I literally just had this happen last night, but like 5am.

Can’t anything make it to the supreme court with enough money?

It doesn’t mean they’ll hear it, but you get to be declined like this?

I wonder if they used this logic, if people who wanted an abortion within the time frame of the ruling and finding out they were pregnant could sue.

Like - I had already conceived before your ruling on Roe vs Wade, so that decision was made based off existing laws, so I should have been allowed the abortion.

Sue for the entire cost of raising those children.

I think a comic of ICE agents walking into Wisconsin homes and then walking out with already bought food would be pretty good.

To be fair, our FPTP system does tend to create majority governments so this wouldn’t ever be an issue then as they can pass anything they want. We might be having an election though if this current minority government budget fails which it might.

It’d be nice if we could move to proportional representation though as majority governments are almost always with well less than 50% of the vote and vote splitting fucks things up for center/ledt parties and let’s the conservatives win more because they consolidated into 1 party including all the extreme right whackjobs

No, you are right, things don’t just stop when that happens. I imagine funding could lapse if it was about to lapse, but just because there isn’t a budget passed yet doesn’t mean its immediately going to lapse.

If we somehow had a budget fail, and for some reason took 6 months to have an election (would never happen), we might run into funding issues?

Not really.

In Canada and other parliamentary type systems, failing to pass a budget triggers an election.

I still think there’s a difference.

When people talk about wielding money like power, its more along the lines of

• if you don’t do what I say, I’ll destroy you by doing XYZ.
• you better change your laws or I can fuck shit up in some way.
• I can break the law because you can’t fucking touch me.
• Your example: the power to command other people to do your bidding.

For Twitter he actually used his wealth as actual money to buy something you would buy with money.

He did get power from it yes, but I still think there’s a distinction when talking about wiedling it as power vs using money as money.

Unless you buy Twitter.

These are forward looking claims on something they are building. It’s not quite the same.

FSD is closer, but it is an improving product.

It’d be more like if FSD wasn’t ever improving even and yet he still kept making the claims.

He should still be punished for the FSD stuff though.

The only way a world like this could happen is if the governments get onboard and do a UBI or similar thing.

What’s going to happen is the robots will get made (by someone, eventually) workforces will start laying people off and there won’t be anywhere near enough jobs.

Now there’s 2 options for the USA

1. Government steps in does something to support people to have a comfortable (not poverty life)

2. Government bends to the corpos and does nothing and poverty and suffering skyrockets.

For the USA at least, I can’t see them doing #1. It would take a revolution to make a change like that happen, and it’d be bloody.

Did you hear about the massive improvement on egg prices and it’s $0.12 a dozen now!

They’ll just lie about it working in NY and say it’s not.

Say it’s not, even in the face of irrefutable proof, and their brain dead supporters will eat it up and parrot it.

Oh also, I don’t understand why they couldn’t put creating dual class shares to a shareholder vote. They claim it’s not possible, but I feel like there are ways around it. Like how alphabet now owns google. Make something that owns Tesla and have that be dual class shares? You could even create rules in the new corporation like new voting right only shares can only be granted by a supermajority of shareholders voting to create them?

He claims he doesn’t want to develop certain things if he can be easily ousted, and if he can’t have that control, he’ll do it elsewhere.

That’s if we take the control part at his word.

Edit: Also not majority, but 20-25%

The realistic issue is he doesn’t need the money. No one needs that amount of money. And to be honest, it’s not money, it’s unrealized wealth in stocks.

He wants more control of Tesla.

When Tesla was incorporated, they decided not to have dual class shares as it was more frowned upon at the time, so it’s impossible to grant him voting shares, that at the same time aren’t worth anything stock price wise.

Companies like Meta have this dual share structure and it’s how Zuckerberg has majority control (58% voting rights) but does not have the value of majority of shares. If Meta didn’t have dual shares and Zuckerberg still had 58%, he’d be worth $899 billion at todays stock price.

The really stupid thing is that Musk had greater control, and then he sold it off to buy Twitter because suddenly Twitter was this life or death for humanity thing to him (lol). This was AFTER for years saying he’d never sell his shares, he’d be first in last out, except for some charity stuff and living expenses.

So we have undeniable proof he’s willing to say he won’t sell shares, and then at a whim buy something worth tens of billions, so without a doubt in my mind, if he gets this extra trillion, his words are worthless on not spending it. He’ll wake up one day and decide to save rule the world he needs to buy CNN, CNBC, PBS etc etc and control everything.

You could also see when he sold stock to buy twitter, that even though on paper he was worth $XYZ the moment he started selling billions of stock, the price plummeted, because the stock price doesn’t actually represent real money, it’s all unrealized until someone tries to use it.

The car has privacy settings, that is not true unless you enable it. It will still send a lot of data, but not everything.

holy fuck.

what is wrong with people.