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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

It's hard to imagine a group that has beclowned itself more in the past decade than "libertarians."  From "Don't Tread on Me" to "Tread on me daddy, hand over control of the government to corporate oligarchs with no limits or checks, and let's go ahead with governmental ownership of private enterprise too."  

It was never an ideology.  I have no idea what in the fuck it was, other than dipshits biding their time until they found just the right flavor of fascist authoritarianism.

Literal decades of crying about government regulating capitalism and how we need guns to protect against an occupying federal force on radio, tv, and the internet. 
 

And now with the government taking ownership stakes in Intel and US Steel (with plans for more) and deployment of actual soldiers to US cities under the barest pretext…. just crickets. Or probably more accurately, cheers. 
 

We are nearing a dangerous escalation point I think - especially with the attempt to take over the Fed. I will say only this: those who disregard constitutional order cannot claim its protections. 

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I gotta admit, if there is anyone I don't want writing bad articles about me it's Drew Magary (of Defector and the SF Gate)

https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/alien-earth-elon-musk-sucks-20888757.php

Hollywood’s new favorite villain is THE billionaire CEO

Emphasis is mine, it's not a generic billionaire CEO, it's a particular one (the one you are probably thinking about now)

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In fact, this is the fifth time within a calendar year that I’ve watched a film or TV show where the main villain was an Elon stand-in. I didn’t have to think hard to remember the examples, either:

<insert list of 4 other movie villains>

It’s not new for Hollywood to conjure up villains inspired by the modern CEO. Hell, I remember Jonathan Pryce playing an obvious Rupert Murdoch stand-in in “Tomorrow Never Dies,” one of the lesser Bond films of my time. Elon makes for an even easier template, because he’s one of the most unpopular figures in America, and because he was born into his wealth thanks to a racist daddy. Best of all, he’s an individual person instead of a recognizable nation-state. So HEY PRESTO. Hollywood now has another option outside of “vaguely Eastern European bagman” if they want a villain character who won’t tick off the wrong people. Everyone would like to see Elon Musk die, myself included. And it’s nice to see our leading filmmakers give that desire at least partial recognition.

 

Funny read and review of Alien Earth too.

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 Jonathan Pryce playing an obvious Rupert Murdoch stand-in in “Tomorrow Never Dies,” one of the lesser Bond films of my time.

Top third of the post-1990 Bond films.  And it only gets more and more prescient.

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23 hours ago, Captainant said:

literally to feed it into an LLM, I would imagine. Considering he's spent tens of billions of dollars on hardware to do just that sort of thing

possibly but I'd guess the more likely recipient was Palantir, for the surveillance state - the record includes your name, SSN, DOB, place of birth, parents name, gender, and immigration status. 

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3 hours ago, Parliament said:

Top third of the post-1990 Bond films.  And it only gets more and more prescient.

You get a hook'em for the 2nd part. But that first part is just wrong.

There is no way that Tomorrow Never Dies is in the top 3 Bond films since 1990 (there have been 9).

 

Skyfall, Casino Royal and No Time to Die.

 

It might not be in the top 6 and its not the best Brosnan Bond film.

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

If only they could calculate how much money is being spent on the portion of disabled vets collecting 100% disability while still working full time jobs and collecting regular paychecks on top of their disability pay. 

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2 hours ago, MrBig said:

If only they could calculate how much money is being spent on the portion of disabled vets collecting 100% disability while still working full time jobs and collecting regular paychecks on top of their disability pay. 

@swam has been seen. 

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11 hours ago, F250 said:

You do realize that VA disability is different than SSDI? SSDI is related to one's ability to work and VA disability is related to disabilities from service and not based on the ability to work. 

While that is no doubt true and I and we as a nation want to tread carefully on veteran's benefits, I know or am aware of vets collecting substantial disability for "aggravation" of existing injuries, ie high school sports or other injuries, and there is a minor industry in helping vets collect extra benefits.

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20 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

I gotta admit, if there is anyone I don't want writing bad articles about me it's Drew Magary (of Defector and the SF Gate)

https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/alien-earth-elon-musk-sucks-20888757.php

Hollywood’s new favorite villain is THE billionaire CEO

Emphasis is mine, it's not a generic billionaire CEO, it's a particular one (the one you are probably thinking about now)

 

Funny read and review of Alien Earth too.

Met him before at a live podcast he and David Roth did. Those two are my favorite writers on Defector. 

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15 hours ago, F250 said:

You do realize that VA disability is different than SSDI? SSDI is related to one's ability to work and VA disability is related to disabilities from service and not based on the ability to work. 

My brother has 100% disability due to his PTSD from Iraq & Afghanistan. But he works full time as a city patrol police officer while simultaneously collecting his VA disability because of the PTSD. He’s not pushing papers at a desk, he is actively patrolling the streets on night shift and has killed 2 people with justified deadly force (investigations cleared him of any wrongdoing). I’m not saying the shootings aren’t justified and that his PTSD isn’t real, it just doesn’t make sense to me how he could be allowed to do this kind of job based on his PTSD diagnosis. 

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2 hours ago, MrBig said:

My brother has 100% disability due to his PTSD from Iraq & Afghanistan. But he works full time as a city patrol police officer while simultaneously collecting his VA disability because of the PTSD. He’s not pushing papers at a desk, he is actively patrolling the streets on night shift and has killed 2 people with justified deadly force (investigations cleared him of any wrongdoing). I’m not saying the shootings aren’t justified and that his PTSD isn’t real, it just doesn’t make sense to me how he could be allowed to do this kind of job based on his PTSD diagnosis. 

That's a police department issue not a VA issue. 

