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Elon Musk won’t face criminal charges for offering voters $1 million checks during 2025 Supreme Court election

"Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Dems would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate" His words.

The staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms

Elon has spent more in the past 2 years than George Soros has in his entire lifetime

And let's not forget that time he accused Trump of being a pedophile, and then spends 1/2 billion supporting him still.

So yeah, from a certain point of view Musk is damaging my country more than Xi is which is a fucking crazy statement to say out loud but here we are. Depressing innit?

Jokes on me since I've never used it but I'd always assumed Brave was just strictly an open source project type of thing and that's how it was able to do it's paywall and ad-blocking as nobody was making cash off of it, similar to how emulators have gotten their slice of legality to live in.

A private company scraping past paywalls to present users with their content and sell ads over it... oof, whatever I feel about paywalls or the NYT but man, that feels like just poking a bunch of bears at once.

I do hope this goes to trial though, would be very interesting to hear the defense arguments and discovery is going to be an absolute shitshow with all these companies involved.

All good! Glad we could clear this confusion this up!

That's kind of exactly my point, I don't think it's healthy for our economy to have business startup and get venture capital on the sole idea of "lets just try and get bought by a larger company". I think that outlook and the venture capital backing it up has led to a lot of negatives. Again I would ask which merger/acquisition has overall been beneficial and to whom and why?

If the idea and the people are good it should be able to get investment on it's own right? It should be able to get into a self sustaining business right? Why couldn't Lumentum just sign a fat licensing agreement with Marvell? The answer is because a buyout snuffs out any competitors from also using it.

If it wasn't apparent for some reason I am talking on a law/policy level. The entire idea of a corporation and the fact they are allowed to buy eachother is built in law and statute. It's not in nature, it's not even in The Constitution. The entire ability to be an S-Corp or a C-Corp or an LLC is due to the fact that we created those things and allow that in our laws so therefore we are allowed to change those laws.

Once again a large existing player instead of building new tech and maybe even innovating and making some competition and playing in the market just throws it's money around and buys it's way in and now we have more consolidation and less competition and the market gets smaller. The losers here once again are the public at large.

Just stop companies from buying other companies, a full moratorium for a couple decades until we can figure out what the hell is going on. I don't think there has a been a beneficial (to consumers and competitive markets) merger or acquisition in my lifetime.

Yeah, those are called taxes

The ironic thing is the most egregious use of AI image slop is consumed and created by the older "boomer" generations. Look on say Nextdoor and they use it for everything.

It's an ironic twist that today I would say we need restrictions on the internet to protect the generations that 20-30 years ago said we need restrictions to protect the children. Their minds have been crushed by Facebook and ChatGPT more than the zoomers have been.

This is cope. The fascists literally murdered the communists. Now I'm not here to defend the fact that the dummy communists got duped by the NatSocs but fact is they were in fact enemies. Just because they are both authoritarian doesn't mean they are actually allied, that's silly, this is just post-hoc conservative alternative history nonsense that just wants easy escape hatch from the association between the GOP, MAGA and fascism. That is neither opinion nor ideology on my part, it's just a historical fact.

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We agree? It's a pretty cheap shot to constantly just scream "socialism!" at me when my post was defending liberalism. Why is that? I can venture a guess.

This says a lot of your political persuasions. I sure wouldn't put it in the center, that's crazy.

Of course not, that would require a thought beyond "Uhh, socialist!"

We agree on this wholeheartedly! However the implication that because I believe in sensible tax policy makes me a socialist makes you look like a clown.

Again, we agree 100% and I would love for you to explain which of my stated views does not comport with any of that.

I just believe part of the governments role is actually protecting those rights. "Big Government" is a meaningless buzzword.

There's a whole lot between those though including the current predominant system, arguably the best system humans have yet to conceive; liberal democracy. In that system it is acceptable if people decide such for the government to acknowledge some truths about what is good for society and we already do it in ways the vast majority of people find acceptable. We all know cigarettes are bad but I can still buy some, there's just a cost there. This discussed tax is far too broad to fall into that though, these types of taxes should be as specific as possible.

However, in America at least, the ironic lesson Republicans have taught us is that Americans actually need some nanny state implemented by technocratic academic elites otherwise apparently we'll just eat ourselves to death by one of those systems.

There is a data privacy bill in committee right now in the House. I don't expect we'll see movement on it soon but it's still there.

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You're not wrong in the sense that this is still a Federal crime and should be punished accordingly (not executions, that's insane) but here's your issue: now these same people are in charge of solving this crime and as this story gets at, these people are incompetent.

Link me the MN statue that says non-citizens can vote in Federal elections

Link a source

Similarly one time I was able to visit Manufacturing Resources International (https://mri-inc.net/) as they specialize in rugged LCD displays and got to see their process and since they also did quite a bit of military work (displays for tanks, modern jets) and while they had to import LCD panel glass from LG (because nobody in the US makes it) everything else was in-house. Pick and place, PCB production, all the backlighting, lamination, they owned the equipment and did it all there. Of course we are talking scales of thousands instead of millions.

Very cool thing though was they modeled and placed every LCD backlight LED lamp in specific locations and pointing specific directions simulated inside the cockpit so the display would never reflect off the glass and would be resistant to glare. American can still build some crazy shit when we want to.