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38 minutes ago, F250 said:

It's not that kind of hate. It's more like I hate stepping in dog shit. 

Nothing will make me crash out faster...

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The neighbor's goddammed dog Elon'd in my fucking yard again today.

I kind of like this...

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I am a noted lover of books. The Iliad is maximum alpha.
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There is nothing on this planet less “alpha” than constant use of the term “alpha.”
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50 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

There is nothing on this planet less “alpha” than constant use of the term “alpha.”

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9 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I am a noted lover of books. The Iliad is maximum alpha.

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9 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


There is nothing on this planet less “alpha” than constant use of the term “alpha.”

I'll take it a step further.

Maximum Alpha, for sure, is when a warrior/hero, Achilles, goes apeshit after refusing to fight in the battle because his ego wasn't sated, but then joins the fight after his lover, Patroclus, is killed while he refused to fight. 

Nothing says Alpha like avenging the death of your favorite buddy's asshole that you can no longer plunder. 

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9 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I am a noted lover of books. The Iliad is maximum alpha.

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The ancient Greeks said that Homer was at his best when he told the tale at 1.25x speed.

8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


There is nothing on this planet less “alpha” than constant use of the term “alpha.”

This guy knows alpha.

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Listening to a book isn't reading and I will die on that hill

3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

This guy knows alpha.

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Literal egghead.

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6 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

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Image from Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6, 2025:

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17 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

She's just gonna keep roasting his ass

 

 

 

JCO has got some Kendrick Lamar in her

"For maximum alpha, complete with fighting for princesses, the Iliad." has been nominated for the worst sentence ever typed in human history. 

 

6 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

"For maximum alpha, complete with fighting for princesses, the Iliad." has been nominated for the worst sentence ever typed in human history. 

 

"Not that he went to Oklahoma, freakshow, and I am the idoit" would like a word.

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1 minute ago, hornian said:

1,000 starships a year? So almost 3 per day?

 

Where is he going to get the customers to use those rockets?

Interesting that this coincided with his getting the whatever payout from Tesla he is getting.  They were talking about it earlier this year, but it sounds like this is trying to take it to the next level.  And I'm guessing the state of Texas is going to pitch in.

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10 hours ago, Js1 said:

Listening to a book isn't reading and I will die on that hill

Fuckin' fight me

1 minute ago, safe sex said:

Fuckin' fight me

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10 hours ago, Js1 said:

Listening to a book isn't reading and I will die on that hill

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8 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

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Seems like Neuralink would have more promise and efficiency as an individual crime control system. This dipshit can’t even get his fake sci-fi dystopia proposals sorted. 

I eagerly await two Elorockets screwing up and colliding during takeoff, for whatever reason.  Texas & Montana, boom! watch out Denver.

No, I don't know anything about orbital mechanics.  Work with me.

17 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

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"That will be 1 trillion dollars."

10 hours ago, safe sex said:

Fuckin' fight me

read:
transitive verb

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: to receive or take in the sense of (letters, symbols, etc.) especially by sight or touch
(2)
: to study the movements of with mental formulation of the communication expressed
read lips
(3)
: to utter aloud the printed or written words of

Listening Is Not Reading. 

41 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

Elon is to AI what Elon is to FSD. Or Hyperloops. Or saving a trillion dollars in government spending. 

Or female orgasms.

Dag, I can't believe I didn't look at the dictionary definition🙄

Can I please program the robot nanny that will follow Elrod around?

30 minutes ago, safe sex said:

Dag, I can't believe I didn't look at the dictionary definition🙄

I guess words don't matter. Tell me, have you read any good podcasts lately?

20 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

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Listening to a podcast versus listening to a book are two very different things and involve very different kinds of listening imo.

I don't think every time you listen to a book it's necessarily equivalent to reading it, but I think it can be. 

14 minutes ago, safe sex said:

Listening to a podcast versus listening to a book are two very different things and involve very different kinds of listening imo.

I don't think every time you listen to a book it's necessarily equivalent to reading it, but I think it can be. 

Most podcasts aren't 100% scripted like a book reading is - it's inherently a conversational format with reactions and participation from the narrators. An audiobook has authorial intent and can carry the author's voice forward, even if it isn't literally voiced by the author.

I've never been more emotionally wrecked by and connected to a piece of literature than when I listened to Lonesome Dove. And yes, I have read-read it entirely through before as well. 

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1 hour ago, safe sex said:

Listening to a podcast versus listening to a book are two very different things and involve very different kinds of listening imo.

I don't think every time you listen to a book it's necessarily equivalent to reading it, but I think it can be. 

Reading the book >>> listening to the book >>> doing neither.

Time constraints are real.  If it's listen whilst driving or nothing, you should.  A REAL good book though you hopefully have time to sit and read proper.

Books that you should listen to that will leave you a huddled sobbing wreck on the floor (complimentary), and that once you finish one you will understand why it's silly to say listening to books can't count as reading them, and frankly in some ways can be superior:
 

  • Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
  • Circe, by Madeline Miller
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
  • The Passage of Power, by Robert Caro (fuckin' dare you to listen to the sections about civil rights and not start weeping now)
  • James, by Percival Everett 
  • Perfume - the Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Süskind
  • Grant, by Ron Chernow
  • Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
  • Matrix, by Lauren Groff

Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.  

21 minutes ago, Parliament said:

Reading the book >>> listening to the book >>> doing neither.

Time constraints are real.  If it's listen whilst driving or nothing, you should.  A REAL good book though you hopefully have time to sit and read proper.

Absolutely agree about either one being better than neither! And I definitely won't argue that you can get different things out of the same book by reading versus listening.

I just don't think one is inherently better than the other. It's all contextual. 

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I always appreciate a good book list.

 

Are there movies out of any of those books?

😁

6 minutes ago, miguelito said:

I always appreciate a good book list.

 

Are there movies out of any of those books?

😁

Actually, the movie of Perfume is fucking great and really underrated/under seen. 

1 hour ago, safe sex said:

Listening to a podcast versus listening to a book are two very different things and involve very different kinds of listening imo.

I don't think every time you listen to a book it's necessarily equivalent to reading it, but I think it can be. 

Maybe. I totally buy that. But none of those things are reading. 

16 minutes ago, safe sex said:

Absolutely agree about either one being better than neither! And I definitely won't argue that you can get different things out of the same book by reading versus listening.

I just don't think one is inherently better than the other. It's all contextual. 

Did someone here say "Fuck those people who listen to audiobooks, they're sub-human and illiterate?" If so, I missed it. 

6 minutes ago, safe sex said:

Actually, the movie of Perfume is fucking great and really underrated/under seen. 

I loved that book. Never heard of it being a movie, and I pay attention to movies. Weird. 

On 11/11/2025 at 8:42 AM, SydneyCarton said:

 

I'll take it a step further.

Maximum Alpha, for sure, is when a warrior/hero, Achilles, goes apeshit after refusing to fight in the battle because his ego wasn't sated, but then joins the fight after his lover, Patroclus, is killed while he refused to fight. 

Nothing says Alpha like avenging the death of your favorite buddy's asshole that you can no longer plunder. 

Where did you get that copy of my classical civ midterm from fall ‘88?

6 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Where did you get that copy of my classical civ midterm from fall ‘88?

The benefits of a classical education. 

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