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On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:44:39 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>On 3/23/2025 1:37 PM, john larkin wrote:
>> On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:19:27 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3/22/2025 10:48 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>>> On 23/03/2025 9:28 am, john larkin wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:15:43 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
>>>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 3/22/25 16:13, Phil Hobbs wrote:
>>>>>>> john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://regmedia.co.uk/2023/03/09/dutch_shutterstock.jpg?
>>>>>>>> x=954&y=477&crop=1
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ;)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Of course with a square package and no pin 1 mark, it’s impossible
>>>>>>> to tell
>>>>>>> whether the glorious achievement is Dutch or French.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Of course the EU will convene another summit and fail to decide, as
>>>>>>> usual.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Phil Hobbs
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I sometimes think that huge, irresolute governments are good.
>>>>>> They can't decide on new regulations to bother and impair us.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>
>>>>> Better yet, they can't enforce them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some small portion of the population is actually productive. We make
>>>>> the food and power and roads and buildings for the rest.
>>>>
>>>> John Larkin doesn't understand much, so it looks that way to him.
>>>>
>>>>> Most government employees are useless or worse.
>>>>
>>>> If you don't understand what they are doing. it can look that way.
>>>>
>>>> The anti-government propaganda which has formed John Larkin's thinking
>>>> on the subject is paid for by US industry, which wants to be free make
>>>> as much money as possible by organising itself into cartels and over-
>>>> charging its customers.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/big-myth-9781635573572/
>>>>
>>>> The same author's also wrote
>>>>
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
>>>>
>>>> which is about the climate change denial propaganda machine which has
>>>> formed John Larkin's opinions about climate change.
>>>>
>>>>> But if we fire them, they will just join the existing mob of useless
>>>>> drones, so maybe not much will change.
>>>>
>>>> If it did John Larkin would only notice if his favourite propaganda
>>>> sources told him that it had. The US education system does seem to churn
>>>> out a lot of gullible suckers, and Trump does seem to want to make sure
>>>> that it doesn't get improved by any Federal government intervention.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Despite having a personal admiration and fascination for them Musk
>>> sometimes forgets that a lot of people still don't like Hitler, Mao, and
>>> Stalin:
>>>
>>> <https://archive.is/SNNyw#selection-857.0-869.170>
>> 
>> Musk does invent things, and is pretty hands-on.
>> 
>> You guys should try designing some electronics. It's an activity that
>> rubs your nose in reality.
>> 
>
>He seems to have given it up to be a politician/social media 
>"influencer", he can't have been that good...

As the richest person on Earth, he must have done something right.

I don't think he's being paid for the DOGE thing. It's a volunteer
public service.