The VA disability is for having to live with PTSD that resulted from his time in the service. 

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1 hour ago, Chopper said:

this is a whole thing about Elmo stupidly claiming lidar and radar reduce safety due to sensor contention - "If lidars/radars disagree with cameras, which one wins?"

 

meanwhile https://futurism.com/tesla-robotaxi-call-exit-vehicle

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Uh Elmo, you go with the one that actually can tell you an object is SOLID. You don't want to hit things. Vision can be fooled.

What's idiotic about him even tossing out talking points like this is how stupid he sounds when his real reason is a perfectly acceptable answer. 

We all get it, you are going vision only as a cost savings measure. It's a risk, but it's a way to go about this. And if you said "we are doing this because we want to have a low cost answer" we might disagree, but you wouldn't sound like your brain is leaking out of your mouth.

To say "oh this is safer" PUH-LEEZE, do not insult us trying to run that line of bullshit out there. Anyone that knows anything knows that is pure horse shit.

 

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57 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah, but who are you gonna trust....some nerdy actual computer scientist, or a meme-lord who is extreme hardcore?

Uh Brisket, you go with the one that actually can tell you how algorithms are solid. You don't want to hit things. Hardcore Meme-lords can be redpilled.

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BTW - the money part of this article is right here (emphasis mine): 

 

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Immediately after the wreck at 9:14 p.m. on April 25, 2019, the crucial data detailing how it unfolded was automatically uploaded to the company’s servers and stored in a vast central database, according to court documents. Tesla’s headquarters soon sent an automated message back to the car confirming that it had received the collision snapshot.

Moments later, court records show, the data was just as automatically “unlinked” from the 2019 Tesla Model S at the scene, meaning the local copy was marked for deletion, a standard practice for Teslas in such incidents, according to court testimony.

In the time between the crash and the hacker’s intervention, according to testimony from a software engineer and manager on the Autopilot team, someone at Tesla probably took “affirmative action to delete” the copy of the data on the company’s central database, too, leaving investigators and the family without the information they believed they needed to piece together what happened.

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After years of trying and failing to retrieve this data from Tesla, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said, they finally hit a wall in 2024 and were preparing to go to trial without it. But in a last-ditch effort to find the snapshot that summer, they recovered the control units from the Florida Highway Patrol, which still had them in its possession. Then they needed a technical expert to understand and extract what was on them.

That’s when they turned to hacker greentheonly, who had a robust social media following for his work recovering data from damaged Teslas and posting his findings on X.

The hacker was consulting with the plaintiffs’ team when Tesla proposed to the plaintiffs that they power on the Autopilot control unit to determine what data it held — an idea greentheonly vehemently opposed.

“‘Let’s just power it on and update [it] and see what happens,’” he recalled them suggesting. “If I wanted to destroy evidence on the computer, that would be exactly the advice I would give.”

After a lengthy back-and-forth, Tesla and the plaintiffs agreed on terms for the hacker to access the data from the Autopilot unit himself. In October, the plaintiffs’ attorneys flew the hacker down to Miami from his home hundreds of miles away.

Inside a Starbucks near the Miami airport, the plaintiffs’ attorneys watched as greentheonly fired up his ThinkPad computer and plugged in a flash drive containing a forensic copy of the Autopilot unit’s contents. Within minutes, he found key data that was marked for deletion — along with confirmation that Tesla had received the collision snapshot within moments of the crash — proving the critical information should have actually been accessible all along.

The attorneys high-fived behind him.

Over the next few days, the hacker used the data he had found to create an augmented video of the crash that showed in stark detail exactly what the Tesla saw in the moments before the crash.

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Brett Schreiber, the plaintiffs’ lead attorney, had a different interpretation, saying that the vehicle failed to warn McGee the road was ending — and that Tesla had deceived the investigators for years about what data was available even though the company had it “before the cops even arrived on the scene.”

“There’s too much going on here for it to be anything other than intentional,” another plaintiffs’ attorney, Adam Boumel, said in an interview.

 

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Posted (edited)
15 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

BTW - the money part of this article is right here (emphasis mine): 

 

 

Let's put it another way: Tesla has institutionalized, as a corporate rule and practice, the spoliation of evidence (legal term for destruction of evidence that a party knows is likely to be relevant to a claim).  In most jurisdictions, that merits an instruction from the court which functionally says "The Defendant intentionally destroyed evidence of this crash.  You are instructed that the evidence was likely to indicate that Defendant was liable, and you may take this instruction into account when assessing liability in your deliberations."

That action (and the corporate policy of immediately deleting such information) is also good evidence of Tesla's fraudulent intent in marketing FSD as an available, safe-to-use product.  

Tesla is a scam and a grift, built on a foundation of fraud and lies, with conscious disregard for human life and safety.  They are serving that case up to plaintiffs' attorneys nationwide on a silver platter.  The really stupid thing is that it didn't have to be that way, but Elon's galaxy-sized ego got in the way.  Tesla could have been a perfectly good car company, making good and safe products, advancing towards FSD at a reasonable speed.  But he had to overpromise, then lie, then conceal the truth, with no regard for safety.

Further, if information, the concealment of which led to human harm/death, was concealed at the instruction of a particular person, that person can and should be subject to criminal charges, up to and including criminally negligent homicide/manslaughter.

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I would call out our resident Tesla defender, but why bother? He's just going to say something dumb to defend a billionaire that doesn't give 2 shits about him and find a way to make our opinion of him fall even more than we thought possible.

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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Further, if information, the concealment of which led to human harm/death, was concealed at the instruction of a particular person, that person can and should be subject to criminal charges, up to and including criminally negligent homicide/manslaughter.

Adorable.

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