You speak, for someone with the username asteriskeverything, with a lot of certainty about things I’m sure you know nothing about.

However it’s nice to have your opinion.

I think Elon musk is putting all of his and X’s eggs in the Trump basket. He is betting on Trump winning the election, X being the mouthpiece of the new system of government, and himself, Tesla, SpaceX, powerwall, and all of his other looney ideas being the beneficiary of government contracts and favors from the new regime just as looney as he is.

I wouldn’t be surprised if he had this in mind for a long time. That’s probably ascribing him more intelligence that he has, but it goes with his Bond villain persona. Maybe it’s why he bought Twitter at a loss.

This troll has to be so happy to see their troll post still lives. Let it die.

ISS was pretty far along. Let’s talk Skylab and Space Shuttle.

So, that kinda makes sense to you? Like, you can “get it,” why someone would load up and kill a bunch of people indiscriminately?

Because I can’t. I could go vengeance on someone who hurt my family. I’m sure I could kill in self-defense, or to protect my family.

But to just go somewhere prepared to kill a bunch of people I don’t know? Who never had any contact with me or my life?

“Take out their frustrations on society?” I really hope you are just hyped up or talking out your ass or something. I’m any case, please talk to someone competent about this, preferably a licensed therapist.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists

The one in 2020? That was a good movie!

I did what you said, sorting by “top,” and I think you’re doing a lot of projecting because I do not read anything there that could be an answer to the question

Second, I read your response, and I’m confused. Are you proposing redistribution of wealth and veganism as a solution to mass killings? If not, I guess I didn’t understand your answer.

This question was posted with a Wikipedia link. I didn’t read it, but let’s assume it didn’t answer the poster’s question.

Now I see in the comments a people saying “we know a lot” (but not Wikipedia I guess) or “it’s just what Americans do” or “we got some good laws out of it”. It just sounds like “move along, move along” to me.

Nobody answered the question. I don’t know the answer, but to say that a person who has never killed anyone before then planned and executed the biggest mass shooting in American history (and that’s saying something!) and we shouldn’t CARE about motive is just weird.

What makes someone arm themselves and go to a movie theater or an elementary school or a concert should be damned important to a society that cares about mental health and the safety of its citizens. It’s SO EASY to say “evil” and put it in the past, especially when the perpetrator is dead. It’s much harder to think about how to prevent the next one. Sure, they use guns. But then it’s knives. Or hammers. Slower you say? Well then how about sarin gas? Mail bombs? Potassium cyanide in Tylenol? Letters containing ricin?

We need to know more about the psychology of the mass killer. We act like saying “evil” is good enough. Are we all religious now? There’s devils out there? Or are they people, people with problems that never got recognized, until it was too late?

Agreed. I think “Flowers for Algernon” hit me hard. And I had an experience in college where I accidentally took a philosophy class called “Critical Theory Since Plato” when I first realized that I’m not very smart, just a little above average, and some people live life on a while different level than I do.

And don’t get me started on “Electromechanical Wave Theory,” a book I bought from Goodwill. I wanted to learn more about that, but I think it was written by aliens.

Whew, that guy has too much energy. He reminds me of the Minecraft videos my kids watch.

Slower.

Calmer.

Better.

We must always consider capability. If it requires 3 quarts of understanding and I’ve only got a 1/2 gallon container, it’s not all getting in there.

We aren’t all the same. I am content that there are people way smarter than me. I’ve met some. They’re usually cool.

Very cool. I love that it exists, I love humanity that some of us are capable of understanding, or even generating such things, but wow. Some people are a lot smarter than me.

Haha, well here’s one from my life for you.

I had just gotten checked out on my first radar position and I was sitting down for my first time working traffic by myself. The next thing I know I get handed off the Concord, which was still flying back then, and I had never worked a Concord before. It’s speed is pegged out at 999 knots and I know it’s going way faster than that. I look over at the strip and there’s a note on it that says the Queen of England is on board, flying in to visit Florida.

My first day, the Concord, and the Queen. I turn around, nervous as hell, and shout to the guys behind me, a bunch of crusty veterans who are mostly ex-Vietnam helicopter pilots hired when the strike happened, “Hey I’m over here working the Concord with the Queen of England on it. What do I do?”

Just as easy as pie one of the guys looks back at me and says “Make her number one.”

Well it made perfect sense to me, and was funny and rang true. Real pilot humor there.

I’ve been doing that for 40+ years. I just want to try using AI as a partner to bounce ideas back and forth. As I explained in another post, I have trouble generating alternatives once I’ve created an Idea. It’s nice to have a means to get outside myself.

I intend to do the writing, it’s the planning and plotting I’m using AI for.

Lol is this not a story about you? Is it a wall of text meme I’ve never heard of?

As a retired Center Air Traffic Controller, thank you for that. I’ve got a million stories, and it’s good to hear one from the other side of the mike.

Good video! I really enjoyed that!

WOW, that’s so damned cool! Fantastic job

WOW, really nice explanation.