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12 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

If I had his money, I’m on a yacht 9 months out of the year sailing around with a well-paid crew who all signed strict NDAs.  Austin would be way the hell down my list.

If I had his money, I'm buying the Yankees and Dodgers and running them in a way that make the Rockies look elite.

All home games first pitch at 10:30AM.  Major overhaul of uniforms to something that make the Padres City Connect kits look tame.  Trade Judge and Ohtani for some single-A bench-warmers and a 2033 18th round draft pick.

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2 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

If I had his money, I'm buying the Yankees and Dodgers and running them in a way that make the Rockies look elite.

All home games first pitch at 10:30AM.  Major overhaul of uniforms to something that make the Padres City Connect kits look tame.  Trade Judge and Ohtani for some single-A bench-warmers and a 2033 18th round draft pick.

Don't forget, throwing money at aggy to rename Pyle Field to Justin Tucker Field.

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11 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

If I had his money, I'm buying the Yankees and Dodgers and running them in a way that make the Rockies look elite.

All home games first pitch at 10:30AM.  Major overhaul of uniforms to something that make the Padres City Connect kits look tame.  Trade Judge and Ohtani for some single-A bench-warmers and a 2033 18th round draft pick.

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4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

That's so much better it's comical.

It would make a better base for an SUV than their current offerings.

If the CT has been a success, they probably would have made more variations of it.

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28 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Only sort of related - I drive a Ford. My daughter was in town recently, and one day we pulled up behind a Cybertruck with one of those "I got it before I knew he was a Nazi" bumper stickers. I laughed, and she said, "Yeah that's funny, but what would be really funny is if you got one of those stickers."

PM @Armybrat

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4 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Only sort of related - I drive a Ford. My daughter was in town recently, and one day we pulled up behind a Cybertruck with one of those "I got it before I knew he was a Nazi" bumper stickers. I laughed, and she said, "Yeah that's funny, but what would be really funny is if you got one of those stickers."

Sharp kid. 

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24 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Sharp kid. 

She’s witty- when she was about 14 she was listening to my FIL sing Paul Ryan’s praises and when he said “and I like that he doesn’t have any skeletons in his closet,” she said 

“Or in his body!”

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1 hour ago, Sawbonz said:

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Supposedly the ridgeline EV concept.

 

Why do all these vehicles look like a Subaru brat on steroids

Honda uses AI generated tires?

oh not AI, it says psychoform which can lead you here 

http://www.psychoform.com/htmlgallery/Honda Ridgeline Concept.htm

which the guy did this in a CAD program in 2020.  Can’t tell if it was Honda commissioned or not, but it’s listed under “personal works” on his main page. 

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On 5/23/2025 at 8:00 PM, Captain Ron said:

I gotta say Elon looks like absolute shit in this video, both in just pure look and then his answers. Just some examples if you want to delve into them

6:55 - His answer are just dumb to these questions. The terse YES to being asked if he took things personally was pretty silly. And the following the very next question with such a long attempt to look like he was giving it real thought was so dumb, to the point where he almost forced more questions.

24:15 - His follow up questions were dumb too, she is right that its not for her to answer and for him to put her on the spot was idiotic. And it goes into the next question

26:30 - He looks really foolish on this one. He is caught in a trap of his own creation. He can't answer the question in any sort of way because doggy is never going to get close to the cuts he mentioned. He was walking them back almost the moment he uttered them and to try to spin it just will not fly. I will say the interviewer is a touch flat footed on this one because she SHOULD have said "yes, it should have been immediate, you were talking about cutting the budget." And then to spin it on Congress :eyeroll:

 

 

 

And dude, get a razor, your triple chin pubes are gross.

This guy might be the second biggest douche bag in the country. It’s astonishing how much he has killed his personal brand just by being more accessible. 

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1 hour ago, Da Fino said:

This guy might be the second biggest douche bag in the country. It’s astonishing how much he has killed his personal brand just by being more accessible. 

Second?

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13 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

#1 rhymes with rump

I figured figured that's what our brother Shamus was getting at, but to me they aren't the same. Elon is the world's biggest douche by a large margin. Trump is a cunt of the highest magnitude and a laundry list of deplorable things and generally the second worst human to Hitler so far, but douchebag has a certain je ne sais quoi that Elon takes the cake on.

