Musk keeps using the term "looting the nonprofit" but the restructuring into a for-profit was done above board with the consent of the board of directors. I get there was drama, but all of it was legal. Don't be mad when other people have a different vision and controlling power.

Apple and Google take a huge slice - usually 30% - for the privilege of you selling the software you made to someone on a device they own. Getting a 'better deal' is entirely relative.

Once you make it legal to tax anyones assets, eventually you tax everyones assets. Give it time.

This is clever and good. It sets up real competition against mega corporations like Amazon. More of this please.

I have noticed that a number of baby boomers have become more and more apocalyptic over the last 10 years and I think I know why. They are now at a stage of life where they must grapple with their own mortality and they are psychologically foisting it on everyone else through apocalyptic visions of the future.

All of the communists in the United States are leftists. You're projecting.

Funny story, I actually have several years of advanced statistics/modeling experience; well that and a common sense approach fueled by the scientific method. What you need to understand is that a nuclear reactor is a bounded engineering system. You know every material in it, every pipe, every valve, every fuel rod. It can be modeled as a whole system and verified as a whole system.

Climate models are an open, unbounded system. The climate is the opposite kind of system on every axis. It's planetary. The relevant physics spans microscopic cloud droplets up to ocean circulation patterns that take centuries to complete a cycle. The boundaries aren't cleanly defined; does your model include the biosphere? Deep ocean? Solar variability? Volcanism? Land-use feedbacks? You can't build a test Earth. You can't run the experiment twice. Forecasts operate on timescales where by the time you can check a long-range prediction, you've already committed whatever policy decisions were riding on it. And there's no iterating the way there is with reactors, because you only have one instance of the system to compare against, running exactly once.

The reason so many climate models have been wrong is because there is so much guesswork involved. Bias in present from the start with no self-correcting feedback loop you get from a bounded system. So true believers like you have stopped arguing the point, because you are wrong from the start about what kind of predictions are even possible. You try to talk down to your betters but you just end up looking foolish.

First it was the rampant CSAM and child grooming that Roblox did NOTHING to stop. Now it's hackers and scammers trading tips. Seriously, why do we let a corporation get away with this?

The difference is that models of nuclear power plants make specific predictions that have been proven right time and again. Climate models do make predictions- but those have been proven wrong time and again.

Iran killed thousands of Americans through 40 years of funding and training and equipping terrorists. They killed tens of thousands of their own people. They have now entered the FAFO phase.

You just need to be a True Believer! Do not question our tech demigods!

Claude is pretty amazing, especially with skills and tools like Conductor and gstack. Codex will have quite a hill to climb.

Darn, I thought for sure you'd trigger Godwin's Law. Alas, next time!

Go talk to Gen Z, they will tell you themselves. Boomers, Gen X and Millenials set them up for failure, destroyed their history and institutions, and bascially screwed them over every way you can imagine. They are returning to things that existed before this petty generation and will exist long after it - faith, family, the dignity of work and home life. Reality has made them immune to the woke mind-virus.

"Only we can rape your privacy! Everyone else is locked out!"

...and gave them substitutes for love and family.
 
Everything except motherhood for girls (career first, girboss, be promiscuous and don't settle down), and everything except responsibility for boys (porn, online gambling, women who will sleep with you but not have kids with you).
 
There's a real change happening though with Gen Z - they are going to church, they want to get married, they are quicker to have kids. Maybe this gets better?