Sounds like something he would say.

“You’ll see. They’ll pay us to receive their products. Soon they’ll pay us. And then we’ll have more dolls than we know what to do with. We’ll have so many dolls.”

That’s kinda how he rolls. Just ignore reality and bully everyone that says otherwise until people are too tired of it and change reality to what he says it is.

They did that to drive up short term ad revenue and it worked, and joy was in their greedy little hearts. They also did figure out that poisoning search results drives away users, and that search is kinda the fastest gateway drug to their entire ecosystem.

But they’re stuck. Fixing search would lower their ad revenue, and stock holders would kill them for that.

"past performance is not indicative of future results¨

An everything bubble pumped up to the max and a bunch of idiots running around stabbing everything to see if it bleeds money. It feels like this will end in “So we broke this one. Can we get a new global economic system? It’s kinda urgent.”

Depends on how much longer they let the president actively make it worse.

I’m surprised there aren’t any geriatric Luigi yet.

Why connect to the Internet with it then

To check if your subscription to their models is still valid of course

Most CEOs do try to stay out of the spotlight. Those that are more in the spotlight at least try to do some positive PR and not rock the boat too much. Security through obscurity if you will.

Of course Musk and Zuckerberg are some of the few that dance with the devil in the spotlight and have made their company/ies their whole personality. They paint their faces larger than life on the company and then act surprised when people take it personally.

He does the Nazi salute on the big stage and it shocked when he gets a collective middle finger salute back.

On the other hand, he went with Trump. Everybody going that way gets burned, used up, and thrown away. That things wouldn’t work out was expected. It’s also suspected that Musk would be used as the wrecking ball to crush institutions and when the inevitable problems arise, Musk would be blamed and tossed aside to keep the rest of the regime in the clear.

In the long term, the domestic industry may grow to the point that it displaces the imports

That’s there idea, but the on-again-off-again tariffs policy creates such an uncertainty and lack of customer demand nobody wants to invest.

Announced since 2014

AI trained on carmageddon

Like many things they won’t bother for occasional personal use, but will come down with the hammer if it turns into a business.

These articles also never mention how this is going to work in the fabric of a city.

Say optimistically a 15 second separation between vehicles, 4 passengers per vehicle, means one ¨sky-lane¨ can transport 60/15 * 60 * 4 => about 1000 people per lane. That´s worse than a car lane, and an order of magnitude behind bicycle lanes and subways. You can stack multiple lanes vertically, but then it becomes more fun with traffic control for take-off and landing and still a bicycle lane transports more people.

So far these things seem better as a city hopper, or used in a rural setting, but the current ones don´t have the range for that either.

Even in cyberpunk these flying cars are only for big corpos and the rich.

They’re already saying in some places the vegetables and eggs in your garden are contaminated with PFAS.

He always wanted to be king, an absolute ruler, and was pretty clear about it, admiring dictators, saying your won’t have to vote anymore. But the speed how this is happening and how he gets away with it is a bit shocking.

Much greater models

It’s Musk, so the new model is simply “the more money you have, the more you receive”

Not a cartoon anymore.