How absolutely and entirely unexpected.

Fuck Trump, but this one is a bipartisan effort that has been ongoing since the Clinton administration accelerated the deregulation train. There has also been very little action towards anti-competitive practices for a very long time.

Don’t get suckered into a red vs blue mindset here. This is a battle against corporate and billionaire abuse of power.

EDIT: If I am being honest, I was all onboard the deregulation train back in the nineties. I was young and ignorant. I never imagined the damage it would bring.

For a classic Looney Tunes fan, you should look for the Golden Collection.

I have never, and will never, see anyone vandalize a Tesla. 🙈

I have been playing Galaga regularly since 1981. Still play it at least once a week.

I don’t think it’s satire. Miami has become a mecca for crypto bros and “tech” fraudsters.

Vi came with Ubuntu.

Once again proving Gabe Newell correct.

I think it’s important to differentiate incompetence from ignorance. Ignorance is not knowing. Incompetence is not being able to fulfill the requirements for your assigned task. If you cannot fulfill the requirements for your given task, then you should not be given said task.

There is nothing wrong with being 19-25. There’s something wrong with being wholly incompetent.

If I was earnestly blaming Obama, I wouldn’t have purposely phrased it and typed it the way I did.

I was too subtle and it didn’t land. It happens.

Sure. That’s why I put it in quotes AND italics. Let’s also ignore the context that Elon is once again begging the federal government to save his ass.

The joke didn’t land. I’ll take that L.

Did everyone really forget about the “Thanks Obama” joke? Anyway, I clarified my point in the edit.

Everything SpaceX is doing and has done could have been done by NASA had NASA been given the equivalent funds and leeway. This has been covered multiple times in many interviews of NASA scientists and engineers. Simply put, NASA cannot afford and is not allowed to take risks. They are not allowed to blow up ships over Florida and the Caribbean until they figure it out. They used to be allowed, but not anymore.

read my edit

Why do kill switches when you can just hog all the work of maintaining some critical part of the infrastructure and make it’s functioning and maintenance so opaque and impenetrable that the employer can’t replace or fire you without their shit catching fire soon after.

This is literally my firm’s core business practice. We’ve been at it for so long that at this point we have to be included in competing bids because we are the only ones in the world that can do certain specific things.

If you really hate Elon Musk, I have two words for you. “Thanks Obama”

Every single aspect of Elon’s “success” has been heavily subsidized or paid for by the US government (aka, tax payers).

EDIT: It seems the “Thanks Obama” meme has fallen into obscurity. It is an older joke in which everything was blamed on Obama, no matter how far fetched. I even used italics.

The point of my comment is that Elon is the biggest “welfare” beneficiary in history. All of his businesses would be a financial failure without billions of dollars in grants, benefits and contracts from the government, and that he’s been sucking on that government teet since Obama was in office. In fact, it was Obama who saved Tesla, hence the 'Thanks Obama" joke. Even Obama is aware and why the crashing Teslas scene is in the Netflix movie he produced. Now Elon is looking for federal assistance to block his competition.

…unless its very obscure stuff.

That’s primarily why you’d be ripping stuff. There is so much stuff only available on VHS and DVD.

I do not need reasons, I need ways.