That's Romania saying no to MAGA style populism.

Nobody "made" money here . Ask yourself: who was on the other side of the bet? Pension funds? Retail investors? Insurance companies?

This was a brazen act of highway robbery. There's a reason SEC is supposed to pursue insider trading. Once the trust in the system is lost, the whole thing folds like a wet deck of cards. Supposed to, but they won't do a damn thing about this.

You can't park this at the door of a single individual. This is systemic grift. Fuck the party of law and order.

Everything else aside... What the fuck is so urgent about cutting down forests that you need a emergency order to green-light it?

If the whole MAGA movement starts giving a shit about the environment to "own the libs" , that would be, fucking hilarious.

Painted wall? That's high tech shit.

I got a Tesla from my work before Elon went full Reich 3, and try this:

• break on bridge shadows on the highway
• start wipers on shadows, but not on rain
• break on cars parked on the roadside if there's a bend in the road
• disengage autopilot and break when driving towards the sun
• change set speed at highway crossings because fuck the guy behind me, right?
• engage emergency break if a bike waits to cross at the side of the road

To which I'll add:

• moldy frunk (short for fucking trunk, I guess?), no ventilation whatsoever, water comes in, water stays in
• pay attention noises for fuck-all reasons masking my podcasts and forcing me to rewind
• the fucking cabin camera nanny - which I admittedly disabled with some chewing gum
• the worst mp3 player known to man, the original Winamp was light years ahead - won't index, won't search, will reload USB and lose its place with almost every car start
• bonkers UI with no integration with Android or Apple - I'm playing podcasts via low rate Bluetooth codecs, at least it doesn't matter much for voice
• unusable airco in auto mode, insists on blowing cold air in your face

Say what you want about European cars, at least they got usability and integration right. As did most of the auto industry. Fuck Tesla, never again. Bunch of Steve Jobs wannabes.

"for-profit detention facility"

And there you have it, folks.

A 100% accurate AI would be useful. A 99.999% accurate AI is in fact useless, because of the damage that one miss might do.

It's like the French say: Add one drop of wine in a barrel of sewage and you get sewage. Add one drop of sewage in a barrel of wine and you get sewage.

You've been pirated by a smooth striminal.

But we're the biggest leopard fans! Surely he won't feast on our faces?

Hours spent working is not the same as productivity.

Twice as many people assigned to a project does not double productivity either.

I could go on...

Here's my take: the bear thing is causing such a visceral reaction that it is very hard to take a step back, not take it personally and have a rational discussion about it. Even if you know the statistics. Even if you're absolutely certain you'd do the right thing (or maybe especially then).

I was exposed to a somewhat similar experience in college: while walking through the campus one evening I realised the girl in front of me was a good friend of mine, so I rushed to catch up. When she heard me she quickened her pace close to running, and only stopped when I said her name and something like "wait up!". I was just happy to meet a friend. She, on the other hand, was absolutely terrified, and told me all about it as we walked towards the exit.

That evening I realised that women experience the world much different than men. That there's an underlying level of potential violence that they evaluate and weigh against potential benefits from encounters and interactions with men in almost all social contexts. And knowing that has recalibrated my behaviour to a certain extent, as I realised women can't afford to give me the benefit of the doubt, especially in contexts where they feel vulnerable.

I wish more men would get this point, especially in their formative years. It's not a judgement on their character when women that barely know them are careful around them. Trust needs to be earned. And for a woman, the cost of misplaced trust is too damn high.

When the world starts burning, these guys will be selling marshmallows on the side. Fuck everything about this, from the bottom of my heart.