Who is going to drive the things when the entire federal government gets their pink slips? Will they just fill the federal parking lots in DC with fleets of unused white sedans?
Man the North Koreafication of America will be fucking weird to watch.
Come to think of it, Twitter is almost a necessary tool for speculative investing and the undeserved growth of the current stock market (which at this point is mostly based upon idle index fund investments, and retail investors following hype cycles). It's essentially a stock market manipulation tool for politicians and CEOs that allows them to skip the press releases and hype up their stocks instantly and directly.
Eh, until it doesn't anymore. I understand the macro dynamics of the stock market, but after major market crashes everyone pretends that it was impossible to see that there would be a crash until the airbags deployed.
I don't see how it happens this time either with the Fed straight up buying funds to make the line go up in the last almost crash (i.e. COVID), but that's why you and I won't be covered in the next big short movie.
As doctorow likes to say, all things that can't go on forever eventually end, and does anyone really think this can go on forever?
Inheriting is more important than working and has been for some time now.
I made all of my money by working, but my success is to some extent related to being born to parents that paid for my college provided I made decent grades in high school. (And the luck of having access and interest in the early Internet in the mid 90s due to inheritance.)
I am ashamed that I used to be a somewhat vocal advocate of Musk and Tesla.
Don't be ashamed that you got scammed; continue channeling that energy into being as vocal about how these people are giant frauds.
I was never an advocate for the guy at all, but for that reason I expect that anything I have to say about the subject will likely resonate less and be less effective with people who were pulled in by the guy. You are probably correct that you have persuaded others to like him and a good atonement for that is to be as active and vocal now in opposition. I also think it's important to include "I was once fooled by this moron" as well because it gives others the permission to be vulnerable alongside you.
EDIT: PS: For future reference, a heuristic for avoiding getting duped into cults of personality is to watch for when something that should be larger than a single person (e.g. an eco-friendly car company, a political movement, a religious movement, a "wellness" movement, a philosophy) becomes all about worshiping some guy or gal. At that point it's probably a cult, a scam, or a combination of both.
I don't know why, but it seems like many are primed to believe that some magical guy or gal is capable of solving complex problems single-handedly.
I read a while ago about someone doing forensic analysis using the heuristic of analyzing follower count numbers. I forget the exact mechanism, but certain patterns indicate that the follower count was statistically anomalous and therefore likely couldn't be trusted.
I’ve seen better diplomacy from a high school football team.
JD Vance talking about diplomacy and accusing fucking Democrats of "beating their chest" was such bullshit I have no idea where to begin with that...which is probably the point.
How are they going to project the soft power of diplomacy when they're in the business of firing half of the people that work in that part of the government? This administration, and this country is a sick, unfunny fucking joke just like the heads of it.
I think they worship opulence rather than power honestly. While it's true that wealth and power are basically the same thing, many people you bump into in America don't understand or believe that is the case.
I agree, but somehow the low end portable monitors seem to already have USB-C support. I bought a monitor for like $60 and it had USB-C.
I'm not quite sure why regular size monitors are lacking the support.