Your full caps lock line appears to have omitted the critical "EV" part and claims, and I quote:

>MOST PEOPLE DON'T WANT A "FULL-SIZED" FUCKING TRUCK. THEY'RE TOO GODDAMN BIG.

It seems that there's a desperate need to argue with results/reality among journo class today.

You can call Altman a "bad man" all you want. He actually continues to deliver results. And his sole job, and a measuring stick by which he is measured is "is he delivering results or not?"

Specifics of how he does it is only relevant for those within his organization.

Essentially this seems to be another case of farming naive people who genuinely believe that "bad men" shouldn't lead for clicks.

Welcome to the natural world. This behavior is normal among all social species with hierarchical social structures.

It's why every human culture has it.

Fracking.

Borderline free natgas produces same amount of energy while emitting approximately half of CO2 emissions of coal. So if you care about CO2 emissions, and you have the kind of geology current US fracking areas have, you go all out on it. Cheaper reliable power than coal.

Problem is, that is indeed a function of rather unique ecology in US. Where US has something like 12 layers of oil and gas that can be fracked in its best fracking areas, EU's best areas have about 5. Horrific regulatory nonsense where government rather than people owns what's under privately owned land also guarantees that property owners are massively incentivized to fight fracking, as they get all the downsides and none of the windfall.

And rest of the world doesn't have the CO2 neurosis, so they just don't care and go coal. As OP admits: emissions are rapidly going up and there's no end to increase in sight as we're lifting the poor out of poverty, primary requirement for which is cheap and available power.

We finally found the reason Cybertruck exists. It's to shatter the cars of the people that "want to casually crush children, grandparents, and midsize sedans underneath their wheels".

That's why it has that hilariously thick and hard steel body. Now it makes sense.

It's really odd when people insist on arguing with reality and expecting to win. A single look at most sold cars for previous year worldwide tells you that Ford F-series is a massive seller:

https://www.statista.com/stati...

Double so considering that this is worldwide numbers, and F-series primarily sells in US.

US is a massive manufacturer of steel to this day.

It's specialty is recycled steel, which requires a specific technology set. Notably it's a common feature of developed nations that have already built up their main infrastructure to modern standards, because that leads to having a very large amount of recyclable steel you need to do something with as you renew your infrastructure over time.

PRC swallowed virgin steel production, which is common for nations building up infrastructure, and having very little recyclable steel available.

That's your literal statement though.

While reality is the exact opposite by the numbers, as I note above.

What basis do you have to believe that Gaben cares about this?

The only one I can think of is that he's exceptionally into PR legacy building over being a normal man and caring about his family. Problem is, there's very little supporting evidence for this in both his behavior and him talking on record.

Literal communists, people who to this day base their politics on complex interpretations of Communist theory and have entire research departments dedicated to this specific fields are not communist... because they don't have universal health care.

Did you get this from tiktok or bluesky?

Between calling Chinese Communists "fascist" and claiming that "universal Health Care" helps countries compete, I had a good laugh. Brain on modern western leftism is truly a hilarious amalgam of madness, insanity and hilarity. And not in the Mark Twain sort of way.

Most natural monopolies are the worst kind of monopolies that require extreme regulation to manage.

Examples of natural monopolies: Telephony, power grid, water supply, railroad operations.

To be fair, the second one hasn't been great in spite of trying. For things they predict correctly, steam works.

Then Silksong gets released and everything just breaks for a few hours.

Gaben will die eventually. What do you think is likely to happen to Steam after he is gone from leadership?

GoG was built on being more customer friendly than Valve in terms of right to own games. Epic was built on the exact opposite, bowing to needs of developers more than Steam.

How would you even go combining the two when they have polar opposite business models?