well yeah. the pentagon wastes 1 trilly per year. a lot of stuff can be paid for with that kind of money.

Like Medicare, Medicaid, and social security.

The fact that all three are looking at cuts and reductions while this war is fully funded is the major problem with America.

excuse me? the government's job is absolutely to maximize its ROI. I'm not paying taxes just for the money to be wasted

^ who is going to tell him…? :)

he was saying the state should be paying the school free lunches, what are you on about

I wasn't making a rebuttal.

why produce less PhDs instead of fixing funding? in what world does the pentagon need 1 trillion dollars while NIH gets 10 billy or so?

why? state of the art therapies eg genetically reprogramming patients own immune cells to hunt cancer are curative in cases that were previously a death sentence

maybe not starve, but should scientists live in poverty?

the driver and the pedestrian both

I suspect they have a long tail problem with FSD. It might work fine 99% but that's simply not good enough.

what labor issues and regulatory roadblocks? the man is halfway to becoming a trillionaire. if anything there wasn't enough labor legislation and more regulation to spread the wealth a bit

elon could just as easily be producing EV cars as a single digit billionaire

I'm more than happy to criticize Elon, but seeing as he's only getting richer, I don't think he needs my advice.

But in this post, I'm criticizing people who demonize Tesla to stick it to Elon. That's going to hurt efforts to combat climate change. If you think billionaires getting richer is a bigger problem than climate change, I understand. But that's why global warming is getting worse--because even climate activists would rather fight different battles.

elon/tesla is not the only EV manufacturer, so idk why you are insisting on framing elon/tesla as some kind of climate messiah... in fact elon helped elect the most climate change denialist president in recent history so one might argue elon is actively hurting the global warming fight...

But that’s my argument. Having Elon support Trump was bad for the environment! We should have done more to keep him on our side!

I call your Frank Herbert machine dystopia and raise you the Ian Banks machine utopia...

I'm gonna call that raise: How does one get to the anarchist Culture when all the machines are being built by profit-hungry capitalists?

We build our own with data that we've collected ourselves ethically. Then we execute once the big guys are distracted.