Shortly before that, I was working in autonomous vehicle research. His "Tesla's are now fully self driving" complete lie was so disastrous for the field.

It made it hard to sell "AV is a solvable problem but we still need to research it, and research what we can do in a post-AV world". His cars didn't even use LIDAR!

Reddit timeline:

• "Child porn is the last bastion of free speech" ❌
• "Bacon is tasty" ❌
• "We must stop SOPA" ✅
• "We caught the Boston Bomber!" ❌
• "PETA is stupid" ❌
• "Elon Musk is so epic, yay space!" ❌
• "It's about ethics in games journalism" ❌
• "The fappening" ❌
• "Ellen Pao is a bitch!" ❌
• "We must save net neutrality" ✅ (kinda)
• "General agreement that Donald Trump sucks" ✅
• "Spez is an asshole and this API change is bad" ✅
• "Spacegoating protest voters for Trump's election" ❌

While that's the big appeal with Linux, you can do this natively in MacOS's terminal, and with only a little bit of extra pain in Powershell on Windows :^)

That said, "terminal works good" is one of the big Linux > MacOS >>> Windows thing. Now you can write down that ffmpeg command you did and save it in a grimoire for future use! :D

the true ffmpeg experience

I’ve never splone vicariously, personally.

yes

twinsies i had a falafel wrap for lunch from the syrian restaurant near work today

I should get falafel..

UPDATE: I kind of just shoved the receipt into my purse so I didnt notice until now that they somehow gave me the receipt from someone else's order

I already knew about him for years before that and thought he sucked 😏

remember when he called a guy a paedophile because that guy said that elon musk wasn't helpful rescuing those thai boys who got stuck in a cave? crazy that he is now the leader of the free world but that's just how it goes sometimes i guess

UPDATE: It's pretty good. Not as well wrapped as the other place though, it was messy to eat because the filling kept spilling out all over the place

UPDATE: went to a different place i haven't been to to get my falafel wrap, will update if it's good or not

Yeah I mean I just found him irritating. I didn't think he was like... You know. Like this.

Yeah I don't remember when I found out about the emerald mine.

well he's always been rich off apartheid emerald mine money so uh worth hating from the start lol

I knew he was bad since the hyperloop bullshit happened and fucked up transport all across the country, as morons started waiting for something that was never going to exist. But I'll be honest. I didn't think he was this evil. My bad I guess

hating any billionaire is always a winning move.

You were right then as you are now. Let the "I told you so" flow through you.

there is, it's called being a capitalist

Maybe a vicarious spleen.

nonbinary people in the line to get romanticised, stay in line

i'm picturing more of an "facebook and discord are down forever? okay, i don'y need a router"

russia and china and iran all have different examples and degrees of separation from the rest of the internet. the UK is trying to backdoor encryption in a way which will force companies to choose to compromise or leave.

in the US, we have differing censorship laws fracturing the internet across different states, and the legal framework and precedent for banning apps.

we also have undersea cables being cut, which is very new i think (november and december 2024.

i'm imagining what might happen if we have a few "we bombed us-east-1" or "texas is doing ercot but for internet" incidents in the span of a year. but it's not something worth time worrying about yet i think

like… think about it. the web is obscenely valuable, and the icann is headquartered in one of the more socially progressive states in the us (california). if america dissolves california will be in an extremely good diplomatic position because its exports will basically be internet regulation and a large portion of the us entertainment industry

given at this point that it’s a piece of global infrastructure managed by a nonprofit with offices across the world i imagine the web is going to outlast the us tbh