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Comment I wondered what was going on (Score 1) 124

Earlier today I put in a search to google like "I could float away like a soap bubble". I was looking for a quote in the Orwell book 1984.

But the google AI seemed concerned about my state of mind. "It seems you are having disturbing thoughts." Something like that.

I added "Orwell" to the search string and I got my quote. But it felt weird to have my actions judged by an AI like that.

PS the quote: (seems apropos somehow)

-" O'Brien silenced him by a movement of the hand. "We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn-by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation-anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wished to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth century ideas about the laws of nature. We make the laws of nature."

Comment The Law (Score 1) 71

Although there will be regional pockets and special cases where it doesn't happen, anyone who even has 1% faith in the law of supply and demand will come to that conclusion.

It wouldn't happen, for example, if large data centers were all required to provide their own sustainable power. Otherwise, price rise is inevitable.

Comment Re:A disconnect somewhere. (Score 3, Informative) 39

You do realize don't you that at the time the funds were allocated for this project it was a time that we and replaced an unfit and insane president for a sane president and nobody in their right mind imagined the prior insane president would be going anywhere but jail or at best house arrest and not back in power again.

Comment Re:The supply chain problems are real (Score 1) 181

because they don't think he earned that trillion USD

Amazing how the rhetoric slips into a totally false frame like this. Nobody believes that Musk "earned" a trillion USD. I doubt Musk himself would say that but he is an egomaniac so I wouldn't bet on it.

The deal is Musk has the opportunity to earn $1T in STOCK and only if he performs to the stated objective. If he doesn't meet the performance goal he doesn't get it. He may EARN a smaller amount.

Is it really so hard to see the difference? Or does personal political preference utterly obliterate any sense of logic?

Comment Re:The supply chain problems are real (Score 1) 181

Meanwhile Tesla is about to give Elon Musk 1 trillion with a t dollars. It's not just more money than the company has ever made it's more money than the company ever can make. It took them 20 years and constant government subsidies to make 43 billion in profit. To pay Elon Musk will take 200 years.

You said a lot that was worthwhile, but you went of the rails here. Let me fix it for you:

Tesla is about to give Elon Musk the opportunity to gain 1T dollars. The deal is that if he increases MY TSLA holdings about 5x, he gets option grants roughly. Why would I not vote for getting $5M for every $1M I currently hold? Because I hate Elon Musk so much that I will say to hell with the $5M gain as long as he doesn't get another win? I guess there are people who think like that.

You make it sound like Tesla has to run a payroll where they write $1T worth of checks to Elon Musk. If that is actually what you think? If so you have discredited yourself. The actual situation is that he will own a big percentage of equity that he can sell in pieces, but wouldn't be able to dump in whole because it would crash the market for the stock.

His objective is more about control, not cash payout. He said so himself on multiple cases. And he thinks he can drive TSLA to a $5T+ market cap. If he doesn't he gets far less than the $1T clickbait headline number.

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