That's one of the reasons behind many countries moving away from the F35 or other US Defense hardware. He wasn't even subtle, he literally said he'd withhold parts and other maintenance items.

The most damning thing in that video is not just the poor security that he exposed. The real terrifying thing for most people should be how many searches happened without even a token cause entered.

To be fair Ronald Reagan gave the Chinese the EV Car market. Wait, I apologize, Reagan gave them the solar panel market... Donald gave them the EV market.

Someone noted it above, the manufacturers basically wrote off 90% of people in the world. The reason for that will startle you, but only if you're a moron: the C-Level and private equity tax. They want fat profits for fat paychecks.

That being said I'm not going to discount the Chinese government basically underwriting loans and covering other money losses to make sure they "win" the global market. Not that it isn't something other countries don't do at all, but in terms of scale China has basically focused untold billions on this alongside their BRI projects. Technically speaking some of the BRI stuff is trap loans, but even that serves their soft power needs.

TL:DR - Yes they are dumping EV's just not the way people expect and not for the same reason many people expect

Republicans have assured us that Solar and Wind can't generate power reliably at all requiring fossil fuels to take over all the time or society will be plunged into darkness.

We have to make it extremely unpleasant for companies to collect large amounts of unnecessary data.

How many people called this when it started? Other than a bunch of near fetishists I think everyone with an iota of construction sense called this dumb as a box rocks.

We have been told, REPEATEDLY, by Republicans that renewables are unreliable and don't work.

Except you'd see it boiled down to anarcho-libertarian-capitalism with people screeching "Think of it as evolution in action!" Finally them saying corporations should be all powerful and so on.

A lot of media that is often meant to terrify, or serve as a warning, is seen by Techbros (many of whom were picked on as kids) as "cool", "order", or just flat out "revenge" against the people who they hated. They literally became the movie villains without realizing it or, in some cases, revel in being the villain.

The meme picture (1984 / Bablyon 5) "It wasn't an instruction manual you idiots" seems apt to point out here.

What's next? Larry Niven's "Patchwork Man" in the US? Maybe "Oath of Fealty" brought to life in Texas? I'd bring up Gibson, but unless we have a quantum leap in MMI that won't really seem to happen. I guess you can see some of his dystopia in the anti-vaxxer hysteria.

Here's an idea: Try to not actively make the world a worse place for people on average.

The Republicans, in particular President Donald J. Trump, gave the EV market to the Chinese even if MAGA hasn't figured it out yet.

To be fair he's doing the exact same thing Republican President Ronald Reagan did when he took over in 1980, destroying the US lead in solar power and wind turbines.

that isn't clickbait is that a very large group of people, who were in the position to buy an EV and were looking, bought before the tax credit expired. Now you'll have hollowed out demand for a while as those people already purchased EV's.

I mean, this isn't rocket science:

Joe or Jane consumer is actively looking to purchase an EV in a month or two.

Joe or Jane consumer see tax credit being eliminated and go, "I'mma get me that!"

Joe or Jane consumer, and a bunch of their fellow car shoppers, buy EV before credits expire.

October rolls around and the tax credit is gone, along with many of the near purchase consumers who bought while the tax credit was still active.

More appropriately they CAN'T self learn.

You feed an LLM data and it does linking based on that data. I mean, it's a pretty piss poor library card catalog model explanation but that's what it ultimately does whether you like it or not. Elon had the engineers put the thumb on the scale telling it DATASET was on point and it didn't take long for it to spit out it was mecha h*tler in the wild. You not liking that fact doesn't change reality.

Thank you for admitting I am right.

That is not how any of this works, at all.

Really because it seems like LLM's have trusted data points that they use for verification like an overeager library card catalog. This over here is the fiction section (which is sometimes accidentally shuffles over to non-fiction in bits and bobs) while these are non-fiction, and of these non-fiction these are trusted, but even though those far right neo n*zi sites are technically non-fiction they are not trusted data.

Again, LLM's are nothing but expert systems (as most are limited to specific things ideally) or LCARS with a crappy interface. There is ZERO intelligence.

The biggest lie is that grifters have sold this as AGI.

Except this isn't the nascent days of rocketry when we didn't know how things worked. Answer this: How many Saturn V rockets exploded? I'll give a crib sheet answer: ZERO. Later disasters had NASA officials frog marched before congress to explain why they were overspending and behind schedule.

SpaceX / Elon are OVER 3 years late for the 2022 goals. Why hasn't SpaceX been forced to explain why it is wasting taxpayer money?

People keep digging back to the 1950's and 1960's to justify SpaceX blowing up rockets.

Elongelicals love justifying any of a number of his other promises. Doesn't matter if it's on Optimus, Roadster, Robotaxi, Semi, Autopilot / FSD and probably whatever else he vomited out, as long as he keep the meme stonk going up.

We have one account to keep in touch with family overseas, after we deleted our individual accounts, so we won't even notice this because we don't scroll. Nothing is really posted to all the account except for some life event kind of stuff, kids winning trophies, graduations, weddings, birth announcements, and so on. However we don't even post the pictures/video most of the time because of their data policies. I don't remember who started it, but we weren't the first in our family to change to that format.

Possible but consider something else:

We're not talking about just one mission to go the moon with that overpriced toy that's blown up multiple times. When going to the moon with it, you also have to add in all of the support missions for supplies to get to the moon. Think of all the possible bad PR for failures in those separate missions. The public just watching an empty starship blow up has started to give them problems.

Now imagine the PR if anything goes wrong and causes a fatality, or worse, multiple fatalities. Yeah most might just be a bunch of YooToobz "influencers" but that still won't reflect well on SpaceX