Okay, but a bunch of highly paid lobbyists just showed up to bribe and browbeat us into caving immediately

Why even be president if you can’t get weird with it?

It’s been something of a round-robin of oligarch friendly presidents year by year since Park’s assassination in '79.

That might be part of the problem.

So, funny story, this is the sixth South Korean President to come under indictment.

Recent and Notable Imprisonments:

• Yoon Suk Yeol (Served 2022–2025): Sentenced to life in prison in February 2026 for leading an insurrection after briefly imposing martial law in December 2024.
• Park Geun-hye (Served 2013–2017): Impeached, removed from office, and sentenced to 25 years for corruption and abuse of power.
• Lee Myung-bak (Served 2008–2013): Sentenced to 15 years for embezzlement and bribery.
• Chun Doo-hwan (Served 1980–1988): Convicted of mutiny, treason, and corruption in 1996.
• Roh Tae-woo (Served 1988–1993): Convicted of treason, mutiny, and corruption, serving over two years.
• Roh Moo-hyun (Served 2003–2008): Committed suicide while under investigation for corruption.

Almost every living former leader since the 1980s has been jailed, marking a pattern of post-presidential legal proceedings

Cool that these officials do get prosecuted. But maybe we should consider how they get elected to begin with.

Something was that the less expensive the car, the better it was on fuel economy, seems logical once you think about it.

Nobody (expecting to win) is street racing a Volt or a Prius, to be sure.

So there’s little incentive to cheat emissions standards in order to juice performance.

While most hybrids are said to use one to two litres of fuel per 100km, a study claims they need six litres on average

I can say from personal experience that my Chevy Volt gets around 40-60mpg when it kicks over to gas. That said, it rarely does, because my daily commute comfortably inside the battery’s range.

Until now it has been claimed by manufacturers that the vehicles used only a little or almost no fuel when in the electric mode. The studies showed that this was not in fact the case.

Again, I’ve got a tank of fuel from… several months ago? Barely 7 gallons and it hasn’t run out. Like, I almost never visit the gas station anymore. So, idk. Maybe the Volt was just built better.

No country has ever had such a massive home market before China

glances at India

But then that’s just the BRICS in a nutshell. Five countries with enormous internal consumer demand, which can afford to develop domestically to meet the needs of their local populations without worrying too much about export markets.

For starters, SpaceX, which operates the Starlink satellite network, has purchased over 1,000 Tesla Cybertrucks as of late 2025.

Meanwhile, Police departments across the U.S. - particularly in California - are increasingly adopting Tesla vehicles (Model Y, Model 3, and Cybertruck) for patrol and administrative use. South Pasadena (CA) became the first U.S. city to switch its entire police patrol fleet to electric vehicles. Other departments, including Anaheim and Fremont, are using Tesla Model Ys for patrol. The Las Vegas Metro Police Department is introducing a fleet of 10 Cybertrucks for patrol and tactical use, specifically highlighting their safety features (bullet-resistant). A Texas school district created it’s own police force to be equipped with 9 Tesla cruisers two years back.

The Model Y is the new Crown Vic.

there’s zero evidence that anyone can actually produce hyper-advanced automation

There’s plenty of evidence (Waymo, for instance, or Xaiome) that companies can produce “good enough” advanced automation. Tesla’s just not the guy to make it happen. Same with AI. Very possible to produce useful tools (Alibaba’s Deepseek, Insilico Medicine’s Pharma.AI, etc) with LLMs. Sam Altman’s just not doing it.

Ed Zitron is completely correct, but he’s also making exactly the same argument I am; that these people cannot actually achieve the technological revolution they are promising.

Zitron’s heavily focused on the economics. Specifically, he’s fixated on the cost of running the American data centers relative to their prospective future revenues and profit horizons. He’s not even “anti-Tech” relatively speaking. He’s just reading balance sheets and doing basic math on depreciation rate of hardware to conclude the current business models won’t work.

This isn’t to say it can’t happen. It’s to say these businesses won’t make it happen.

The problem is not how they’re pricing the outcome

This is where we’re in disagreement. They’re pricing their outcomes totally wrong, even in their self-proclaimed “best case scenario”. That’s leading them toward malinvestment - heavy spending on hardware and brute force algorithms. Marginal investment on material applications and workflow integrations that benefit anyone.

This isn’t a probability problem where they can luck into a multi-trillion dollar windfall.

Remember WeWork?

Boy howdy. You know Adam Neumann is still worth $2.2B?

Crazy how that happens.

The problem is that hyper-advanced automation is essentially unpriceable.

I mean, I could point you to a few economics journalists who would argue otherwise. Ed Zitron’s been screaming about the downfall of AI for the last two years straight.

But the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, as the saying goes.

It’s an entire industry shilling a fantasy on the back of some very impressive sales demos.

Doesn’t hurt to have a bunch of tech-friendly goobers running state and federal governments who are turning out the taxpayer’s wallet to finance these hallucinations.

they’re evaluating it as a software company, not a car company.

That still doesn’t justify the valuation. Tesla’s market cap is 3x Oracle’s, ffs. It’s half of a Microsoft. No software they produce can justify this valuation.

Palantir and NVIDIA have the same hyper-inflated position. Nothing in their projected revenue figures can explain their company’s valuation, unless you’re just hand-waving and predicting 10-20x growth over the next decade.

Tesla is easily the single best demonstration of how fucked our economic system really is. That a company can so blatantly lie, over and over, about what their products can actually do, and somehow continue to see their share price increase tells you everything you need to know about how utterly fictitious the entire notion of the stock market is.

Warren Buffet definitely gearing up to print off another deck of “Fell For It Again” awards. Only question is when they get handed out.

Tesla global sales by year compared to Ford and Toyota

The incredible thing isn’t the slight down tick in sales last year (on par with most international car companies), but that Tesla has a market cap that exceeds both of these mega-manufacturers despite being dwarfed in both assets and revenues.

On paper, they have so much farther to fall than what these short term sales shortfalls imply. But then this is a car company that’s defied gravity for a decade. Consider that each vehicle Tesla sells reflects $700k - $1M in market cap. On a $60k-$110k vehicle.

All their valuation is predicated on future predicted returns on the technology rather than current sales figures. And I don’t know when that will actually change.

The only county Steven Miller doesn’t seem to mind holding dual citizenship

Average American logic process

But that’s murder!

Guy was showing off his Glock during a family get together and the gun discharged because he didn’t know how to handle it properly.

GJ chose not to indict on the charges the DA tried to bring.

people can’t accept Trump is GAY.

Cause there’s no evidence

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Same reason he roots for his local football team

I am pretty sure his first wife admitted he was GAY

I really do wonder where people get this stuff, or why they need to put “GAY” in all caps