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Cake day: August 24th, 2023

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  • The difference between now and then though, is they were a private company.

    Unless they disclose they use bots to post content and make the site look active, any use of user count and engagement for any aspect of the company becomes fraud as its misleading investors.

    Oh we have 1 million posts an hour! Fraud.

    Oh we have 100 million monthly active users! Fraud!

    Investors Q/A - do you use bots? Answer No. Fraud.




  • What’s more likely to happen is Starship’s will be launched where the entire ship becomes the telescope, and then we’ll have arrays of these much further away.

    Not sure if it’s the same for radio, but for optical that means we can get a 9 meter mirror up there without any expensive folding mechanism, and who knows how big if we fold them as the fairing is not only wider but also longer.

    Cost would go from billions to hundreds of millions or less. James Webb cost 10b.

    The James Webb folding mirror is 6.5m and was folded into a 4.5m fairing…




  • FDA: Your honor, chemical xyz is dangerous and should be added to the list it causes people’s teeth to fall out.

    Pharma: is losing all your teeth really all that dangerous? We have implants and dentures.

    Judge with dentures: I live just fine, DRUG APPROVED!

    Edit: oh I forgot the best part given the other rulings.

    2 weeks later

    Pharma: Hey judge, here’s $500,000 we really appreciate the work you do and giving us some tips on how to properly file some paperwork.





  • So, I skimmed all the answers and I think everyone is ignoring a critically important aspect.

    As others have said, yes you should get your license for the flexibility it’ll give you. You never know when your life circumstances might change and you need a car, and with graduated licensing it may be over a year or two before you have a full license.

    Now let’s say you decide fuck it and don’t get it.

    You turn 45 and you finally need it for some reason so you get it.

    How many years have you had your license when you then go to insure your first car?

    0 years

    You know what that means? They’ll wreck you on insurance. Even the idea of getting something semi nice (I mean you’re 45 and can afford it) will cost you thousands more in premiums for years to come.

    However if you get your license today, if you were hypothetically 16, that’s 29 years of ‘experience’ that various insurers will count, and you’ll have exceptionally better premiums.

    Not getting it ASAP is going to cost more and more money every year you delay it, up to many thousands of dollars in the future, if you ever change your mind.




  • That number is like 1.5 billion now and rising exponentially fast.

    Also those deaths weren’t all FSD they were AP.

    The report says 1 FSD related (not caused by but related) death. For whatever reason the full details on that one weren’t released.

    Edit: There are billions of miles on AP. In 2020 it was 3 billion

    Edit: Got home and I tried finding AP numbers through 2024 but haven’t seen anything recent, but given 3 billion 2020, and 2 billion in 2019, and an accelerating rate of usage with increased car sales, 2023 is probably closer to 8 billion miles. I imagine we’d hear when they reach 10 billion.

    So 8 billion miles, 16 AP fatalities (because that 1 FSD one isn’t the same) is 1 fatality per 500,000,000 miles, or put into the terms above by per 100mil miles, 0.2 fatalities per 100 million miles or 6.75 times less than a human produces. And nearly all of these fatal accidents were from blatant misuse of the system like driving drunk (at least a few) or using their phone and playing games.