The value of the stock (which is outrageously overvalued) is solely down to musk’s personality cult. So now that it’s been announced that he should be “leaving government and going back to his companies” it led to a stock jump, since his presence is the only reason that the stock is worth a lot in the first place.

The issue is that Musk often sounds convincing when he talks about things you don’t really know much about, and there are a LOT of investors who have a lot of money but don’t really know much about anything.

I’m not sure if it’s a big reason, but one thing I noticed when living in the UK is that it seemed to be much easier for local landowners to block things from being built compared to other countries I’ve lived in.

I feel like the Thames path through London was kind of representative of that. I feel like anywhere else it would be a normal walking path along the river, but instead it has big gaps, sections that are private, or even some which are closed certain days.

Just the fact that they wanted to make HS2 go UNDERGROUND through large parts of the countryside was a wild idea.

I’m genuinely confused how you think that these two examples of internal uprisings are at all connected to someone saying effectively “don’t count on international law to mean anything since there isn’t any body to enforce it”

I think he’s just obsessed with controlling the arctic, since it’s going to be ice-free soon (and thus incredibly important for global shipping)

It’s why his 3 main “targets” are Canada, Greenland, and Panama (for the canal)

Yeah I have used opensuse for the past couple years (still do!) but while there is plenty to like, if I were to do a reinstall I would likely move back to Fedora.

Then again, I basically never use YaST, which I suppose is one of the main song points.

It’s literally not any different. Starlink is just a less-reliable broadband internet connection, it has nothing to do with WiFi

He always gets so hung up on MIT because of his uncle

For me, I like that it isn’t overcomplicated and just works. It being basic is a big pro to me.

I can see what you’re saying, but at this point Elon is the most powerful person in the US, and certainly more powerful than any politician (even Trump).

I don’t think everyone realizes how unbelievably, dangerously rich Elon is. The dude is a moron, but he has enough money to buy out all of our politicians many many times over.

I only have to use this occasionally, but on my android I use the app “Talkatone” to make free calls to phones. They have paid plans to keep your number, but I tend to just use new ones whenever one expires.

It might not suit your needs, but it’s worked pretty reliably for me for the past 10 years or so.

That’s been my thoughts as well.

Eliminate income tax on anyone making less than, say 500,000 per year. Then aggressively tax wealth and those making more.

Is this a MASSIVE shake up? Absolutely! Would it likely be a bit messy? Definitely!

But we are at a point where such fundamental change is necessary

There is no such thing as illegal immigrants.

I mean, I’m not saying that this isn’t a valid opinion, but it’s certainly not a majority opinion.

It’s almost certainly inclusive.

I don’t think it’s a controversial concept that people in the postwar era wore more suits/dresses.

Just look up photos from back then.

Personally I would hate to have to wear a suit, but I can see why people like the aesthetic.

It depends how you forward images. I assume they are referring to how many/most services (like whatsapp/discord/telegram etc) don’t just send the original file, but do some compression to save data. Do this a bunch of times and you end up with a photo that starts to show noticeable artifacts/pixellation.

That’s my take at least

I don’t think you realize how rich musk is.

If you scaled the numbers above to the whole US population, the fine would be something around $17 Billion.

Musk’s net worth is over 20x that!

Extreme inequality causes extreme instability

Essentially: the status quo of the past 30 years is dead (and its never coming back), some people just haven’t realized it yet.

It’s hard to imagine, but modern inequality is actually very extreme in historical context

I think this is more agreeing than contradictory. If more immigration is desirable, then expand legal immigration.

As you say, a system built around exploiting illegal workers is bad for everyone.

On the one hand that’s true.

On the other hand it’s up the country to decide who gets those documents. Anyone without those shouldn’t come in.

If more immigration is desirable, then expand legal immigration.