It’s so funny to see people who have never lived in a place, and openly do not like visiting a place, bemoaning the choice leadership of the people who actually live in a place, insisting that they should not be able to make that choice. That somehow, someone totally alienated from that community knows better who should run it.
I mean, I could handle the prices going up if wages went up in equal proportions.
Lmao, two idiots fighting. This seemed kind of inevitable, they’re not compatible personality types to work with each other.
Elon definitely thinks he has more influence with trump’s crowd than he actually has, but I also think his position at twitter makes him dangerous to trump by undermining his ability to reach a lot of people who haven’t fully crawled down the maga conspiracy pipeline.
I don’t think he’s going to be able to shift much support to Vance ether. Vance and his ilk are just to weird for most trump supporters.
Yah, installing a fixed on-sight back up should be permitted and regulated. And I think they are in the jurisdiction of the facility, hence why they’re using mobile generators, the kinds of things normally used on construction sights.
I was referring more to like emission regulations on them. Dumping a bunch of particulates and exhaust products in to a local population’s air is really bad, but it’s not a huge issue if it’s temporary, like say on a construction sight or to deal with an occasional power outage. It’s another thing entirely when it’s the primary power source, or the power grid is failing so frequently that they’re being run all the time.
That situation in Texas sounds very much like them trying to do something to address public concerns about the grid failing by making it easier for people to “take personal responsibility” by installing backup generators. Clearly they do not want to annoy the private companies running the grid by forcing them to spend money on repairs, upgrades, and maintenance. Like, they’re unwilling to address the core issue, but public outcry means they have to do something, so instead they create a new safety issue that they can deny responsibility for.
From what I’ve heard about the power situation, they’ve been using mobile generators that they occasionally move around, since those are not regulated. It makes sense to not regulate emergency back up generators since the point of them is that they’re supposed to be temporary and not run for very long, but these aren’t emergency backups, these are the main power source.
Now they’re pushing for permits for permanent generators, probably because the mobile generators are inefficient and expensive.
Honestly the whole situation stinks of incompetence, like they built the facility in a rush without checking if they could get the power they would need, and then tried to build their own power, but saw how hard permitting would be, so they went with the loophole mobile generators because it was expedient, now they want to build proper generators because the mobile generators are too expensive, but are running in to having to face public scrutiny now.
Oh FFS.
WHY?!
Do they want more scams? Do they get extra revenue and engagement from scams?
Would be nice
Money for campaigns is important, but it’s a force multiplier. If there is no force of voters to multiply, it is worthless.
Also those people in the back rooms are going to have a lot less money to throw around now, big donors don’t want to give their money to campaigns that have no chance of winning, what good good is buying influence with a politician if that politician has no influence to sell? I don’t think all that money will flow over to progressives suddenly, but the gap in budget is going to be much smaller now.
Exactly, it’s not the job of the voters to convince a party their interests are worth pursing, it is the job of the party to convince voters that they will pursue their interests.
Donor money alone can not win an election and a failure to engage with voters will sure as hell lose it.
Exactly, we don’t know how the brain would adapt to having electric impulses wired right in to it, and it could adapt in some seriously negative ways.
I don’t think the understanding of the human brain is really good enough to engineer a properly functional one.
And I suspect that any companies touting they have such a device are ether overstating how effective what they have is, or outright lying about the capabilities.
If we did have enough understanding to engineer a device, I suspect it would be possible to fix such issues without grafting in electronics.
Anything beyond publicly funded research smells of grift to me.
It’s a fundamental and inevitable outcome of how these businesses are structured and run. Were the decisions to chase larger more premium vehicles short sighted? absolutely. Was the pursuit of Financialization in car sales to make up for pricing out lower income buyers obviously a bad idea? Without a doubt. Could they have made any other decisions? Not without being replaced by shareholders.
The solution to this problem is not just to “kick the bums out”, these companies need to have their management and ownership restructured in a way that generates incentive structures to maintaining a stable long term market rather than quarterly revenue growth.
Some companies, like Nissan, didn’t pursue the big premium trend and they got burnt as well, largely because the trends of the rest of the market and surplus of used cars is undermining their new sales. To some extent their choice to so heavily pursue sales to fleets like rental companies didn’t help.
