No miscalculation. The military industrial complex loves war. It doesn’t matter who wins so long as their products are used.

Public healthcare costs a lot of money

True. But private healthcare costs even more.

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That’s what it’s there for.

Elon knows it’s too expensive to incorporate lidar data into his product line.

Er. Just leave your swipe card with a trusted colleague.

My spelling was way odd. I mean Etymology.

I hope he never sees this comment.

Clarkson got in trouble for noticing a slant on a bridge. I didn’t even realise he was being offensive.

I was going to talk about shortening of Nigeria, but apparently the entomology is completely separate.

Totally agree. But that’s the corporate sponsored capitalism that the US has voted for.

Karl Marx predicted that free-market competition would inevitably result in monopolies and the concentration of massive productive forces under a single capitalist.

How about number of GPUs as a metric. The more, the worse the datacenter?

I’ve just compared Musk to Rockefeller. He’s a benchmark whether you like it or not.

you should just not be able to be that rich

That’s a problem for society. Nothing to do with benchmarking.

he didn’t work for his own money

No capitalist does. Even people earning interest on their 401k.

I’m not saying Rockefeller is the benchmark, but being a historically rich man (600bn in today’s money) he is a benchmark. One which Musk is not meeting.

Let’s compare two of the richest men in history

Rockefeller’s charitable giving began with his first job as a clerk at age 16, when he gave six percent of his earnings to charity, as recorded in his personal ledger. By the time he was twenty, his charity exceeded ten percent of his income.

Vs

Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation have disbursed over $1.1 billion since 2010. However, the vast majority of his recent philanthropy—including a record $474 million in 2024—primarily funded his own personal entities, specifically schools and donor-advised funds closely linked to his business and personal interests

Chris Morris would be gold.

Did you see that ludicrous save last week

You seem to be saying that rich people are nicer than poor people.

I love it when twins nickname their siblings “Spare parts”