@DailySquibs A fever-dream of a movie.
I felt bad for Owen and Bellucci starring in it, and worse for myself for watching it, yet there's more than a bit of enjoyment as well. Squibs indeed got a workout.
@wokegoldenboy@lukeburgis OK. How's he gonna do it? Novel research? Steal other people's like Sama? Some other yet-to-be-defined-miracle?
This same pitch has been made for the last 30 years and you're just falling for it, again and again and again, because, hey! eventually they have to be right, right?
My problem is the generalities and platitudes.
For a man, supposedly with his arms around the technology to usher in a new age, his delivery and manner of talking may convince an uninterested thirteen-year-old, but for anyone who's had marketing schtick tossed at them for a few years/decades, this pitch puts me to sleep.
Maybe it's unfair, but when Elon discusses his companies, he's upfront about the challenges: managing heat dissipation in space for orbital data centers, transit times to Mars, decreasing engine mass while increasing thrust. He may not be the discoverer or lead engineer, but you get the sense that Elon very much has his finger on the pulse of what's coming, what's holding him back and what the promise is.
Dario talks way too much like a marketer with generic product A to pitch to the Shady Acres Old Folks investment club.
Simply a facet of the MBAification of corporate America
MBAs come in, see the salaries of experienced, productive staff and position their axe there. Staff are either not replaced or outright laid off. Decades of undocumented knowledge is lost. "We don't know how to go to the moon any more."
Barely any major US corporations have an in-house R&D team, let alone do internal projects. They would rather pay a premium to grow thru acquisition. It's not cheaper because acquisition costs are astronomical and there is little to no-chance the acquired product has synergy with current in-house brands. So that "synergy" has to be shoehorned in after the purchase.
Same with manufacturing. Hide the drop in product quality, increase in warranty claims and drop in customer satisfaction witha short-term "savings" in off-shoring.
The MBA as a degree type has done at least as much damage to the US as the JD.
@FischerKing64 You can't perform a successful color revolution without having control of, or co-opting, the military leadership.
That's why they're going after Hegseth.
Wow, you know absolutely fuckall about addicts.
That isn't how it works at all.
See all that shit about atherosclerosis in the certificate YOU posted? Lowers the lethal amount.
See the shit about cardiac stress from the arrest in the certificate that YOU posted? Lowers the lethal dose.
See the shit about recent meth use in the certificate that YOU posted? Lowers the lethal dose.
Just shut the fuck up about this and take a big "L", dumbass
@BillMelugin_ Aaaaaannnnnd ...
Absolutely fuckall has been learned. Senate Republicans deserve an even worse beating in 2028. They not only made their bed, they took a huge dump right on the pillow.
They may as well make Scott Galloway their spirit animal
NGL, as soon as I saw the woman deputy, I knew homeboy was gonna escape.
She fucked up the first shooting lines and then failed to cover the one place he could run from. As if that wasn't enough, her foot pursuit looked like she was running through wet cement. Unreal levels of incompetence
@BovrilG The child plus that set of Russian vacuum tubes which you totally have been looking for since those cheap Chinese ones started ringing microphonically and ruining your stereo rig
@Rich_Cooper A hard 4, sitting six points too high on the BMI scale tells on herself:
>A boyfriend is going to have a low ego (dating her? for sure)
>A boyfriend is going to accuse you of cheating
Oh my, dear. What else did you do wrong?
The most morbid story about Stephen King is that his daughter basically displays every single textbook coping strategy for adult survivors of child sexual abuse (so does Ellen Page for that matter)