Either way, they can face stiff fines or an import ban because their product doesn't comply with their laws, which require them to be able to perform microagression audits.

Unlike e.g. grapheneos, apple can always issue device specific updates to instruct the firmware to hand over the keys, so yeah, they have the technical capability to assist.

Grapheneos also isn't within their jurisdiction, though theoretically the UK could do like France once did and kidnap and then imprison one or more developers until they cooperate. I.e. the wrench attack. On the other hand, the users would have ample warning to distrust the signing keys a long, long time before any device specific update anti-feature gets added.

Given the UKs history, they're probably doing all of this so they can pillory and jail somebody for making a joke on YouTube that they took offense to.

Though that's one of I think 5 different companies he's associated with, twitter being another one that was an acquisition.

So your argument amounts to "he's not a one-man shop"? I don't believe anybody had any different impression.

While I agree with the comment about Jobs, I don't think either of them necessarily claimed credit. Some people give them credit, but I don't think they necessarily claimed it. Though Jobs did steal money from Wozniak.

That's the thing: They're not. Try reading more.

There's already a more concise word for what you're asking for. Benito Mussolini was a die-hard socialist who hated capitalism, but at some point realized socialism doesn't actually work, yet he still hated capitalism. People today who want this "blend" but can't stomach calling themselves fascist generally refer to it as "the third position" but it's the same thing. This is the most precise way to describe China's economy. You may or may not notice that the political compass most people use in academia puts Hitler and Mussolini almost dead-center on that left-right scale, and in that case, left and right only refer to left being economic authoritarianism, right being economic libertarianism. This is one among many reasons why I eschew that scale and you'll rarely see me use the terms "left" or "right in a political context.

On this topic: Ever notice every bad ideology resulting in the deaths of tens of millions (and likely more) started in Europe? Not to mention all four world wars were started by Europeans -- though I kind of doubt you can name all of them. Shit, you're probably only aware of two, and only because it's in the common name of those two.

Just as in the case of North Korea, Maoist China, the USSR and Cuba, they ceremonially call(ed) themselves communist, but aren't really. Those three are/were socialist. Today's China is fascist. That is not a command economy because people are free to own the means of production on their own terms, but it can behave that way in that the state can either take over or nationalize their business, or install its own board of directors and/or management, exerting control without nationalizing it.

I don't know what you're talking about with this in particular, (if it's biodiversity, then this is a poor way to state it, nor would they be anywhere near the first let alone only) but there's a lot of myth around them pushed by anti-GMO propagandists, usually in an effort to connect the two as if they're one in the same as part of a broader effort to bring down both. Though to be fair to Europeans, a lot of the propaganda today sticks around because of Greenpeace, even though it started in Europe.

It's bunk. Very few Europeans realize this, but crops that humans actually cultivate have been selectively bred over the millennia that they barely resemble their wild counterparts. Nearly all of them can't even survive on their own without constant care. Some of them can't even germinate on their own. We've already been doing this for 30 years now and not one of these doom scenarios have ever shown even a hint at happening in any meaningful capacity. You might have isolated cross-pollination here and there, but they never last beyond a generation or two, and in every case it's been pollinated into an adjacent farm and not into the wild, and again, where somebody has been actively taking care of them. Including one case in Canada where a farmer selectively bred the Monsanto seed from the cross-pollinated crop to remove the non-GM variant, and he was later sued for patent infringement. That is the basis you guys use when you say "Monsanto is suing everybody!" when he's literally the only one who ever got sued over that, and what he did was quite deliberate. That patent, by the way, has long since expired, and the very day that it did so, that seed saw very rapid, widespread adoption.

Nope, you're actually in a very distant 4th place. Aside from Germany who is a distant third, the rest of Europe is on-par with mostly very poor countries.

https://www.nature.com/nature-...

Anyway, as I already mentioned: Proteomics. Nevermind that you guys are way behind on damn near everything else too. Basically the only thing you have going for you in this regard is CERN, which is now questionable as many (including European) physicists are saying that, at this point, you're not going to gain anything meaningful with a bigger collider. Not to mention that a plurality of the scientists who work there are Americans working for American research institutions, despite that we have half of the population. In terms of astrophysics, James Webb is making a lot of headway, but your rockets were so unreliable that Ariane caused three six-month delays in getting the thing into space. Unfortunately, it was designed, by Americans, around that sad little rocket of yours, and it was too late to change it at that point.

