US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[FlappyBat]

Tesla. Though definitely overhyped the technology put into it has absolutely advanced electronic cars and batteries.
Paypal. Again, definitely issues but it pioneered digital exchanges.
Starlink unironically is becoming a massive network of easy and relatively cheap internet.
Neurolink has some amazingly high potentials for curing and treating a range of diseases and conditions for which there are no treatments at all.

The guy has helped lead 4 companies into being industry defining products. When people think of electric cars, they think tesla (or gay and then tesla). When they think private space launches, they think SpaceX. The same for PayPal and Starlink. I'm not going to say the guy is a genius engineer, but he has hit it out of the park 4 times now and in business you're lucky if you ever even get it once.

 

[“Token” the Neigermiester]

"Hey, what's so bad about that?"
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Mein Füher, der große Caesar!!

 

[CarlKingofDucks]

"Elon Musk came in and he's going to help Make America Efficient Again. He's a great guy and really wants to do some things, and we're going to let him do it [...] Elon, leave defense to me. We have more planes than any country in the world. We have more than Russia. Elon, stay away from our military":
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I mean seeing shit like that makes glad we're separated by an ocean.

 

[Polyboros2]

So a probably ignorant and paste eating armchair economist idea, but a system where Bonds could be used to pay for Tariffs. At a rate below what their maturity value would be but above what the market values them, obviously prorated to wherever makes sense.

Essentially it lessens the cost of those tariffs, to especially to countries that own a lot of bonds, but also eats away at our debts while still providing some protection for domestic production.

 

[Nuns with guns]

Scott Presler, the man who helped deliver PA by registering thousands of Amish, is now trying to flip NJ red.

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

The guy has helped lead 4 companies into being industry defining products. When people think of electric cars, they think tesla (or gay and then tesla). When they think private space launches, they think SpaceX. The same for PayPal and Starlink. I'm not going to say theyl guy is a genius engineer, but he has hit it out of the park 4 times now and in business you're lucky if you ever even get it once.

Meanwhile, what did people idolize Steve Jobs for? Better versions of consumer junk. Yay, we built a better Walkman. Worship him.

 

[quaawaa]

I mean seeing shit like that makes glad we're separated by an ocean.

From China? You know we have drone shows here as well. Every Fourth of July and New Years celebration has them in addition to fireworks now.

The people shilling them on X are just 50 Cent Army soldiers desperate to find technology that China is ahead of the West in.

 

[CarlKingofDucks]

Tesla. Though definitely overhyped the technology put into it has absolutely advanced electronic cars and batteries.
Paypal. Again, definitely issues but it pioneered digital exchanges.
Starlink unironically is becoming a massive network of easy and relatively cheap internet.
Neurolink has some amazingly high potentials for curing and treating a range of diseases and conditions for which there are no treatments at all.

The man isn't the one who actually invents things. What he is, is the one who envisions them -and- a path towards them. Vision is the first step to real technology. And thankfully Musk knows his limits enough and is good enough at getting the right people on the job to realize a fair chunk of his vision. Most importantly, he aggressively tries to innovate. Yes, sometimes you get the stupid as fuck tunnels. But even those are at least novel and new, and you can learn from the failures. Too much of the entire worlds technology is just... stagnant. Iteration upon iteration but never innovation.

How many new versions of the same Iphone have come out since Musk started trying to create -new- things?

The mans a lolcow, don't get me wrong, but you can acknowledge that and acknowledge he is practically the only person actually trying to push actually new technology into the world

I think people underestimate just how hard it is to come up with some idea and then actually find the right people to accomplish that idea.

 

[John.Doe]

If anything it's an adorable meet-cute story. If you ignore the fact that it took her a couple days to retrieve the dog but still think it was staged.

Another shit test, if the dude just took the dog to a shelter or mistreated it she would know he's not dad material. Again, assuming she staged it, thats a pretty impressive bit of female cunning. Could make a good wife, but if she can't bake.....hrmm, well you can't have it all.

If they uncover enough fraud to flip seats I think bullets are going to fly. I genuinely don't think Dems can cope with that.

God, if only. I might pass out from a multi-hour erection if some politicians and their cronies had to stand in front of a firing squad for election rigging.

What needs to happen is all the academic Marxists, socialists, communists, and democratic socialists - along with their cadre of violent enforcers - must be called out for what they are.

Then executed (after a fair and open trial). Its the only way to deal with a Communist demon.

 

[Breadbassket]

The guy has helped lead 4 companies into being industry defining products. When people think of electric cars, they think tesla (or gay and then tesla). When they think private space launches, they think SpaceX. The same for PayPal and Starlink. I'm not going to say theyl guy is a genius engineer, but he has hit it out of the park 4 times now and in business you're lucky if you ever even get it once.

Musk has some really smart people working for him, that much can be said at the very least. He bought into Tesla which was ahead of the curve when it came to the EV boom and one of his businesses he was involved with later was merged into Paypal during the dot-com craze. He did found SpaceX (StarLink is an extension of it) so he can be credited for that much. If his aerospace company wasn't in the news all the time it would just be Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic. For all of his faults he has generally has good intuition for sensing when it's a nice time and place to invest into something.

 

[Nuns with guns]

Too many tweets for me to share, but Musk keeps joking about buying MSNBC.



Even Joe Rogan joined in.


I still think "Morning Joe Rogan" would be a better gig.

 

[Banana Nut Muffin]

Buying MSNBC and making it into some ultra MAGA version of Fox News would be so crazy that it's almost too crazy to even believe, let alone fathom. Like, you already have CNN (Democrat), ABC (Democrat), Fox News (Democrat in a red skirt), and other news stations like NPR that's now being talked about being defunded by DOGE due to being too liberal, it would be an absolute game-changer for television just like X was for social media

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Because the Reconquista in question is about Mexico taking back the SW USA.

