X is still bleeding users more every day. They did manage to get the debt off of the balance sheets by moving it to Tesla shareholders though but you can imagine what that means for Tesla.

Tesla is going to collapse because it is a car company no matter how many times musk says it isn't and it can't sell cards profitably without government subsidies. Those subsidies are gone now.

Europe and South America and Africa are all going to tell musk to go pound sand because he has shown himself to be a national security risk. That means nowhere to expand starlink and it means that competitors will rise up.

Now if America remains fascist and Trump gets a third term then musk will not immediately implode. On the other hand of trump doesn't get a third term then musk is going to lose all access to the government money he's going to need. That means starlink goes away in North America too. SpaceX goes away because the government contracts that sustain it dry up because he's a national security risk.

The only thing left is AI and all of his engineers got poached by better companies.

Now the ruling class has solidarity so they will make sure Elon lives comfortably his entire life. But he will never be a trillionaire.

Finally on the off chance that Trump gets his third term then the people who are going to be in charge behind Trump are going to help maneuver Elon and eventually elon's going to get thrown out a window like they do in Russia. Trump getting a third term is the worst possible thing to happen to Elon because instead of living out his days comfortably as a billionaire albeit a modest one he's going to get assassinated in the court intrigue of emperor Trump's Court.

Tough to say. With that much money he might have ripped off billionaires.

Somebody made a good point which is that Trump was introducing his own daughters to Jeffrey Epstein when he would have known Epstein was a predator.

Now maybe Trump's daughters didn't get dragged into Epstein's world but it wouldn't surprise me if some rich assholes daughters did and if that's not the reason Epstein got popped after all these years.

You can screw over as many little old ladies and steal as many pensions and 401ks as you want but if you start to fuck with the real money people then just like Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes your ass is going to prison.

And with the amount of dirt Epstein would have had he was never going to stay in prison very long.

Mind you I have no doubt that he would have known he could finagle a pardon, which makes his death by suicide extremely suspicious. I mean they just put his accomplice out on work release.

A complete bit of bullshit nonsense to make you feel like something is being done about the droughts and other impacts of climate change that have become too noticeable to pretend don't exist.

Also the United Kingdom like every country on the planet wants to open up as many data centers to run AI to replace employees as fast as they possibly can and those things guzzle water. They don't need to before everybody jumps all over me but they absolutely do guzzle the water even if they don't need to.

We're all going to lose our jobs (including the plumbers since who the fuck is going to hire those plumbers when we are all unemployed) and we're going to lose our jobs to an AI that gets the water and electricity we used to enjoy.

But at least we will see the first trillionaire in our lifetimes. What an achievement!

Large corporations are actively importing them to take our jobs. There's a huge difference there. These aren't people who are the tired masses these are the middle class of India and Eastern Europe. And our betters, our kings are actively importing them for the express purpose of taking our jobs and you being a little shit are dropping racism into the conversation to derail it because you think that's fun.

And this is why the human race is going to die. Instead of actually solving the problems we face little shits like you are going to derail any useful conversation until we eventually start launching nukes.

If any of you knew about history, and fuck knows nobody here does, then people would know that large scale unemployment preceded world war I and led into world war ii. And that was before we had nukes.

My only regret is reproducing. Only did it once but man was that a fucked up thing to do.

And it worked too. This is why we are all going to lose our jobs. Absolutely no one is fighting for us. And that very much includes the racists.

What we should be doing is transitioning from a competitive society to a cooperative one so that it no longer matters if we keep bringing an immigrants. But it is extremely hard to get away from the programming when you were a kid that told you competition is a universal good.

So you have a cognitive dissonance between what you were told when you were a little kid about how wonderful competition was and the reality of competing with an endless stream of cheap labor for the right to live.

Also we aren't supposed to think about the fact that if we cannot constantly justify our value to society in raw economic terms then we need to die and we need to die right now.

I remember a Democrat politician named Allan Grayson who called the Republican healthcare plan, if you get sick better die quick.

They went after him relentlessly, found a few slightly shady real estate deals of the kind every single businessman has and eliminated him from American politics instantly. They came down on him like a ton of bricks.

That's what happens when you expose how things actually work in this country. Nowadays they don't even let you on TV for it. I think YouTube is starting to Shadow ban people who speak that kind of Truth to power.

Also I bet I just triggered half of you with the phrase truth to power. There's that programming again

I frankly do not care which country the people my jobs are being given to I don't want my jobs to be given away.

Now I would like very much to transition from a competitive society to a cooperative one so that I don't have to fight for the right to live via jobs. But that's not the world I live in and to be blunt practically nobody here wants to make that transition. We were taught when we were kids competition good and that's not something we are going to let go easily if at all.

So I am basically fighting tooth and nail to see if I'm going to be allowed to have a job that gets me access to food and shelter and healthcare so I don't see any particularly good reason why I should let tons and tons of people into my country to compete with me.

Just because they make the line go up does not make my life better. I should think by now it's painfully obvious that line go up doesn't matter anymore because main Street and Wall Street are completely disconnected.

The H2O chips were explicitly cut down because that way they could just barely slip under the radar of the existing export bans. So it's just common sense you don't use them unless you have to. They are slower relative to the amount of power they use.

I want to say that lifting the ban means that used GPU prices might go down but with Trump doing those crazy tariffs than unless the courts actually stop him like they should (he's using emergency Powers despite the fact that there is zero emergency) we are probably going to see prices go up somewhere between 1 and 1/2 to 2 times what they are now.

