That’s not exactly secretly bad… It’s just bad

immediately turns AI datacenters into Bitcoin mining centers

Lictblitz is saying they aren’t capable of orbit. Which is very different from simply choosing not to.

In fact, suffering increases a whole lot because medical and agricultural tech is still tech, not to mention how much life-saving and quality improvement is brought in by communications technology. Some people really think you can just click the “medical” tab in Civilization and guarantee only the benefits of the one technology you like.

The main point is, you need a crazy person to have crazy ideas. Even if 95% of his ideas are shot down, the last 5% are still crazy shit nobody else would thought was possible and never bother to seriously pay some engineers to try it if he wasn’t in a leadership position.

Without him, there will be much less crazy, but both the good and bad kind. I fear the day SpaceX just becomes another Boeing.

Seriously, just landing rockets was laughed off as a stupid waste of time by all the industry incumbents just 6 years ago. That was a crazy stupid Elon Musk idea even dumber than the cybertruck at the time, and look where we are now.

I wish rocket lab the best and hope that one day they can have a competing heavy lift/human certified spacecraft.

However, it’s nigh impossible to ignore how much SpaceX alone has reshaped the space industry and is basically forcing everybody else to step up.

I think the general rule of thumb is to shift the units of time up.

If he says 2 weeks, try 2 months. If he says 2 months, wait 2 years.

Robotaxis in 2 decades I think is actually achievable.

1. First draw a few ovals
2. Draw the rest of the owl duck

20" box fan + 20" furnace filter. Both are pretty standard sizes. Add duct tape as required.

American flags everywhere. Like EVERYWHERE. I get a bit of national pride but holy crap, every other house in the street is flying a flag, clothing has flag patterns, bumper sticker American flag, it’s everywhere. And no, it wasn’t even close to July 4.

It’s like Americans are afraid they might forget what country they’re in if they aren’t in sight of a flag at all times.

There are also plenty of dumb, nearly inconsequential recalls on regular cars too. Including things like “place this warning sticker in your manual”. That’s a recall.

CEOs? Ruin their career? By what, jumping ship and taking a $100M bonus?

Lol, like the previous Boeing CEO. Kill a few hundred people, planes or plane components falling out of the sky, absolutely tank all manufacturing quality control, fail a NASA contract and strand a few astronauts…

Peace out and take a $62M bonus.

I wish I could get paid that much for failure or “accepting responsibility” lol

It also reuses old 2G/3G bands to allow much much higher throughput and therefore more customers per band

That just makes it even easier for Wall St to enshittify whatever comes after

Nissan invents white paint

Samsung.

https://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_xcover7-12784.php

But at the same time I wouldn’t throw 500 lb weights in the back and drive around claiming it didn’t impact performance.

Yeah, you put it in the driver’s seat

Ayyyoooooooo

Just send in the Doomslayer, we’ll be fine

Then they can’t advertise that the phone is x.x mm thick (if you ignore the thickest part!)

They couldn’t have splurged for an Xbox controller at least?