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Crazy times

What a bunch of bellyachin'

I would not say I missed them

That he used this episode to put it out there.

It does not make it untrue, or true. It just feels disingenuous.

I am pretty tired of Martin Floreani. That post was just his personal grievance. I watched the Flo clip and thought it was fine. Sure, a bit defensive, but fine.

The point of conflicts is to avoid them, not to wait until there is evidence that what was knowable before hand actually occurred.

The last refuge of the willfully ignorant. Believe what you want to believe in spite of evidence to the contrary.

I said what I was afraid of.

conflict is not a synonym for experience

You can take the quote marks off of conflicted. It is a long, high dollar list: Tesla is the largest beneficiary of zero-emission credits from the government that they turn around and sell to other manufacturers for billions (you can see this in Tesla earnings). Note: Weren't you against EVs? Tesla's Gigafactory in Nevada received $330mm in tax credits. What are the odds he will determine a tax credit for one his projects is not efficient? SpaceX has a $2.89 billion contract to develop a lunar lander. Is there any chance that putting people on the moon will be deemed redundant by Musk? Do we need people on the moon? What if it costs $3 billion? SpaceX, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance all compete for government contracts. What are the chances a Blue Origin contract proposal will be deemed less competitive? What happens if Musk is allowed to see a Blue Origin or United Launch Alliance contract? Is that anti-competitive behavior? In total SpaceX has gotten in excess of $19 billion in contracts. Who will decide if those are efficient? Do we expect Musk to tell us when he padded the contract too much? Musk has often broken securities laws which sometimes lands him in trouble with the SEC. Will he decide the SEC is inefficient and move to cut funding? What about other agencies that regulate his companies?

But is the single most conflicted person the right one to do it?

I am going to say final 3 ala Blaze and Purdue.

Love that you have Verne Gagne in there.

Those are not the same. I refer you to the "let's not be naive" portion of my post. Note to @BobDole the site is trying to tell me naive is spelled wrong. It is not.

Untrue. How do you think the waste got there in the first place? So that this Senator, or that Representative, could brag to their constituents that money was being spent in their district (and that is the benign view). Everyone wants to cut the other guy's waste, not their own. But they all make deals with each other of the form, if you vote for mine I will vote for yours. It is mutually assured destruction. Kind of like the cop shows where the dirty cops need to make sure ALL the cops are dirty. Now, Musk's idea to publicize it all has promise. It is the only thing I can think of that MAY work. But let's not be naive and pretend this isn't promised in every campaign, but never delivered. Trump's swamp draining promise is still a pipe dream, after all. I side with @VakAttack in the worry that the fox will be in charge of the hen house. The government already has a Musk problem. He violates numerous rules for contractors, but gets away with it because they no longer can launch a rocket without him. There is a saying in finance. If you owe the bank $1 million and cannot pay, you have a problem. But if you owe the bank $100 billion and cannot pay, the bank has a problem. The same is happening with Musk and the government.

Sadly, I think it does.

If nothing else he should consider the shoes. It would be so much harder to leave those on the mat.

I think we have our answer to the original question

It really is not a quote if you replace it with your own words. Nor did I make the claim you are objecting to. Caveira asked a specfiic question that I gave a direct answer to. As for streamlining operations, it is related to why advertisers cut back. Those streamlined operations included cutting back on content moderation to such an extent that advertisers were appearing along side content that they did not want to appear along side of.

It does sound awful. I do not envy anyone tasked with doing it.

Yes. As near as I can tell one season has nothing to do with the other.

I am really pulling for Sasso to have a good season

USA Today 11/2/24 The valuation of social media platform X has dropped dramatically in the eyes of major investment firm Fidelity, according to multiple reports. The market value of Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund's shares in the private company is estimated at $4.2 million, according to a monthly report released Sunday. That's 79% less than the fund's estimate of its shares in October 2022 when Elon Musk took over Twitter, which were valued at $19.66 million. Applying the shares' relative decline to the total value of X when it was purchased would indicate a $9.4 billion overall valuation, a steep drop from the $44 billion that Musk paid in the acquisition. MarketWatch 8/20/2024 Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter Inc. has emerged as the worst buyout since the global financial crisis for seven large financial institutions that provided debt for the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The deal has now run up about $13 billion in so-called hung debt, which is money owed to banks that has not been sold partly because the value of the underlying asset has dropped so sharply due to its weak performance.

I have only seen the season with John Hamm, Juno Temple, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Highly recommended.