  1. You go to machine and vote
  2. It prints off a copy of what you voted and records it (this is the primary vote count)
  3. You verify the paper ballot print off and take it to a second area to be recorded and kept for audits.
  4. Put ballot in second machine which validates and counts the vote and externally shows a counter increase on the machine for votes counted (not who) so you also know this machine counted it for a total.

So now you have the proper vote tallies from 1. The audit of the correct amount of total records from 4. If there's any cause for concern or for auditing, you can manually count the paper ballots.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Didn't Dominion already win at least one defamation lawsuit because some jackass was spewing these lies? Gonna love seeing Elmo have to pay up, just a shame it won't cost him enough to make him shut the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cost Tucker Carlson his job.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

that's ok, he works for putin now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Well I guess on paper now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Expecting the Mitch Hedberg follow-up here.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fox News settled for $787 million.

I would love to see Musk go down like that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He could, sadly, do that a few dozen times and still be ok.

We need to eat the rich.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Well having to find that much liquidity that fast can be a problem even for someone as rich as Musk, no?

If I own musk stock I would consider selling before he dumps $1B worth of stock on the market, and try to pick it up again cheaply. I can see it wipe out massive market cap from his companies...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know, if they manage to get a judgment against him for a couple billion dollars, that's like 10% of his worth after he tanked Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah but at that value its still going to hurt.

Especially if he keeps doing it.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Friendly reminder that an Immigrant African American Welfare Queen, with numerous baby mommas and children he don’t even talk to, is a foreign actor attempting to sway American Elections by spreading fake news. Truly the enemy within that needs to be addressed, there is a reason he travels with as many as 20 bodyguards just to touch grass Source.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)
  • Children that won't talk to him.
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

“The probability that a homicidal maniac will try to kill you is proportionate to how many homicidal maniacs hear your name,” he said. “So they hear my name a lot — I’m like, ‘OK, I’m on the list,’ you know.”

this makes it sound like high profile assassinations are caused by a bunch of “maniacs” pulling names out of hats

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

He watched the documentaries about The Jerk and The Terminator.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Considering the first attempt on Trump's life, and I hate to admit it, but he's not that far off. I can't tell you how large of a quantity it is, but trump sure riled up a bunch of mentally ill people who may or may not have a good grasp of their mental stability.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 months ago

Ohh please let this be actionable a la Fox News

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like dominion should sue musk too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

They've been very effective at it. I wonder if that's becoming a good revenue stream.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

“The last thing I would do is trust a computer program”

What a weird thing to say from someone that sells a car he says will eventually drive itself.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It's like nobody is even trying to kill him.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It should be fully legal to kill billionaires

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

At some point of extreme wealth, you get declared a dragon and it should be perfectly fine to organize adventuring parties to attempt to slay you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I saw a comment a while ago where someone calculated the equivalent wealth of fictional dragons (e.g. by estimating the dimensions of Smaug's vast gold trove in The Hobbit) and determined that real billionaires are far worse hoarders of money. Like 1000x worse.

I should try to find that comment again.

[–] vaultdweller013 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Okay but if I fond a magic ring that turns me invisible im fucking keeping it, its mines mines precious!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ah . . maybe I'd better hold onto that . . .

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Imagine Magoos if Jack Dorsey was campaigning for Obama or Biden back when he owned Twitter... They would be absolutely losing their shit. Fox news would be running stories 24/7 about it and biased media influence...

They piss me off to no end. Hypocrite, thy name is MAGA.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Trump went on Fox News to talk about how he's going to ask Murdoch to not run any negative ads till the election. 🤮

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Imagine Magoos if Jack Dorsey was campaigning for Obama or Biden back when he owned Twitter…

and then stole a @handle to promote them as well.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sue him for 99.5% of his net worth that should shut this cunt up

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

101%

He'll just pull himself up by the boot straps and billionaire work ethic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why would they want all his debt?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Hey look! The people who are cheating our election system are warning us about cheaters in our election!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

My man loves a lawsuit. Can't climax without one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Bankrupt his ass

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