He keeps announcing all these world-changing breakthroughs that will be here juuuust far enough in the future as to not be here quite yet, but juuuust close enough that people stop working on actual solutions to those problems, and nobody ever calls him on the fact that he is very obviously lying.

Our legacy media endlessly perpetuates the assumption, for which there is no evidence, that Elon Musk is a comic book super genius inventor. So they never shift to the assumption, for which evidence abounds, that he's just a cheap charlatan sabotaging human progress for his own benefit.

Musk's main achievements: taking credit for inventing car tech that is now being surpassed; adding annoying design elements and juvenile easter eggs to said cars; gaming the stock market with lies and nonsense; filling Earth's orbit with an impenetrable field of debris that may end space exploration

@msbellows 65 is kinda the sweet spot for taiwanese mfg these days so it's generally at a very good price point relative to what you get. Costco is the place to buy if you're in the neighborhood.

OLED is the best color & black, but a pain in the ass.

@pluralistic

I got an idea. that surveillance technology they’ve been building out guess who it could be used on? Remember, pervasive surveillance puts everybody on their best behavior. :ablobgrin:

“While they're at it, the Nuremberg Caucus could publish a plan to hire thousands of IRS agents […]

youtu.be/w7LPPTLDXu4?...

"biological males" is just a way to misgender people. it's bigotry, and the people who use it mostly know it's bigotry and use it for that reason.