Elon Musk to FIGHT Mark Zuckerberg (video)

E! News, 6/22/23; Alex Hern (respected British newspaper The Guardian, 6/22/23); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dear Diary, I will kick the living h*ll out of that li'l punk *ss b*tch anytime anywhere...

Who you call a "b*tch"?

In the red corner, the world’s richest manly man (human), and in the blue corner, the world’s richest and most effeminate millennial:

Twitter's Elon Musk (Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX) and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) have agreed to FIGHT in a cage match, after Musk jokingly suggested the bout in response to efforts by Meta to launch a Twitter competitor.

“I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be exclusively under Zuck’s thumb,” Musk tweeted on Wednesday in response to a post about Meta’s rumored Threads app.

The app, previously known inside Instagram as Project 92 and Barcelona, has been pitched to celebrities and influencers as a “stable place to build and grow” their audiences.

How did Elon Musk get so rich? Same as Bill Gates: selling us all out to the surveillance state.

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I'll smoke that punk like weed. Ask Joe Rogan

“At least it will be ‘sane,’” Musk added. “Was worried there for a moment.” When a follower warned that the Twitter boss should watch his words around Zuckerberg, Musk responded: “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.”

What could have been one of many half-thought-out tweets dashed off by Musk -- whose itchy posting finger has already brought him a libel suit from a British diver he labelled a “pedo[phile]” and an SEC demand for a lawyer to vet his missives after he falsely claimed to have “funding secured” to take Tesla private -- became rather more significant when Zuckerberg responded.

In a post on his verified Instagram account, Meta Chief Executive Officer Zuck shared a screenshot of Musk’s challenge with the caption: “Send Me Location.”

The danger for Musk is that Zuckerberg is, apparently, quite good at fighting. [He's been practicing to impress his Asian gal-pal, Priscilla, and/or to overcome his worldwide reputation as a wuss and dweeb.]

Both men seem to have limitless reserves of energy [and money], but where Musk applies that to running five separate companies at the same time, Zuckerberg prefers to get really, really serious about hobbies.

In the past he has spent periods learning Mandarin (Chinese), touring America (in what was widely seen as a dry run for an abortive presidential campaign), and only eating meat he killed with a bow and arrow [like Republican rocker Ted Nugent].

Recently, though, his hobby has been Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ), and when he made his competitive debut last month, he won two out of three bouts.

Amber, Johnny's nemesis, agrees with Grimes.

“Zuck’s been training,” said Elena Cresci, a former Guardian journalist and professional Muay Thai (Thai martial arts style kick boxing) champion, “whereas Elon Musk has been tweeting that he doesn’t train beyond throwing his kids up in the air. So on paper it’s [wuss] Zuck. He’s been having a good time doing his little BJJ competitions.’’

One wrinkle is the combatants’ sizes. At an estimated 1.87 meters (6ft 1in) and about 85kg (13stone 5lb), Musk is several weight classes above Zuckerberg, who measures a mere 1.71 meters (5ft 7ins) and less than 70kg (11stone).

All else being equal, that would put Musk at an advantage, even after taking account of the 12-year age gap between the two.

Musk is MUCH bigger [3==D~] than Zuck.

“Elon Musk is just a lot bigger than [the Zucker], so he could just lie on top of him and hope for the best,” Cresci said. That’s not far off Musk’s actual fight plan.

“I have this great move that I call ‘The Walrus,’ where I just lie on top of my opponent & do nothing,” he tweeted.

The ultimate question for the fight, if it does occur, is whether Musk takes it seriously or treats the whole thing as a joke.

I went from Grimes to Amber Depp and back.

“I’ve coached a couple of white-collar fights, and how it usually goes is when it’s their first fight, they get overexcited and gas themselves out in the first round,” Cresci said. “But these are two men with a lot of money at their disposal, so they can pay for as much training as they want.

Look at YouTubers like Logan Paul, who are actually decent boxers now because they can afford to train with the best.”

Stats: Musk vs. Zuck: tale of the tape

ELON MUSK

Age: 51. Net worth: $236 billion. Place of birth: Pretoria, South Africa. Education: University of Pennsylvania (BA, BS). Children: at least 10. Monthly active users: 330 million (Twitter). Congressional hearings: one (national security in space launches). Money lost last year on flights of fancy: $30 billion on buying Twitter and running it into the ground.

MARK ZUCKERBERG

Age: 39. Net worth: $99.9 billion. Place of birth: White Plains, New York. Education: Harvard University (unfinished). [See movie Social Network for details.] Children: 3. Monthly active users: 2.9 billion (Facebook). Congressional hearings: two (Cambridge Analytica and Libra cryptocurrency). Money lost last year on flights of fancy: $13.7 billion on the metaverse. More

The Rewards of Giving

"These are the five rewards of generosity:

1. one is dear and appealing to people at large
2. one is admired by good people
3. one's good name is spread about
4. one does not stray from the rightful duties of a householder
5. with the break-up of the body at death, one reappears in a good destination, even in the heavenly worlds" (AN 5.35).

