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Pretty sure our government isn't advanced enough to make Severance real. I am also confident that the current Administration would fumble if given the chance.

Wait. You think the problem is "children" on the VC cult website?

You see no issues with the CEO of five companies who bought his way into U.S. politics and being a complete clown show of K-hole takes that go against everything the Constitution was written to hold as sacred being criticized for his BS?

Cool.

Nicknames help us deal with the reality of an Apartheid cult gaining influence on our government.

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Agreed.

If we accept any other explanation for what Elon was doing there, then we also need to accept that he somehow cannot see how this would be seen as a pure fascist signal. We also then need to ignore his public opinions, "true"/"concerning" comments on what remains of Twitter, and his recent / very public donations and commentary on world politics centering on "Nazi-adjacent" communities to accept the former.

That's a lot going on for the CEO of (3) companies (last I checked) with gov't contracts and investor/founder of several other adjacent and frequently intertwined related orgs.

Oh, and he's apparently one of the best Diablo IV players globally.

Whatever you hear as an explanation for this, Musk knew how this would be seen/received and made a show of doing it.

If I suspend all possible disbelief, the best scenario is a rich white kid raised in Apartheid South Africa giving "Roman Salutes" to troll people for his own personal LOLs?

This is gross.

Also, exactly his aim

For now, we still have oceans and places with humidity.

I initially thought this was trolling due to the MS Comic Sans right up front.

Agreed! This was very fun, I felt like I was being gently roasted by the Friar's Club or a bunch of top HN commenters - or both!

I personally this is weird, and kinda lame? If for employees only, why price it so high? They could have make it free for employees while selling it to the public to subsidize the employee gift?

Large corporations and the richest men on Earth, blatantly paying off a convicted felon and wannabe authoritarian dictator, then going to his nursing home to eat off of gold plated tableware while he plays DJ on his iPad.

Yeah, the fascism checks out.

Delightful! I was especially tickled by the "WIN . INI" card for Chapter 9.

I can't comment better. Well said, and thank you for your discourse.

I bet they still charge for all the hours though.

The market will naturally something something, and the invisible hand will then guide us to...sigh.

These two are going to run an extra-governmental body, called "DOGE". Seriously?

If only that justice was applied in a way that was devoid of classism, racism and just plain not giving a f by other humans, this might be a valid take.

Mass incarceration creates better criminals. Please show your math on how the death penalty prevents murders.

Locking up people who are driven to acts doesn't solve the root problem. Even in programming/engineering, this is a shortsighted, and prone to failure direction.

How can we discuss a paywalled Substack post here? Wouldn't this be better addressed in the comments on this private newsletter subscription?