The interesting thing is, Tesla is perhaps the most obvious and extreme example, but they’re not the only auto manufacturer this is happening to right now. Nissan is in a bit of a tail spin as well.
There are so many problems slamming in to the auto industry right now. Even beyond the tariff instability.
In the US in particular, As cars have gotten more reliable and longer lasting, the market for new “budget” cars has dried up. Car buyers who might have once bought budget are now buying used cars that probably have a good many years left. The sales of new cars have been declining since 2016 but new car price have been skyrocketing, keeping up revenue growth for automakers.
This seemed ideal for automakers as it meant they could drop the lean margins of cheap cars and focus on higher margin markets, which looked much better to shareholders. Those companies that focused on this budget market have suffered, the best example being Nissan. The ideal for automakers is that people will buy “up” the value chain over time, buying higher end or “less used” vehicles when they trade in their old vehicle, going from a twice used, to a once used and eventually to a new car.
This kind of came to a head during the pandemic. Not only was the supply of lower end used vehicles dwindling as less and less entered the market due to less being made a few years back, there was also a shortage of new cars due to supply chain break downs and an increase in demand. Many people were taking out insane financing on massively over priced cars, both new and used. Now a lot of people are underwater on those auto loans from the pandemic because the trade-in/sales price is less way than what they have left on the loan. Many are also defaulting on those insane pandemic auto loans and their repossessed cars are ending up back on the market, increasing supply in the used market.
Many who are underwater on their auto loans but can still make payments can’t afford to make even larger payments, so rolling over the principle from the last loan into a new loan on another car is impractical. So they aren’t buying, let alone moving up the market to buy new or higher end. The demand being suppressed in the used market and the supply being bolstered by repos means used prices are massively depressed. This depressed used market carries over to the new market in turn, as most people buying new probably couldn’t afford to do so without trading in their old car, so a depressed used market hurts their purchasing power. Why would someone buy a new car when the only new one the could afford is probably worse than the existing car.
Tesla is getting a lot of focus because of the political entanglement of their high profile CEO, but the whole industry is under strain. Nissan is frantically looking for buyers to help them out of the debt hole they’re in, and groups like Stellantis (owners of Chrysler, Fiat, Jeep, Ram and Dodge) are desperately chasing new revenue streams as absurd as ads in the central console.
it’ll definitely be less feature complete than eu4, but that’s probably a good thing given what a bloated mess of modifiers and tacked on systems Eu4 is by this point.
I read a few of the dev diaries, and it looks like they reworking the underlying mechanics quite a bit, which gives me hope.
I mean, no? He lived in England throughout the controversy, he didn’t move to Japan till 2022, years after his controversy died down. He probably moved because he’s a fucking dork.
They’re lying about using AI to write software, they probably have required all their programmers to have an AI plugin installed, and are thus counting any code they make as “written by AI”, and then are counting any minor edit to existing code as the entire thing being “written by AI”.
The software is bad because it’s written to serve the infinite growth imperative. The reason they claim they’re writing code with AI is because that being true is the only hope that they have for achieving the infinite growth imperative. It’s a con, it’s a cult, they are extracting as much value as they can before everything falls apart.
The AI is not the reason their software is bad, but their software is bad for the same reason they’re claiming to use AI to write it.
I mean, he never really went anywhere, still gets like 2 to 6 million views a video, he just stoped doing news worthy edgelord shit for attention.
The stuff that was getting him in trouble was stuff like paying some kids on fiver to hold up an antisemitic sign, used some Nazi imagery in videos, shouted the N word on stream, and a bunch of other things. This was all between 2017 and 2019 and while he hasn’t made amends, he also hasn’t kept doing it.
I could see stuff getting small changes and them claiming that the entirety of the new version is “written by AI”.
Lmao, damn, trump seems really scared of this guy.
All the conservatives seem really scared of this guy.
Wonder why republicans might be scared of Democratic candidates left of dead center. Almost like a real alternative not slobbering out neoliberal, Chicago school of economics, nonsense could sweep them in a lot of traditional safe seats.
Or at least be really hard to rally their base against if their base actually hears what the policies are.