Also why they (Musk especially visibly amongst them) try to destabilize the EU - the possibly most effective consumer protection organization that messes with their bottom line.
edit: Just saw another example: https://www.politico.eu/article/zuckerberg-urges-trump-to-stop-eu-from-screwing-with-fining-us-tech-companies/
It’s a banana republic. Makes sense they want Panama.
Trump dislikes the “President Musk” nickname and finds Musk’s assertiveness challenging, though he values Musk’s financial contributions.
Obviously Musk is the provider in this relationship, so Trump is the trophy bride.
It just matters that it’s consistent. The transactions that are put into the blockchain just have to follow the rules of the blockchain and be the same for everyone who reads the blockchain. That’s all that “correctness” means as far as the blockchain is concerned.
Still useless for anything that depends on external data, since there can be no guarantee that what has been entered is correct. What’s the point of a consistent record of garbage?
While Musk aligns with Trump’s policy goals, his assertive behavior and proximity have irritated both Trump and his advisers.
Expected behavior for a newlywed insecure husband - has to establish dominance in the relationship and can’t leave his new trophy wife alone.
But blockchain at its core is just a distributed database. One that has no central authority, can not be tampered with, cannot be altered, nor taken down if parametrized accordingly.
Which is completely useless if the data that goes into that blockchain isn’t guaranteed to be correct. And if there’s money in it you can bet your ass that someone will try to game the system.
You’re also glossing over the existing grid that needs money to be maintained while complaining that energy companies want money. Yes, there’s a general problem where society allowed (and partly encouraged) sociopaths to be unrestrained greedy assholes that needs some kind of solution, but not all companies are useless leeches, it’s “just” an all-pervading corruption that needs to be dealt with - and as long as that hasn’t happened, every idealistic solution faces the threat of being corrupted itself.
Who liberates the people from the oligarchic corruption?
They should have focused on the name change, to prove that there is a demand for “GIMP but with another name”. Everything else can be done in the main project or any fork, and that those don’t exist show that the manpower needed for that isn’t really available.
There was a separate project that changed the name to “Glimpse”, and then got too many other great ideas for the few people they had to actually get somewhere and it dissolved.
The same is probably true for Musk’s obsession with Mars. When you own everything there including the transport back here you own the people there as well.
“Winnie the Pooh” - a term that’s banned in China because it’s used to mock President Xi Jinping.
What a weak snowflake. A confident and capable leader doesn’t fear opposition.
“Don’t worry Mr Trump, Mr Musk wants to become Czar of the whole western world, of course he’ll let you be his president of the United States.”
I think in general the plan of those behind the far right push is weaponized borders, so the (early) victims of climate change won’t be able to reach those responsible once the migrations really get going. Trump’s wall, the anti-migrant rhetoric in general, make the plebs demand “border security” and laugh while you continue to exploit them, and then have them defend you against those whose lands you destroyed.
Monopoly? No? I guess that’s the less visible kind of violence that makes it acceptable.
Didn’t they just get a new logo last year or so?
Nice. Hopefully Biden keeps doing more good shit in his remaining few weeks while the MAGAt snowflakes are triggered and distracted by Hunter’s dick again.
Now who asks a court to turn Musk’s companies into non-profits to prevent conflicts of interest with him seemingly getting a government position?
The point is to make things less bad. The oil mafia likes doomers who have already given up.
Banana Republicans doing corrupt shit? Whoda thunk?
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