@juergen@feddit.org “Fuck Elon” is becoming the punch buggy of this generation.
Combine a toxic brand with a level of ridiculously poor Quality Control we haven’t seen from a US automaker since the Saturn brand, and you get a price point/distressd asset that PE will be looking at. They’ve already calculated the value of selling Tesla for parts and just waiting for the stock to hit a number to act. Elon is so over leveraged, there will be nothing he can do to stop it.
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
@yogthos@lemmy.ml @Xanza@lemm.ee there ARE city owned fiber and wireless networks. The dark fiber bought up in the early 2Ks to form the existing Internet2 that connects Research 1 universities and many other non-commercial entities is also real.
You CAN in fact communicate using open standards like DNS, SMTP or even ActivityPub between some points without using a service or network owned by a billionaire. What you CANNOT do is communicate without hardware made by billionaires. Even if you did manage to create a compute device using open hardware to create and consume the communication, traffic over that fiber is being routed with some very expensive, very proprietary hardware.
My point is that it IS possible and there have been a few people who are not only NOT lazy, but visionary thinkers motivated by more that greed building protocols, tools and networks.
DNS, TCP/IP and HTTP were all designed to function if large parts of the network were no longer available. They were more concerned with nuclear war at the time, but the design works just as well to route around walled gardens.
I agree that most people are too lazy to care… let alone take any action to change the status quo, but here we are discussing this through MBin/Lemmy./ActivityPub.
@Tea@programming.dev being threaten with jail time and fines won’t be enough, but the potential punishment needs to be so severe and harasment so relentless they’d consider hanging themselves instead. Aaron Swartz will not be forgotten.
@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world my kids (8 and 11) play “fuck elon”. It’s slugbug for cybertucks. We don’t encourage profanity, but don’t punish them when they use it appropriately. This seems VERY appropriate.
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@Majorllama@lemmy.world our dog is trained IF we give him a command like “leave it” BEFORE instict kicks in. If we see another dog while walking, “leave it” works. If we knew the ad was coming, we’d be fine. We’re usually half watching dumb tv to wind down when our dog tries to save us from dog on the other side of the glass. Once he’s in “holy shit, they’re coming to kill my pack mode”, we can only turn the tv off. Can’t pause the ad. Can’t even swith services since our “smart” tv continues playing the previous video in 1/4 of the screen while selecting another app.
Our dog is only 2. If he’s like every other dog we’ve owned l, he will either accept that nothing ever comes through the tv or no longer have the energy to defend his pack.
@hark@lemmy.world
@drmoose@lemmy.world
When I learned to write headlines 30 years ago, the goal was to capture the gist of the article. We’d write something like…
Proposd Take It Down Law Would Be Used as a Weapon
I’m not sure it’s possible to train AI to write effectively headlines after 20 years of clickbaiting and controversy “journalism”.
@AidsKitty@lemmy.world
@juergen@feddit.org Are you a Tesla owner who only charges at Telsa charging stations? Tesla doesn’t even own the majority of charging stations in the US. They only recently started allowing non-Teslas to use their chargers. Where did you think all the other EVs were charging?
Tesla will be taken over by PE who will sell off the charging network. Once rebranded as ChargePoint or Electrify America, they will will no lobger be targeted by vandalism and arson. The cost of removing the toxic Tesla brand isn’t trivial, but the locations and infrastructure have value. They won’t just be turned off when there is profit to made.
https://evadoption.com/ev-charging-stations-statistics/us-charging-network-rankings/