brambledog @ brambledog @lemmy.today

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Except he appears to be running the company at a loss currently, being over half a billion in the hole after making close to 5 billion (largely in government contracts).

https://archive.ph/2023.08.17-224420/https://www.wsj.com/tech/behind-the-curtain-of-elon-musks-secretive-spacex-revenue-growth-and-rising-costs-2c828e2b

I'm not saying the rumors are true that Joe Rogan has been pumping him full of ketamine to get him to sign over his fortune, but Musk is clearly starting to lose his ability at what he was good at: making money.

Really?

Please show me in which of Orwell's writings he suggested that economies should be based off allowing financial criminals to commi their crimes against citizens, unimpeded.

The thesis of 1984 is that when totalitarianism takes hold, we will turn on those we love to protect ourselves. Which specific portion of that novel do you believe told you that true freedom is getting your money stolen with no recourse?

This is primarily the issue with libertarians. You guys are constantly applying a book you haven't read to every situation you don't like. It's weird and I think people see through it.

As you yourself out it, the issue with monero is that it is designed to protect attackers.

How could it not?

You buy one 20 pound bag of rice and one 20 pound bag of beans and then canning supplies and you sell limited edition holiday dried and rice bean mixes. When you sell out, you buy 40 poinds of each.

Within 5 generations you have now become the rice and bean king of New Hampshire and have only spent $40 of your initial stimulus seed fund.

Growing up in the age of Clinton and Bush, my father used to always say, "I didn't leave the democrats, the Democrats left me."

My jaw hit the floor when I read that very same quote out of politican's mouth in writings from that era. Over the next few years it dawned on me that my father was 5 when the civil rights act, and his grandfather was a minor figure in the Texas Democrats back in the 30s.

The people communicating with each other need a way to ensure that they are communicating with who they think they are; and for most people, they are trying to hide what they are discussing, not necessarily who they are discussing it with.

When I first got into open source I downloaded every app I saw that could make me feel like a spy, but I quickly deleted 90% of them because I had no use cases for them. I did find an app I believe based off the signal protocol which had no names or numbers and the only way to initiate contact between two people was by scanning each others qr code, but good luck ever meeting somebody to download the app.

It's been hard enough convincing anybody over signal. Americans are pretty locked into SMS and everybody else seems unwilling to leave WhatsApp.

I haven't had a single complaint in my few months if using it.

That being said, I have 3 people to use it with so on average have only gotten about 20 minutes per week.

I will say that the WiFi calling on their app is far superior to the samsung's drag down buttons.

So a man whose wealth has largely been built off lying to investors and consumers about his products told you that his father only gave him $28,000, and you just believed him?

Your favorite painting was likely commissioned by a rich person, and the person who received credit for it probably had most of the work done by an apprentice of theirs.

Rich people don't like fine art and wine because they are so much more intellectually advanced than we are, they like them because they are a great tool of the wealthy. These people can't tell the difference between a $7 wine and their $25,000 wine in a blind taste test, and if you tell them so, they will smile and nod, because the taste isn't the point.

Your grandmother's knit sweaters would be considered fine art if it could be used to launder money.

Well I don't think we should judge all homeless people based solely off your close proximity to them.

Your position sort of assumes that anybody who disagrees with you only holds their beliefs because they themselves have never had your close proximity.

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I was using innertune and will go.back to it when I can convince my wife to stop paying for youtube, but I'm definitely not looking forward to going back to it.

Innertune had issues communicating with Bluetooth and would have loading issues when not on wi-fi.

Also, the app fully breaks and has to be redownloaded if you attempt to use a widget maker for it.

You don't see why the Democrats are running him again? Really?

No democrat can beat him in a primary and the closest person capable is basically a pinko who is treated with more respect by trump voters than typical Democrats.

I'm not surprised some stock photo companies are selling AI work. I imagine this is an industry not easy to make money in if you are one of the few remaining firms not owned by Getty.

We can't be telling the youth that it's too late to make things better, and then criticizing them for not making things better.

If we are at the point where people who feel they have no future are destroying the past of those who took the future, we are much further away from being able to do anything than you are currently ready to confront.

Yeah, big disagree there. I would say the main reason trump supporters want to kill liberals is because they have been told that the liberals are secret leftists.