Alcoraiden

Me too. I loved Elon -- a dude with fucktons of money who actually wanted to spend it doing epic science. He was Tony Stark.

Now he's just a loser.

I agree with Robinson here. I'm reading through the book, and the impression I'm getting more and more is that it's full of both-sidesism and not acknowledging that we have a bunch of anchors attached to our ankles when it comes to actually fixing problems, and those anchors trend far more right than they do left. The issue is not that we hate the anchors -- emotions aren't bad. It's that the anchors are there.

The alt-right is the problem. Sometimes there are villains. Disney isn't pulling that shit from nowhere. Most people are not Jafar or Ursula, but the ones who are, tend to end up in positions of power because they won, as Tim would say, the Power Games. They were willing to beat up and bludgeon and poison others, whether physically or via the media or via money.

Sorry, sometimes the bad guys gotta go.

He had to work to fail, and work at it he did.

The way to improve your odds is to pick a small lottery and buy up most of the tickets. A dude I knew from MIT did that. There were a bunch of articles on him. It's just brute force + knowing which lottery to game.

Wasn't scratch tickets. https://alum.mit.edu/slice/calculated-approach-winning-lottery