Musk is now talking about having Tesla invest in his xAI company, which I find to be a transparent attempt to try to leverage the AI mania to prop up Tesla’s stock price. Eventually this will all come crashing down, but as the saying goes, markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, so the collapse may take a while.
Maybe it’s AI?
I found it. The pic was taken in 1995. It was a film print and I don’t currently have access to a scanner, so I snapped a pic with my phone (sorry about the quality). I think I took the pic because the amusing words on the side struck me as very Australian, and I’m sure I was probably told of its significance.
However by 1939 it ended up on the list of songs which were banned in the third reich. It suddenly was branded degenerate music along with music from Jewish composers and Jazz music. The reason why it fell out of favor was because it was seen as kitsch and it was also perceived as a satire on Hitler. It took them 6 years to figure that out.
Reminds me of right-wingers loving Rage Against the Machine and then turning on them as “woke” when they discover that they’re part of the machine being raged against.
What could possibly go wrong?
I’ll see if I can dig it up.
I don’t have much recollection of the pub, though I do have a picture of it. I was doing the “Oz Experience” bus tour, so naturally they hit all the tourist spots. It was a great trip.
I’ve been there, back in the mid 1990s.
Reminds me of the math used by cops when they seize drugs to come up with an absurd amount of money to make it look like they’re having an impact on the never-ending war on drugs.
Any trade deal they strike with Trump is illusory and not worth the paper it’s written on. See, e.g., what happened to the NAFTA deal Trump signed during his first administration. The EU should refuse to play his games and quietly start dumping their substantial holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds.
Remember when in his first term he renegotiated NAFTA? Now that agreement is worthless.
Two out of three ain’t bad.
The irony is that all this will fuck the U.S. way worse than anyone else, boosting the cost of living dramatically. This notion that tariffs will drive manufacturing and production back to the U.S. is a pipe dream, and even if it were to occur it would take a decade to build the factories, infrastructure, and supply lines. Moreover, the tariffs themselves make it much more expensive to shift over to U.S. production. Want to build a factory? You’re going to need steel, copper, lumber, etc., all of which cost way more now because of the tariffs.
What will ultimately happen is this: tariffs will dramatically raise the price of goods (inflation), crush the U.S. economy, and Trump’s new Federal Reserve lackey that he puts into place will lower interest rates to juice the economy, which will exacerbate inflation and likely lead to hyperinflation. There is a reason why gold is in the strongest bull market since the one triggered when the U.S. left the gold standard in 1971. As the situation plays out, more people will begin to recognize it and pile into gold, as real assets like gold hold their value.
Why is he doing this? I think the easiest explanation is that he’s a malignant narcissist, and they crave attention. Look at how much attention he gets every time he slaps tariffs on countries. You can’t look at the news without seeing something about Trump dominating it. In the end, the U.S. will suffer hyperinflation and economic collapse, and the only way forward will be to dramatically scale back spending, which will cause a major depression that I’ve dubbed “The Greatest Depression”.
I learned this one a few year ago, the hard way.
Tesla will go bankrupt before self driving is released.
You and me both.
Unlike Ben Shapiro’s wife.
I live in San Diego, and bike a lot. These bike lanes are all over San Diego. They have small street sweepers that fit in there to clean them.
The City of Vista is a community that is part of the urban San Diego landscape, and a couple of decades back it was somewhat rural, which was changed by the suburban sprawl. However, there are still a lot of rednecks that live there, and bike lanes are often viewed by these folks as “liberal bullshit”, and blame them for displacing car lanes and parking.
While the video notes that some unspecified bike users don’t like the lanes, I’m highly skeptical of that. I ride in similar lanes all over San Diego, and they are a godsend, as they do a good job of keeping cars separated from bikes. A more likely explanation is that the “bikers” complaining are typical conservative rednecks that hate bike lanes in general, and not the people that actually use bike lanes.