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lolbase··on US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink
It is beyond parody to refer to "not giving money that was not earned" as acting in an "adversarial capacity".

Your argument is completely detached from reality, and devoid of logic.

lolbase··on US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink
No, it should not.
lolbase··on US agency will not reinstate $900M subsidy for Starlink
The government shouldn’t give out billion dollar participation trophies.

There’s a set of metrics to meet. Starlink is moving the wrong way against those metrics. As such, they’ll need to succeed unaided in the marketplace, instead of getting a government handout.

lolbase··on Cybertruck Launch
Your claim was about “Most EVs”. I listed the most popular EVs, without edits.
lolbase··on Warning from OpenAI leaders helped trigger Sam Altman's ouster
Good point. Based on the latest internal valuation, Elon only destroyed $25b in the first year.
lolbase··on Bitcoin mining used more water than New York City last year
Perhaps it could be compared to _just_ FedWire. But even then, FedWire handles about $4t of transfers per day. That's a couple orders of magnitude more than BitCoin.

And that's literally one service, from one bank.

lolbase··on K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system (2015)
superautomatics provide similar benefits with less environmental impact.

Unfortunately, most people prefer the lower up-front cost and higher operational cost of a Keurig or a Nespresso to the higher up-front cost and lower operational cost of a superauto.

lolbase··on Uber Joins the S&P 500
You can do this with most direct indexing solutions.
lolbase··on Cybertruck Launch

   Tesla 3 - up to 4065. 
   Tesla S - up to 4941.
   Tesla X - up to 5531.
   Tesla Y - up to 4416.
   Chevy Bolt - 3563.
   Leaf - up to 3853.
   Mach-E - up to 4920.
   ID.4 - up to 4848.
   E-Tron - up to 5754.
   BMW iX - up to 5659.
   Taycan - up to 5121
   Kona EV - up to 3715.
lolbase··on Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership
Two things:

1) the backup is likely a high end rewards / corporate card whose fees are as high or higher than Amex for most categories of spend; and

2) it’s kind of weak for the last interaction with a business be them saying they won’t take your preferred form of payment because they imagine it boosts their margin by .3%.

lolbase··on X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says
Your pedantry misses the point.

Even if all she did was sing happy birthday to the immigrants and then welcome them to Greece, Stainablesteel is still advocating for speech he doesn't like to be restrained.

In hindsight, I should've realized that his post was unreliable and untrustworthy. I should not have used a proven liar as a source, and I won't do so again.

lolbase··on X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says
> Musk has explicitly and repeatedly said that his standard for free speech is that which complies with the law in any given country.

Yet he has repeatedly demonstrated that this is not, in fact, his standard for free speech. It’s bizarre to pretend that it is.

lolbase··on X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says
Thank you for answering.

I'll agree he changed the (flawed) covid misinformation policy; though there were absolutely people discussing Chinese lab leak theories or the effectiveness of lockdown without getting banned.

I don't know what you're talking about regarding psychometrician... there were always people talking about how some races are categorically dumber than others and drawing broad conclusions; they received social judgment but not bans.

Your comment about Southern is really telling though. You're clearly upset that people are _not_ banned for stating something true. You agree she shot blazing hot fiery incendiary devices at immigrants using a flare gun, and you think people should be muzzled from saying that, simply because you (very wrongly) believe that flares can't start fires or hurt people.

This last part makes clear that you don't actually have any love of free speech; but rather you simply want speech restricted in the way you personally prefer. It's refreshing that you don't bother pretend to have principles beyond a desire for power, and a love of oppressing those you hate.

lolbase··on X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says
Paul was later unbanned. My narrative was true.
lolbase··on X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says
Can you please name some right wing opinions that used to be banned, and is no longer banned?

Be specific.

lolbase··on X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says
And if you want to find somebody saying that some people should not exist on the planet, you can find the CEO retweeting it, or replying with something like "this is the actual truth".
lolbase··on X Has Become a 'Global Sewer,' Mayor of Paris Says
> where freedom of speech is the most upheld.

This is only true if one defines freedom of speech extremely narrowly; specifically if you want to use racial slurs, or if you want to attack lgbtq folks.

Material criticism of Elon or his endeavors routinely results in bans. This has resulted in him banning numerous high profile journalists.

Elon banned individuals who posted Elon's locations, after Grimes used that info to serve him a custody lawsuit that he'd been dodging. He even banned journalists who talked about the bans, or who asked about ban policy.

He bans with abandon. Joke accounts? banned. promoting other social networks? banned. Advocating for lgbt gun ownership? banned. Paul Graham (the co-founder of YC)? banned.

And when he isn't busy banning, he is using the courts to suppress speech he doesn't like, and creating implicit threats to others who might say something even moderately critical of him or his empire of government subsidized wealth.

lolbase··on Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO
I'm leaning toward the reason being that Sam did something that created a massive legal risk to the company, and that giving more details would cause the risk to materialize.
lolbase··on Ford F-150 Lightning Breezes Up Obstacle Where Tesla Cybertruck Struggled
I believe that Rivian offers a quad-motor option, and a standard dual-motor with an open-diff that uses the brakes to try to compensate (similar to a typical AWD system).
lolbase··on Ford F-150 Lightning Breezes Up Obstacle Where Tesla Cybertruck Struggled
For context, this is a video of a traditional truck driving up the same hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptTwpkWQY_s

And here's a Range Rover going up it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_00ah8lG4yk

It seems like the CT doesn't have the equivalent of a locking diff, and had essentially no articulation. It'll be fine for the target demo (on-road usage).

Both the Lightning and the CT clearly suffer from their weight, and their optimization for on-road performance. (in the lightnings case, it even seems to be on stock tires).

lolbase··on WeWork Goes Bankrupt
This article elaborates on it: https://www.businessinsider.com/interview-venture-capital-jo...

> A candidate who displayed empathy for the entrepreneur would answer the question about Neumann with something like the following, Horowitz said: "He did an unbelievable thing in that he built something that almost nobody has done, which is he built a consumer brand in commercial real estate." The person might add, "He told that story so beautifully that he was able to raise a gigantic amount of money and fund this incredible growing operation."

lolbase··on WeWork Goes Bankrupt
a16z viewed Neumann very positively, to the point that they asked potential CEOs what they thought of Neumann, and the "correct" answer was to be empathetic that he took a huge swing of the bat.
lolbase··on Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates
Apple will replace batteries for iPhone 5s and up, for $69-89 in the US. No issues with fakes or low quality.

People who want to do some work themselves can buy replacement kits from reputable part suppliers for $29-59.

Your problem only occurs if somebody wants to do the work themselves _and_ they think they can source the parts without assistance from a reputable part supplier.

lolbase··on Coinbase employees petition to remove execs
Brian has an exceptionally long history of holding himself to a dramatically lower standard than he holds his employees. It is hard to imagine a reason that he would change.