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32 minutes ago, BearMace said:

I figured figured that's what our brother Shamus was getting at, but to me they aren't the same. Elon is the world's biggest douche by a large margin. Trump is a cunt of the highest magnitude and a laundry list of deplorable things and generally the second worst human to Hitler so far, but douchebag has a certain je ne sais quoi that Elon takes the cake on.

Drake will always be my #1 douchebag. He lives in this country now. 

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Since November, the creator of 'Succession' has written and made a movie called 'Mountainhead' (Take that, Ayn Rand!) that will premiere on HBO this Saturday about techbros trying to take over the world.

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From the Creator of ‘Succession,’ a Delicious Satire of the Tech Right
In November, when the “Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong got the idea for his caustic new movie, “Mountainhead,” he knew he wanted to do it fast. He wrote the script, about grandiose, nihilistic tech oligarchs holed up in a mountain mansion in Utah, in January and February, as a very similar set of oligarchs was coalescing behind Donald Trump’s inauguration. Then he shot the film, his first, over five weeks this spring. It premieres on Saturday on HBO — an astonishingly compressed timeline. With events cascading so quickly that last year often feels like another era, Armstrong wanted to create what he called, when I spoke to him last week, “a feeling of nowness.”

He’s succeeded. Much of the pleasure of “Mountainhead” is in the lens it offers on our preposterous nightmare world. I spend a lot of my time saucer-eyed with horror at the rapid degeneration of this country, agog at the terrifying power amassed by Silicon Valley big shots who sound like stoned Bond villains. No one, I suspect, can fully process the cavalcade of absurdities and atrocities that make up each day’s news cycle. But art can help; it’s not fun to live in a dawning age of technofeudalism, but it is satisfying to see it channeled into comedy.

In “Mountainhead,” three billionaires gather at the modernist vacation home of a friend, a Silicon Valley hanger-on they call Souper, short for “soup kitchen,” because he’s a mere centimillionaire. One of the billionaires, the manic, juvenile Venis — the richest man in the world — has just released new content tools on his social media platform that make it easier than ever to create deepfakes of ordinary people. Suddenly, people all over the world are making videos of their enemies committing rapes or desecrating sacred sites, and any prevailing sense of reality collapses. Internecine violence turns into apocalyptic global instability.

It’s not a far-fetched premise. Facebook posts accusing Muslims of rape have already helped fuel a genocide in Myanmar, and tools like those that Venis unleashes seem more likely to be months than years away.

Venis’s foil is Jeff, who has built an A.I. that can filter truth from falsehood and whose flashes of conscience put him at odds with the others. Rounding out the quartet is Randall, a venture capitalist — played by a terrific Steve Carell — who pontificates like the bastard offspring of the investors Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.

As the planet melts down, they start fantasizing about taking over “a couple of failing nations” and running them like start-ups. “We intellectually and financially back a rolling swap-out to crypto network states, populations love it, and it snowballs,” says Randall. But as the global crisis spirals and the dread specter of regulation appears, their ambitions expand. The group seems to have a good relationship with the unnamed president, but they also regard him as an idiot. After the president chastises Venis, they start thinking about replacing him. Given the administration’s “wobbles,” Venis asks, “do we just get upstream, leverage our hardware, software, data, scale this up and coup out the U.S.?”

While “Succession” was a series about a media industry in decline, “Mountainhead” is a movie about men who feel they own the future. This is what makes them — both the fictional characters and their real-world analogues — frightening. At a moment when our institutions are in free fall and most elites seem dazed, these men are ready, as the Silicon Valley cliché says, to move fast and break things. “Are we the Bolsheviks of a new techno world order that starts tonight?” asks Randall. Venis, like Elon Musk, longs to leave Earth itself behind. “I just feel like if I could get us off this rock, it would solve so much,” he says, using an obscenity.

Some of the ideas in “Mountainhead” had been percolating in Armstrong’s mind since 2023, when he reviewed Michael Lewis’s book about Sam Bankman-Fried for The Times Literary Supplement, and proceeded to devour a bunch of other books about Silicon Valley. “I was able to read widely about Zuckerberg and Sam Altman and Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel,” he said, eventually borrowing from all of them as he crafted his characters. He also listened to techcentric podcasts like Lex Fridman’s and “All-In,” one of whose hosts, David Sacks, is now the White House’s crypto czar. People on these shows often speak in a sort of patois loaded with insider references and futuristic nonsense, delivered with blithe confidence that the rules of computer coding can be easily applied to human society. It’s a tone that Armstrong nails with uncanny precision.

