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gabbar says

The demise of smaller newspapers was caused by the rise of online advertisement which basically robbed them of most of their income. So technically speaking he's now in the business which killed the newspaper industry (albeit before he entered the scene). Besides, jornos have always been overrated.

In April 2023, someone leaked Twitter's recommendation algorithm before the company was about to reveal it itself. In the lines of code, Ukraine was very quickly found, which was mentioned alongside such prohibited topics as violence and hate speech, fraud and toxic speech. The war in the algorithm was called the "Ukrainian crisis" and marked with the "Space Safety Label", which forces the social network to reduce certain content in the feed.

In June of the same year, we published another article in which it was said that the social network hides Ukrainians and their publications from users from other countries. First, at that time, you would not be able to find keywords related to war in the search. Secondly, the accounts that wrote about the war were marked with "sensitive content" and the platform began to automatically close their images under a blurred stub and hide the page itself from anyone who did not remove the corresponding mark in the settings. Volunteers, activists, military and bloggers were removed from the search. Even Dovzhenko-Center and the Ukrainian Art History page were among the pages that were shadow banned.

Musk, who has made a lot of pro-Russian statements in recent years, actually isolated Ukraine in a kind of info bubble, where Ukrainians' posts cannot be seen not only by foreigners, but also by Ukrainians themselves - even those who subscribe to the corresponding blocked pages.

"Free speech" my ass.

Source: https://nypost.com/2024/09/27/us-news/rogan-blasts-kamala-harris-tim-walz-on-first-amendment/

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/f-minus-thursday-october-3-2024-c

The Journal also breathlessly reported that Musk gave $50 million in 2022 to a 501c named “Citizens for Sanity.” Sanity? Say no more! Where do I sign up? (It’s an anti-castration group.) There was lots more about various Musk donations, but at the end of the day, the Journal’s exposé said nothing we don’t already know. Musk is active in politics. Ho hum. But that’s where things got really funny. ...

What happened was Elon was a lifelong Democrat until California’s power-drunk, out-of-control, barely-literate state politicians chased him out of California. Full stop. Musk was painfully red-pilled by the pandemic.

That’s the real story. The headline should have been, “How Democrats Created The Most Influential Conservative Figure in U.S. Politics.” ...

Some folks still have legitimate concerns about Musk and his brain chip project. But you can’t deny that Elon Musk is doing more for our fellow Americans in the Western Carolinas than is the entire federal government: ...

Free satellite communications to all the affected areas. That must be expensive. But Musk is paying for his generosity and compassion in more ways than just with his money. ...

Musk didn’t need to put himself in the left’s unforgiving crosshairs. He has a lot to lose. But he did it anyway, and for that, Elon Musk deserves much credit.

Unless something is done about the bureaucratic smothering of America, humanity will never reach the stars.

That is my biggest showstopper issue for why Trump must win, as the alternative is continued expansion of oppressive big government, making progress impossible.

Unless we become multiplanetary, it is simply a matter of time before a natural or manmade calamity destroys life on Earth, just like what happened to the dinosaurs.

This election is existential for life as we know it.
https://x.com/optimatessuck/status/1842063716872855900

BTW, why the great champion of American worker - The Elon Musk - is not bringing Tesla factories back from overseas, namely Chyna?

Just asking.

RWSGFY says

BTW, why the great champion of American worker - The Elon Musk - is not bringing Tesla factories back from overseas, namely Chyna?

Just asking.

Aren't the Teslas built in China sold in China? Are any of the Teslas sold in America imported?

HeadSet says

RWSGFY says

BTW, why the great champion of American worker - The Elon Musk - is not bringing Tesla factories back from overseas, namely Chyna?

Just asking.

Aren't the Teslas built in China sold in China? Are any of the Teslas sold in America imported?

What does it matter? Build it here - sell in Chyna.

Still laughing my ass off that the "California Coastal Commission" is trying to stop Elon from launching.

More scary was Biden suing Elon for not hiring non-citizen Chinese Nationals on Starship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgMl662Av8o
"All In" - Elon Musk's BRUTALLY Honest Interview With Tucker Carlson (2024)

AmericanKulak says

Still laughing my ass off that the "California Coastal Commission" is trying to stop Elon from launching.

I get what you're saying, but I don't find it funny. It's a state that basically controls the country. I think the electoral college works, but one state shouldn't get that much pull on voting. You're almost 25% to victory if you get CA. Some local commission shouldn't stop space launches. At some point I do think the federal government needs to step in on CA.

