Non liberal
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But mama says stupid is as stupid does
Only 5% of next car purchasers expect to buy all electric cars-Road and Track.
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wilberforce15
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Stupid is as stupid does.
And one thing that stupid does is look at genius like it's stupid.
Non liberal
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Look, the man is obviously a genius. He started PayPal, and then a car company, space company, solar company, and who knows what else at the same time. I don’t think anyone is questioning his intelligence. It’s just the utility of what he’s creating that I question. aside from solar city, I don’t see much use for what he’s doing, but it’s his money I guess.
Commercial Inside Release
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I'm confident that Musk will get a correction.
The powers that be, have everything just the way they like it... Geniuses; visionaries, highly effective people; mavericks; even the savior of mankind, need not apply.
The powers that be, have everything just the way they like it... Geniuses; visionaries, highly effective people; mavericks; even the savior of mankind, need not apply.
wilberforce15
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Musk thinks in terms of systems.
Blockchain doesn't change the world. Universal residential power generation and battery storage doesn't change the world. Electric vehicles don't change the world. Artificial intelligence doesn't change the world. Self-driving cars don't change the world. Going to Mars doesn't change the world. Brain implants don't change the world.
Each technology is magnified and compounded when combined with the others. He's not building 10 technologies. He's building a system. In his own mind, he is living decades in the future, after all these have been developed and interwoven. It will change all of society.
And that system is going to take over the world, and it is terrifying.
BrownFlush
Woke Racist Reigning Ban King
Non liberal
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That’s like knowing that liberalism is going to destroy the economy and individual rights, yet you keep voting for a democrat, lol. Makes absolutely no sense bern.
Starlink is working fantastic in areas with poor or no internet.
Do they? Look at all the great advancements in technology that have completely changed the way everyone does things. Very often the brainchild of a genius or certainly someone highly intelligent. Saying things won't advance farther is like the head of the U.S. Patent Office back in the late 1800's who said everything useful had already been invented. Everything that went before has laid on layers of knowledge that some ingenius person will look at in an unique way and create yet something else beneficial to the world.
rod
Retired 23 years
Last week everyone there assumed they would escape the hurricane with little or no damage. I wonder how many of them are going to cut their losses and move elsewhere now------if they are smart
Non liberal
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There is no reason for anyone who wants or needs internet to not have it though. That’s something that is futile.
oldngray
nowhere special
Starlink is a great idea but too expensive for anything but fringe areas.
rod
Retired 23 years
How about if they can't afford it?
A lot of people in fringe areas are getting it. And that was where it was designed to work well. In large metro areas it doesn't do well as it slows way down in much the same way cellphones do with busy cell towers.
There are a lot of rural areas where the only option is previously existing satellite internet that is very expensive and yet super slow like Hughes Net. Or they would have to pay ridiculous amounts to have a line run to their home. Starlink is miles beyond that in quality and it's not just in the U.S. A lot of countries now have access to it and it's not just for the rich but for governments and corporations too.
Dum preloader
Banned
Sometimes I think life would be better without the Internet. People got along fine without it before.
If the bad outweighed the good it would soon cease to exist. I was talking to my dad for free on Messenger the other day. We could see each other from 5000 miles apart. The one thing I truly dislike is the constant rancor that comes with anonymity. People are a lot more polite in person when the possibility of getting physically attacked moderates their behavior.
Dum preloader
Banned
Sin has ruined the Internet.
Sin ruins everything. But the Internet is a lot more than porn. The Bible makes it clear that we are in the world but not of the world. There's no escaping the world around you. Up to you whether to participate. And for the record I've looked at porn on the internet. I'm no better than anyone else.
I think it was "20/20" that did a segment on major corporations funding pornography. Porn is so lucrative that major corporations have created shell corporations that fund movies, magazines, etc. So you're watching your favorite show on CBS not knowing they're making hundreds of millions funding porn.
Dum preloader
Banned
Yep. I still struggle. I have a porn blocker on my phone and there was a period where my girlfriend had to help hold me accountable
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