“I think they think that their philosophical approach can solve any problem,” Armstrong said of the tech barons. “And I find that amusing and scary.”

It’s an open question, in “Mountainhead,” how seriously we should take the men’s scheming. The characters are titanically arrogant, but outside their domains, they are not particularly effectual. “There’s a lot of society and government which is not amenable to a tech approach,” said Armstrong. “DOGE may have discovered that, and so may anyone who tries to engage with systems with a lot of real human beings in them.”

Still, America’s tech plutocrats have expansive plans, fortunes that make Gilded Age robber barons look like paupers and an ungodly amount of political power, even now that Musk has stepped back from the White House. The “big, beautiful bill” that the House just passed contains a 10-year moratorium on state A.I. regulation. Musk’s company SpaceX is a front-runner for the contract to build Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense shield. When the president went to Saudi Arabia this month, he brought a passel of tech executives with him.

Journalists can write exposés about these men, just as they have about the family of Rupert Murdoch, on whom “Succession” was based. But art and entertainment can make such figures feel real in a more visceral, emotional way. That’s one reason it’s important for pop culture to engage with America’s disorienting descent into clownish authoritarianism.

Doing so isn’t easy; Trump is eager to punish both media companies and artists that displease him. Two weeks ago, after Bruce Springsteen denounced the administration on his European tour, the president wrote online that he should “KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the country,” adding, in what sounded like a veiled threat, “Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”

“Mountainhead” isn’t about Trump, but it is about people to whom he’s given nearly free rein. Considering how cowardly many media executives have been about crossing the president, I wondered if Armstrong had any problem getting the movie made. He said, however, that HBO was supportive: “Maybe they had some qualms, but I’ve never felt the vibrations myself.” I hope audiences reward the network for that. “Mountainhead” is the first movie I’ve seen about now, but many more should follow.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Overall EV sales in Europe are up by 33% year over year (for April). 

Tesla sales in Europe are down by 49% in the same period.

Tesla sold just 7,261 vehicles in Europe in all of April 2025.

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https://electrek.co/2025/05/27/tesla-tsla-keeps-getting-worse-in-europe-despite-electric-car-sales-surging/

 

"Hey, Western Europe.  I hate you all, hate you having functioning democracies, and will pour enormous resources into empowering the same kind of xenophobic fascist bullshit that led to the continent being a shitload of smoldering rubble 80 years ago.  Wait, what's that?  You don't like me and don't want to spend any money with me?  Well, who could have seen that coming?"

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

"Hey, Western Europe.  I hate you all, hate you having functioning democracies, and will pour enormous resources into empowering the same kind of xenophobic fascist bullshit that led to the continent being a shitload of smoldering rubble 80 years ago.  Wait, what's that?  You don't like me and don't want to spend any money with me?  Well, who could have seen that coming?"

“Didn’t you see me tour the death camps with my 3 y o on my shoulders like it was EuroDisney? Didn’t that make up for funding and advocating for AfD?”

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26 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Overall EV sales in Europe are up by 33% year over year (for April). 

Tesla sales in Europe are down by 49% in the same period.

Tesla sold just 7,261 vehicles in Europe in all of April 2025.

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https://electrek.co/2025/05/27/tesla-tsla-keeps-getting-worse-in-europe-despite-electric-car-sales-surging/

 

 

To quote the great Artie from The Larry Sanders Show: 

"When you act like an asshole, people tend to think of you as an asshole."

 

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Posted
51 minutes ago, JohnnyRage said:

Nothing on SpaceX, is this not a big deal?

Another Musk failure. The only thing that changes is his excuses. 

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It's honestly kind of confusing to me because what they've done with the first stage is actually astounding from an engineering standpoint. They're having fatal failures during the second stage before re-entry on things which should be comparatively very easy problems to solve and it keeps blowing up.

e: Today's failure was literally just attitude control. A relatively minor problem compared to the ones they've already solved. So weird.

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