Most are CA people here. Even if right leaning, most don't know how the rest of the country works. I've been to every state, not a flight layover, 1-20+ times in the lower 48. FL, AZ, MT being the most with actual stays for days if not a year. Actually TN as well. MO, WI and MI as well. Not a brag. I meet people and chat.

I love tech, but that's basically all CA is good for. It's why I'm on this website. I buy almost nothing that says made in CA. I just get the tags that say my camping chair will give me cancer.

AmericanKulak says

Still laughing my ass off that the "California Coastal Commission" is trying to stop Elon from launching.

More scary was Biden suing Elon for not hiring non-citizen Chinese Nationals on Starship.

Mojave is a FAA certified spaceport and not on the coast. He can launch from there and no Coastal Commision can do anything about it.

Off the subject, I'm in Santa Clara for a few hours and there are a lot of "Teslarians" riding around.

WookieMan says

You're almost 25% to victory if you get CA. Some local commission shouldn't stop space launches. At some point I do think the federal government needs to step in on CA.

California needs to be broken in at least half.

Virginia was ridiculous until the Civil War. At some point, say 40 Electoral Votes, a state must be broken up.

HeadSet says

Aren't the Teslas built in China sold in China? Are any of the Teslas sold in America imported?

No Chinese models are sold in the US. Chinese models are primarily sold in Asia, Africa and parts of Europe.

BTW - got this new beauty coming next month in the new Quicksilver color.

Texas build using their new paint shop in Austin! Most American made car in the land.

AmericanKulak says

Virginia was ridiculous until the Civil War.

True, we sawed off the ridiculous part.

socal2 says

BTW - got this new beauty coming next month in the new Quicksilver color.

To each their own. Not judging. That car is ugly AF. Wouldn't work for people that have kids. No utility. What do people actually do? I pull and put heavy stuff in trailers and have 5-8 passengers. That car is literally useless to me beside looking like shit.

I don't know, I'm handy. I rarely hire people out to do anything for me. I need a car that can help with that. No EV make/model can do what I need to be done. By a long shot too. I also don't just sit at home. Not saying you can't like them, they just don't make sense for a large portion of the population.

HeadSet says

True, we sawed off the ridiculous part.

The fighting part. The rest is Admins and Bureaucrats.

WookieMan says

Wouldn't work for people that have kids. No utility. What do people actually do?

My existing Tesla works absolutely fine for me (wife, 2 kids and a mother-in-law) and the majority of Americans that will never need to tow a thing or drive 10,000 miles a month in the frozen tundra.

My new lease payment is only $430 a month. I will save over $150/month in gas on top of that. You can't find a better deal to drive one of the planet's most advanced and FUN cars to operate.

socal2 says

WookieMan says

Wouldn't work for people that have kids. No utility. What do people actually do?

My existing Tesla works absolutely fine for me (wife, 2 kids and a mother-in-law) and the majority of Americans that will never need to tow a thing or drive 10,000 miles a month in the frozen tundra.

My new lease payment is only $430 a month. I will save over $150/month in gas on top of that. You can't find a better deal to drive one of the planet's most advanced and FUN cars to operate.

We don't pay gas. Get reimbursed monthly. Tow weekly. Camp frequently. Get off road to an extent. Just had 8 people in my wife's 4 Runner for the Chicago Marathon this weekend. One less car in the city.

We drive a lot and there's no chargers here in IL or WI without going 30 minutes out of your way and then waiting another 30-60 for a charge. We don't live in an urban area. Our time with worth exponentially more than a fun ride.

I can install the service to charge an EV in my home no problem. M-F fine, that would work. Charge at night, come the weekend, nope. It's not uncommon to travel 400 miles for us pulling a trailer or camper. Not one EV can do that by a long shot. We'd need to stop 3-4 times for a full charge. I'll golf with buddies. 4 dudes and 4 sets of clubs ain't gonna work and we'll drive 100 miles to golf. The human and golf club weight would easily cut 20% off the range.

Two of the people that were at the marathon with us had Teslas. I've driven one of theirs. They're middle of the road on the them. Fun to drive. Range anxiety. They live near where I do. One couldn't find a charge and ran out of battery. Not every place is CA. There really aren't that many chargers except in the city.

Even rural I can walk to a gas station in 5-10 minutes if I ran out of gas. Can't carry electric in a can. I'll be sticking with ICE vehicles the rest of my life. Even when the kids move out.

