Everyone around him must hate him so much, to allow him to go out in public looking like that.

“The average American, I think has, I think it’s fewer than three friends. Three people that they consider friends.”

This is Zuckerberg, claiming it’s normal not just to have only 3 friends, but fewer than 3. This is telling on yourself even more than “Women’s orgasms aren’t real because no woman I’ve ever been with has had an orgasm.”

If he counts his wife in that list of “fewer than 3 friends”, how many friends does he actually have? I get that being ultra rich means that often you can’t be sure who’s actually your friend, and who’s just there for the money. But, still, he should at least be able to count a handful of friends. I’ve known my 2 best friends since before I was 5 years old. Surely if Zuck had a normal childhood, he should have people who were his friends long before he got rich, who he can be sure aren’t just there for his money. If he doesn’t, it strongly suggests he was either a pretty awful kid, or he led a really weird life growing up and was isolated from anybody who could have become a friend.

If he resigns, Tesla becomes just another car company. Car companies get a P/E ratio of 7 (if they’re well run). Tesla’s P/E ratio is above 160. Elon Musk’s “genius” leadership is how Tesla investors have convinced themselves that they’re not investing in a typical car company. If he goes, the stock tanks. But, then again, if he stays, the stock tanks because he’s clearly not a genius, and even if he was he’s an evil genius and people don’t want to buy cars associated with his brand.

And fundamentally how would they fix their current issue? They could distance from elon but that would be a slow burn

They can’t distance from Elon because his supposed genius is a key factor in why they’re so absurdly overvalued. If they dump him, they immediately get viewed as a car company. Car companies have P/E ratios of about 7, if they’re well run like Toyota. That would mean they’d lose 95% of their value.

If they don’t distance from Elon, then they have to deal with his personal brand constantly tarnishing their corporate brand. Somehow they have to convince themselves that people will get over Elon fast enough to get their sales back up. Even if he “gets out of politics”, whatever that means, I don’t see that happening. He has burned all his bridges, and there’s no going back.

Also, it’s absolutely ridiculous that they would have a high valuation because of self-driving cars. Tesla is the company in absolutely last place when it comes to developing self-driving car technology. They don’t even use LIDAR, so they can be fooled by a Bugs Bunny / Roadrunner trick.

Waymo is probably in first place in self-driving tech. They have actually been running a taxi service for years using self-driving cars. Cruise was probably in second place before they were shut down and absorbed into GM. So, you could maybe say GM is in second place. Zoox, Pony.ai, Motional, etc. are also all doing well. Tesla is probably dead last, and their very public failures are dragging the industry down. The fact that they called their tech “full self-driving” and that it was so bad prompted all the other companies to rename what they were doing so they weren’t associated with Tesla.

Eventually someone’s going to make a killing shorting Tesla. The only problem is that markets can remain irrational longer than most people can remain solvent. Who knows when this might finally end.

“A currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency

It doesn’t meet the requirements to be a currency. It’s a commodity.

Gold isn’t a currency, it’s a commodity.

They are technically “police”, but they get to do away with all the boring things that police normally have to do.

Some of them still work at the border doing customs work. Others are now fully dedicated to arresting and deporting people whose residency status is not OK.

The term normally shortened to “Habeus Corpus” has a full meaning “habeas corpus ad subjiciendum”, meaning “You (shall) have the body to be subjected to (examination)”

In most cases it’s referring to a person, not a corpse. But, in this case…

1. USA is the world’s only superpower, and puts military bases around the world
2. Saudi Arabia is one of the countries with military bases
3. A Saudi man is angry with US military bases in his country
4. That Saudi man executes a plan to crash airplanes into American skyscrapers
5. USA invokes NATO’s article 5, the one and only time it has ever been invoked

I’m not sure that the famous US military is keeping Americans safe. Crazy as it may be, sometimes a big military makes you a target.

You’re right that Bluesky isn’t federated, but it most definitely is centralized.

if they apprehend you. spit on them. fight them.

Bang.

Ok, now you’re actually dead.

Is there a deportation order? If she has that, she should show it. AFAIK she just has an email now.

You don’t seem to understand how power works.

Almost certainly an accident. These guys are completely incompetent.

But, that doesn’t mean they won’t use it as an opportunity. If nobody pushes back, they’ll just keep stumbling forward.

How can you stay armed if you’re already dead? Why would thugs execute a death sentence against someone who is already dead? Your metaphors need work.

Why would they care about plausible deniability? You only need that when you might be held responsible for your actions.

Hanlon’s razor says just the opposite.

Sure, they’re not worried about making mistakes because nobody’s holding them to account. But, these people have proven time and time again that they’re not competent.

What would the legal basis of the lawsuit be? What relief would she be seeking?

I’m saying it is necessary to achieve the aims of the GPL.

Until copyright no longer exists and everything is in the public domain, as I said.

How are you going to enforce the GPL in a world where copyright doesn’t exist?