Late-stage capitalism in action. We have companies that are so insanely rich (despite losing equally insane amounts of money) that they can single-handedly corner worldwide markets for critical components in a brazen attempt to hurt the competition, and nobody will do a single thing about it.
This is your daily reminder that tariffs are a tax on American consumers and are NOT paid by the country the tariffs are imposed on, no matter how desperately the current administration might try to convince you otherwise.
Because capital has realized that as long as there are bread and circuses to distract people along with convenient targets for the less well-off to blame for their misfortune (immigrants, trans folks) they can continue to vacuum up all of the wealth and power for themselves without lifting a finger to improve the lives of those whose labor makes it all possible.
Although I feel like SpaceX's successes (many of which have been truly remarkable, like the booster catches) get plenty of press themselves, you make a fair point. I apologize for taking your previous comment in bad faith. :)
The Angular/Vue approach of sprinkling application logic in HTML attributes demos really well - wow, it's like magic! - but it can only end one of two ways: either it's too simple to keep up with real-world requirements so you end up implementing everything in JS anyway, or it tries to be everything to everyone and you end up with hideously convoluted and slow DSLs like the abomination that is ngFor.
Personally I think attacking the problem from the other direction and making JS more fluent at generating markup is the much more practical approach and that's why JSX won.
It's simply not a very good product and that's before you factor in the incredible (and totally self-inflicted!) toxicity of Musk and by extension the Tesla brand as a whole. Nobody wants to be seen driving one of these things.
Yeah. Trump 1.0 had a lot of the same mindless flailing but I think a lot of folks were prepared to write it off as an aberration. For him to be reelected after everything (and I mean everything) shows the world that, no, it really is true that a considerable segment of the American populace will gleefully burn it all down as long as they can totally own the libs along the way.
I don't think the population at large fully appreciates just how bad things could (and most likely will) get once these pre-tariff stocks are depleted. There is no magic wand to stand up new supply chains for the gazillion products we import from China overnight or even in the next several years. This promises to be more dramatic than the COVID supply shock only this time the damage will be entirely self-inflicted and - maybe - unrecoverable.
And yet he's brainwashed (slightly less than) half of the population into believing heart and soul that he's here to save Western civilization. By ushering in the end of American hegemony and paving the way for China and Russia. We really are living in the post-truth era.
The damage to Tesla's brand is irreversible. Musk has done literally everything in his power to alienate the core EV-buying demographic and the product itself is no longer unique or even particularly competitive. Maybe tariffs can prop up Tesla's auto business for a while longer but otherwise his only hope is for the MAGA set to suddenly pull an ideological 180 on EVs.
Wait, did they reverse their stance on this again? I thought they had finally started to open the mount up to 3rd parties. Really disappointing to hear that this is not actually the case.