• @[email protected]
    16•11 hours ago

    Every once in a while I dive into the manosphere. Usually I’m consuming their latest perspectives regarding global population decline. The algorithm fed me an asmongold/Elon vid the last go.

    Apparently, Elon is such an adult, he paid a guy to level a gaming character for him, played the character publicly (I’m still uncertain about the why part for Elon, the other guy makes a living doing it so that makes sense), and Elon was called out for the paid leveling. Then Elon, on X, banned, unbanned, removed check marks, replaced, removed, etc on the game streamer, this asmongold guy, who called him out on the paid leveling. I know. I’m sure someone can explain the incident better.

    The point is, this is so childish. How do you have that much money, have 53 years of age, own all the cool toys, and care this much about a game character or what anyone thinks about something so inconsequential? Or act like this, at 53? It’s childish and weird. Donating/testing portable solar panels in Puerto Rico post hurricane is cool, this is, idk what this is. Unhealthy. We’ll leave it at unhealthy.

    And that’s who is in charge of our data, our money, and our electronic existences right now.

    Hating on a comic after finding myself on that internet tangent reads as expected behavior.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•10 hours ago

      Just a note about the solar panels: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-tesla-puerto-rico-renewable-energy_n_5ca51e99e4b082d775dfec35

      Musk has promised a lot of things publically over the years but for the most part it’s all part of curating his image as a genius philanthropist, and the reality has almost never matched the promises.

      For example, his promise up donate ventilators to help with COVID (which he himself had said at the start of the pandemic would be over in a couple of months) that ended up being not the expensive ventilators that were needed, but much cheaper CPAP machines that are fairly useless for dealing with COVID unless they’re extensively modified. Oh, and then a couple of years later he accused ventilator use of killing a bunch of COVID patients and said he could’ve told doctors that would happen because he “builds life support systems for spaceships”. Then why donate them in the first place?

      There’s been many other examples over the years but the point is the guy has didn’t his entire career moulding the public’s opinion of him, long enough I think that he began to believe his own publicity. Now he’s let the mask slip enough that there’s no putting it back on.

      • @[email protected]
        1•3 hours ago

        CPAPs, no. CPAPs are great for what they are, giving OSA patients some of their health back, the capacity to sleep and feel rested back.

        BiPAPs were used during COVID to the point of running out, daily. A device called AirVo was also used. The goal, after the initial months and better understanding of what was being dealt with, was to stay off vents as long as possible. BiPAPs did that for many people. BiPAPs are also a reason families were banned. The high velocity forced air exchange through the lips and mouth makes the wearer feel thirsty, and visitors kept trying to jam straws in there only to have the air blast blow water straight into the lungs.

        I expect most people to be grey at baseline, but I’m also not surprised by any of this info. That said, HuffPost isn’t the greatest.