"There is the case," the Buddha explained, "where a certain person refrains from:

• taking life
• taking what is not given
• taking liberties with regard to sexual misconduct
• taking liberties with the truth [false, divisive, abusive, and profitless speech]

"One is not:

• covetous
• bears no ill will
• has right views

"And this person gives

• food
• drink
• cloth
• transport
• garlands
• scents
• creams
• bed
• lodging
• lamps

"to brahmins and ascetics [or other virtuous persons].

"With the breakup of the body, after death, one reappears in the company of human beings. There one experiences the "five strands of human sensuality." These are delightful:

1. sights
2. sounds
3. smells
4. tastes
5. tactile sensations.

"It's because one refrained from taking...and because one was not covetous, bore no ill will, and had right views that one reappears in the company of human beings. And it is because one gave that one experiences the five strands of human sensuality.

"[Similarly, in the case when one takes rebirth in the company of devas, where one experiences the five strands of divine sensuality.] At any rate, brahmin, the donor does not go without reward."

"It is amazing, Master Gautama!" exclaimed the brahmin Janussonin to the Buddha. "It is astounding. It is enough to make one want to give a gift, enough to make one want to make an offering, since the donor does not go without reward."

"That is the way it is, brahmin. That is the way it is. The donor does not go without reward" (AN 10.177).

Never underestimate the power of small gifts
"Even if a person were to throw the rinsings of a bowl or a cup into a pond thinking, 'May whatever animals live here feed on this,' that would be a source of merit" (AN 3.57).

What is not given is lost
When the world is on fire with aging and death,

One should save [one's wealth] by giving:

What is given is well saved!

What is given bears fruit as happiness.

What is not given does not:

Instead, thieves or government take it away;

It is destroyed or lost (SN 1.41).

Overcoming miserliness

• Conquer anger with kindness
• Bad, with good
• Stinginess, with generosity
• A liar, with truth (Dhp 223).

What the miser fears

That keeps that person from giving

Is the very danger that comes

When one does not give (SN I.32)

• No misers go to the world of the devas.
• Those who praise not giving are foolish.
• The wise express approval for giving and
• So find ease in the worlds beyond (Dhp 177).

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Greed versus Happiness
Buddhists believe that "greed" (lobha) -- one of the three principle defilements of the mind and heart -- is based on incorrectly connecting material wealth with happiness.

This is caused by a view that exaggerates the positive aspects of an object. That is, acquiring material objects has less impact than we imagine on our feelings of happiness.

This view has been corroborated by studies in the field of happiness economics, which confirm that beyond the provision of a basic level of material comfort, more wealth does not increase happiness.

Five Kinds of Stinginess

WQ, Macchariya Sutras, Numerical Discourses, Book of the Fives (AN 5.254-259)*

The most meritorious form of giving (dana), in an ordinary sense, is support of the Ariya-Sangha. Since such "accomplished disciples" are so rare and difficult to identify, many Buddhists support the ordinary Sangha with the accomplished disciples in mind as seen here in a typical offering of rice to monks and novices in Asia.

I. Stinginess
"Meditators, there are these five forms of stinginess. Stinginess as to one's:

1. lodgings
2. family
3. gains
4. status
5. and stinginess as to sharing the Dharma.

These are the five forms of stinginess, and the pettiest of these five is stinginess as to sharing the Dharma."

After all, the Gift of Dharma (dhamma-dana) is the best of all gifts. For not only does it lead to enlightenment and nirvana, it promotes all other forms of giving. Likewise, it is said, liberation is the sweetest of all tastes (Dhammapada).

II. Stinginess
"With the abandoning and eradication of these five forms of stinginess, the Buddhist path is fulfilled. [See in more detail at Noble Eightfold Path.]

III. Stinginess
"Without abandoning these five qualities, one is incapable of entering and remaining in the First Meditative Accomplishment (jhana).

"However, by abandoning these five forms of stinginess, one is capable of entering and remaining in the First Meditative Accomplishment.

IV. Stinginess
"Without abandoning these five qualities, one is incapable of entering and remaining in the:

• Second Meditative Accomplishment
• The Third...
• The Fourth...

One is incapable of realizing the Fruit of:

• Stream-entry
• Once-returning
• Non-returning
• Full-enlightenment

"However, with the abandoning of these five forms of stinginess, one is capable of entering and remaining in these four meditative attainments and of realizing these four noble fruits.

V. Stinginess
"Without abandoning these five forms of stinginess, one is incapable of entering and remaining in the First Meditative Accomplishment. Stinginess as to one's:

1. lodgings
2. family
3. gains
4. status
5. and ingratitude

"But by abandoning these five forms of stinginess, one is capable of entering and remaining in them."

VI. Stinginess
"Without abandoning these five forms of stinginess, one is incapable of entering and remaining in these meditative attainments (jhanas) and of realizing these noble fruits up to and including full enlightenment (bodhi).

"However, with the abandoning of these five forms of stinginess, one is capable."

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www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an05/an05.254.than.html.

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(AP/Esteban Felix/file)

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Until a few weeks ago, Tim Edwards was just another one of the men begging for change at a busy Houston underpass, ignored by most drivers who sped on past without a glance.

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