Yeah I put down a deposit on a Cybertruck years ago. Not because I thought it was a cool car, but because it was an EV truck for $40k.

By the time they actually came out at 2.5x the price and Elon started throwing around sirg heils, it was a super easy decision to cancel the reservation.

The pedo comment wasn’t really a blip for me - and I assume most people. I remember seeing a headline at the time about him calling someone in Thailand a “pedo guy” because the guy called Musk out for turning some trapped kids into an attempt publicity stunt.

At the time, I probably thought “huh, that was a dumb thing to say” but then didn’t spend more than 20 seconds thinking about it. I vaguely remember seeing some lawsuits about it later, but couldn’t tell you one way or the other about how they went.

It really wasn’t until Musk started doing crazy shit that affected me that I started paying attention to him - and I assume it’s the same for most people. If some rich asshole slanders someone and gets sued for it, that’s pretty easy to tune out. But when he purchases a major social media company and gives a quarter billion dollars to sway an election, does a couple Nazi salutes, and then starts dismantling the federal government, that’s much more attention grabbing.

I think the biggest difference is that Elon has money. Most of the people Trump throws under the bus are people that served a useful function but then stopped fulfilling that function.

Elon’s function is to have money. He bought Twitter and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to elect Trump and Republicans. He threatens to fund primary challengers for any Republican that doesn’t fall in line.

I don’t see that usefulness disappearing anytime soon, no matter how unpopular he is.

The preamble to the Democratic platform is as follows. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

In the brief space of three and one-haft years, the people of the United States have come to realize, with tragic consequences, that our National Government cannot be trusted to the hands of political amateurs, dominated by representatives of special privilege.

Four years ago they were beguiled, by empty promises and pledges, to elect as President a recent convert to Republicanism. Our people have now learned that the party of Lincoln has been made captive to big businessmen with small minds. They have found that they are now ruled by a Government which they did not elect, and to which they have not given their consent.

Ugh this just reminded me that I ran into this exact issue a couple years ago. We were running jobs every hour to ingest data from an API into our data warehouse. Eventually we got reports from users about having gaps in our data. We dug into it for days trying to find a pattern, but couldn’t pinpoint anything. We were just missing random pieces of data, but our jobs never reported any failures.

Eventually we were able to determine the issue. HTTP 200 with “error: true” in the response. Fml

Oddly enough, that’s actually still way more efficient than driving an ICE vehicle.

I was referring to this: https://youtu.be/ayBRXIN9Kro

Specifically Vance around 3:38

Lol I know, I was just thinking of Vance’s “have you even said ‘thank you’?”

I don’t want to come across as if I’m defending this, because I absolutely don’t agree with anything these shit heads are doing. But to answer your question, getting rid of the Department of Education doesn’t mean getting rid of public schools (at least not immediately).

Most of those are funded and run by local governments. So they won’t just be closing because there’s no Dept of Education.

However, this move will ultimately heavily affect public schools in the long run. Conservatives seem to hate the idea of separation of church and state - so they’ve been pushing forever to allow religion in schools. The only way they can do this right now is through private religious schools. Their problem is that private schools are privately funded.

Their ultimate goal is to be able to take taxpayer money away from public schools and move it to private schools. Ultimately, this will decimate many public schools.

“I think he says at the end of ’26, he’s gonna start making tons of robots, ’27 and ’28, he thinks 2028 you and I are each gonna have five robots each. They’re gonna mow our lawn and they’re gonna make us coffee and they’re gonna make our bed…and they’re gonna fix our bathroom and renovate our bathrooms — I’m telling you we are gonna have very nice bathrooms!”

Wtf is this man smoking?

It’s pretty obvious what he’s doing, but the media absolutely cannot help themselves in amplifying everything he says. And you can’t really blame them. When a president says he’s going to overturn pardons issued by past presidents, you have to report that as major news. Even if he says it and isn’t serious or is just trying to keep the spotlight on him and away from something else.

I grew up and am still surrounded by these ingrates

Found JD Vance’s Lemmy account

Lol that some serious Front Fell Off vibes.

Harriet.

Harry-ette.

Hard-hearted harbinger of haggis.

Beautiful, bemuse-ed, bellicose butcher.

Un-trust

… ing.

Un-know

… ing.

Un-love

… ed?

“He wants you back,” he screamed into the night air like a fireman going to a window that has no fire

… except the passion of his heart.

I am lonely.

It’s really hard.

This poem

… sucks.

He’s like Sputnik!

Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to agree that since the 22nd Amendment doesn’t specify who enforces that the president can’t be elected, that it means Congress has to actively pass a law saying he can’t run.

That’s what ultimately happened with the Colorado case.

Isn’t that the “Fediverse chick”?

I always love when someone says something ruled. Reminds me of the 90s.