Elon Musk is the richest person on earth solely due to the government you work for. SpaceX's biggest customer is the government you work for. Tesla is only barely profitable due to massive subsidies from the government you work for.
It's a bit rich hearing you complain about how rich and powerful he is when you and yours made him that way.
It's a bit rich hearing you complain about how rich and powerful he is when you and yours made him that way.
@alex I don't know what you did with the latest version of rebased and soapbox 3, but good work. My server loads have dropped by two thirds consistently.
Actual fact checking and dismissing stuff that's incorrect is based.
Shame the journalist class doesn't do that so we have to.
Shame the journalist class doesn't do that so we have to.
Does that make you depressed? Because the Government of Canada has a solution for you!
It's all relative. I mean, what's the PE of Tesla compared to the rest of the industry?
oof.
There's a lot of cultists in the market and we need a lot of liquidity to be sucked out before sanity returns.
There's a lot of cultists in the market and we need a lot of liquidity to be sucked out before sanity returns.
Famously, J.C. Penney is used as a case study in failure. They attempted to get a new market by no longer lying about everything being on sale all the time and instead just post the real price. They wanted to become more like Walmart, but the pain of losing their small core of idiots who think something that's always on sale for 90% off is actually on sale was too much to bear so they went back to catering to them. That worked so well that they went bankrupt in 2020.
I think executives look at the above story and mistake the transitional pain for an actual lesson. The lesson is don't base your business around being shady liars because you'll have to fight to win people's trust back.
I think executives look at the above story and mistake the transitional pain for an actual lesson. The lesson is don't base your business around being shady liars because you'll have to fight to win people's trust back.
I heard a story about how modern pop music is written, many of the writers have tiny little chunks of a song that are then pushed together into a coherent whole. Literally written by committee.
The problem is twofold: first, with high fidelity music recordings going back 80 years and low fidelity music recordings going back 100, you're competing with a century of recorded works. On the other hand, the first recordings ever finally entered the public domain just this year. You can't have music with influences because you'll get sued into oblivion so you either have music that's generic and vetted by a crack team of lawyers or music that's so strange nobody can claim you copied from anywhere.
The problem is twofold: first, with high fidelity music recordings going back 80 years and low fidelity music recordings going back 100, you're competing with a century of recorded works. On the other hand, the first recordings ever finally entered the public domain just this year. You can't have music with influences because you'll get sued into oblivion so you either have music that's generic and vetted by a crack team of lawyers or music that's so strange nobody can claim you copied from anywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZHwGnGrm_k
>tfw I get the dark theme looking right on FBXL Social again
>tfw I get the dark theme looking right on FBXL Social again
A streamer who doesn't know fuck all about cybersecurity was very adamant that having a VPN would protect against viruses and hacking!!! What incentive did they have to lie???
I'm giving some serious consideration to a CPU upgrade on my main server, or alternatively maybe offloading the database stuff to another server. Fediverse is growing! (my server isn't even big!)
Twitter had a lawsuit where a child was coherced into creating child porn and said child porn was posted on Twitter, and when the child tried to report it to Twitter, Twitter claimed there was no rule violation and refused to remove it. Every single bit of this "oh, twitter is so bad just in the past 19 days" claptrap I put next to this fact. Every time I see someone talking about "trust and safety", I need to put it next to this fact.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-refusing-to-remove-child-porn/
A tweet thread on the topic with many sources showing a systemic problem before Elon ever arrived:
https://twitter.com/elizableu/status/1566255230374842369?lang=en
https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-refusing-to-remove-child-porn/
A tweet thread on the topic with many sources showing a systemic problem before Elon ever arrived:
https://twitter.com/elizableu/status/1566255230374842369?lang=en