WookieMan says

I'll be sticking with ICE vehicles the rest of my life. Even when the kids move out.

You already own a battery operated golf cart!

Besides - by the time we are old and shouldn't be driving, we will be hauled around in Tesla's autonomous Cybercabs. They will probably have some Uber drones for greater distances too.

socal2 says

You already own a battery operated golf cart!

Yes. A cart. It's not a vehicle. There's no acronym for golf cart. It's a cart. It's not ATV, UTV, SUV, etc.

socal2 says

Besides - by the time we are old and shouldn't be driving, we will be hauled around in Tesla's autonomous Cybercabs. They will probably have some Uber drones for greater distances too.

No. I need to drive. I need control. I don't trust anything. My eyes works just fine. There are t-bone accidents that you cannot avoid regardless of a 1,000 sensors. I live in an area with cornfields at rural intersections. There's no way a Tesla can stop that. You have to get partially in the intersection when the cross traffic doesn't stop. Then people blow lights and stop signs. I'd have no faith.

Elon held a ~1 hour Pro-Trump Townhall in Pennsylvania earlier today:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1847024043536404569

Featuring a dark MAGA hat and US Flag backdrop.

Atlantic at it again

https://vigilantfox.news/p/elon-musk-drops-unforgettable-take

Elon Musk fired up a packed crowd at Ridley High School in Pennsylvania today, delivering an unforgettable 55-minute speech. Right out of the gate, the world’s richest man got the crowd cheering when he said, “The hell with” anyone who opposes free speech, the Constitution, secure borders, and sensible spending.

“I've been told at times that these are, like, right-wing values. I'm like, ‘Are you insane?’ These are literally the fundamental values that made America what it is today. And anyone who's against those things is fundamentally anti-American. And the hell with them!”

It didn’t take long before a Trump supporter shouted to Musk that George Soros is “evil”—to which Musk responded with a clear “Yeah.”

He said Soros is “honestly misanthropic” and that “for someone who sort of claims to be doing good, but actually he is not. He is tearing down the fabric of society.¨

Musk continued to drop 90 seconds of pure facts.

He said the Second Amendment is there to protect the First and warns that once you disarm a population, the country is doomed to become Venezuela.

Musk then called out Maduro, saying that he lost in a landslide but rigged the election. And the only reason Maduro was able to hold onto power is because the disarmed citizens can’t fight back.

“So now you're facing soldiers with assault rifles. Are you going to throw some sticks at them or something? Use finger guns? It doesn't work. So Maduro, even though he lost the election, is still in power. And that's the kind of risk that we face,” Musk said. ...

The local asked Musk what he could do to get Donald Trump across the finish line, and Musk answered, “Registration, registration, registration, registration, every single day,” reminding everyone that there are only three days left to do so in Pennsylvania.

“If there's ever a weekend to spend going hog wild on registration, this is it.”

One local resident brought up her concerns about election fraud, and Musk expressed that he could also smell something fishy with Dominion voting machines.

In fact, Musk found it to be a “heck of a coincidence” that Philadelphia and Maricopa County use Dominion voting machines but “not in a lot of other places,” saying that the last thing he would want to do is trust a computer program “because it's just too easy to hack.”

“I know a lot about computers, and I'm like, the last thing I would do is trust a computer program because it's just too easy to hack. It's too easy to add just one line, and it's really difficult to hack paper ballots.

“So in-person voting with proof of ID, which, by the way, every country has. Almost every country that has democratic elections requires in-person voting with voter ID.

“This is weird. It's super weird to not have that. I think that's the only way to effectively address fraud, given that we are where we are today.

“I think we just need a very big margin of victory. If the margin of victory is big enough, then as I say, it's got to beat the cheat,” Musk said.

The bombshell of the night dropped when a voter asked Elon Musk, “Do you think there is a shadow government behind the Biden-Harris administration?”

Musk replied with an awesome answer.

First off, he said, “It's not Biden. We know that for a fact. The dude has barely got two functional neurons.”

What about Kamala? Elon answered that it's not her either. “They just replaced the Biden puppet with the Kamala puppet, very obviously. If the teleprompter stops working, then the puppet breaks, and it's like, ‘Oh, the puppet just starts looping because the teleprompter broke.’”

So who is it? Musk said that he believes “There isn't any one sort of puppet master but maybe a thousand or “a lot.”

