[–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Every country subsidizes their industries. The US automakers have gotten tens of billions in bailouts whenever they trip on their face, plus decades of tariffs against cars made outside the US so they play safe in their home market.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    You're an angry little pissant. She said no such thing, she said if she couldn't avoid ending up in a situation where stabbing is a serious concern she had made some poor choices. That's extremely different from 'getting stabbed is the victim's fault', which you chose to read it as. It's the difference between being hit by a drunk driver vs being hit by another car after running a red light. She very clearly listed places she avoids to intentionally reduce the danger of being a victim. Sane non-rage filled people understand the idea of avoiding danger just as they understand that not all people can avoid those situations nor can all danger be predicted.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    They would be nowhere if they didn't have his money. Otherwise Musk actively hinders his companies with his idiocy. This is well known from SpaceX employees.

    https://x.com/yoloption/status/1595213678147764224?mx=2

    The companies' success is from being in fields that the employees are passionate about so they'll grit their teeth and put up with it to be able to work there.

    And fighting for free speech, are you kidding? He's fighting for his own speech period. Anything he doesn't like tends to get journalists temp banned or shadowbanned from Twitter for example.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensions#:~:text=On_December_15,_2022,_Twitter,,_CNN,_and_The_Intercept.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yeah if that's all that needed replacing. The entire system is ancient, not just the disks, like:

    Much more critical than the dated use of floppy disks is the system's loop cable, which transmits data between the central servers and the trains and, according to Roccaforte, "has less bandwidth than an old AOL dial-up modem."

    The SFMTA's website adds:

    The loop cable is fragile and easily disturbed. This makes subway maintenance more difficult. This also means the system cannot be extended outside the subway, along surface rail, where currently we don’t have automatic train control.

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