We see this time and time again.<p>Some big controversial thing happens between entities that nobody fully understands, and a million Very Intelligent® analysts and columnists with every pertinent qualification and a good vocabulary of ten dollar words tries to tell us that yes, they are qualified to predict what will happen and you should just take their word for it.<p>And predictably, people just pick whatever set of sentences they like the sound of and parrot them endlessly.<p>And, surprisingly more predictably, the outcome is never what any of them said.<p>Could musk lose? Yes. But I guarantee you, the final reasoning of the ruling will differ significantly from any of these people's analysis. You're basically flipping a coin as to who ends up right.<p>How many things like this have happened over the past decade? How many of those oft touted analysts were right? Being generous, it's significantly less than half, which means they're worse predictors of outcomes than a coin flip. And how many of us picked a side, parroted our favored talking points, selectively remember how things played out and reinforce our misled world views? And here we go, all ready to do it again.<p>The truth is, this case is going to play out how it is going to play out, none of us know really what's going to happen, it's mostly inconsequential to us and it's all basically just sportsball.