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What has he shipped, though?

FWIW, me too comments are usually downvoted.

This was posted a couple days ago as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43088797.

Firing this many government employees, canceling grants, and imposing tariffs guarantees at least a recession.

The Mulford Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act), a California gun control act that prohibits open carry, was originally passed back in the 60s to disarm the Black Panthers.

They're anthropomorphizing the lawnmower and it's not going to work out.

It wouldn't surprise me if Elon is using bots, he's certainly petty enough to do so.

The Supreme Court is unwaveringly partisan and corrupt; its members have taken bribes and invented new rights for Trump to keep him out of jail. I wouldn't assume that they'd reject a dictatorship.

I think it's premature to rule this out. Trump has previously abused government agencies to harass his opponents, so why wouldn't he and Musk use IRS data for this purpose?

Your repeating this all over the thread doesn't make it so.

It's an open question whether elections will be held, but demographics also make it much harder for Democrats to be elected after 2030 (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-future-crisi...).

That's the practical effect of the ruling. It would have prevented Nixon from being prosecuted.

Any reference to Plato's The Republic deserves an upvote.

It's an open question if elections will even be held. If they are, demographic changes also make it much harder for the Democrats to win after 2030 (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-future-crisi...).

Elon screws his partners in business deals, cheated Twitter employees out of severance, and is currently destroying our government. All of this trumps a firsthand impression from Dawkins.

I'm guessing Musk wanted it that way.

Does anyone else remember when the HP Way was a positive statement?

I think I'd prefer to just go live in a cave.

My guess is that Elon will soon announce that Doge is replacing the fired government workers with Grok AI.

It often means that they're elected to public office.

It's a cult whose members think they're too smart for cults.

AI overlords worked pretty well for the Culture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series).

The sign refers to Proposition 47 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47), a statewide initiative that passed in 2014; it's absurd to blame the city of San Francisco for it.

It's someone who was born on third base complaining that they have to run to home plate.

This is cutting off your head to cure a migraine.

My experience was that raising my consulting prices lead to better customers.

I downvoted because it's a generic complaint about licensing that could be posted anywhere - only the last sentence is related to the topic.

Are you referring to NetApp?

Lex Luthor

N.K. Jemisin's SF short story Emergency Skin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Skin) is pretty much this.