“I marvel at all the nonsense that has been written about me in the last year,” he said. “At a certain point I’ve said to myself, nobody else is going to do this, so I have to defend myself.”

What a child. It’s a lifetime appointment, jackass- the whole point is you don’t have to worry about being popular.

This asshole wants it both ways- to be ‘above’ politics in terms of accountability but still reap the rewards of ingratiating himself with the political donor class.

Need to start demanding radical financial transparency and limits for anyone that wants this kind of power. Like you get $250K/yr for the rest of your life, but any income over that amount goes straight back in taxes. All spending publicly audited for the rest of their life. Holding public power should come with a sacrifice. Saying you can ‘only’ make $250K/yr forever to be able to make decisions that effect millions for decades just doesn’t seem like an unreasonable ask to me.

John 8:7

>I think its almost always pointless to hold back innovation, but in this case I think a full ban on self driving cars would be a great move.

I agree on both points. Also I think it’s important to characterize the ‘innovation’ of self driving as more social-economic than technological.

The component systems- sensing, processing, communications, power, etc- have a wide range of engineering applications and research and development will inevitably continue no matter the future of self-driving. Self driving only solves a very particular social-economic-technological issue that only exists because of how humans historically chose to address the same issue with older technology. Self driving is more of a product than a ‘technology’ in my book.

So my point there is that I don’t think a ban on full self driving really qualifies as ‘holding back innovation’ at all. It’s just telling companies not to develop a specific product. Hyperbolic example but nobody would say banning companies from creating a nuclear powered oven was ‘holding back innovation’. If anything forcing us to re-envision human transportation without integrating into legacy requirements advances innovation more than just trying to use AI to solve the problems created by using humans to solve the original problem of how to move humans around in cars.

>I don’t get why anyone is surprised by this sort of thing.

Because the the idea that the US was founded as a meritocracy is a core cultural myth that’s taught as fact to every new American. There’s value to constantly repeating challenges to pervasive cultural myths. Won’t change anything for us but might help a few in the next generation see past the bullshit sooner than they otherwise would.

Double the fine for ‘self-driving’ traffic violations and bill the manufacturer for half.

I don’t think it’s a collective or organized ‘they’, probably just a few guys that didn’t appreciate Grusch nosing in on their legitimate classified operations- reverse engineering downed Chinese balloons and whatnot, so they fed him a big fish that had enough truth to sell it but also crazy enough to ‘decommission’ Grusch when he started repeating the crazy parts.

At least the History Channel will get to update their ‘Ancient Alien’ content catalog with some new footage from all this nonsense.

I mean… it’s supposed to be a ‘beauty contest’ so why shouldn’t they compete?

Not that I don’t think the entire concept of a competition over beauty is stupid, but they exist, so why not just see who wins?

I like to think what happened is the atrophied part of his brain where a conscience would be suddenly came back online and for those 20 seconds he was consciously aware of what a monster he’d become.

In about 48 hours Musk will ‘reveal’ the X rebranding freakshow was actually a ‘market test’ and they’ve gained ‘invaluable user data’ on what totally wasn’t another CEO tweet tantrum that some poor bastards had to try to translate into corporate policy.

I still don’t know what ‘woke’ means except it’s like the opposite of the ‘moral values’ bullshit Republican’s spewed before it became impossible for even Republicans to ignore that is was complete bullshit.

So basically they gave up campaigning on their own morality and decided to campaign against a made-up immorality instead… I guess if they’ve ruled out just not being morally bankrupt this is actually a good strategy.

I caught it first on nflix and then bought the seasons on google play and of course now they’re free with ads on youtube and for some reason even logged in it makes me watch ads…

It’s hard to imagine how that show would have flowed broken into 25m segments. It’s weird enough as-produced.

I almost started this on Amazon the other day because it’s one of the few sci-fi series I’ve never seen, but I just can’t stomach Sorbo so I started rewatching Lexx instead.

He should just embrace the cartoonishness of his campaign and go around wearing prison stripes and a George Washington hat.

>r/place is only available on our mobile apps (iOS and Android) and new Reddit. The new r/place features we are introducing this year are only on our mobile apps and moderators can opt out of these if they want to.

This seems kind of desperate.

But will the revolution still be televised?

I of course never read every post or comment but I never once saw someone threatening others or calling for violence. Apparently they were banished because of their political views.

“I’m super moderate, but without actually checking any facts I’m assuming that conservatives are being broadly oppressed and they need a safe space.”

Because conservatism is an interesting topic to me and this is a community to discuss it in. If you were looking for a safe-space\echo-chamber there’s a ‘conservatives only’ community that bans anyone they don’t like.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

That’s the government’s entire responsibility regarding ‘free-speech’- to not make any laws restricting it. The idea that the government is responsible for protecting your speech by providing a safe space or protecting you from the public consequences of unpopular speech only started when conservatives realized a lot of their speech wasn’t popular anymore.

There’s no shortage of ways to profit on conservative delusion.