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Elon Musk was asked at a conference whether he is happy. The pause before he answered lasted long enough that the audience shifted in their seats. The answer, when it came, was not what anyone expected from the richest man alive.
He said he doesn't think happiness is the right framework. He said his brain is "a very, very bad neighborhood" that he wouldn't recommend visiting. He said the experience of being him is one of constant output at the expense of internal peace. The production never stops. The mental simulation of problems, solutions, designs, and possibilities runs continuously, including during sleep, and there is no mechanism to turn it off. The brain that produces extraordinary external results produces extraordinary internal discomfort.
He compared his mind to a never ending explosion. Not a metaphor he used casually. An explosion. Constant expansion in all directions simultaneously. The explosion produces the companies, the products, the ideas, and the ambition. It also produces the insomnia, the inability to be present in relationships, the emotional unavailability that every partner has described, and the restlessness that makes ordinary human activities feel like a waste of processing power.
The answer was not self pity. It was clinical. He was describing the architecture of his own mind the way he would describe the architecture of a rocket engine: here is how it works, here is what it produces, here is what it costs. The cost of the mind that runs 6 companies is that the mind cannot be peaceful. The peace and the production are mutually exclusive. He chose production.
The audience wanted to hear "yes, I'm happy, and you can be too." They got: my brain is a bad neighborhood and the price of what I build is that I never rest. The honesty was so total that the room didn't know how to respond. The moderator moved on quickly.
The richest man alive does not experience happiness in the way the question implied. He experiences drive. He experiences the satisfaction of solving problems. He experiences the compulsion to build. But the quiet contentment that the word "happy" suggests is not available to him because the quiet is not available. The engine does not idle. The engine only runs.
He answered the question the way he answers everything: honestly, technically, and in a way that made everyone in the room grateful they are not him.
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How confident is Elon right now?
In just 4 days, @elonmusk said Tesla vs Waymo "was never a real contest," and when Verizon's CEO said Starlink needs a minimum of 4 to 6 years to build a real phone network, he replied, "Will take 2 or 3 years."
Then he went after the AI clouds. Debt markets have "almost entirely shut off" for neoclouds without outside revenue, and the 200+ neoclouds face "guppy-level death and consolidation."
Is he calling these right?
$TSLA $SPCX
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You got your talking point didn't you from the DNC.
He was talking about the Muslim Brotherhood, have you spoken about that?
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James O’Keefe on the Felony Charges for Exposing Fraud in Minnesota:
This is not political. It is fundamental. It is about whether citizens still have the right to question their government. This is now a landmark First Amendment case, and every American’s right to speak truth to power has been put on the line.
Weaponized lawfare does not work against me. It has always backfired on the people who come after me. Most people find criminal charges and lawsuits stressful; the process becomes a form of punishment. But I love this process because it gives me the opportunity to expose injustice at the highest levels. My foundation will be indemnifying members of the Justice League, including @camhigby for their lawful reporting.
I’m calling on all Americans, and especially all journalists, to stand united on a message to the prosecutors in Minnesota: the politics of fear will not prevail in the United States of America.
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When I was 17, I was living in Belgium. I visited a Concentration Camp on the Belgian-Netherlands border. That visit spurred me to major in history. I wanted to try to understand how the German people, who were no different from people all over the world, could be induced to either support or be silent to the genocide the Nazis committed during WW2. I reasoned, if I could figure THIS out, I could guard against the same tactics ever being used on me. After 4 years of college and 25 years of life experience, I still didn’t have an answer to this. Then COVID hit, and I watched, in horror, as I saw history repeat itself. Thankfully, this time “they” didn’t succeed. In early 2022 I saw a poll (reputable poll) where 58% of Liberals wanted to put non-vaxed people in camps.
There is no reasoning with these people, they view us as subhuman (not just in regard to the vax). We need to destroy the power they have and crush it so it can never rise again.
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Nothing. It’s not worth engaging with them. They cannot be reasoned with. The thing we must do is patiently build, outcompete, win, and neutralize their influence over the long run.
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I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought most conservatives were ignorant or evil or lying. I believed almost everything written in the New York Times, The New Republic, and the Atlantic. I was horrified when conservatives criticized the authorities. Every criticism I saw: I thought all of it was motivated by animus, resentment, self-interest, or ignorance.
Whatever truth there might have been in the criticism, I saw as a mere "half-truth": an exploitation of this or that cherrypicked fact being weaponized. Why did I see it in terms of weaponization? Because I was biased: I saw liberal establishment institutions and figures as fundamentally good, so all criticism of them was automatically interpreted as being in bad faith.