I know, dat's da joke

Scott Presler, the man who helped deliver PA by registering thousands of Amish, is now trying to flip NJ red.

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This is good, because stopping the Dems from getting a midterm bounce back if things go rough for Trump in the next 2 years starts now. If he loses Congress in the back half of his term, it will stall his agenda and make Vance and anyone else who isn't a RINO radioactive in 2028 for the GOP.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

Tesla. Though definitely overhyped the technology put into it has absolutely advanced electronic cars and batteries.
Paypal. Again, definitely issues but it pioneered digital exchanges.
Starlink unironically is becoming a massive network of easy and relatively cheap internet.
Neurolink has some amazingly high potentials for curing and treating a range of diseases and conditions for which there are no treatments at all.

The man isn't the one who actually invents things. What he is, is the one who envisions them -and- a path towards them. Vision is the first step to real technology. And thankfully Musk knows his limits enough and is good enough at getting the right people on the job to realize a fair chunk of his vision. Most importantly, he aggressively tries to innovate. Yes, sometimes you get the stupid as fuck tunnels. But even those are at least novel and new, and you can learn from the failures. Too much of the entire worlds technology is just... stagnant. Iteration upon iteration but never innovation.

How many new versions of the same Iphone have come out since Musk started trying to create -new- things?

The mans a lolcow, don't get me wrong, but you can acknowledge that and acknowledge he is practically the only person actually trying to push actually new technology into the world

Yeah, Elon is closer to the ultimate product manager than the ultimate engineer. Not project manager (for Kiwis who may be unfamiliar, that's a very different, less-prestigious position). The product guy evisions the "why" and "what" to build, trying to ensure it's something people will actually want, and then hands it off to engineers that will implement the "how" and let you know about the "when."

 

[Hunter Hearst Helmsley]

Buying MSNBC and making it into some ultra MAGA version of Fox News would be so crazy that it's almost too crazy to even believe, let alone fathom. Like, you already have CNN (Democrat), ABC (Democrat), Fox News (Democrat in a red skirt), and other news stations like NPR that's now being talked about being defunded by DOGE due to being too liberal, it would be an absolute game-changer for television just like X was for social media

The difference is people use X whereas nobody watches cable news. He already bought a mainstream news outlet there is no real reason to buy a tiny fringe news outlet.

 

[Getting Tard Comed Jr]

"Elon Musk came in and he's going to help Make America Efficient Again. He's a great guy and really wants to do some things, and we're going to let him do it [...] Elon, leave defense to me. We have more planes than any country in the world. We have more than Russia. Elon, stay away from our military":
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Where's the lie? He's 100% correct here.

Drones have use for surgical strikes, reconnaissance, and cheap to produce disposable close air support but on their own as technology currently stands they are not suitable to replace fighter jets just yet.

As already mentioned, they do 3/5ths of the job at less than a fraction of the cost. There is no need to spend the amount of money 1 F35 costs with how fragile they are when you can get quite literally over a million drones at the same cost. It doesn't matter how "good" or "technically advanced" it is. It does not justify the cost, it isn't cost effective, and it's a complete backwards piece of technology. Quantity is a quality of its own and the more technically advanced faction with the more elite troops and training lost the last major war.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

But have you seen the Chinese version of the F35 called the Shenyang J35? Apparently they were able to make it thanks to being able to hack some F35 documents from a while ago. Pretty curious jet and interesting to see how they compare against each other.

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The J-35 is fast and has quite the payload, but it's not as advanced. The thing that makes the F-35 so insane is its avionics, sensor systems, and especially its targeting systems and the way it can share combat data in real time. Its electronic warfare suite is incredible. Also, we know that the F-35 works in combat. The Chinese have never, ever tested any of their modern hardware or theory in any conflict, so the J-35 is - right now - nothing more than a shiny example of what Chinese engineering can accomplish; not a shiny example of how Chinese engineering is effective at fighting wars.

Then again, I'm generally very doubtful of Chinese military capability vis-a-vis the US. I'm sure that someone will argue the opposite if they feel so inclined.

 

[Dr J]

I won't lie, the tariffs I think are a bad idea. Unless Trump can actually reduce the barrier to entry for factories to return such as by getting rid of the regulations that encouraged the outsourcing in the first place, the tariffs are only going to make prices worse

The problem is that large corporations don't want to deregulate because large corporations either wrote or had a hand in writing those regulations to benefit themselves.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

"Elon Musk came in and he's going to help Make America Efficient Again. He's a great guy and really wants to do some things, and we're going to let him do it [...] Elon, leave defense to me. We have more planes than any country in the world. We have more than Russia. Elon, stay away from our military":
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elon's battery plant will get a defense contract bc the chicoms banned their batteries from being exported to the us

 

[Breadbassket]

As already mentioned, they do 3/5ths of the job at less than a fraction of the cost. There is no need to spend the amount of money 1 F35 costs with how fragile they are when you can get quite literally over a million drones at the same cost. It doesn't matter how "good" or "technically advanced" it is. It does not justify the cost, it isn't cost effective, and it's a complete backwards piece of technology. Quantity is a quality of its own and the more technically advanced faction with the more elite troops and training lost the last major war.

There is possibility fighter jets will be totally replaced by drones (especially those of the subsonic variety) in the future but we haven't gotten to that paradigm shift just yet. Even among the countries that as of this time are most known for using them they are put in places to supplement the air force, not altogether replace it. They are good tools of war but their limitations are still an issue.