Tesla has a lot riding on the swift success of its so-called Full Self-Driving software.
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Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE
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If you get into an accident because of a faulty car, or your house burns down because no one was checking the wiring, or you get sick from food no one was inspecting, remember, that's just the free market at work. It's all good!
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Once upon a time, in the magical land of America...
A centuries-long fixation on wealth being virtuous came together with cable news and social media to produce a government so stupid, immoral, and genuinely tacky that it's at least as embarrassing as it is malevolent.
Can Musk please go to Mars already, and stay there? He has delighted us long enough.
A centuries-long fixation on wealth being virtuous came together with cable news and social media to produce a government so stupid, immoral, and genuinely tacky that it's at least as embarrassing as it is malevolent.
Can Musk please go to Mars already, and stay there? He has delighted us long enough.
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They're working on delivering - its a lot easier to deliver when you aren't forced to prove its safe or compliant with laws.
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Ah yes because Tesla has been so forthcoming with accident data in the past. It’s been just as “maximally transparent” as DOGE.
This is what Elon was paying for. Reduced oversight of his businesses.
This is what Elon was paying for. Reduced oversight of his businesses.
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To quote someone intimately familar with vehicle safety regulations, "I am Jack's complete lack of surprise."
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Nope, no conflict of interest at all. Nothing to see here. The CyberTruck is bigly safe, yuge safe. As safe as the Ford Pinto and Chevvy Corvair!
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This is an entirely different level of regulatory capture than I ever imagined happening in the US.
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Once upon a time, this could have been seen as a conflict of interest.
Nowadays, this seems to be business as usual. As an outsider, I wish the US good luck, and also will be investing in popcorn futures.
Nowadays, this seems to be business as usual. As an outsider, I wish the US good luck, and also will be investing in popcorn futures.
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If the United States wants to remain a coherent solvent country then when adults actually end up running the government again, if that ever happens, there will need to be steep repercussions for this regime and any who enabled it. We can't let a billionaire buy the government and go on a grievance rampage. Ramifications will need to be vast.
Otherwise we really are Russia lite.
Otherwise we really are Russia lite.
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One of the most amusing aspects of American Government is they've convinced the public that lobbying isn't bribery.
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When the dust settles, and we're on the other side of this - there will be so many people under indictment, so much money paying out, and so much jail time.
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The U.S. has replaced its government by publicly visible, officailly sanctioned corruption.
In terms of governing targets e.g. public good vs profiteering Oligarchs, it looks to be bound to become a second Russia.
In terms of governing targets e.g. public good vs profiteering Oligarchs, it looks to be bound to become a second Russia.
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How the fuck can a private (non-born in America) citizen (is he?) come in and dissolve departments that keep taxpayers safe?
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still funny how we are allowed to say the truth about musk when referring to tesla, but still not allowed to point out its the exact same person who is running spacex too - in the exact same ways...
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A second Reconstruction, but this time, one that doesn't end with building up the same regime but diet.
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Otherwise we really are Russia lite.
We elected Trump twice. Not once. Twice. After he did a coup attempt. The press is cowed. The universities are cowed. Businesses are cowed. Billionaires are complicit. The judicial branch is complicit. The legislative branch is complicit. Law enforcement is emphatically complicit.
To wit: too fucking late.
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Indictments and payouts don't matter if there isn't meaningful jail time. I'm not talking six months, a few years or whatever. If there aren't sentences handed down that are multiple decades or centuries in length it will happen again, over and over.
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Australian Roger Ailes did it a little less directly for years with Fox News, so I guess there is precedent
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And just like that, "move fast and break things" can now apply to human lives without any consequences...
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It’s sad reading the quotes in the article from well intentioned people about how slowing down rule making will slow down putting these cars on the road. As if Musk is planning to follow any rules, and not just flood the roads with his cars and downplay whatever damage it does.
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Because there seems to be nobody left in the government with any spine or care, and the guy at the top invited him to do whatever he wants.
This feels kinda like the story of Aeroflot Flight 593 where a kid was allowed to sit at the controls and the adults didn't understand what was happening around them until it was to late.
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How much shit can I take when it comes to seeing doom and gloom on the airwaves? It turns out, not much. This wholesale dismantling of government services at all levels is obscene, it will lead to many deaths and worst of all, a chunk of the American population will cheer it on.
This is homesteader libertarianism taken to an insane extreme.
This is homesteader libertarianism taken to an insane extreme.
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Its actually party depending. If dems did this in the next admin - it would be utter corruption deserving of execution. However since its republikkkans, its ok.
Which goes to the core of the fact - the ENTIRE press is right leaning and always has been. Always sanewashing what the gop does.
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Yeh, but spineless Americans will do nothing about it. Just watch, you'll see. DC should have been ground to dust under the feet of protesters by now.
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Not just the people here stateside that are nervous and dejected - there is outright fear and panic in certain parts of the world because the US, while never a perfect and completely altruistic player, at least represented a certain semblance of stability and an sort of enforcer of various lines-not-to-cross (though they themselves have been known to cross them).
But now, a US operating like a Russia or China, means global stability will be tanking and it'll be a free for all. Countries with no nuclear deterrent (and in possession of desired resources) are transforming into juicy targets.
To put it like a colleague abroad has: "It's like Superman completely going rogue and dark - and that's after him already not having been the nicest of guys. You're the bank and now have to deal with a Superman working with Lex Luthor - what can you possibly do?"
But now, a US operating like a Russia or China, means global stability will be tanking and it'll be a free for all. Countries with no nuclear deterrent (and in possession of desired resources) are transforming into juicy targets.
To put it like a colleague abroad has: "It's like Superman completely going rogue and dark - and that's after him already not having been the nicest of guys. You're the bank and now have to deal with a Superman working with Lex Luthor - what can you possibly do?"
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