The amount of necessary components and the stringent control over the process rules this out for most manufacturers that don't have Apple's budget. Any of the bigger PC manufacturers could have done this eons ago but they don't have the organizational structure to make it a reality nowadays. The people here who could do this sort of work are either already at Apple or doing other things nowadays.I see posts about Framework but that's not enough, maybe if they get a bigger budget and are willing to invest in Linux/Freedesktop etc. All that said, who knows.. I'm trying to lessen my dependence on Apple hardware and their ecosystem and threw Fedora on an old Thinkpad p52s, using it as a desktop for the last couple of weeks. I'm tempted to start pulling code and writing patches as well but I wish I did have that laptop or hardware combo target.

The "current crisis" is manufactured and amplified externally. Nobody is doxxing Tesla owners with maps using Molotov cocktails as map cursors or burning lots full of vehicles in for service in some way that is a function of whether Musk is personally present on the factory floor vs doing something else he thinks is vital to our economic survival. All of it is ginned up hate based on the politics surrounding the pruning of vast left slush funds and debt-funded waste that has to go away. That's an entire industry with vested interests, and acting against it certainly brings out the coordinated hate, attacks on stock value, media smearing, and of course thousands of people who now say he's a nazi though they can't actually articulate why they think that.

No, him being "on the factory floor" or off it doesn't precipitate some "current crisis," except in the sense that entrenched interests currently having their oxen gored by drying up things like the NGO money laundering industry are doing their best to try to wreck the company to make a point.

So the people who made it should have been earning minimum wage, is that your point? Spread that dollar amount across five and half yeads and even modest team of people and their overhead, and they're making middle five figures after taxes. Is that a lot, to you?

It took five and a half years to make it. So, in perhaps over-simplified terms, that's ~$670k year working on it. Let's say you had six people working on the project, and had NO overhead at all beyond their personal income while making it. That's roughly $100k per person before they paid taxes, which is either pretty good or not very good at all, depending on where you live and how. But one supposes they also had some overhead. This wasn't done on their kids' laptops at night. There was music to compose, audio to record and design, and a lot more.

So, yeah. "Just" 3.7M is a fair characterization.

No, we just voted the tyrannical little statists out of office. And the people you're now laughably calling Fascists are busy exposing and tearing down the very tools that an actual Fascist government would (and did) use. Fascists don't cut off the cash supply to money-laundering NGOs that are making their pet politicians richer and more personally powerful. Fascists don't work to shut down the mechanisms by which the government can censor your social media use. Your case of projection is pretty impressive.

You know what Fascists do? They try to hide the money movement that keeps their circle of power functioning. Our little lefty statists are busy shrieking that the lead of the executive branch shouldn't be allowed to see the records showing where the executive branch has been writing checks. Gee, what would they be hiding? Their little circle of industrial-scale grift and waste and abuse is getting exposed, and they're furious about it. And here you are having their backs. Pretty ugly. Do you live off of dubious international grant kickbacks or something?

Yes, Twitter was much better when someone in the Biden administration could write an email to a partisan activist working there and get people perma-banned for expressing doubt that Biden was handling things well. The good ol' days, right? Or are you just mad that now there are Community Notes calling the lying left out on the propaganda BS they used to choke Twitter with, and had Twitter staff available to ban anyone who called them out on it? Yeah, that must be frustrating for you.

Every single bit of shrill shriekery I hear that comes anywhere close to that on my X feed comes from the wanna-be tyrants on the left who crave the power to silence other people rather than counter things they don't want to hear with better thoughts of their own. Your own absurd ad hominem right here in this post is a great example of the craven screaming. I'm sure you liked that the Democrats - who called people deplorable garbage - used to be able to silence anyone who pointed out their duplicity and corruption.

Yes, when prominent Democrats talk out loud about sending people away for reprogramming, it's nice indeed to be able to speak out loud about it. Obviously, you'd prefer that people talking about that and sharing videos of people like Clinton saying it were silenced, just the way those prominent Democrats like it. Someone pointed out their creepy policy wishes? Cancel them! Just they way YOU'D like it, right?

Yes, when the Biden family rakes in millions of dollars from China and Russia and spreads it around the in-laws and the kids and dodges taxes on it while visibly selling federal policy actions, or the DNC launders millions of dollars in foreign money through Act Blue to try to buy Harris a presidency, or Nancy Pelosi becomes worth untold millions through blatant insider trading, it's nice to be able to talk about it instead of being silenced. I know, you'd prefer such conversations were silences, like in the good ol' days when Twitter had federal agents with offices in their HQ, ready to Orwell for you.

What are you talking about? Tens of thousands of deaths from fentanyl, crime, and human trafficking over the border deliberately opened wide by Biden's handlers? Untold thousands dead in wars that broke out only once his handlers signaled weakness and wars broke out on his watch? Yes, it's nice to be able to have open conversations about all of those lives lost, instead of such speech being muzzled by people like you, and those you obey.

What a ridiculous take on what he said. His point isn't that SpaceX faked anything, it's that China's quest for street cred in their scramble to catch up means making it look like they're hip, and honest, and open about their process (in, of course - it being China - the most controlled and dishonest way imaginable). Right up to and including faking R&D mishaps to show how hard they're working.

Anyone even remotely connected to contemporary image making can see that's obviously CGI. Looks like something straight out of DCS or the like. No chance that's real. Might be based on actual telemetry, but it's deep, deep down in the Uncanny Valley, and any reasonably worldly person can see that in an instant. Their motivation for showing the the challenges of developing such a program - including faking something like this to perhaps skew perceptions of how far along they actually are - are up for debate and academic. The footage is plainly fake.

