• brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    Loved the initial laughs

    (Noting I’m not in a position to judge his claim, but that’s OK as plenty of other commenters are comfortable doing so)

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      6 hours ago

      Im pretty confortable saying that anyone that calls himself “the best THING currently alive” is an idiot

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        6 hours ago

        Heh, well they are certainly unafraid of being perceived as self-centered!

        Better when others are the ones to hype someone up with a high superlative like this guy I found:

        In an informal poll at a 1990 cosmology conference, Witten received the largest number of mentions as “the smartest living physicist”.

        Edward Witten

        Oh Mr. Musk, why must you do the silly stuff… so many big, expensive distractions (to say the very least)…