This is exactly why I make fun of you guys so much on this topic: You're basically arguing for young earth creationism. That's really how dumb this argument is. The reason is quite simple: (NB: When I say we, I mean everybody but Europeans, and "you" plural, as in Europeans)

When we make gene edits, they're very specific and targeted, we know exactly what amino groups they encode for, and we well understand what the resulting proteins do well before they ever end up in a seed. When plants reproduce naturally however, there are all sorts of mutations and recombinations, by the millions, and we only have a vague idea what they do. But those are somehow "tested variants" to you, because it takes a European to think all things natural are always better.

I already know food is your religion -- this isn't news to me at all. That's why you guys are so anti-science when it comes to this topic. So many European researchers have had papers retracted over this because of everything from just plain incompetence to outright scientific misconduct, in a vain effort to "prove" GMO is bad. All because you guys reach the conclusion before you even do any research. This is the most basic fallacy in any scientific effort any person can make, the broader name for it is confirmation bias, and it's all you guys really know here.

As far as Europeans know, every crop you cultivate and harvest has always been the way you see them now, created that way by your holy deity. Selective-selection to get them the way they are now is just a myth created by those Americans.

It's interesting when you guys say things like this, because McDonald's biggest, most profitable restaurant in the world is in France. The same France that you just said food is so culturally very important to. The irony, by the way, that the father of modern science was himself skeptical of big governments, in stark contrast to today's Europeans, is not lost on me.a

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Elon is the sole founder of SpaceX, also authored several whitepapers that are fundamental to Falcon and the Merlin engines that power it. He hired all of the original staff (including engineers) himself They were neither cofounders nor part of some mythical acquisition that you seem to believe happened.

That has nothing to do with it. Capitalism is about free markets. A free market is one you can enter or leave at will, and make your own decisions about supply, pricing, and distribution. That is as opposed to socialism where a central governing entity has absolute control over all markets and competing with it is forbidden. Or fascism, where you can only enter or leave any given market at the discretion of the central governing entity, said entity can take over (nationalize) your business any time it wants without any form of compensation, install new management at will even without a takeover, etc.

SpaceX never received any grants, tax breaks, or subsidies from the US government. Not a single one. In fact its first successful flight wasn't even paid for by the US government at all, and the first three flights (all failures) were mostly investor funded with a small payment from the air force academy for some cadet (student) science projects. SpaceX hasn't even done even a single cost plus contract, which is where defense companies make their money.

For the US government, SpaceX has actually been negative cost, and in the tens of billions, saving a lot of taxpayer money.

You still do anyways, whether you like it or not. You say French territory, I say: Yet another European colony.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-V...

All of the current EV tech, including in China, is based on what Tesla has been doing since Elon took it over. The reason Chinese brands appear to do so well is the subsidies and the regulatory environment. When people claim China is the leader here, they're conveniently ignoring the zero mileage used car, which was so bad that it even ended up as a national scandal in China, which is pretty fucking hard to do there given the way most scandals go unnoticed in that country.

Elon, a long time ago, offered Tesla's tech to American and European car companies, who brushed him off. China didn't, in fact, China actively sought it out. Now the former are wondering why they're being left behind. To quote Tesla's original CEO before Elon took over: Volkswagen's engineers successfully proved that bumblebees can't actually fly (in reference to their "proof" that the original roadster couldn't possibly do what it was already doing.) American and Japanese automakers aren't doing much better. Even Toyota is still trying to figure out EVs after years of pooh-poohing them. Korea seems to get it though.

What China is doing well is the same reason American companies are doing so well compared to Europe: Facilitating innovation by simply getting out of the way. And this is exactly why Tesla's latest cars and technology aren't even introduced in the US anymore, they go to China first, namely out of Tesla's Shanghai factory.

