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The thing is they might be passable as random folks. The problem is their power and aspirations far exceed random folks, and so, compared to what you'd want to see in those positions, they are very dumb, but exude so much confidence that people have a tendency to assume that confidence must be somehow justified.

And yet executives in your career field probably would have nodded sagely, assuming that affinity to Musk would confer an appearance of intelligence to them, because they have no idea about the field either.

After spending some time in that circle, it drives me insane that the biggest idiots in various fields are the ones ostensibly in charge of them. They toss buzz words with confidence each other in a great circle jerk of money while their results are frequently no better than luck.

About the only consistent ability they have is to be complete sociopaths to screw over customers, employees, and shareholders alike. Which admittedly is a pretty powerful ability...

For a "smart" person, his death was quite possibly a very unintelligent way to go. He basically decided to give all kinds of "holistic" crap a chance to treat his cancer and avoided medical intervention for almost a year. If he had gone with the medical path from the onset, he might still be alive today.

But he did have his moments. Like how he basically told the music industry to cut out the DRM, because it just made the ecosystem impossible. Or one time when someone was picking at him over abandoning OpenDoc in favor of Java (Java didn't work out either, but his response was on point, without being dismissive of the person).

Frankly Hilary wasn't a good candidate, Elizabeth Warren would have been better, to illustrate it wasn't about her gender, but her specifically.

Hilary campaign was largely based around:

I'm a Clinton, remember us from 16 years ago, when my husband was president and I had nothing to do with policy, and mostly remembered as the woman who got cheated on? Clinton was remembered fondly enough I suppose, but that was 16 years ago, and any momentum from that had evaporated. The youngest voters were toddlers when that ended. If they wanted a bit of credibility by affinity to an administration, should have been Obama.

If you don't vote for me, you are a terrible person.

"I'm with her", which is just a terrible slogan that indicates a backwards relationship between a candidate and electorate. Even the megalomaniac asshole Trump managed to focus on "America" rather than himself with his slogan.

She didn't do much to energize anyone, and despite lacking substance she still managed to have folks dislike her candidacy. Whether it be by ditching her home state to go somewhere that would give her a government position or by pissing off the Bernie wing, or, as stupid as it is, I even heard some Democrat mad at her for embarrassing Bill Clinton by "making" him cheat.

See also: Cogsworth

I think is more a generalization about the praise of "goals" rather than associating him with anyone in particular.

Ultimately all the major powers are being graded on a curve and are generally only "good" when compared to some more evil major player. The US may be slipping to be worse than China, but China would still be worse than a number of European nations.

You forgot about apathy. Even with a healthier plurality of political parties, the big thing is the majority of potential voters don't bother. Some because of being lazy, some because it is unreasonably hard for them to get time off of work/contend with suppression.

This administration also highlights that the president matters too much. You can't have even two parties interest honored when a singular man gets his way so much.

It's not for no reason, it's to make Putin happier, maybe extort a bunch of mineral rights out of Ukraine. See, plenty of reason...

I suppose that maybe not prioritizing Arch. Broadly speaking I feel like Arch isn't the target for a GUI-exclusive usage scenario.

The global astronomical community expects the odds of an asteroid to hit Earth in December 2032 to eventually fall to zero.

I love how they make it seem like some insider expertise versus knowing basics of how percentages work.

I think the file managers do this for you nowadays, though I generally use 'cloud' style file syncing nowadays and so I'll confess to not having done it lately.