The market will make what the market will bear. If a whole bunch of SpaceX fanboys decide to buy at the valuation, then it will exist.
Same reason some doofuses thought that a bunch of bits tied to a bunch of other bits that were in the shape of a funky monkey was worth millions and now it’s worth thousands.
Well, that’s gonna take an act of congress to get done.
And you think Nixon did?
And it’s worked before. The protests largely helped end the Vietnam war. Women got the right to vote because enough people spoke up. The civil rights act was passed. Enough small ripples in the same direction can produce a crashing tsunami.
Well, that’s just a price you pay for not springing for the premium service.
Now, watch this ad about a funeral service provider in your area before we can open the doors.
If they’re going all in AI then they’re gonna have to do better that their barely adequate Rovo chat feature.
Ah yes, I recall this strategy, typical in the game of Risk. The “I didn’t get my way, so fuck you, I’m just going to go out with a bang” tantrum.
Worked for Napoleon too.
Slightly more political now, I feel like there used to be a lot more learning and sharing of culture. We did have some other oddballs though - flossdaily, Unidan, voilentacrez - not sure we have as much of that on the fediverse…at least not those that reach the front pages.
“And if I did do it … you deserved it”
For someone to completely uproot their life, separate from most of their family, their friends and their upbringing takes guts. I’ve moved within my own country a few times and it was jarring enough.
People who are willing to such should be celebrated. I personally appreciate the culture, entertainment and food that they bring with them.
That said, I worked at UConn for a few months for a project, and I was taken aback by how many students were of Asian descent compared to how many were white or black. It made me reflect just how much more populous that part of the world is.
And while I do celebrate culture, and am even a proponent of open borders generally, I do think culture needs to be preserved. I live in the US and not China for a reason. The people who move from China, for more than a short term visit, should expect to follow American laws and social norms. That is to say, come freely to add onto our patchwork quilt here, but be ready to add to it, rather than replacing an existing patch with your own.
As for what people think here. I live in a small college town. We have folks from other cultures here already. I think they would be welcomed in town generally, but the outlying county folks would have more reservations - they’d be more accepting for those that talked or acted like them, hunting, fishing, 4-wheeling, big trucks and all of that.
There was this one time a few years back that I had to go to the dump to dispose of some various large material. Our dump is more of a transfer station with a big warehouse where everything is disposed of, compacted by giant bulldozers and then loaded onto other trucks to take to a nearby landfill in a separate county.
This particular visit it had been rainy for a few days, and I guess I must’ve gotten there right after the transfer trucks picked up all the refuse. Except for the floor, it was covered in a slippery stink-filled film. I carefully threw my truckload in, making sure that I didn’t fall, though I did slip a bit. It took some time to do so, so I came up with this little ditty. “Trash juice, trash juice, oh bring back my trash juice to me, to me!”
I did my work, shuffled my shoes and got into the car. Next stop was the grocery store. I’m fumbling around in the cheese aisle, and I guess I was still singing my song at a quiet mumble. Well, this old blue haired lady must’ve heard me. She turned around and recoiled “what are you singing!” In that way where it seemed like her whole life was built around cleanliness and my recitation was an affront to everything that she stood for.
Well, I got a good laugh out of that reaction, still do. Moral of the story is that singing to yourself does not necessarily negate other people thinking you’re a crazy person.
It’s all projection. When you know you’re capable of doing it, you think everyone else would be too.
It’s not the Severus Snape we wanted, but it is the one we all…ah hell I can’t go through with it. This guy is Bellatrix incarnate.
We are broken because society is broken.
1000s of years from now, whatever proceeds us will be judging us for our microplastics use, just as we judge the Romans for their lead use.
Someone produced a puff piece about the line and how it’s transformed Saudi Arabia. It’s biased (so keep that in mind) but it’s also well produced and answers some questions retroactively on why the Line was so important to SA even if it failed to become reality. It’s worth a watch:
Dude’s moral compass is the NYSE.
Buy land from the lunar embassy. Guaranteed to go to the moon!
It’s his same old song. Tear down what already exists, then huck a new version of it out for the very low price of $19.84.
I’m surprised he hasn’t added his name to the title of it yet.
Why not just work with Denmark to add some defense bases there if it’s so important? Oh that’s right, we already do.
Relevant- around 5:45
https://youtu.be/PlUZv0BV7aw