Sounds like one of russias special military operations war is about to happen.

Let’s assume for a moment that all OS are going to go this way.

Of all the modern well used OS, microsoft is the one I’d trust the least to do it.

I still think there’s a difference.

When people talk about wielding money like power, its more along the lines of

• if you don’t do what I say, I’ll destroy you by doing XYZ.
• you better change your laws or I can fuck shit up in some way.
• I can break the law because you can’t fucking touch me.
• Your example: the power to command other people to do your bidding.

For Twitter he actually used his wealth as actual money to buy something you would buy with money.

He did get power from it yes, but I still think there’s a distinction when talking about wiedling it as power vs using money as money.

Unless you buy Twitter.

These are forward looking claims on something they are building. It’s not quite the same.

FSD is closer, but it is an improving product.

It’d be more like if FSD wasn’t ever improving even and yet he still kept making the claims.

He should still be punished for the FSD stuff though.

The only way a world like this could happen is if the governments get onboard and do a UBI or similar thing.

What’s going to happen is the robots will get made (by someone, eventually) workforces will start laying people off and there won’t be anywhere near enough jobs.

Now there’s 2 options for the USA

1. Government steps in does something to support people to have a comfortable (not poverty life)

2. Government bends to the corpos and does nothing and poverty and suffering skyrockets.

For the USA at least, I can’t see them doing #1. It would take a revolution to make a change like that happen, and it’d be bloody.

Oh also, I don’t understand why they couldn’t put creating dual class shares to a shareholder vote. They claim it’s not possible, but I feel like there are ways around it. Like how alphabet now owns google. Make something that owns Tesla and have that be dual class shares? You could even create rules in the new corporation like new voting right only shares can only be granted by a supermajority of shareholders voting to create them?

He claims he doesn’t want to develop certain things if he can be easily ousted, and if he can’t have that control, he’ll do it elsewhere.

That’s if we take the control part at his word.

Edit: Also not majority, but 20-25%

The realistic issue is he doesn’t need the money. No one needs that amount of money. And to be honest, it’s not money, it’s unrealized wealth in stocks.

He wants more control of Tesla.

When Tesla was incorporated, they decided not to have dual class shares as it was more frowned upon at the time, so it’s impossible to grant him voting shares, that at the same time aren’t worth anything stock price wise.

Companies like Meta have this dual share structure and it’s how Zuckerberg has majority control (58% voting rights) but does not have the value of majority of shares. If Meta didn’t have dual shares and Zuckerberg still had 58%, he’d be worth $899 billion at todays stock price.

The really stupid thing is that Musk had greater control, and then he sold it off to buy Twitter because suddenly Twitter was this life or death for humanity thing to him (lol). This was AFTER for years saying he’d never sell his shares, he’d be first in last out, except for some charity stuff and living expenses.

So we have undeniable proof he’s willing to say he won’t sell shares, and then at a whim buy something worth tens of billions, so without a doubt in my mind, if he gets this extra trillion, his words are worthless on not spending it. He’ll wake up one day and decide to save rule the world he needs to buy CNN, CNBC, PBS etc etc and control everything.

You could also see when he sold stock to buy twitter, that even though on paper he was worth $XYZ the moment he started selling billions of stock, the price plummeted, because the stock price doesn’t actually represent real money, it’s all unrealized until someone tries to use it.

The car has privacy settings, that is not true unless you enable it. It will still send a lot of data, but not everything.

Just in time for all those windows PCs that MS is trying to force people to upgrade

Sometimes it’s explicitly called out for that reason ya. Can’t say all the time though.

But it’s my religious markings from my officially recognized religion/church.

Time to start wearing face paint / face tattoos that fuck with facial recognition.

Netflix new TV UI where you can only see 4 things at once even on a big screen TV is awful. And then, those same titles keep appearing in the new rows as you scroll down, so you aren’t even seeing 4 new things with each down press, you see repeats after repeats.

Did you guys see that AI generated drone show in the sky? Those libtards must be getting super afraid to stoop that low. Hey! Jon! Did you make sure the food bank in that black neighborhood had their deliveries diverted to the dump?

I think I understand skynet now. It must have been a Christian AI and decided it would bring upon the rapture, and no one was worthy.

The good ones leave as things turn to shit, or we’re laid off because their salaries were too high.

I’ve had someone else’s AI summarize some content I created elsewhere, and it got it incredibly wrong to the point of changing the entire meaning of my original content.

What I find interesting is this is something that many people can actually validate themselves, but won’t. It’s one thing to talk about global politics and have a position and be undeterred from it with no real way to concretely get an answer on something, or maybe something that’s unobtainable to them, or would cost a lot of money to verify, but there are numerous L2 systems out there today that anyone can go test drive on the highway and find out for themselves, but many won’t even do that.

The only real excuse would be that you’re too young to test drive a vehicle. Other than that, you should be able to at least have an experienced personal opinion on their usage if you wanted to, like that other person who replied to you and said they didn’t like the older version.