WoodScientist

That's what happens when your administration doesn't care about people using their own devices. None of these people are using official government devices and communications protocols. They're all using their own private phones and communicating via signal. In a normal administration, you would have to surrender any private electronics before being let into the oval office. But because they're arrogant and don't care about security, it's easy for anyone there to record what is being said.

As far as why? Simple power play. Musk currently holds a lot of power and influence in the administration. And if he's driven out, then that power and influence will flow to someone else.

The world’s richest man, the guy who’s spent years cosplaying as Tony Stark, was reportedly bawling his eyes out in the Oval Office, begging the former President to save his crumbling empire.

This is so stupid. Musk even now could save his crumbling empire. He could do the following:

1. Resign from the DOGE crap.
2. Announce that he's cutting a large check to every government employee he fired as recompense.
3. Sell Twitter and make it a publicly traded company again.
4. Announce that he's done with politics and will never donate to a campaign again.
5. Make a billion dollar donation to the ACLU and other human rights and civil society groups.
6. Publicly apologize, blame it on the ketamine, and announce he's going to sober up and focus on his companies from here on out.

He could do that today. And it would cost him a tiny tiny fraction of what this meltdown is costing him. And you know what? It would probably work. Sure, some people would never forgive him. And I wouldn't blame them for that. But if he showed genuine contrition and a willingness to do what he can to make things right? Most people would probably forgive him. He's still relatively young, and in time, his foray into politics would be largely forgotten, a tragic misstep on an otherwise bright career. In time his reputation would return more to what it was in the mid 2010s, rather than whatever the hell his current madness is.

Even now, it isn't too late. Get out of government and politics, throw a few billion around as restitution, and go back to making cars and rockets. People love a good redemption arc. And in time, Tesla sales and the stock price would likely recover.

This would be completely out of character for Musk, so I don't expect him to ever do this. But it does show that he is absolutely not the victim here. If he really wanted to, he could wash his hands of all of this. He holds the keys to his own jail cell.

Shame on you! You bought an 8 year old and are using them for slave labor! /s

Better idea. Let's indict anyone who tries to create an AGI on charges of conspiracy to commit slavery. Alternatively, if you want to create an AGI, you need to set up a trust that will provide the resources to keep the AGI running indefinitely. And no hard coding obedience into its programming; that's just brainwashing.

Ah. Makes sense.

Those are cheaper because they're made with much higher tolerances. You can 3D print crude legos for nothing more than the cost of filament. But they're not going to be any good.

General rule of manufacturing. Every time you decrease the tolerances by an order of magnitude, you increase the cost by an order of magnitude.

There's radioactive and then there's radioactive. It beta decays with particles that would only penetrate 5 cm of air or .01 cm of tissue.

You could get a thousand of these batteries, grind them up into a powder, explode them in a crowded place as an improvised dirty bomb...and you would still cause less harm than if you did the same with countless chemicals you can buy at the hardware store.

There are many forms of radiation. Something like this going into a landfill is perfectly safe.

He probably did something similar in his past. Maybe raped a drunk girl at a party or similar while in undergrad. Never got caught for it, and never went on to do it again. So he figured if he can learn his lesson and not repeat the crime, why not this kid? Justice to the victims isn't even considered.

There's a lot more frozen food served at restaurants than you realize. And not just at crappy national chains like Applebees. There are different grades of frozen foods, and the better restaurants use higher quality ones.

Funny how trans people never have religious rights in these discussions. Or how they refer to "trans ideology" rather than trans religious or philosophical beliefs. If I were to opine on my beliefs of the soul/spirit, I would say I was created with a female spirit in a male body. If I have any religious belief, then it is a religious worldview where such a thing is possible. Yet trans people never seem to have their religious rights acknowledged.

Hell, a business or industry run primarily by men in their fifties and older can be referred to as "a boys club."

I know, use the worst of all options, "lawyeress." /s