That’s the same everywhere, not just the US.

The right destroys what the left/center build so the left/center rebuild it and then the right destroys it again.

He didn’t just get a billion dollars though, its just unrealized gains in stocks, and those stocks represent his influence/control in the company.

If you helped build a company, and were passionate about it, you’d give that all up? If your vision was to build XYZ and you gave up those shares and you knew XYZ wouldn’t happen anymore, would you give that all up?

He DID get 300 million dollars from PayPal, and he decided to fund Tesla and build SpaceX and almost lost it all. Was it wrong of him to use all his money to try and build something? (He actually didn’t want to build SpaceX but no one wanted to do the inspiration project sending a plant or something to Mars he wanted to do)

We need a way to separate the stock value/holdings from company ownership/influence when companies get this big.

Shit, I should delete my comment before they get any ideas.

Just a further thought…

It’d be interesting if the tax could automatically increase if these goals that were met, were no longer met.

So to go from 3% to 2% you need to generate an extra billion revenue, but if you lose that revenue it then climbs back to 3%.

It would really complicate the system… you’d essentially need to always be set up to charge income tax, but then have a variable rate that updates the systems maybe quarterly or yearly. But you couldn’t ditch the system entirely since you’d need companies to have a method to suddenly start charging it again if it had to go from 0% to 0.5%

It sounds like it only goes to 0 if certain goals are met, otherwise it’ll go down to, and then stay at 3%.

So if they can’t figure something out like those other states, it won’t go to 0.

Still a bad idea, but it’s not a lets make it 0% right away then FAFO

The headline doesn’t tell the full story.

They then re-filmed it with her not saying the word vote 🤦

I actually feel like the kind of damage Musk presents could actually be healed by therapy, but he would really have to want that change and he doesn’t, or can’t see it. I’m not sure he ever will either.

A lot of scummy people you get the sense that there’s literally no hope for them (which also probably isn’t true, everyone has hope, but as little as possible hope)

I feel like it’d be pretty hard to get a job in a freaking airport terminal as an illegal immigrant as well… not the brightest racist person there.

Cory makes a secret hand signal…

Senator: I have ONE question for you Cory - makes long question so he can take a piss

or

Senator: I have TWO questions for you Cory - now he can go take a shit

You don’t even need this to have happened given what he’s done with DOGE and his buying an election. People would have still hated him, just not as many.

At what point can the Canadian government just start seizing assets of US companies in retaliation of the tarrifs?

Oh this is going to cause the auto factory in Ontario to be shut down and thousands of jobs lost?

That’s a Canadian owned factory now. Sorry GM. We’ll make cars for ourselves.

Ya know … a lot of things get called unprecedented, but I gotta say, I highly doubt a journalist has ever been included on a classified military strike chat anywhere in the modern world, possibly the whole world, ever.

So ya this is definitely unprecedented.

If someone absolutely had to be fired over this, it’s her supervisor for either not telling her to let a higher up know, or being a god dam supervisor and not reporting it up the chain themselves. WTF

He probably threw a roll of toilet paper at the TV and thinks he helped them.

Oops meant to reply to this earlier but was busy.

I was thinking more that Grok was aware of its prompt but was somehow able to then self reference it to accuse Musk of trying to silence itself.

If the prompt said you won’t speak poorly of Musk, but the AI doesn’t think telling the truth in a specific way is speaking poorly, it might say Musk doesn’t want me to say bad things about him. It knows the prompt and it made an answer.

So it’s kinda leaking the prompt that way

Is this one of the things where no one was fired because they were all laid off and it’s word games?

If it was somehow leaking it’s initial prompt maybe it could be revealing that?

The one that says your name is grok, you’re a helpful assistant, you will not speak poorly of Elon Musk, I Elon Musk am your creator, etc.

They can’t. The server is in the basement of a friend’s house (not a government employee) because they got a really good deal on it!

He said he would do all he can.

We know what his best is now.

Oh wow, proof it also has disappearing messages enabled.

I don’t know the legality of the messages being able to disappear, but the fact it’s enabled is a clear cut violation of the law.