Yeeees and no. It matters in terms of loans he can get from banks. A trillionaire gets an awful lot better deal than anyone else.
So although he cannot liquidate a trillion dollars, there's a decent chance he can borrow at exceptionally low interest rates enough to do pretty much whatever he wants because he has the moniker.
It's not hard to be morally superior to a childish self-righteous socipoath.
He's not bright, he's not clever, he IS abusive, and he is exceptionally rich. However, only an idiot equates "rich" with "better".
I would say more than half of Slashdot can match or exceed his intelligence. And that's despite the fact that Slashdot has attracted pet rocks as users in recent years. Actually, truth be told, it's because of that. Back in the younger days of Slashdot, I'd say 95% of the regulars were smarter than Musk.
All Musk has is money. And I can understand you envying that. But here's the thing. Smart people don't talk their company's value down. Smart people invest their money. Musk throws it around, such as buying Twitter and destroying the userbase.
Musk is not your friend.
Throughout most of history, females that are fertile have been experiencing pregnancy as soon as they are able. If that wasn't the case, we would not be here as deaths from everything other than old age has been incredibly common.
Now that deaths from old age appear to outnumber all other deaths, there is no need for females to become pregnant as soon as they are able. That is why we enacted laws protecting young females. We do not need their participation anymore.
To me, it is gross and barbaric to treat females this way. They are people and not merely baby factories; however, it is not merely propaganda to discuss a historical fact and think that it is relevant to what is occurring now. It absolutely is a factor, even if not the primary reason.
Would they bet on one horse in a race featuring 100 horses if the odds were all roughly the same?
Remember, they are betting with YOUR money and they are rated on the amount of bets they place. What do YOU think the outcome will be?
Sounds like the cop just whipped out his personal device and snapped a pic. How does that pass muster with collection of evidence, Chain of Custody... you know, that stuff that serves to prove the evidence wasn't tampered with in some way on the way to the D.A.?
Who cares? A guy was arrested for a crime that was committed. As long as someone was arrested, nobody seems to care.
Humans will always gravitate to the laziest available route so unless the followup is forcibly built in you have not added any judgement or evaluation or review. You have a reverse centaur.
Why did you post this as an Anonymous Coward? This is incredibly insightful. I am guessing it is because you actually are a coward
As a child, I was constantly falsely accused. Less so as an adult. This is all status quo. As long as a finger is pointed, people are happy.
And the lady in the article I linked spent MONTHS in detention for a crime she had nothing to do with. How's that sound to you?
It sounds like normal business for a regime that has no concern at all for its citizens. *shrug* The rest of the country seems to be okay with this; otherwise, I would have to guess that the elections are rigged. I see no other possibilities.
LOL. The path of lowest energy will always be taken. Spending millions of taxpayer dollars is nothing next to the hundreds of billions spent yearly.
In other words, expect to be next on the accused list.
While I've never subscribed to the ideology that Russia was the sole villain in this war
Why? Lines were drawn, treaties were signed, and yet Russia is still invading. The only justification that I have heard of was some nebulous claims about saving the people of Ukraine from Nazis... I don't know of any other way to see it than Russia being the aggressor here and being the aggressor is generally seen as being the villain in all civilized societies.
So please explain to me how Ukraine provoked Russia into attacking them and trying to take their territory?
It is not about scarcity. It is about control. Billionaires are the ultimate Karens'. They create the scarcities for us to fight over, because they want control. "Get off that lawn" "You don't belong here" "Give me what I want" etc etc ad nauseam.
You know those cute little mosquito zappers that engineers keep making out of lasers? Those will become ubiquitous, but rather than zapping mosquitoes, they will be zapping drones. *shrug*
it prioritized businesses that paid the AI company for preferential treatment inside the AI model
This will be the Reality.
I will never participate willingly.
If it's not cutting into margins and it's a small number, it's way more likely that they just don't care.
Your pithy analysis completely ignores human nature... more specifically, the nature of power/control. I do not think your conclusion necessarily follows.
Experiments must be reproducible; they should all fail in the same way.
