He traded a liability for an asset. Distanced X from his personal assets (Tesla stock) used as collateral. xAI now has massive amounts of debt and Elon just owns the company that owns it.

Can’t blame them. They’re running out of options.

Demand the school install a urinal in the ladies room.

Big tech is just trading the same $100b between each other to generate infinite shareholder value.

Real talk, no one out in public cares what you do or how you act until you inconvenience them. If you mind your manners, you’re just an NPC to everyone else. You’re an adult now in an adult world where everyone else has their own stuff going on. Can you remember the personality of the 2nd to last random person that held a door open for you?

Our insignificance gives you permission to be who you want to be and the freedom to do whatever you want. No one thinks more about you than you do. Your experience with your family left a strong impression on you about the world you’re in, but that’s their experiences not yours. It’s now your time to have your own & build a worldview on your terms as you. No one has the authority to tell you to act a certain way. You are who you are & everyone else will have to just deal with it if they have a problem. It sounds like the only person attacking you right now is you.

Learn how to make small talk. Read How to Win Friends & Influence People and pick out the tricks you think would work.

Didn’t the Nazis host the Olympics? Why does history rhyme?

I hope you keep that promise for the rest of your life.

I’d rather take some sort of plastic magnet pill and poop out a G.I. Joe a couple days later. Rinse and repeat every 10 years.

Sounds like we’re all to blame. Maybe we really should consider boycotting Amazon and Walmart to stop people from relying on exploitative corporations for daily life. Talk to neighbors and coworkers to share excess commodities with each other. Maybe you might meet a soap-maker, a gardener, a hunter or beekeeper. You might be handy or a problem solver to help someone else out.

Too bad he can’t do anything about it to help the workers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Don’t threaten me with a good time

I followed a different post and replaced AI with cocaine, and it still works in this context.

A lot of people I ask in person don’t happen to realize the size and population of Gaza compared to the state they live in. When you add that perspective, it might change their perspective.

I’m glad I got to see it.

Sell some of your unused belongings to people, so the money stays within the community instead of that person buying from a chain store. They lost a sale.

I think we can start calling this whole global situation WW3 now.

Tbh, it would be kind of nice if sensors weren’t put in easily damaged areas of cars. They’re part of why bumpers and tailgates are so much more expensive. I wonder if cars could have all the safety features using a couple little LIDAR and camera packages instead of chips on every piece of plastic.

How dare cyclists own the means of propulsion. Capitalism demands people buy expensive modes of transportation that requires payments to car companies, oil companies, insurance companies, and extra taxes. Get out of here with your free pedaling and infinite parking spaces!

The specific issue in the US is the exploitation of labor to serve the need for infinite profits. In an ideal state, the government (for the people, by the people) would stand between the needs of labor and the needs of profit by providing labor with legal protections from exploitation. When those in government become one with the needs of profits, the people lose.

What we are seeing now after Citizens United is that it becomes more profitable to lobby/capture the government to increase profits than it is to buy more productive labor. By extension, they use a portion of their profits to convince labor to vote against the interests of the many by identifying and focusing on divisive culture issues.

Now who is poised to protect labor? Used to be the news media holding the government accountable to the people, but now most influential news media organizations are held to the need for infinite profits. They have something to lose now if they report on an issue that interferes with their ad revenue.

The solution? Talk to your neighbors and engage in your local community. Invite others to the community. Support each other by sharing skills, knowledge, and resources locally. Serve your community rather than insatiable unidentifiable shareholders. Also be wary of organized religions that can be used to incite conflicts or division. Not saying religion is bad, just that large organizations dilute the accountability needed to prevent the reliance on infinite profits.

That whale better stop killing newborns