That was effectively forced by the supreme Court, not the administration. Administration planned to keep the money.

You could just upgrade, I assume RAM is cheap, haven’t looked in a while, just let me look up memory prices real quick…

He is a scam artist, but this specific argument in the broader reality doesn’t really stick. The argument is that no one ever sells something that yields value to anyone else, which is obviously off.

It works better if you highlight that Tesla is less like those companies. They are demonstrably big on vertical integration, including the ride shares, so for them, it is out of character, but as a generic business strategy, it’s perfectly routine.

Broadly, you have a point. However with Tesla Musk has been pretty consistent that they would be directly doing it and they have the Tesla app managing the rides.

Their strategy has been all in one, they make the cars, they own the chargers, and they don’t really partner with anyone in any significant way.

While it does happen that companies end up partnering and competing at the same time, it’s relatively less likely. So for Tesla it is extra strange to be pitching being a supplier for other autonomous taxis while simultaneously being in the market.

So yeah, generally it is a poor argument, but in the context of Tesla, it is at least a bit out of character for them.

Clearly you mean “New America”

We don’t have evidence, this was sparked by her account tweeting toward Elon speaking about “your mom” in third person and saying effectively that she met herself in 1966.

However, since the story didn’t even make sense accounting for the third party tone, it’s more likely she meant to say “your grandmother” referring to her mother-in-law. Though they deleted the post rather than explaining/correcting, which is weird.

However it’s also plausible because we know he has done sock puppeting, including his toddler son. I feel like sometimes she had weirdly conveniently timed and worded posts to reinforce some point Musk said.

Of course in that scenario it may be private information, but given you are trying to file it, inherently you at least are in the realm of sharing it.

I would imagine things like asking for legal advice on a crime committed, which could hilariously backfire when that chat transcript shows up in court.

Once they have that much care and thought, then they probably would have the thought of asking the art teacher or art students to do something vaguely meaningful.

They would presumably have an art teacher. Or a student that wanted to express their feelings via art.

That’s the neat part, they generally do pay for “their” electricity, but there isn’t enough electricity for them to do that so power plants and infrastructure expansion must happen and they pretend that’s for everyone, not just them, so they shouldn’t pay for the capacity since technically they can’t tell whose electricity is really whose.

It’s a pretty broken model in this scenario.

Sure, but situations evolve that change the meaning.

15 years ago, being an independent contractor was relatively rare and pretty deliberate. Now that’s just being registered with Uber, Lyft, Doordash. So lots of people stop becoming “unemployed” and become “independent contractors” due to what is essentially a cultural shift. Being an “employed” independent contractor is trivial now, but says nothing about income prospects.

The side job scenario certainly isn’t new, so your point is taken there, that number of jobs “created” always could have been either good or bad without context.

Well not lying, but not what everyone thinks it is.

One person picks up a side job after getting hours cut at his work? That’s a new job created, even if that person makes less than they used to.

A guy gets laid off but registers with a gig app to try to pick up some driving or delivery tasks with spotty income prospects? That person is not “unemployed”.

You aren’t recognized as looking for work despite having no job? You don’t count as unemployed either.

The “underemployed” is probably better to get an idea.

I hate to say it, but waiting for some evidence.

This particular “bombshell” is pretty vague and unhinged. He purportedrly said he was sure of the election because of his space lasers…

That’s really only evidence of mental illness and/or being incoherently drugged up.

Well unless you mean trying to bribe up votes illegally, but no one seemed to care about that one and it was just right out in the open.

I’m glad you can speak for every single other user of Lemmy and dismiss the view point of everyone that isn’t like you.

Where’s the roadkill?

Man, one time I took my kid to a park playground and then another group just drops off like six kids and nopes out to a picnic shelter away away from the park so now I’m the only adult in a playground full of kids.

So was very uncomfortable, then one of the little girls gets scared and cries for help because she’s panicking and can’t calm down enough to get out of the spinny thing she is in, she thinks she is stuck.

So nervous helping out this stranger kid, thinking some one was going to assume something. Picked her up and put her on the ground without incident, but was annoyed I basically became defacto babysitter and afraid I would be seen as a creep.

A consequence of a popular post making it to people’s general feed. It’s reasonable that people might not even notice the theme of the community when posting.

I think broadly healthy for communities to occasionally get a dose of diverse perspectives from such events. We are otherwise too prone to get into circle jerks over our perspective being the one and only valid one.

The integrity argument is an excuse. They don’t actually believe it.

They want control over mail in ballots. Further allegedly they plan to allow a “bad” ballot to be considered to somehow contaminate a batch, so they can strategically invalidate whole batches of legitimate ballots over one minor mistake in a single ballot. Selective enforcement.

So you severely damage mail in voters and they have to view in person if they want it to count. Now they have a much better idea of where the concentration of opposition voters will be. Oh look, convenient “immigration” enforcement activity around key polling locations, just happens they have to be milling about with guns drawn while people would be trying to vote. Also those brown voters look like immigrants, better detain them…

A very quick turn let’s you see the other half. Bonus, you can look at it from the perspective of a pole and get a much better view of the parts of earth that map projections just utterly mangle. Particularly helpful for understanding arctic geopolitics.

The distortion only applies if you take the screen flatness literally, and no one is going to accuse a 3d game of being hopelessly distorted by virtue of being on a flat screen.

Directions work fine, at that scale you can’t even see the difference between a globe and a flat map. It’s just zooming it out.

You have to zoom out to see about 500 miles on the screen before the curvature would even be very noticable, and at that point you aren’t caring about the navigation in detail any more.

The one travel related thing is getting a better immediate sense for why a plane or boat runs a particular course which doesn’t make sense on a typical map.