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Tell me he did not say this. It's like Elon's playing a game to see what he can get away with. Like a child might when testing boundaries. Oh wait, narcissists actually have the emotional maturity of a child...
"SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026, Elon Musk says"
This guy is delusional. This was a bribe to curry favour.
"Documentary filmmaker Stefano Da Frè, who was not involved in the project told CNN that Amazon would have done their homework before making that kind of outlay, explaining that Amazon “is a data-driven company.
“With all their tools, all their AI, Amazon Web Services — they didn’t just come up with that number randomly,” he said. “They believe, through their metrics, that it’s worth that amount.”
@pluralistic points out that
"a manufacturer can sell you a device and then mandatorily update it at a later date to take away its functionality, and then sell that functionality back to you as a “subscription”
And then gives example after example after example, etc of how this keeps happening.
As a Canadian, I favour less coupling with the USA, not more. This is not great.
"The USHL is applying to join the CHL.
"If you’re not a hockey fan, here’s the shorthand. The USA’s lone major junior league is now trying to join Canada’s major junior system. If it goes through, the USHL becomes the fourth league eligible to compete for the prestigious Memorial Cup."