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Teslas have their own story of shitty build quality and broken promises. He is cutting corners like crazy in PREMIUM models.

Also Space X just blowed up a launchpad. For no real reason.

Elon’s disregard for the consequences of his actions is not contained in any of his enterprises.

Sometimes there are inefficiencies. Sometimes you can cut features. But it’s a process that takes time, and has repercussions, and limits. The 1$ Billion mark could come from extensive evaluation of the current infrastructure, but it comes from Elon’s vibes and massive incurred debt from the leveraged acquisition.

Elon thinks that he can use office space and not pay for it. He is delusional. And he knows less about cloud services and code than he knows about leases.

Twitter is still online because providers can’t believe THE AUDACITY, and are hopping they will get paid. Let’s see how long they can justify the hole in the books and keep subsidizing Musk’s House of Hate Speech.

Darkly Red. It goes with my username and avatar.

The funny thing is, as a business, it was overvalued before the purchase and it’s overvalued right now.

The sad thing is that as a public utility it’s undervalued. But “market forces” place value in pretty stupid things (useless speculative assets) and not in essential ones (open source packages that hold the internet together)

That’s why I have high hopes for open source, standards based, interoperable, federated social media. The people need to have public places. People on the internet need to have public places. No private monopoly can be the owner of the “town square”

Hey! I’m playing Yooka-Laylee, Skyrim and Moonlighter.

I’d really like to get good with FPSs on sticks, but seems to much for me, so I play Deathloop docked.

Thanks! These things are popping like crazy.

I’m only missing ProgrammerHumor tbh.

Open source apps are rare on iOS. But this is not even the app, it’s the backend server. There is literally only one instance. It’s as closed source as most websites.

It was. Sorry 😞

Their death is waaaay overdue. We literally jumped one cycle because the 2008 financial crisis and 0% interest rate.

Now there is no free money, and they need to extract value to seem a good investment, so they canibalize themselves and turn into shit.

Most of Elon stuff is doomed once reality catches on. Same with Uber. Same with streaming platforms. Same with Meta.

Also there is a new/old boy in the bubble and burst town, Microsoft and their AI push. It’s going to destroy them pushing them into overspending to keep up.

Most school science is oversimplification by design. It’s part of the learning process. Yo first learn colors, then when you are ready can learn about wavelengths, color spaces, biology of the eye, color psicology and many many other knowledge fields.

Even when you get into the anatomy of the eye you get “false” information, like the “perfect” cones that only percibe one color, or the misconception that every color is equal. More advanced education gives you more context and nuances.

In the taste and tongue case can be useful to explain that senses are the product of discrete sensors. That you don’t taste with your tongue but with specialized little taste buds. The different concentrations are mostly real, so the tongue map is a first step, even being so so far from the objetive and complex truth.

The problem is people that think they only need whatever high school education they got to be experts in pandemics, gender, biological sex, business, economics, history, politics and everything else.

Take note that I’m not only talking about a formal education. You can really learn a lot (most things? Maybe everything?) by yourself. But you have to be critical with your sources. You have to know how to learn. You have to understand how little you know about everything and how much you still have to learn.

Most “do your own research” people in the internet do not do actual research, don’t know how to do research and I don believe they know what research is.

USA has been using credit scores since the 50s. It's a banking thing. Chinese Social Credit does not work like you think it works.

Blackrock doesn't give a damn about pride, it's just good for business to do not look like a bigot right now. Liberals simply have more money, liberal cities are bigger and better markets. Liberals right now are pro gay rights. IF liberals get transphobic you will see a tarnsphobic Blackrock. They have no moral agenda. They only want to own everything and collect rent. Blackrock makes investments in private equity, stock market and real state. It's not a loaner. Your bank is who will deny you a loan because "computer says no".

Twitter is just bad business dude. It's badly managed. If advertising in Twitter meant more money every corporation would be purchasing adds, but even before Elon backstabed the workers, destroyed the contracts and infrastructure and loaded the company with billions in debt Twitter was shrinking. The presence in the zeitgeist is totally artificial, because celebrities, politicians and journalists are obsessed with it. But Pinterest has more users than Twitter.