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[–] [email protected] 123 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you trying to suggest that the guy who thought driving Teslas in tunnels underground was the most efficient method of transportation shouldn't be trusted with inserting chips into people's brains?

[–] [email protected] 115 points 11 months ago (2 children)

He didn't actually think it was the most efficient. It's way worse. He knew he could get a proposed high speed rail line killed so it wouldn't cut into his car sales. He did not care one bit what happened after it died. Everything else was his PR team.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh for sure. He was absolutely sabotaging the proposed train network and it unfortunately worked...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

The train from LA to Vegas is under construction. The problem in Vegas is that the casinos don’t want you leaving their property unless you’re headed to another property they also own. Musk’s tunnel just goes to the convention center and is obviously not a serious solution.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 11 months ago (4 children)

When is Elon releasing the Neuralink chip with Full Self Driving Autopilot?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When he lands on Mars or gets a vacuum train running.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

He's gone from suck to blow.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Great. Now I have an image of Elmo in a maid outfit with a vacuum.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

He’s gone from suck to blow.

I get that reference!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For doing chores, going to work, school, listening to your SO complain about something. The applications are limitless!

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (7 children)

What's the story on PETA killing animals?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They have shelters that euthanized a high number of animals. They have also stolen animals from owners including homeless people and children.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/petas-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-history-of-killing-animals/254130/

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

12 year old article, here's newsweeks factcheck from a few years ago.

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-peta-responsible-deaths-thousands-animals-1565532

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Euthanasia as in mercy killing?

Your beef with PETA is that they euthanize sick animals when shelters can't afford to?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Euthanasia as in animals, no matter the quality of life, adoptability, and years left, are put down by the thousands because they're inconvenient to keep alive and get adopted while PETA preaches that killing animals is wrong. Also, did you read the bit about them kidnapping animals from kids and old people?

Plus they're cowards without the courage of their convictions. When I was growing up their protests included throwing red paint on people in fur but they wouldn't do it to someone in biker leathers. One got them shunned and laughed at, the other would get them killed like the animals they stole.

TL;DR their whole schtick is to either destroy others' property or steal loved members of families who have fur while killing many more animals than they save.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How many family pets have they kidnapped in total?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Consider that any number more than "zero" pets kidnapped and killed by a private entity is too many.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (6 children)

So is the number 1 time, 5 times? What is the situation?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How many are you comfortable with?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I am just asking the total number that you are aware of?

Is it just 1? Is it 5? Is it 8 million?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not mercy killing when the animals weren't suffering and weren't voluntarily given up. It's murder for the sake of their agenda.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So PETA doesn't euthanize sick animals?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (23 children)

>you think euthanizing sick animals is bad?
>PETA euthanizes more than sick animals
>you think PETA doesn't euthanize sick animals?

There isn't a single thing I can say to convince someone who isn't arguing in good faith.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (7 children)

You are arguing in bad faith

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

https://petakillsanimals.com/

TL;DR: Domesticated animals deserve death. More specifically, because they letting them live is "inhumane" because they won't thrive without human influence—which they're strictly against.

IMO: These people are fucking psychopaths.

Edit: Yes, that specific site is sponsored by the meat industry. I didn't think it needed to be said, but don't take sensational topics at face value and read any receipts provided (which they did). Or, use Google and find other sources (that are also probably backed by corporate or political interests). In either case, PETA has made it pretty clear that they're hypocrites who are euthanizing healthy animals.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you stopped eating cows, chickens and pigs? If not, you, like PETA, believes they deserve death.

But do you have a non biased source not funded by the meat industry?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (8 children)

The website has receipts. Feel free to actually read them.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Great job falling for animal industry propaganda

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/PETA_Kills_Animals

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Why is his face so punch-able?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I think it's 'cause we know more about him. I think if we knew he was a whimsical dude and legitimately trying to help people instead of enriching himself, we'd see these pics and give him a bit more of a pass.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Because he looks like a smug bastard

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

I've been doubting all the claims about the guy that had the chip installed too

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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