You got to be a special kind of asshole if you’re buying a Tesla these days.

Translation: Google IR needs to start juicing quantum computing now that cracks are forming in the AI hype cycle.

Can’t wait to see how the system fails to make him account for this, again.

Yes, of course. A larger point that I’ve tried to make is that when China interferes with the market, they do it in a way that improves Chinese products, lowers prices for consumers. Conversely, when the US interferes with the market they increase prices, reduce consumer options, and reduces the quality of products.

If all that is true, then the US should subsidize US ev’s to the point where they are price competitive and open the market to competition where US manufacturers can market against the environmental and human right issues with their Chinese competitors. That would put competitive pressure on Chinese manufacturers to clean up their supply chains and consumers worldwide would benefit.

There is no incentive for US companies to improve their products when they are protected from market forces by import restrictions.

Are you in the US? Because if you are, they’ll never let you buy or import one.

It’s amusing to me that the same folks to deride Chinese car manufacturers because they are somehow cheating by getting support from the government are the same people demanding that the US government artificially protect the US car industry by blocking Chinese imports. The point being that neither side actually objects to government participation in the market. But, one side uses it to make better products and service consumers, and the other does it to protect worse products from market forces.

Honestly, I would screen potential employers by whether they are a Microsoft shop or not. Fuck ‘em.

Goddamn, it reproduced already?

Tim Cook needs more money to forge golden offerings for his good pal Donald trump.

Oh stop it. Are you actually claiming that you can’t characterize the culture of a nation of people, claiming that there is NO prevailing common beliefs? That’s nonsense. Your objection to the question is just a permission structure for some of the terrible things that Americans tend to believe and provides way more deference to a group that, based on their collective actions for centuries, don’t deserve it.

They can block view of specific things, and force you to pay to unlock them. They can also add features you can subscribe to, like ‘make your spouse look more attractive’. I tell you, the business possibilities are endless.

I suggest we call it Slopi. Looking forward to opting out of this also.

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Don’t worry, they’ll make a version with advertisements inserted into the field of view for the poors.

Did AI build that dogshit website of theirs too?

In the mid-nineties I passionately believed that the internet would democratize information and usher in a wonderful new era of well-informed critical thinking and general enlightenment. Basically the opposite has happened.

Because billionaires like these two, and the corporations that they run, believe they’re largely not accountable to the law nor cultural pressure. They exist in a cloud of privilege that never holds them to account for truth, justice nor anyone’s wellbeing as long as the investors get paid. They are sociopaths.

Ooh, while we’re at it, let’s also address corporate personhood.