Didn't the critics know that these institutions or figures were fundamentally good? If they didn't, they were ignorant. If they did, they were evil. It was that simple. This meant that any legitimate criticisms would just be dismissed, as if bouncing off of an impenetrable bulletproof shield.
This all changed once I started writing about the pandemic. Soon people started talking about me the way I once thought about conservatives. This led to a complete identity collapse as I came to understand that my old worldview was hateful and ignorant, that I hadn't understood what I had been judging.
I cannot forget the hearing that led to my dismissal from medical school a year after I started writing. During the hearing, people talked about me as if I wasn't human. My behavior was interpreted in the worst possible light. Complete fabrications were created. Nobody was concerned with the truth, only horrified at my apparent "unprofessional behavior", which was really a mirror of their unprofessional behavior directed at me. They structured the hearing to make it virtually impossible for me to speak and explain that what was being said was a lie. And nobody seemed to have any problem with this. Why? Because I was bad. If I am bad, then every mistreatment and every violation of the school's own policies became justified. A person who is bad does not deserve any rights. They only deserve punishment.
But the thing I remember most was the allusions to my social media activity. They said, "Kevin is driven by resentment from his childhood." I wasn't. I was on good terms with my parents. They alleged that I needed psychotherapy to deal with this trauma. It was a completely fake story that they had constructed about me, to demean me, to marginalize me, to try to explain the views I had expressed: that something terribly wrong had happened during the pandemic. They couldn't imagine that I might have legitimate points. So they reduced me to the same kinds of psychological caricatures that I once reduced conservatives to in my own mind.
When I was dismissed, I was broken. But I had help from friends who helped me understand what happened. And I came to realize that a hysteria had overtaken the left. I spent a lot of time reading about show trials, about witch trials, and so on. I also connected with people who had experienced similar things and came to realize that something similar had happened to hundreds of physicians around the country. My story wasn't unique. It was all the same story over and over again.
I cannot believe the person I once was. I cannot believe that I could exist like that. I still don't understand how I could be like that, or how millions of people in this country could continue being like that. It disturbs me greatly.
One thing I know is that whatever this thing is that is driving people crazy needs to be destroyed. It is hostile to civilization and to our humanity. It causes us to dehumanize each other and try to destroy each other. It is the very same monstrous thing that I once attributed to conservatives. But it had been inside me, and I could now see it inside others. This is something I still grapple with.
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This Family business only has 2 weeks left if things don’t get better (Springfield, TN) 🇺🇸👀
📍11th and Main Diner- Springfield, TN
#springfield #tennessee
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Socialism is often defined as workers owning the means of production—but this critique argues that DSA policies point instead to centralized control. Do the policies match the promise? #Socialism #Politics
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Steve Hilton is a warrior. Becerra is a zombie. We can’t afford another hack in the governor’s mansion.
Vote for Steve Hilton. He’s the real deal.
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A vote can be more than a choice between two names—it can signal support for a coalition and change. The argument: writing in a candidate is a way to build momentum for the future. #NYPolitics #Election2026
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Breaking down barriers for third parties could give people across the country a real chance to organize, build local power, and turn their political ideas into action. #ThirdParties #LocalPolitics
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Your move, New York.
Get out there and vote and let’s put crime and corruption in check.
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Ranked Choice Voting: Better Elections or Bigger Mess? Sharpe Way 848! nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1qKVmydvR…
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Elon Musk made a bunch of money the last few years and commie Bernie says "gee, I wonder why"
Um...Elon's landing rocket ships backwards and building flying cars, you stupid communist. I know you've never built anything, you've only ever worked for government, but Elon not only makes cool shit, he also directly employs over 160,000 people, and God knows how many people make a living using his work product. How many people have you employed in your life, Bernard? What have you built? You've never produced anything of value in your entire impotent life...gee, I wonder why?
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When I was young, my family moved from place to place; it was military life. We finally found a home in Hampton, VA, and I knew it was the place for me.
In the heart of our nation’s military region, in the original colony that gave us the Founding Fathers, this state and its people have always stood for service and freedom. Virginia deserves to be fought for, and that’s exactly what I’m doing. Vote for me, and I'll continue the fight every single day.
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Running independent can turn a small slice of the vote into real political leverage. The lesson: when neither party can take your support for granted, your priorities get harder to ignore. #IndependentPolitics #PoliticalReform
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Is a Write-In Vote Wasted? | Gov Shack 95! nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1AxRnZDkv…
