Only concentrate on the illegal stuff we are doing right now and forget about all the illegal stuff we did in the past.

->Musk’s team launches the most expensive firework ever blowing up and disrupting air traffic and destroying the environment again for the eighth time

I will happily block you. You are a incapable of not personalizing this whole conversation and any future discussions with you will likely lead to the same outcome.

Please don’t lecture me about bad faith as you engage in bad faith. I will restate my premise that you came across as an apologist. This was a objectively true from my viewpoint as well as your perhaps inadvertent devil’s advocacy (I am being generous here because maybe you have never thought about your behavior in this regard).

He was simply wrong for this statement. It was a half baked political opinion that did more harm than good. This is from the standpoint of an actual leader who has started businesses from the ground up.

You are just learning, and pointing out your own words is not bad faith. Your emotions get the better of you and it becomes about your ego at this point. Your lack of self reflection in this matter is unbecoming.

You can only see better from your point of view that you want more knowledge. Keeping their mouth shut is what leaders do everyday to protect their business, their profits, their coworkers, etc.

I suppose you have to be a knowledgeable leader to understand this. We often thrust people into leadership positions and we end up with people like Andy as a result.

I don’t pretend to the arbitrator of what is right or wrong, but I have learned a lot in my lifetime and calling a spade a spade is something I believe is important. You take all this so personally and thus show a certain level of immaturity as you probably feel I display as well.

Your proof of your political commentary only supports my assertion that you are very technically minded. Your critique of cloud computing shows your technical understanding is profound, but does little to forward a feeling that you are politically minded. You state yourself you are just learning about this which is very clear.

There is nothing to debate because my summary and all your replies just reinforce my opinion of you. This is just my critical opinion though and it is not meant as an attack, but a wake up call. I appreciate the time and effort you put into this even if it is misplaced at best

We all know problems exist. We all know speech has consequences. A leader, particularly in business, has a special fiduciary responsibility to their business. If they choose to expose themselves as politically ignorant and supporting positions that are indefensible the consequences are they will lose business. This is all I am pointing out.

You conflate two things here which are a person’s right to speak their mind and their responsibility to bigger issues. I get you want to hear their opinions and then play devil’s advocate about them because that is just what you do.

You are clearly technically minded but you are also clearly not politically minded. Much like our errant CEO and reminiscent of when a US congressman tries to grasp web technology. They say a lot of ignorant things about tech just like Andy says ignorant things about politics.

Clearly you feel a kinship with this man because you are also heavily invested in the tech world. You defend him because you also admire him. No amount of debate or hand waving will change this immutable fact.

Your don’t really have much of opinion except as an apologist. A devil’s advocate defender of corporate and political nonsense without stating your actual thoughts beyond, “it is more nuanced that that” is pretty disingenuous.

It is okay to have differing opinions when someone’s opinion smells like shit. All the while you pass out the verbal/written clothespins is really just your version of carrying water. I know, I know it is more nuanced than that. Only it really isn’t.

And yes, you should have a degree or really just some critical thinking skills before deploying your wanna be political commentary on the world when you are in a leadership position. Otherwise please keep that shit to yourself and keep it out of your business if you ever want my money.

Read your entire post. You claim people will say you come off as an apologist and you do.

As a person who was seriously considered switching to Proton this just reminds me of why I should not. It is clear no matter what corner of the Internet we run to as long as it is into the open arm of corporations it is a mistake.

Blue sky, Proton, etc. are not a solution to a problem. They are just the newest version of putting lipstick on a pig. We need to move beyond corporate control and it is clear Proton, even being a nonprofit, is no solution.

I find your hand waving of the CEOs position particularly distasteful. There are a lot of CEOs out there that don’t decide to get all political. They don’t do this because they have an image or brand to protect. Maybe I just like a good illusion though.

In this respect I am glad he opened his ignorant mouth and showed he has no business commenting on politics. He is no political scientist, just another person drunk on his accomplishments trying to pretend he knows fuck all about anything.

I can only imagine how insidious this is going to turn in the future. People will undoubtedly use this technology to violate humans in ways we have never even thought of.

Allowing a corporation to control the only thing that person feels love for is a recipe for disaster.

People need connections with other people. This is the antitheses to this need.

I am sorry, but this is a really dumb take. For instance Elon Musk is just one guy but his tweets are boosted straight to the top. The amount of increase is secondary to the amount of exposure.

Maybe there are not a ton of hate mongers out their after all, but if the algorithm pushes them to the top it does not matter. The devil is always in the details.

Pretty much. When all your freedoms are being taking away you have to cling to the few things you are allowed to, even if those things are part of the problem.

The new innovate and the old litigate.

Someone was saying they want to rename it to work around the laws preventing drilling in the Gulf. It sounds really stupid, but that is on par for this shit show of an administration.

The advertisers are coming back, I swear!

Ah yes we can’t have a command economy because it is too complex, but we can build a marketing dossier on every single human being.

That would make a great parody sketch.

Oh they solved it alright. They just make it harder to find matches. Could you imagine the fuckery that goes on with their algorithms. Some engineer dialing back the chance of falling in true love. The executive is like, “We need to turn down finding true love to .0007% because we are losing too many customers!”

We have shareholders to consider! Now get on with your relationship before we unnecessarily cut you off.

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Truth hurts I guess.

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