I keep watching people here like Amimoji getting wowed by China, one time making a big deal over a battery holding 80% of its charge after some several hundred thousand miles in controlled lab conditions, not realizing that Teslas already on the road have been doing that since at least 2018, under real-world conditions. Or like how he loves the traffic light countdown they have in China that nobody does elsewhere. (Though he likely has no idea why nobody else does that. He thinks he does, but he doesn't.)

To further drive this point home, take another field/industry that Elon has nothing to do with: Biosciences, especially proteomics. The overwhelming scientific consensus is that GMO is safe. A consensus, by the way, that is even stronger than the scientific consensus on climate change. So what does the EU do? It bans GMO. Now guess what? They're way behind the rest of the world on it. And why did they ban it? Basically just a simple fear of what they don't understand, and listening to doomsayers who were making unfounded and unproven (and now disproven and discredited) claims about how dangerous it is, while ignoring the scientific consensus.

There are good regulations and there are ill-conceived ones. The reason Europe is so far behind the rest of the world is because it's far too risk averse, and because of that, mostly does the latter.

TANSTAAFL is a universal rule, though I think you don't understand the difference between libre and gratis.

And remember, the land you rent and mortgage legally belongs to your king. The only elites here are elected politicians, not your house of lords, commoner.

You've got the words necessity and necessary staring you in the face. The problem you're having is that you're not noticing the absence of the qualifier that you're just assuming must surely be there. But that's just the thing: It isn't. It never was.

Strawmen are annoying. What can I say?

Nope, all I can speak about is based on what I've heard from actual doctors who have worked for NHS.

This isn't anything you can't get from Medicaid, and for the same price. If you had paid attention to what I said, you'd note I specifically mentioned I'd choose Medicaid over your system. The reason for this is Medicaid will pay for anything that is medically necessary, where yours does let its budget get in the way of that. I say that because while I was at home recovering from surgery to correct a deviated septum, I had a friend (we went to college together, known each other for a long time, though our career paths diverged along the way) who literally told me that in the UK, where he lives and works, they wouldn't have performed that surgery, mainly over resource constraints.

This surgery, by the way, was zero cost to me, paid entirely by medicaid. Apparently, elective surgeries can be quite hard to get without paying where you're at.

You don't like the idea of accountability. That's fine, and I don't care, you do you. What's the point of telling me this?

That's what medicaid is for. I had that surgery while on part-time minimum wage. You know what else happened? I got listed for kidney transplant, and the transplant would have been covered under medicaid if I hadn't gotten private insurance by working for the same company that later performed the transplant operation.

Put down the bottle and the bag and pay close attention, because you clearly haven't been: This is what in psychology they call projecting. I get it, in the UK you guys love your beer, especially when it's at the same temperature as a horse's bladder. I personally hate beer, warm or cold. In fact, I rarely ever drink at all. It's really not good for you.

As for activity...well, let's see, within the last month I've been wreck diving, diving in open water surrounded by multiple 5 meter tiger sharks, cavern diving, I just got a dry suit to eventually dive in the antarctic and I'm about to start training for that, lots of surfing...hmmm what else? I've kind of lost track.

How about you? Remember, you're the guy with the heart bypass. My ailments originate from a condition called IgA nephropathy.

Depends on the time of day, but I've had some as low as 20 cents per kWh. Tesla supercharger at midnight for that rate, on an actual Tesla (other manufacturers have to pay a monthly fee to get that rate, so figure that into it somehow.) One in particular somewhere between here and Phoenix is 37 cents at its peak.

Though I think that perhaps the best thing about superchargers in general is that they actually fucking work, and even on the rare occasion that there is a wait time, it's less than 10 minutes at most ever since they added that fee to people who just camp at the charger long after it's done. Shit, even that time when that pissed off tranny threw a Molotov cocktail at a supercharger, burning multiple stalls at once, they were fixed within a day. Tesla apparently commits to no outages lasting more than 48 hours. Electrify America though? I think theirs is more like 48 weeks.

Oh I remember that episode. That show is classic.

But there are actual hippies there, and lots of them. Here's a preview of what I'm talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

None of the above, it's welfare.