Signtist

“Coward” implies that they want to do good, but are too scared to do so. There’s no reason to think that, and indeed we shouldn’t. They want money and Elon makes them money; that’s all there is to it. If ethics mattered to them at all, they wouldn’t have been able to climb to the position of CEO of a major corporation in the first place.

It means “We won’t discriminate between people who give us money. Whether they kill each other afterword is none of our concern.”

You might be right, but when I lived in Minneapolis I thought Minnesota was pretty much 100% blue. I’d pretty much never met a local Republican. Now I live about 30 minutes out of the city, and in the 3 years I’ve been here, I’ve yet to meet another local non-Republican.

He originally wanted to call it the Spermy Long Legs.

They haven’t forgotten, they just noticed that if you throw the first stone you can make it seem as though you are without sin.

People always ask why I don’t turn my hobby into a job, and this is the response I give. If the thing I do to unwind from my job becomes my job, what will I do to unwind from my job?

That’s the heart of the issue, though, isn’t it? Most people do care about the state of their washing machines even as countless children have nothing to eat. People chastise their kids for not eating their vegetables by saying “kids are starving in Africa,” without doing anything to help any kids in Africa. People want more for themselves even while acknowledging that others have so much less. Studies like this assume that human selfishness is negligible, while it’s actually one of the largest variables that needs to be factored in. Most people don’t actually care about human suffering unless it’s happening to someone they personally know - they care much more about their washing machine.