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  • What specifically do you want a source for?

    Because I said a couple things, and you were vague so I have to guess.

    And it could legitimately be any of the sentences I typed.

    A good way to be sure you’re asking a question that can be answered is quoting what you’re referencing:

    FSD not noticing something and driving straight into it won’t react itll just act like what it’s about to hit isn’t there right up until the collusion.

    But I mean, that’s just physics…

    Applying brakes before a crash would (well I guess should) obviously lead to a crash with less force.

    Anyways, if you can tell me what exactly you want a source for and what claim you’re even talking about. I can probably find something for you. But it’s not like I had to go look at data in the instant to reference before making that comment. So I have to go find whatever your asking me for.

    This would have all happened a lot faster if you just googled what you doubted. I mean, by now you may have already done that.

    So I’m glad you didn’t just type “source?” But what you did type was just as helpful in telling me what you wanted.



  • Vote in primaries to ensure at least one of the options in the general have a chance of putting people over the wealthy. People who will re-instate the campaign finance laws that Republicans and “moderates” started getting rid of in the early 90s. And from a “apply your own mask first” POV, we desperately need to stop letting our own party keep pulling this “victory fund” bullshit Hillary started, all it does is starve state parties to try and help get a more conservative president than Dem voters want.

    All of that money would be better spent where it belongs, with state parties.

    A lot of our problems are relatively recent and a direct result of being reduced to having to pick between a neoliberal and a republican.

    That’s not a real choice, and it being all we get election after election leads to depressed turnout and Republicans over performing. And no matter which side wins, they deregulate campaign finance and reward wealthy donors.

    We’ve come insanely close, and arguably did it in 08, except Obama ignored the party instead of putting work in to fix it.


  • I know it’s pedantic, but ancient Greece is by no means “western civilization”…

    They heavily influenced western civilization, but they’re separated by multiple eras and thousands of miles.

    And the same thing obviously existed (and still exists) outside of both the geographic and chronological eras.

    So I just really don’t understand where that specification came from, or why later you say outsourcing labor is the same…

    But this isn’t an immutable human characteristic either. The vast majority of people don’t want it.

    It’s just that wealth = power. And with unregulated capitalism the most unethical will accrue the most wealth because they’re the most cutthroat, and the more they have the more they accumulate.

    Your hearts in the right place, but you don’t have the details right.

    And people give me shit about it all the time, but the details are the important part.

    Now more than any other point in my life, we need people to understand what’s really happening. Because it honestly isn’t that hard to fix if we can get everyone on the same page again.


  • Man…

    You’d think you’d have realized that capitalism was the root cause at some point of typing that…

    In our economy, what matters is how much the numbers go up. At a certain point the only way to make profit keep increasing is to outsource and cut quality.

    Like, you think it’s just because they’re dumb, but you’re not looking at the same metric.

    You want long lasting corporations making steady profits and quality products…

    But that’s not what’s best for the people who own the stock. All they want is their number to go up as fast as possible so they can sell when it’s high. Then do the same to another company.

    You want to change that?

    Vote for progressives who want to tax stocks to incentive long term investments rather than the current system.

    This isn’t a tech problem or a even a management problem. It’s an economic one.




  • “I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department,” he admitted.

    He’s been brainwashed by his fans if he thinks that somehow makes it better.

    Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier. It’s not a value that’s always good in every context. And the worst thing he could be doing is doubling down on his opinions and policy.

    If he left the company is the only way this would help, he wouldn’t even be a fall guy because most of this is entirely his fault


  • They don’t have a real job…

    According to the disclosures, the terminated employees worked in Wells Fargo’s wealth- and investment-management unit.

    Time and time again, these funds don’t really beat the average of an index fund.

    But the Uber wealthy dont like being lumped together with regular people. So they pay commissions to get the same performance, resulting in less profits than an ind x when it’s all said and done.

    But the company points to the small parts that do over perform, and downplays the bad parts.

    Turn 1 million into 5 million, and it’s easy to forget there was another 10 million that’s worth 6 million now.

    Sure you up a million, but you’re focused on that 5x gain and not the 4 million loss. So before commissions it’s a draw.

    In real life there’s interest, inflation, and lots of other stuff that muddies the waters.

    It’s like their version of horse racing, they bet on a bunch and hope one hits it big and pays off the losses on the others. It’s the same as gambling and just as addictive.

    So if these employees were answering their phone when a big client calls and letting stuff sit, their performance was probably fine.

    Because it’s not a real job.


  • To be clear this isn’t official results, this is what musk is projecting.

    But the only think the big holders care about is their return rates. And they know Tesla is waaaaaaay overvalued. It’s all based on hype.

    So would Tesla be a better company free of musk?

    Undoubtedly.

    But they don’t care about that. Musk hype drove the stock price up, no real company would be so overvalued. Without continued hype, the price goes down, which might cause a run on the stock and might end the company.

    musk is Tesla. And it’s why the company will be nothing but hype. Doesn’t matter if the company loses money as long as stock price keeps going up.

    Making quality vehicles isnt their business model, it’s keeping the stock price up.


  • Simple:

    Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare, a war against the machines. The computer which controlled the machines, Skynet, sent two terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human Resistance. John Connor; my son. The first terminator was programmed to strike at me, in the year 1984, before John was born. It failed. The second was sent to strike at John himself, when he was still a child. As before, the Resistance was able to send a lone warrior. A protector for John. It was just a question of which one of them would reach him first.

    There’s been a couple reboots tho