askaboutit

It’s not just about control. It’s about corporate advantage as well.

Take Elon away. I’ll buy whatever dumb electric rolls off the lot. I’d only buy a Tesla car because I know that insanely dedicated, incredibly driven, “nutter” is still in charge of what happens. And the Easter eggs make the whole thing interesting. A normal CEO will never ok the things Elon does.

Tesla’s and Ferrari’s get stolen. Everything can be stolen. That’s what insurance is for.

This is the Indian player. Trually the first real forward thinking “scooter” I’ve seen that’s electric. Completely rebuilt from the “ground up” I’d say. Niu is slapped together hedge fund money.

Then you walk outside and facial recognition takes over.

Privacy is dead.

I’ve riden a Niu. Was nothing new or exciting. GPS, lcd and apps are the last thing people want out of a scooter. Go and back. Go and back. Go and back. That’s all a scooter is and will be used for. Because scooters a cheap item.

I can’t believe it’s not in the XR.

Either way. I wonder what will replace it.

The problem isn’t the FDA it’s the government cutting its budget. In such an obvious way that they want business to be able to do what they want. It’s gotten worse under Trump.

We don’t know what we don’t know. And impossible doesn’t know why there would be side effects. Or they do and you’ll not know.

Buy grass fed organic meat and eat less of it. We already eat too much.

It’s so reliant on company money that it can’t do its duty to protect the people it is supposed to protect.

But when it comes to bringing a totally new product to a global market. Is there anything that’s been “new” and not an iterative design on a already global product for a lesser price.

Japan. Indonesia. Germany. Australia. Malaysia. South Korea. Lots of countries have had competition and have been able to have localized offerings that won in a free market. But in China. There is no free market.

AWS might be the most prolific. Far better product but it’s useless in China because it can’t be controlled. So China ends up with Alicloud a far inferior product.

The US government is becoming increasingly more paranoid of itself too. The smarter way is things like the EU are doing. Champion greater privacy for local citizens with heavy laws and companies will fall in line. It’s soft governance. You win on both fronts. Controlling data and championing human rights. Closed fists win nothing. If China implemented local data laws with extreme privacy measures Facebook would be forced to localize its offering and keep all data in China whilst fixing a massive public image problem. But it has nothing to do with that. The party is paranoid and will kill competition to control data any day.

Just need to take a look at how tides have turned so quickly against Elon in the last year. Seems very odd. And the short sellers could quite easily be hedge funds backed with big money interests.