<would not be a political leader, because, ironically, Soviet Russia was more meritocratic than the current US administration>

I may have ruined the joke.

not at all, that is another valid joke!

are you guys aware of what they call, Comrade Trump in Russia, oopz, well anyway Comrade Trump or as they call him in China Comrade Jianguo

,https://www.joelwong.net/2025/05/25/decoding-trumps-chinese-...

ooopz

well anyway, it sure IS a sunny day, and what with bieng off grid for years and looking at a major upgrade soon, I think I can also project a further competitive edge for my business, which also runs on off grid solar.

It will only change if it becomes illegal to rent a router.

I'm saying it will change with market forces. In the US renting your router is the norm, it'll stick, and I'm sure it was a US based team that thought this would be a good idea. In some other countries it'll never get off the ground because the concept will get laughed out of the room and everyone will just use competitors.

You could argue that Starlink have a captive audience, but that's not true in most of the UK/AU at least, where high speed internet is widely available to most. Those who need Starlink probably already have it and own the hardware, their growth market will have to be homes that have other options, and those other options don't charge $10 a month for the hardware.

Nah, it will just become untenable to rent a router, because of the added obligations.

Every ease in regulation will immediately be exploited by the foreign monopolies, without a guarantee that it will spawn local competition.

The only guaranteed path is to ban the foreign competition. Like China, Russia, etc.

Needles to say, this is not how EU wants to operate in most cases.

Kinda true. But ban isn't the right solution either.

You can get a lot of tokens for a CEO. I'd say it's worth a try.

If every company only hires seniors from now on, and if we assume that the number of senior level jobs is steady, why do I not perceive an increase in leverage like during covid?

What's first, a usable frontier grok model or actual FSD(unsupervised)?

Might as well be the Mars colonization the way both are going.

I mean...I have a Tesla Model 3 with FSD enabled. I turn it on by default now when I'm in the car and I can't remember the last time I felt like I needed to takeover. It's been at least a month.

FSD unsupervised seems pretty close to me.

As much as the Chinese models, so not at all.

Worse, we are becoming a burden.

The Thiels of the world are already past wanting an obedient consumer.

They don't need us for the utopia they imagine for themselves.

They want us replaced by machines that are 100% compliant slaves, they're hoping for AI with human capabilities (or better) and no will to pushback at their tyrannical natures.

You're projecting harder than IMAX here with your conspiracy theory tropes. Remember it was the Bolsheviks who actually liquidated entire classes of people as 'useless parasites'.

You can listen to Thiel yourself and form your opinion, I don't have an agenda to change anyone's mind.

I do wonder though how you hallucinated me as a Bolshevik sympathiser.

No, Elysium still had all the desperate poor people. That's not the end goal.

They want to scan your soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v5HLLkgo5A

They want the future setting of Unanimity in Cloud Atlas. Even that might be too much of an underclass.

I'd rather have my iPhone turn into a dumbphone than EU bow to the Megacorps.

Exactly. Apple is playing a dangerous game here, they damage their brand for many pro-Europeans.

Really? Poor Elon must be going bankrupt any time now, seeing how much of Tesla and SpaceX he owns.