No, aggressively dismissing civics instruction as being some sort of celebration of evil white colonialist suppression and thus vilifying things like the Constitution are what have been a detriment to civics instruction.

The continual projection of "look! an autocrat!" at the guy who's spent billions to free, for example, a platform like Twitter from unconstitutionally autocratic censorship would be starting to get funny if it didn't betray such a profoundly inverse understanding of the topic.

No, intelligent people are more likely to go to college. And colleges have been administratively occupied by (now) at least two generations of lefties cultivated by the aging hippies from the 1960s. The schools they run become progressive cultural echo chambers, churning out more of the same. If by "liberal" you mean it in the classic sense (liberty-minded), then you're right. But there is nothing liberty-minded about the contemporary liberal (as that term is now used) contingent running education in K-through-PhD. The opposite.

No, the SCOTUS simply pointed out that Biden's actions were contrary TO STATUTE, and that the separation of powers prevents him from just waving his wand and ignoring that. The SCOTUS didn't pick some dollar amount out of thin air, nor set some precedent about dollar amount thresholds. They recognized the structure of a law written by congress, and recognized that Biden's handlers were trying to skate around it for purely political reasons.

You telling people we have to change out the Supreme Court in order to find a way to give more unchecked, counter-constitutional executive power to an administration like Biden's is some seriously toxic stuff.

The technology being described isn't "free energy." It's a low-energy capture device made from expensive-to-make and fragile substances that probably won't sustain very well out in the real world. It transfers a modest amount of energy from the tiny kinetic movement of water droplets in humid air as they - in their random movements - bang into the walls of the material described. A very large, very dense cube of this material might produce a few kilo watt hours of juice in a steady enough way to be useful under some specific circumstances. Who in the summary or article is saying anything about "free?" It will involve a lot of expensive, fiddly fuss to put it to work.

Wow. This is quite painful for you, isn't it. Let me guess: you lost your job at Twitter censoring content, huh? That's a shame.

Wut? This was entirely about the separation of powers. As in:

Right, sort of. That's constitutional issue. The court looks at the matter at hand, and then says, "Nope, what he's trying to do is unconstitutional." Note that the constitution doesn't spell out dollar amounts that make the power to raise and assign the spending of money a legislative activity. The threshold isn't in dollars, it's in statute. If congress doesn't pass a bill supporting a specific type of spending, nobody else gets to. The constitution is structured that way on purpose, and there's no little dollar-dial that pushes the constitution aside when you dial it down from "Medium High" to "Low."

How to tell us you haven't actually read the Heroes Act without saying it out loud, right? And that aside, yes, the Judiciary absolutely has the power to overrule congress when congressional activities (legislation, certain kinds of committee actions, etc) don't pass a test of constitutionality. But that's not the case here. Congress didn't do anything unconstitutional, the executive did.

Why? It's fine as is, and has nothing to do with someone from Suburban DC in a dual-income household making $250,000 having a plumber from Idaho work part of his day to pay off some of that prosperous couple's law school debt.

No, Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer didn't have the votes to actually pass legislation aimed at the broader (non-Heroes-Act targeted) audience whose mid-term votes they were looking to buy, so Biden's handlers took a stab at abusing executive power knowing it would still work as a sales pitch for low-information, constitutionally illiterate college students even though it would of course fail scrutiny later. Pelosi, of course, said this out loud in advance, in specific detail. Her own chamber's and party's constitutional lawyers TOLD the Dems this was an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers, and she said it. Because she knew this is exactly how it would wind up.

Activist Court? Sure, if by "activist," you mean, "acting as the check and balancing power exactly as intended by the founders who wrote the constitution and people of the nation who ratified it." If acting to preserve the separation of powers and keep the power of the purse in congress is "activism," sure, why not, call it that.

20 seconds on Google will also find you ample reports on how the Egyptian pyramids were actually made by aliens, and how mermaids, unicorns, and various forms of Sasquatch/Yeti/Bigfoot are running circles around "scientists" that just can't seem to find a single scrap of Yeti poop, a Sasquatch bone, or a tuft of Bigfoot hair despite - we're assured - thousands of years of them living in the woods behind your house.

20 seconds of Google will indeed find you reports of UFO stuff from all around the world ... but can't find you single piece of real evidence, even one, ever. How about that.

You mean the $2B that you can actually point to as being an investment in businesses that aren't a nest of phony shell LLCs, and which actually pay taxes on earnings, and which didn't distribute cash to ex-wives, and grandchildren? You mean $2B that was actually handled with proper paperwork, and about which both the investor and the company in which the money was invested are happy to discuss with anyone who asks?

Let's compare that to the web of meaningless Biden-spawned LLCs that don't actually produce anything, aren't operating as foreign agents with proper State paperwork, exchange all kinds of internal emails and texts about how to conduct their organizing meetings in secret and use code names and words to obscure the fact that loads of cash are funneled to them from the CCP and corrupt entities in the Ukraine that got beneficial treatment from The Big Guy. See? Exactly the same! Right.

The FBI just got done telling congress that they literally can't vouch for the life of the whistleblower who informed them about a straight-up quid pro quo between millions flowing from Biden's protected interests in Ukraine and bank accounts run by shells of shells of LLCs formed by the Bidens while he was VP. I know, you don't want to hear about any of that because it takes the fun out of your narrative.