Thanks for the correction. This happened during my very short time on Twitter, and it was pretty disconcerting to see actual real-life decision makers make dumb decisions in real time.
As you said, up until that point Musk had been quite successful at bullshitting many real engineers into believing that he was some kind of genius. This incident helped a lot of people realize that they had been conned.
If I remember correctly the sub was supposed to be built from repurposed rocket parts?
It’s funny because a lot of people cite this exchange as the time when it finally clicked for them that Elon is a grifter.
Makes me wonder if Trump’s cult possess a similar invisible red line, or not?
Wait what, expressing my gratitude for a culture that globalized the service industry? I genuinely have no idea what that means. Am I to understand that the United States invented the service economy that Europe then adopted?
In 2018 a bunch of boys got trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand. It was a big story on Twitter, as people tried to figure out how to save those boys. Elon Musk weighed in that he had ordered SpaceX to repurpose a rocket into a boy-saving device that would traverse through the narrow tunnels, pick up a boy, and return to safety.
A British cave explorer said that nah, that’s not gonna work Elon - I’m gonna dive into the cave with extra oxygen and get the boys out. Elon got livid and called the cave explorer “Pedo guy” on account of him being British, into cave exploration, and living in Thailand. Cave explorer then proceeded to save the boys, and Elon was mad that he didn’t get to send space rockets into a narrow cave passage.
Also you can’t fire anyone without proper cause, and they are fully insured.
You seem to really know your stuff, so can you please fill us poor confused Europeans in on whether we should tip:
As a European I feel personally responsible to uphold a system where ultrarich oligarchs can pay workers sub-minimum wages, as is the Dream of all freedom-yearning people on the planet.
Alternative headline: Europeans dumped 23 metric tons of trash in front of business owner’s McMansion to demand fair wages and job security for workers.
Albania is already sold out to Zionist capital. That’s why they host terror compunds courtesy of the USA. It’s nice that they’re finally putting up some semblance of resistance but there’s a reason why Epstein 2.0 selected Albania as its next location in the first place.
Yes, but Iran isn’t negotiating with Trump. They’re negotiating with Peter Thiel et al. Trump didn’t write the MoU, or read it for that matter. He signed it like a good dog when they clarified to him that he was out of options.
Not sure if I understand what you’re trying to say. My read of this MOU is that the US is pulling the plug. Israel is already overextended in Lebanon, and they for sure can not fight Iran without the backing of the USA.
And even if they had that backing, interceptors are depleted and radars destroyed. Dimona got hit with a nuclear-capable rocket loaded with sand, a clear message which they know how to interpret. They’ll keep testing the waters with Trump for a bit, but the US will clarify to them that they really aren’t bluffing with this MOU.
Israel has no right to be butthurt that they didn’t get a seat at the negotiating table. They’re a proxy, not a partner. They are living way beyond their means and that’s coming to an end. Their bluff has been called. Now they need to stfu and do as they are told.
They have government-sponsored observation decks where you can watch Gaza through fixed telescopes while passing a blunt and cheer as bombs drop.
It’s really a mystery that nobody likes them, huh.
Iran’s democracy was toppled three times in the 20th century, each time with the British at the helm. The US kinda stole the coup from the British in 1953. What I mean is that this is not just history, it’s also what’s happening now. Iran was moving toward a much more progressive society and those efforts were again sabotaged by the West, not just the US but the West collectively.
People have increasingly challenged the “modest dress” mandates over the past decades, but there used to be a “Guardian Patrol” that would try to enforce modest dress in public spaces. After Mahsa Amini’s death the Guardian Patrol was shut down, and there was a massive increase in women skipping head coverings, in particular in larger cities like Tehran and Esfahan.
However, skipping modest dress in media is a different matter. It has become laxer, but not by the same extent. The religious leadership is extra sensitive about modesty in music, so I think the context of “singing for men without head covering” is the signal here.
I’d also mention that there will be a lot of backsliding of these hard-won victories with this war, as ultraconservatives are gaining a lot of power and legitimacy.
You’re right on the aggregate, but Iran has been doing things like this for decades. Iran was moving in the right direction in the past 15 years but that development has been blocked and likely reversed now with the reformists losing all of their momentum and legitimacy, especially given this past year of war.
My understanding is that it is not. It is more like a humiliation ritual. They don’t do full force.
Fair enough, to a point. But I’d diverge on a few things.
First, America has essentially all resources on its own soil. There’s no need to fight for them overseas. And yet, America is fighting over resources. The point isn’t to consume these resources domestically, it is to control what’s available to others. You can write that up as normal behavior for a superpower that just has got to do what it’s got to do, but I really don’t think it is. The United States would be safer and more prosperous if it had played its soft power cards for the past 25 years instead of throwing them out and playing cowboy.
I’d also push back against the idea that America is a good place to live, especially as a consequence of military doctrine. It is true that America’s military doctrine has made it absurdly rich, but honestly, what good is that when it’s almost entirely fiat and nominal? Yes you’re getting some essentially free stuff in exchange for – let’s just call it “patrolling the seas” – from manufacturing countries like Germany and China, but you could manufacture all of that if you had a real economy instead of an economy based on coercion and an inflated military industrial complex.
Don’t get me wrong, the USA has a lot of wonderful and unique aspects, and it is genuinely the best in several regards. However, would any sane person choose to live in Seattle over Copenhagen? The wealth you have translates to cinderblock and plaster make-believe castles, endless roads so your kids need to wake up early to catch the bus because they can’t walk to school, 300 types of bread at Walmart and nothing is actually edible, lonely dinners at the drive-thru, no access to nature, can’t even collect rainwater on your property in many states.
My point is that Belgium doesn’t run around bullying the world and it’s a better place to live than the USA. Malaysia doesn’t bully the world, doesn’t have every resource imaginable, and it still has a ton to offer to its citizens. The USA has had a hand in providing security to these places, and that’s a whole different discussion, but you’ve got payment for services rendered and then some, and somehow you’ve squandered that wealth on promoting a few to acquire their own fiefdoms, fucking Natural Teeth Implants and normalizing trucks for daily use.
Regardless. Hosting the World Cup is not what’s causing your dilapidated infrastructure. It’s a badly optimized system that picks the least efficient way to do things in the name of freedom, all while imposing laws and requirements on citizens that are the opposite of freedom. Now the Iran team is going to the US to play football with “165” written on their jerseys, in memory of the kids that fucking ChatGPT murdered on the orders of Pete Hegseth. The world is never going back to Pax Americana, which means that the tap is closing on free manufactured goods from Germany and China, and I don’t see how building data centers in the desert is going to help you produce your own.
You’re not at war, eventhough you bombed Iran 13000 times and killed thousands of civilians. Just a little excursion as your Führer put it? And you’re one of the more intellectual and reasonable specimens of your nation, I take it?
Didn’t you just claim that it is not a war? Fucking clown.
Regardless, this isn’t how any of this works. Sports have always been detached from politics. If your country can’t comprehend that, then you’re not fit to host a major sporting event.
Good boy