Yes, electronics are very cheap… But remember the part where they also have a mechanical mechanism? They have two systems, where most cars have this very simple lock that connects to a tiny motor assembly. It’s literally a piece of plastic and a few wires

The tablet thing is true, they’ve changed cars to computerize everything, and once you’ve done that you can connect everything over a network. Every button needs to do back to a chip to become a digital signal, so before you had these complex one-off wiring harnesses for everything

But the tablet thing is again, common. It makes sense, it’s just worse

But Elon is a unique case. Elon likes to actually make decisions, because he thinks he’s Tony Stark. He actually goes down into teams and hangs out, and they have to just work around whatever decisions he makes. It’s present in all of his companies, but you can see it most in Twitter, because they didn’t have time to build a team to strategically distract him when he comes to visit

This absolute idiot has spent the last month trying to get grok to be a literal Nazi. First, he added a bunch of white genocide to the prompt, making it change the topic to that from any question for a few days.

Now it’s responding all confused, and saying things like “I never gave Jeffrey Epstein tours of spaceX or Tesla” when asked it Elon did it. Seems to me they fed Elon’s tweets in the RAG system in a amateur way

He micromanages and meddles constantly… That’s what he does at his companies

For a counterexample, Jeff Bezos. He was heavily involved in the fire phone, and had some genuinely cool ideas… But the priorities were all wrong, so it flopped. He learned his lesson

No, the problem is they engineered something they didn’t need to, because Musk thinks everything should be electric because it’s cool. They had to then engineer a mechanical release, because it was required by law (for good reason)

Mechanical door locks would have been cheaper. The fly by wire in the cyber truck is far more expensive, heavier, and far more dangerous than the very well polished power steering systems every other car uses

Maybe it’s something like they wanted to make more money on repairs or something… But even that they could’ve done better by starting from very common, cheap technology

Let’s be clear… The real problem here is that Elon Musk, opinion having idiot that he is, made decisions from on high with very little understanding of engineering

Because it looks like candy. It feels like jelly. It’s individually wrapped in clear plastic, just like candy

Now, imagine someone leaves one of those on the counter, or in a random drawer. That’s where loose candy lives.

So of course other people, who maybe don’t do laundry and don’t often see tide pods, are going to go “oh, look, candy!”

And then they call poison control as they retch and the cells in the mouth turn to soap, and they get added to the statistics

Surely the prosecutor was there though, right?

They can also recommend a sentence, which is very problematic since the judge often uses it as a baseline. Especially since they’re also the one negotiating for plea deals

It’s because they become an avatar for their money

Every tweet Elon makes affects his horde. Every single one - and usually it’s just a few hundred thousand and balances out- but occasionally it’s hundreds of millions in the red

And Elon can’t help himself. Most of them can

They can only be themselves in locations with tight information control, which is generally resorts with other billionaires. Who seem to be consistently in a pissing match with each other about their wealth and influence

And that’s why they’re fucking inhuman dragons

Nah, Mars sounds great. A tiny prison of their own making, as the corners they cut slowly come back to bite them? That’s poetic

Anyone who says that is pretty stupid, but I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who actually held that position

I will say that working to colonize Mars will teach us to fix the Earth… But it would be real nice if we stopped fucking up the Earth in the first place

No, that’s the rationalization. They admin wants to use palantir to collect data on American citizens, including giving ICE mobile camera installations to do face tracking. They want to do a 1984, and they don’t want any speed bumps from the states

Also, AI companies gave Trump money and there’s talk of restricting their power/water access to data centers to prioritize the people living nearby

Well, NYC has way too many policemen. Maybe they can turn that on the feds

They cut off the Internet and cell service back when this all started unfortunately

She was gardening right at me!

Why bother “recommending caution” if you aren’t informed in the topic?

You could’ve asked. You could’ve read about his policies and endorsements. You could’ve just stayed silent.

Instead, you fearmonger about nothing

Abstraction is a trade off. You don’t want to build interface layers between everything… It’s a pain in the ass, and if there’s a 1-1 relationship between parts of a system then you’re basically putting in a minimum cost to modify that area in any way. So if you do it, it’ll probably be once you’ve locked down the design pretty well

Game development is pretty different than normal development too. You have a lot of one off and lose ends based on creative decisions… You aren’t building up on top of your system, you’re building out

And frankly, it leads to a mix of mind blowingly good code and a lot of terrible code

So no, I don’t think it’s that easy. I think it’s also a bullshit argument, and they should release the “proprietary” code when they finish supporting the game, or put in the time to make the interfaces

Yes, he’s the real deal. He has the math worked out, he’s got a cohesive plan, he’s made alliances, he’s got a ton of energy behind him, and he just nails every interview - even hostile ones

Yes, it’s going to be an uphill battle. There’s going to be a ton of institutional resistance… But if he can force policies through anyways, it would so huge for the entire country

No, this campaign was everything you could ask for

His core platform - free and faster buses, free childcare, rent freezes, and no one making less than $1M will be paying for any of it

It’s simple, it’s hard to fear monger against, and it’s things the people want. The best they had was “but he’s Muslim”

People were named after the steak sauce? That’s wild

Now we’re letting AI impeach our president?

Well, at this point let’s give it a shot…

Jesus… That is so fucking bad

Woah now, you can’t deport someone to a random third country… They really really want to, but there’s a process to that too

That’s not the part that matters… They’re not pirates

They scared the shipping companies enough to affect the global economy.

It doesn’t matter if all they do is give some deck hand PTSD by taking pot shots at them - They still made the biggest economies in the world come to them for a deal