His social media is very political, he’s on bluesky.

It’s total bullshit. They don’t need to do anything to the factory. They haven’t made X and Y in Fremont for 2 years. There isn’t anything to retool or any space to reuse.

The factory already frequently takes manufacturing breaks for days at a time. If he had a robot to build, they have capacity, but let’s not fool ourselves. There is nothing to manufacture or deliver.

You’re dead on, this is just him hoping he can fool people into thinking they still even need his factories at full capacity. Pretty sure they don’t.

Some people need it, fuck.

This is a you’re not wrong, just an asshole situation. There was actually a cluster of free solo deaths in 2024 in Colorado cause this shit was getting popular.

Free solo climbers used to be an incredibly small group with a death rate that rival people who use those gliding suits and thread the needle under bridges. It’s a community of people like cave divers, they understand death is a likely part, the people attracted to this (no matter what they personally say) are either ok with dying or have disassociated the risk so much that they don’t take it seriously enough.

Alex Honold will get more people killed by getting them interested in free soloing, traditional rock climbing by comparison is like tennis level safe.

ITT: a lot of people not admitting they are American. I would fucking love to see a Xitter style country tag on some of these accounts.

I’m American, I’ve seen these people in every state I’ve been to, I’ve seen every person who walks by them avert their eyes, I’ve seen even the most liberal of cities make homelessness illegal.

Punching down is what America does to the world and to our own. The world making fun of how our incredibly wealthy society has a problem with extreme poverty and drugs of oblivion isn’t punching down. They not making fun of the people, they are making fun of the society that has normalized abandoning them.

This is forcing our eyes open and making us look at ourselves in the mirror, and a lot of people consider themselves the victims in that mirror when they are moving the machine forward with their action or inaction.

America is the only place where we say “We” and we don’t mean the other 50% of the country. Those people are mutants. No, they’re also us.

You can tell this one really hurts us (us being Americans, not you and me) because of the reactions. You have someone on this thread threatening Greenland with CIA drugs.

Like we look bad enough without this shitass reaction people are having in these threads.

That’s fair, this is gonna be long, this is a particularly interesting tpoic to me. Although Japan has been very much removed from the world through much of its history, isolated. Even pre-Sakoku the nation rarely showed an interest outside of the islands around it, and Korea a couple times. Japan is a fascinating country when you look at the education and militarism.

It’s helpful to understand the Japan of the period around the world wars to understand Japan now. Japan had their arms forcibly removed from them after a period of extreme imperialism, which lasted from the period post the Sakoku policy beginning in the 1850’s until the post ww2 period.

Japan went from a nearly pre-industrialized fuedal style system to a fully industrial nation with a modern military during the Meiji Restoration over a period of like 40 years. After the first Sino-Japanese war they attained an incredible amount of power, resources and reputation. What followed was a period of colonial effort with a sort of Japanese supremacy bent to it that was notable in it’s cruelty and effectivness.

The last 20 years Japan has been re-militarizing. They started on the 1950s, but truly didn’t start building real capacity until mid 2010’s. Since 2022 they’ve been building a full military in earnest, to the point where China is treating them like the US is trying to treat other countries, not selling them the really good stuff for aggression and defense.

Much like the US, Japan doesn’t exactly see itself as the bad guy in all of that, they teach that aggression had consequences, but the amount they omit about what Japan DID over there during from 1890-1940 is vast. They are still a resource poor country that relies on trade, but unlike the Japan of the past, the current Japan seems terrified of conflict, with a youth who seem unwilling to die for the country.

But again, even at the heights of their aggression and colonialism, they were a drop in the bucket compared to the West (including the US), or China, or Russia (in all it’s forms). It’s not even a comparison to the US, the US is still and has not stopped being bloodhungry imperialists.

Check out what they did to China and Korea and for how long (first and second sino-Japanese wars). The Japan of the late 1800 and early 1900’s were bloodyhungry imperialists. But they were a lot smaller and had a much smaller imperialist footprint than any western country by a country mile.

They started late and were actively thwarted by western nations to keep and exploit military conquests. Can’t even compare them to the vast imperial footprint of the west.