patrick.net

The game is more difficult for the team on the lower side.

richwicks says

a government welfare whore, which is what Elon Musk is,

He did develop rockets that land themselves, he has captured most of the commercial launch market, and he has created a car company that produces hundreds of thousands of vehicles annually. He might benefit from some government hand-outs, but it doesn't seem like that is his primary business. By your standards, is there anyone who makes a lot of money who is not a welfare whore and can instead be described as a producer of wealth?

yawaraf says

He did develop rockets that land themselves,

This was done by Lockheed Martin in the 1980s - late 80s.

yawaraf says

and he has created a car company that produces hundreds of thousands of vehicles annually.

He did NOT create this. Electric vehicles are just natural gas and coal powered vehicles, and their batteries are made from 3rd world slave labor.

yawaraf says

He might benefit from some government hand-outs, but it doesn't seem like that is his primary business

Oh no, he's absolutely a welfare whore. He wouldn't exist without government subsidies. Electric cars could NEVER compete against internal combustion engines without the government. It really makes no economic sense, and in time, that will be shown. Gasoline and diesel is taxed, electricity for EVs are subsidized. I pay for some asshole to use electric vehicles, so do you.

yawaraf says

By your standards, is there anyone who makes a lot of money who is not a welfare whore and can instead be described as a producer of wealth?

I do not know at this point. I really don't. You tell me.

I am fearful that we aren't just about to be a communist nation, but we already are one.

Centralization is, just stupid. I think in the 1980's we had real people, but today? I don't know. I view Facebook to be an intelligence effort, I view Twitter as being purposeful propaganda (and I don't think Elon will fix this), I view Google as an intelligence gathering corporation.

I do not know. I live and work in Silly Con Valley, I hear rumors, can't be POSITIVE they are true, but they seem to be true. We're infested with the intelligence agencies. I think we are centrally controlled already.

I'd be curios to have more information about Lockheed Martin's rockets that land. I've never heard of them before.

Can you provide some data to support your welfare whore assertion? For example for Tesla and SpaceX, what revenue did they have in 2021 and how much of that was from the government?

yawaraf says

I'd be curios to have more information about Lockheed Martin's rockets that land. I've never heard of them before.

Can you provide some data to support your welfare whore assertion? For example for Tesla and SpaceX, what revenue did they have in 2021 and how much of that was from the government?

NO - it was over 30 years ago. I used to care about this bullshit, and now, I don't even have the energy to look it up.

Here is a wikipedia article on the technology:

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

Nothing really amazing about it. It's been around forever.

BLEEP BLOOP BEEP!




Welcome to Botswana

Vindman is a Puppet and a Puppeteer -- Musk

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/alex_avoigt/status/1596182210159456256#m

Elon reportedly send this mail to Tesla employees:

1) Avoid large meetings
Large meetings waste valuable time & energy
- They discourage debate
- People are more guarded than open
- There’s not enough time for everyone to contribute
Don’t schedule large meetings unless ...

... you’re certain they provide value to everyone

2) Leave a meeting if you’re not contributing
If a meeting doesn’t require your:
- Input
- Value
- Decisions
Your presence is useless.
It’s not rude to leave a meeting.
But it’s rude to waste people’s time.

3) Forget the chain of command
Communicate with colleagues directly.
Not through supervisors or managers.
Fast communicators make fast decisions.
Fast decisions = competitive advantage.

4) Be clear, not clever
Avoid nonsense words and technical jargon.
It slows down communication.
Choose words that are:
- Concise
- To the point
- Easy to understand
Don’t sound smart. Be efficient.

5) Ditch frequent meetings
There’s no better way to waste everyone’s time.
Use meetings to:
- Collaborate
- Attack issues head-on
- Solve urgent problems
But once you resolve the issue, frequent meetings are no longer necessary.
You can resolve most issues without a meeting.
Instead of meetings:
- Send a text
- Send an email
- Communicate on a discord or slack channel
Don’t interrupt your team’s workflow if it’s unnecessary.

6) Use common sense
If a company rule doesn’t:
- Make sense
- Contribute to progress
- Apply to your specific situation
Avoid following the rule with your eyes closed.
Don’t follow rules. Follow principles.

Elon sounds like an excellent boss.

AmericanKulak says

He shoulda used this opportunity to call the human bots NPCs. It could have been the official moment of amnesty for the npc meme they banned for being "dehumanizing".

Patrick says

Elon sounds like an excellent boss.

Talking about work and actually working are insanely different things. Meetings are generally a waste of time. It's not work.

I chopped a part of my finger of cooking last night. So if my I, K and , go to shit my apologies. Right hand middle finger. It will be fine, but I have a rather large bandage on. Rather pissed about it...

What kind of gun is the one in the foreground?

Someone said it's a Diamondback, but I don't see it here:

https://diamondbackfirearms.com/handguns/

Patrick says

Someone said it's a Diamondback, but I don't see it here:

It's a toy. There's no trigger. He's trolling. Same with the DC's. He knows what he's triggering and it's hysterical.

LOL he has a do it yourselfer tiled bedside table. I could see him going to Home Depot and buying a case of tile and some bullnose and plywood, and making that himself.
I hope that's not his Rocket Scientist's handy work.

