Replying to @⁨BillyClark@piefed.social⁩

it’s still harder to live in space or on Mars than to try to fix Earth

Hush, unbeliever. We just gotta invest more in the technologies that let us escape from the consequences of our greed. Well, some of us. The most greedy, actually. The rest still get to bear the consequences, but they don’t matter.

Point is: pour more money into training machines to imitate all the things we don’t actually understand the complexity of, and surely we’ll no longer need those people when we finally escape to a better future where our serfs don’t need such petty things as rights and payment. And if you help us get that, you just might get a ride on our escape too!

(You won’t, but I’m hoping you’re gullible enough to fall for it.)

It is run by a complete idiot.

And enabled by other idiots. Musk doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

Replying to @⁨luciferofastora@feddit.org⁩

Point is: pour more money into training machines to imitate all the things we don’t actually understand the complexity of, and surely we’ll no longer need those people when we finally escape to a better future where our serfs don’t need such petty things as rights and payment. And if you help us get that, you just might get a ride on our escape too!

All I’m hearing is “let’s build the OceanSpaceGate station and fill it with all the billionaires” and I’m struggling to see a downside.

Replying to @⁨Almacca@aussie.zone⁩

There were efforts to move down the anti-trust path when Biden was President. But too many Americans voted for a billionaire convicted of fraud, and all investigations into any billionaire disappeared and those that were already convicted of crimes were pardoned.

You can think it’s my attitude that caused this but really it’s ignorance that made things this way.

Replying to @⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩

The company claims that it is allowed to operate the existing turbines without permits

xAI has been operating gas turbines that have the potential to emit more than 2,000 tons of smog-forming NOx per year.

the Department of Justice sided with SpaceX in the NAACP’s lawsuit, saying the unpermitted turbines were a matter of “national, economic, and energy security.”

just another case of “I’m rich, therefore, the law doesn’t apply to me.” And the 1000% corrupt DOJ turning around and being like “yeah, actually, that’s true.”