JohnBoBon

joined 1 year ago
[–] JohnBoBon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Despite Elon being insane, the idea of brain-computer interfaces could be really great. I'm thinking of people with disabilities or debilitating injuries. This could enable prosthetics with full dexterity that you can control. It could be life changing for some people.

I don't know if that is the first thing Elon is aiming for, but any breakthroughs in the technology that could lead to it becoming a legitimate option to improve people's lives, I think would be a good thing.

[–] JohnBoBon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On a political and governmental level, I'm not proud at all personally. There is very little that our government did that I think should inspire the rest of the world to follow suit. Maybe stopping a few terrible things that it should have never been doing in the first place, but that's hardly anything to be proud of when it's long overdue and with still plenty of other bad things that it's starting or failing to stop.

But as far as the people who live here go, there are a lot of them that I am proud to know and be around. There are some great people here, and maybe they are partially influenced by some good deeds from the country's past, or at least the ideals it promoted. Not government leaders thag would affect things on a large scale, but genuinely good people who make things more bearable for those in their vicinity. Ironically some of them are in demographics that this country is not currently respecting or defending enough.

[–] JohnBoBon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll be honest I did not watch MTG's speech, and I don't know the full context. But I don't understand how that stuff is supposed to sound negative. She actually wrote that down and had someone proofread it and no one said "actually, this kinda makes it sound like he's doing good things"