ELON: TO WAR!!! (With... Apple?!)

https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musk-reaches-limit-bans-antifa-collective-from-twitter/

https://slaynews.com/news/antifa-plotting-arson-attacks-tesla-dealerships-protest-elon-musk/

Elon to issue report on Speech Supression at Ye Olde Twitter.

AmericanKulak says

ELON: TO WAR!!! (With... Apple?!)

The "why" is obvious: they don't like whose speech Elon suppresses and whose allows. But since, as it turned out, he does suppress some speech he can't ride the high horse of free speech anymore. So it all comes down to "our marketplace - our rules". Nobody forces him to do iPhone app - the browser is wide open on any fucking platform.

Alexandra Marshall
@ellymelly
19h
#Pfizer pulled its enormous marketing budget from #Twitter.

#Musk pulled the 'Covid-misinformation community guidelines'.

It's almost like those 'safety guidelines' were nothing more than paid corporate protection to silence the victims of vaccine injury...

https://notthebee.com/article/twitter-has-officially-gotten-out-of-the-covid-censorship-game

In December 2020, Twitter started actively suppressing any COVID-19 information that did not align with official government statements, which if you'll recall, changed regularly: Don't mask, mask, double mask, masks don't actually work, we made up the whole mask thing to make people feel better, etc.

To build public trust in Covid vaccines Twitter will be upping the censorship. Because that's how you build trust, by hiding things.
The medical experts and arbiters of truth at Twitter are continuing their fight against the open exchange of ideas on their platform with an update to their Covid-19 policies.

https://notthebee.com/article/twitter-says-they-are-going-to-begin-censoring-vaccine-misinformation
It was hard to keep up with the government channels on what the latest Covid vogue was, and over 11,000 Twitter users got deplatformed for not towing the line.

But now, Twitter is under new management, and Elon Musk's free speech view of the company is shaking things up.

With very little fanfare, a note was added to the Covid policy page:

Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy.

Musk promised to start a period of amnesty for all the people who were banned by Twitter this week.

stfu says

Patrick says

Musk responded, “I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone.”

It would still need a carrier network though, right? Pretty Sure Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile are all woke so he would have to use StarLink if feasible.

No, carriers and phones don't have to be connected.

If you don't do math well, you might consider it worthwhile to purchase a phone through your carrier or to buy insurance on the phone. Basically, it's just rent to own. The iPhone is TERRIBLY over-priced through, so the only way to sensibly purchase it it through a carrier plan, but that's an extremely bad deal as well.

Essentially, if you are spending over $400 for a phone (and I don't care what phone you bought), you're over-paying for it. Of course the manufacturer needs to make a profit, but I doubt there's a single cellphone in existence that costs over $200 to produce. These are basically just low cost computers. They pale in comparison to the $100 disposable laptop I bought from Walmart - which I admit, was a good deal. I probably bought that near at cost to build, probably over-stock.

npc media is effective. comment sections are now flush with anti-elon posts. some are likely bots, but I do think the left has lots of legit "online virtue warriors" who receive instructions via antenna and then see to it, posting propaganda they think will be helpful. like this one:



IMO this comment is part of the greater "let's hit elon in the pocketbook" NPC campaign, where we also see them encouraging advertisers to cancel him.

richwicks says

No, carriers and phones don't have to be connected.

I think it would be very hard to sell many people a phone that cant connect via LTE/cellular. Wifi phones have been around a long time, but almost nobody uses them in the first world.

One could use a different lte device as a hotspot, and then connect via wifi the elon phone to it, and use wifi calling, but very few would do that.

wifi + starlink on the other hand could compete imo. but I worry he would be suicided before they let that happen.

richwicks says

I doubt there's a single cellphone in existence that costs over $200 to produce.

https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/the-cost-of-making-an-iphone.aspx

The cost of making an iPhone 13 Pro, Apple's latest iPhone, is $570.

The expensive Samsung phones are about as expensive as Apple phones to make.

zzyzzx says

The cost of making an iPhone 13 Pro, Apple's latest iPhone, is $570.

I don't believe it. What could possibly make an Apple iPhone so expensive? The screen? Camera? What?

Once you get past $200, basically all phones are functionally equivalent.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/waiting-for-bluebirds

elon held a vote.

he said the people had spoken and those who were not spammers and had not broken laws would be re-instated.

discussion was about “this week.”

so far, nothing has happened. there seems to be no plan or process that has been shared.

we’re all just waiting.

So it seems Elon actually id NOT reinstate all the unfairly banned accounts.

Patrick says

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/waiting-for-bluebirds

elon held a vote.

he said the people had spoken and those who were not spammers and had not broken laws would be re-instated.

discussion was about “this week.”

so far, nothing has happened. there seems to be no plan or process that has been shared.

we’re all just waiting.

So it seems Elon actually did NOT reinstate all the unfairly banned accounts.

No, he didn't.

I'm waiting for Ryan Dawson to be allowed back on.

https://www.ancreport.com/

I have a small list of people who have been banned, IF they are returned, I'll believe Elon Musk, and I do not believe him. I think Musk is a headfake, and that he's tightly connected to intelligence. He's the false promise of hope, kind of like Obama was - who promised to end all these stupid fucking wars the Neocons create, and then went on to bomb 5 new countries.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HNKpg9SImGI