The definition of "insanity"

The brand with the bird and all was actually one of the more valuable parts of Twitter that he bought...

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I too hate this quote for that reason, thank you for your service o7
- Relevant xkcd
You're also in a meme community, commenting on a meme, so while technically correct, it's not super relevant.
Idk, if you're doing the same thing after your training that you were doing before, you either didn't need training or you weren't successfully trained.
It's an idiom, it's not meant to be a clinical diagnosis. Like, yeah if you're psychiatrist says it to you qnd tries to have you institutionalized, that's obviously a problem. But I highly doubt that's ever happened, certainly not in the modern age.
Ultimately, it's actually the same exact idea as "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it," but in less politically correct terms.
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Yeah but Vaas is iconic and absolutely arresting in every scene he's in.
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- Iconic only for those who played it or randomly encountered him via meme propagation.
it's also what i do when i run my programs over and over again hoping the bugs fix themselves
You miss 100% of the DSM that doesn’t get discredited 3 years from now.
—Michael Gretzky
For me, it's the definition of Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer was universally considered insane and he didn't "do the same thing over and over and expect different results". He just killed and ate people over and over and expected them to taste good.
- So they tasted good? If not, where's the difference?
Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.
- Actually when you create a hypothesis and test it and prove it out, it is meant to be 100% repeatable by anyone following the metgod. Otherwise your method or hypothesis is wrong.
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Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.
If you're getting different results it's because you're adjusting something. That's training.
Not to mention it's always attributed to Albert Einstein which is not something he said and not something he would ever have said. Doesn't stop people from continuing to invoke this "definition of insanity" as if its a smart thing to say.
What a lovely twist on an annoying misattributed quote!
Not a meme, it comes from a thought experiment trying to disprove quantum mechanics. It's often attributed to Einstein, though that's very likely not true.
EDIT: This is wrong.
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Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.

He's been hanging onto that x.com url for so long, he insists it's gonna get used

The best part is he had to buy the rights back from Paypal, he just did it back in 2017.
Couldn't he have just started a blog, like a normal person?

He's just a big fan of X11.

Nobody's a big fan of X11
Still astounding that after so many years Wayland is still inferior in a lot regards to X11. And by design will probably never be able to better in these regards
- X via SSH is such a great feature. Would really love to see it in Wayland.

Is anyone going to tell Elon he cant own the letter X

That's a pretty terrible trademark
- Tell that Apple.
  Didn't they try to sue someone for using an apple as a logo in Switzerland?

At this point where he is basically stripping the site of its users (paid + limits) and branding (removing the twitter bird) why didn't he just start up his own social media site and slow grow it instead of wasting money to pillage the competitor and then strip it of everything that made it what it was, i.e., the user base and the brand recognition?

He didn't want twitter in the first place. He made some legally binding comments and was legally required to purchase it after meme-ing an offer and thinking he could get away with it lol. Now he's suing the lawyers that made him buy Twitter.
Musk is not a very smart man.
- To be precise, he's sueing the lawyers Twitter hired in the case to force him to buy, as Twitter paid them a bunch of money they weren't legally obligated to pay, just before the purchase went through.

Giving a shit about some corporation rebranding itself?

your right. however it is fun to laugh, and sad to realise how much of an impact he can make
- yep. The fact that lemmy is even needed goes to show how millionaires are never to be trusted.

Enemy Unknown

The Lemmy Project has been activated. You are our first and last line of defense!
- Pvt. Musk is under Alien Control
  Pvt Musk is going berserk!
- Shoot down that UFO! We can't lose our Furry funding!

It’s like trying to have the hero fight a giant spider in every movie you make.

He failed at PayPal and they kicked him for it, so surely the X is totally a good omen for him right? That’s why he keeps going back.

what company is he gonna buy now, and name it S ?

and what company is he gonna name e ?

and what company is he gonna name y ?

https://electrek.co/2016/07/30/tesla-vehicle-naming-convention-sexy-model-y-elon-musk/

Thanks Vaas

Turns out an insane guy isn't the best person to correctly define insanity.

He looks older in older pictures, creepy

He is 100% more sane than you. 100 %.
- artificially selecting your kids to be all male is a sure sign of sanity

Did you mean "inXanity"?

Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.

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The legal term for not knowing the difference between right and wrong? I suppose that still applies.

There are a lot of “that guys.” That guy who quotes Bob Dylan. That guy who wears crazy pants. That guy who’s good at ping-pong. And so forth. Decades ago, Elon Musk apparently decided to be That Guy Who Really Likes the Letter X. You do you.