During his interview with Tucker Carlson, Musk said that there is a very high chance that Kamala's top puppet masters happen to also be on the Epstein client list.

He explained that's why they're so terrified of a Trump victory because if Trump wins the election, the Epstein client list is coming out.

Musk believes in this crossover relationship so strongly that he said it again during today’s speech.

“[It'll] be interesting to see the crossover between the Epstein client list and Kamala's puppet masters. I bet there's a lot of names that appear in both lists.”

clambo says

Off the subject, I'm in Santa Clara for a few hours and there are a lot of "Teslarians" riding around.

Coming home from Santa Cruz, I think Teslas are the predominant models on the freeway. My wife and I laugh like kids and say 'Tesla' every time we see the glorified yuppie golf carts and I make a sound like an explosion.

I wonder if there are some massive fleet subsidies going on for tech workers in Bay Area.

I also grip my chest in a fake heart attack every time we see another 5G heat ray monstrosity clustered like praying mantis on another power structure. Something bad is happening there, but I guess we'll find out. 5G scalar weapon or mushroom cloud: your choice?

Ceffer says

Coming home from Santa Cruz, I think Teslas are the predominant models on the freeway. My wife and I laugh like kids and say 'Tesla' every time we see the glorified yuppie golf carts and I make a sound like an explosion.

I'm seeing more here in IL this summer/fall. They're going to regret it during winter is all I'll say. We also don't have the charging network that CA has. I'm 20 minutes from the nearest super charger. I just laugh when I see them out by me. You're F'd when we get a 8-10"snow storm and -6ºF temps which happens every year, sometime worse.

Makes sense in CA I guess if you have no family/kids and want to overpay for a car. Our Sequoia got rear ended by a fully loaded box truck. They totaled it, but a Tesla doesn't survive that. Sorry. Not an argument. No one had a single injury. No one got blasted in the face with an airbag. I like big SUV's and I cannot lie.

WookieMan says

I'm 20 minutes from the nearest super charger.

Why would anyone use a Supercharger by their house when they can just charge at home for much cheaper?

Superchargers are typically located strategically near the freeway exits for people doing road trips.

TSLA stock had one of its best days in history today (up 21%) based on strong Q3 earnings.

Regardless of what a person thinks of EV's, I don't think we can deny that Tesla manufacturing and efficiencies are second to none and they can make amazing products at much lower costs than their competitors.

socal2 says

Why would anyone use a Supercharger by their house when they can just charge at home for much cheaper?

Because humans human. I've had my battery die because I didn't charge the cart. Life happens. There's a gas station every 5 miles or less if you forget to fill up in 3 minutes. If you forget on an EV you're screwed. You can't buy a 2 gallon gas can to get you to the next gas station walking a mile or two tops usually.

You have to get towed. THEN you still have to get charged up. It's happened to multiple friends. Big red dots are deceiving as well on a map. Chicagoland only has chargers in the city for the most part and bigger suburbs. There's nothing where I live if I needed it.

On the new build I will put in a panel for an EV or other items in the garage. I'm not averse to EV's, they're 100% not practical for me until they can do a full sized SUV that can get 400 miles on a charge and tow 250 miles with 7k lbs on the hitch. Basically impossible.

I knew it! This explains his weak-ass pussy demeanor towards the Soviets after they gave him "the talk":

Elon attended Bryanston High School. In one incident, after an altercation with a fellow pupil, Elon was thrown down concrete steps and beaten severely by the boy and his friends, leading to him being hospitalized for his injuries. Elon described his father berating him after he was discharged from the hospital, saying "I had to stand for an hour as he yelled at me and called me an idiot and told me that I was just worthless". Errol denied berating Elon but claimed "The boy had just lost his father to suicide and Elon had called him stupid. Elon had a tendency to call people stupid. How could I possibly blame that child?" After the incident, Elon was enrolled in private school.

WookieMan says

Because humans human. I've had my battery die because I didn't charge the cart. Life happens. There's a gas station every 5 miles or less if you forget to fill up in 3 minutes. If you forget on an EV you're screwed. You can't buy a 2 gallon gas can to get you to the next gas station walking a mile or two tops usually.

At least with Teslas, it is practically impossible to run out of juice (especially on road trips) since they give you so many warnings and have precise calculations on battery range based on navigation. If you get really low, the car will reduce speed and navigates you to the nearest charger.

Tesla showed off the future wireless system which will be super easy to just install in your garage and you will never think about charging. You just park your car.