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NNadir

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12. Exactly. It's like Randall Mills and his hydrino of Black Light Power, "overturning quantum mechanics."

Reply to -misanthroptimist (Reply #9)

Mon Mar 30, 2026, 07:47 PM

Mar 30

The guy got a lot of "investors" rather like Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos.

These people are prime examples of making it clear that our rich people are not really "geniuses" in a meritocracy. Many of the presumed "geniuses" are cheap carny barkers who found lots of marks and got lucky (or were born with money).

(I want to throw up every time someone around me calls Musk a "genius." )

Black, now Brilliant, Light Power.

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