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an analysis of that one time musk disassembled twitter’s biggest datacenter in a manic fit (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 1 year ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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there’s an alternate universe version of this where musk’s attendant sycophants and bodyguard have to fish his electrocuted/suffocated/crushed body out from the crawlspace he wedged himself into with a pocket knife

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Of course RdS is never gonna be prez

Trump might die. He is 77. (Which is also why the crazy Kennedy is a bit scary. I don't expect America to do the normal thing this season).

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump kicking the bucket before the nomination would be the funniest thing ever. There's no given successor. Every other candidate apart from Christie pays him fealty. There's no Trump ideology, it's all what he says at any given moment. Thus, there's no candidate who can state "I will continue Trump's legacy", because it's never been clearly stated what that legacy is. The GOP donors want someone who can continue to deliver tax cuts and gut welfare, but they're probably not as interested in pursuing the culture wars. The base, OTOH, just want red meat. And the people promising them the meat are in general hugely unpopular among the general electorate. RdS is there. People simply find him unlikeable.

Sadly Trump's parents lived long, so there's no chance he'll die.

[–] m@blat.at 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@gerikson His parents lived long but they probably didn’t live on a diet composed mostly of saturated fat and ketchup scraped off the walls. He doesn’t smoke or drink alcohol (and loves Diet Coke) but that in itself isn’t a ticket to longevity. Biden is a lot fitter than Trump (and also teetotal) and he isn’t the subject of multiple criminal proceedings (his son is, but he isn’t). Trump’s levels of stress and anger seem off the scale. If I had to bet on one of them keeling over it wouldn’t be a tough decision.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like I said, it would be hilarious, but odds are according to the actuarial tables are that Trump will be the Republican nominee for president in 2024.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

Yes and also 77 compared to some of the other living dead who govern the USA is reasonably young. So even if some incident were to happen he would get pretty good care. And there seems no problem pushing forward a people who are not all there mentally. They should just send the poor man home to take care of his drug addicted scandalous son who is doing weird things online. Biden should do the same ;).

[–] rinze@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't even know what the "normal thing" is anymore.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago

We should just go back to normal, to Z̷̺̖̞̱̲͈͖̳̎̒á̶̛̬̳̝͓̌̄͝l̸̤̬͍͆͗̅̀̊̌̽̈́̏͘͝g̶̢͍͓̣̺̱̮̓̓̓̎͒͆̾̈́o̵̠̲͙͓̓̆̀̾̓́̄!̷̢͕͖͎͕̦͖̠͕̦̝͊́̉͌̐!