Eximius

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[–] Eximius 27 points 5 months ago (19 children)

If by ignore, you mean stop paying taxes and working in any capacity for government in one go, yes would work. The only fear is being singled out, if more than 0.5% of the people do it, army wont even have the guts to get tanks out, they will join.

[–] Eximius 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Every single one I saw has been either slow, have terrible maps, missing maps, outdated maps, or most likely, all of the above. Doesn't hold a candle to open maps, waze, or gmaps on a phone

[–] Eximius 1 points 5 months ago

I guess it's possible. But to me it sounds too much like an extra conspiracy. The banks could just sell off the stock (give zero fucks about other banks), and then force Musk to liquidate.

[–] Eximius 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

He said it perfectly. There are sell off plans.

If not only Musk but also the banks are stuck in this problem, it's their own fault and incovenience. Not sure why you ignored his completely verbose explanation of how this problem is only Musk's (and maybe the banks he made the deal with).

Talking about individuals/market makers and their bots panic selling the stock is ridiculous, and subverts the idea of a free market. And as you say, the company's value barely reflects it's output, so it should happen, and it is odd that it didn't.

[–] Eximius -2 points 5 months ago

Big nah.

The soviets, however, definitely did. 2-3 times or so.

[–] Eximius 2 points 5 months ago

I tried to believe this was satire, and it downvoted wrongly, but checking @ms.lane comments made me sure it's not. Boo.

[–] Eximius 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

How could step one be anything besides the store taking a 2€ minus on their spreadsheet, instead of stopping flights. So many ways to hide a ceramic knife instead of a stupid pair of scissors uselessly incapable of doing anything on a plane.

All of these "security theatre" measures are just pure incompetence institutionalized due to 911, that managed to do nothing, just some security equipment manufacturers rich, and plane clients quite annoyed.

Hell, derailing a train would cause more human life / infrastructure damage, than a potential "guy has sharp object and cant do shit to the plane piloting" shit boomers are somehow still, in their old age, surprisingly afraid of.

Cars, trains, trucks all move freely, but somehow planes are terrified of extremely remote chance of bad actors trying to make a 911-esque political statement? (Because it's about the fanfare not actual damage, mooost buildings are much less secure than people would think)

[–] Eximius 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think it is worth reading the actual discussion on github. Having votes public and having them visibly public on the web interface has compelling reasons. Namely enshittification hardening.

It's also quite natural to stand by your words (or vote). I personally don't think people should feel like the internet is their anonimized alt character of life. And if they need/want that, just do a throwaway account and hard vpn. Otherwise NSA (or equivalents) track us anyway.

[–] Eximius 18 points 5 months ago
[–] Eximius 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Uh, can you explain to a European how does that even work?

They cause lots of financial damages to you and just... not pay? File for bankcruptcy? Or?

[–] Eximius 1 points 6 months ago

Funny how tipping and recession (UK) goes hand-in-hand.

[–] Eximius 5 points 6 months ago

If you have any understanding of its internals, and some examples of its answers, it is very clear it has no notion of what is "correct" or "right" or even what an "opinion" is. It is just a turbo charged autocorrect that maybe maybe maybe has some nice details extracted from language about human concepts into a coherent-ish connected mesh of "concepts".

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