Also the Republican party that is trying to ban porn is also hard at work now trying to ban violent video games like everybody said they would. Say goodbye to GTA 6 folks. Now get back to church and don't forget to tithe.

They don't want to hire you. They want to hire an H1B. Somebody who will work longer hours for less pay and who is younger. Somebody who has had recent training paid for by somebody else in the exact technology or product they want to hire for. And somebody they can discard like an old tissue when they are done with them.

The social contract is breaking down. We are going to see a fuck ton of violence.

I think the problem is there's a bunch of dumb people over the age of 50 who think that's going to be cool cuz they're looking forward to shooting a robber.

That works out fine when a single dumb kid breaks into your house.

What are you going to do when six guys in there mid 20s show up with assault rifles?

And don't tell me you're going to form a posse with your neighbors. The entire reason we are in this mess is because it's every man for himself out there.

Is so many people bought into it when it was pushing $500 a share that they are all terrified to burst that bubble before they get out themselves. So everybody is hoping it's somehow stays up at the Moon instead of coming back down and taking their investment with it.

That would give them access to limitless AI training data. 35 billion would be a small price to pay for that and Google wouldn't sell unless they were forced to during an antitrust trial.

The internet is rapidly cutting off AI data scrapers. This means startups will not be able to get the data they need to make their models work for very much longer.

But even without that the internet is so rapidly filling up with AI slop that it's going to poison any model that you try to train on it. You need to control a platform where you can run user behavior analytics so you can detect when you have a real person versus a AI slop bot.

So big AI companies are looking to get their grubby little paws on the source of data that they can control and that they can filter for AI slop.

Mark my words eventually AI is going to be owned by two maybe three major companies which in turn will be owned by a couple of billionaires and a few hundred or a few thousand shareholders worldwide.

The entire technology and everything associated with it will be owned Lock stock and barrel by a handful of oligarchs and there's absolutely nothing that can be done about that because the technology fundamentally tends towards Monopoly because of AI training data

I do not think our current civilization and it's legal and moral frameworks are capable of parsing what is coming. I believe the phrase is, interesting times.

So the thing is musk did not completely and totally permanently for 100% shut down all star link service across all of Europe for everyone and their dog.

If something is 150,000%, then Americans cannot comprehend it. We do not deal with even the slightest amount of nuance or gradation. And iteration can go fuck the fuck off. If something doesn't work the first time we burn it all down and try again.

Winston Churchill was a fucktard and a right-wing son of a bitch who would have denied medical Care to most of the United Kingdom, but he did occasionally say something clever..

And I always liked the comment that you could always count on America to do the right thing after trying everything else. Even if I think it's wrong.

And he is directly interfered with operations in the region.

This is why I can't stand americans. We are a nation of 12-year-olds. Everything has to be all or nothing black or white. Even the slightest amount of nuance and we are lost and can't think anymore.

Elon Musk repeatedly interfered with military operations. Do you not see why that's a problem? Especially for the governments of Europe?

Dude it's news for nerds stuff that matters. Apart from the obvious this matter is there are tons of nerds really into airplanes. For god sakes there is a large community of nerds that run their own virtual air traffic control systems.

It's not my particular nerd fandom but I certainly respect it.

Without the government subsidies Trump took away Tesla is not profitable. Musk have plan to gut the company and leave small investors and your 401k holding the bag but that required more time than has.

He tried to use AI to hype his company in stocks long enough to get the money out of them but nobody is buying it because you can't get the engineers there's too much competition for them and he no longer has the mystique that would draw engineers to him automatically.

So what he is doing here is he's trying to force Apple to do business with him so he can pump his stock again. This is especially important because although he will never face criminal charges, he's too rich for that, he is finally facing investor lawsuits. And those lawsuits will make it harder for him to cash out his companies and dump the dead stock on to investors like he is planning to.

It was all supposed to go so well for him. He was going to do the cybertruck promising a super cheap high range electric truck that would have been worth hundreds of billions. It was all a lie but the lie was supposed to become obvious after he got that 55 billion dollar payback age and sold out.

Then some lawyers noticed that if they sued him over that pay package they would get a percentage based on the size of the pay package as a kind of bounty. So they sued and won and that completely screwed up his time line.

The Cybertruck came out and it was a complete dud because of course it was. He doesn't have self-driving cars that was just another pump and dump. And he can't get on the AI bandwagon.

He'll be fine of course. We do not punish the ruling class. No spilling the blood of Kings here. But the poor boy is probably never going to be a trillionaire. Now it will probably be Mark Zuckerberg or Peter Thiel that gets the crown.

Elon Musk showed himself in Ukraine to be untrustworthy. Europe is absolutely going to replace starlink. Canada might but they are certainly going to try.

Musk's companies cannot survive without the rest of the world. Also without massive government subsidies. And he has lost both.

I hate Elon musk. I hate all billionaires because that's just common sense. I don't like having Kings no matter what they call themselves.

But the fact of the matter is Elon musk's empire is collapsing. He is barely useful right now to the Republican party because he has money and is willing to spend it under the right circumstances. But at the same time everyone in the court of trump is currently jockeying for position and musk is getting out maneuvered.

We are bringing back court intrigue and that sounds cool in movies but in real life it just means a lot of chaos and waste and economic fallout.