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glenndebacker commented on Tesla reports 1.1% sales drop for 2024, first annual decline in at least 9 years   apnews.com/article/tesla-... · Posted by u/nancyp
idk1 · a year ago
The CEO of Tesla has just called for the UK govenment to free one of the UK's most prominent far-right activists Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (also known as Tommy Robinson) from prison.
glenndebacker · a year ago
Musk has an affinity for figures like this, and he even had some interactions with this particular individual, who is less well-known.

https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-far-right-prodigy-dr...

Musk tried to frame the situation as if the person was sentenced for sharing memes, but the reality involved more serious charges, including weapons-related offenses.

The same applies to the AFD. In 2022, a group called "Patriotische Union" plotted a coup to overthrow the German government, and several AFD figures were involved in the plan. To now seem him fanboying over AFD is nuts.

glenndebacker commented on X (Twitter) blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier   theverge.com/2024/9/26/24... · Posted by u/jeromegv
listenallyall · a year ago
Documents obtained via hacks don't qualify under "free speech" and should be blocked, just like you'd block a list of people's social security numbers obtained via hacking, or secretly-recorded nude/pornographic material (without the subject's knowledge or consent).
glenndebacker · a year ago
The personal information is blacked out... and Elmo still seem to block people for 12 hours when you share the link.
glenndebacker commented on Starlink Defies Order to Block X in Brazil   nytimes.com/2024/09/01/wo... · Posted by u/_han
seydor · a year ago
It's one thing leading to the other. It is what it is.

Are the judge's (possibly illegal) moves motivated by interpretation of the law or by personal vendetta?

Hard to tell , but i'm glad for less censorship.

glenndebacker · a year ago
What illegal actions? I did some research instead of blindly following our so-called genius who claims it's against Brazilian constitutional law because Starlink is a separate entity. It actually appears to be perfectly legal and in line with the law.

"However, Brazilian law, specifically the Civil Code and the Consumer Defense Code, includes a mechanism known as "desconsideração da personalidade jurídica" (piercing the corporate veil). This legal principle allows courts to disregard the separate legal personality of a company in cases where there is evidence of fraud, misuse of the corporate form, or abuse of rights.

If an owner uses multiple companies in a way that is fraudulent or meant to evade the law, the courts can "pierce the corporate veil" and hold the owner and their other companies liable. This means that if there is a proven link between the misconduct in Company A and other companies owned by the same person, those other companies could potentially be affected."

glenndebacker commented on AnandTech Farewell   anandtech.com/show/21542/... · Posted by u/janice1999
jonatron · a year ago
Reviews for components are better in written form than video form, yet you can see by the number of YouTube views what people are using. I guess it doesn't help that it feels like there hasn't been an increase in performance to price ratio for GPU's in the longest time.
glenndebacker · a year ago
The ridiculously high prices of GPUs have really taken the fun out of hardware for me. I used to follow hardware developments closely, but now I upgrade much less often so that also stopped.
glenndebacker commented on Elon Musk deletes post spreading fake news about UK 'detainment camps'   politics.co.uk/news/2024/... · Posted by u/hn1986
Daunk · a year ago
Not trying to be rude, just curious—why are people so obsessed with Elon Musk, whether positively or negatively?

I don't see this kind of attention given to figures like Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, or Warren Buffett.

glenndebacker · a year ago
Is the issue that they don’t provide a platform to Nazis—sometimes literally Nazis or descendants of Nazi collaborators, as we see here in mainland Europe?

I’ve seen him retweet a false narrative from a local known guy deep in the Blood, Soil, Honour, and Loyalty scene, who has made headlines for posting the most vile content imaginable even going to camps in East-Europe to "train for the race war". And when people makes him aware, he doesn't care one bit.

But that’s not even the main problem. If he claims to be a free speech absolutist, why does Twitter overlook racial slurs and violent threats but deem the word 'cisgender' problematic?

glenndebacker commented on Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now   arstechnica.com/cars/2024... · Posted by u/chriscasarez
teachmetolearn · a year ago
Im excited to see what happens with the humanoid.

Software has been holding back robotics for a while.

Tesla pouring money training humanoids with state of the art neural nets could lead to something disruptive.

glenndebacker · a year ago
Yes and it just around the corner presumably next year.
glenndebacker commented on Elon Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott'   apnews.com/article/x-sues... · Posted by u/healsdata
msie · a year ago
It sickens me whenever I read comments under one of Elon's posts on X. 99.9% of them are from followers deluded into thinking that Elon is a champion of free speech and he is saving democracy.
glenndebacker · a year ago
I can’t comment for other countries but here the local Elon shills are mostly supporters of parties that are sometimes literally descendants of nazi collaborators that see him as the freedom of speech king while celebrating the fact that you can’t say cisgender…
glenndebacker commented on Downing Street condemns Elon Musk for claim 'civil war is inevitable' in UK   independent.co.uk/news/uk... · Posted by u/pera
throwaheyy · a year ago
Elon Musk is like Donald Trump. They will say anything, whether they actually believe it or not, to get more attention on themselves and try to stay relevant.
glenndebacker · a year ago
I think it’s an extreme version of Schadenfreude. Wasn’t that also something that came up in his biography that he is addicted to drama?

To be honest I don’t think he believes this extreme right wing ideology but stirs the pot for his own twisted entertainment.

glenndebacker commented on     · Posted by u/pajop
glenndebacker · a year ago
I got the chills and it made me even a bit ill. Musk reminds me so much of my abusive father. He's the victim. The fact that his child doesn't want to have anything with him is not because of his actions but something external in society. They are all against him. He is in essence fighting against injustice.

And in the end it's not about the child but the narcissism that can deal with the situation. They also tend to (ab)use it to leverage when they want something else or explain their actions.

That he had a troublesome relationship with his own father also is something typical. Some of the victims tend to go another path or seem to do the same. You also see that behaviour with sexual predators that have been abused themselves.

The only difference is my father did not have the wealth and the power to do a lot of harm, Musk really can.

glenndebacker commented on Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate   twitter.com/JoeBiden/stat... · Posted by u/jsheard
drexlspivey · a year ago
Would you hire him for any role in your company in his current state?
glenndebacker · a year ago
Would you hire Trump for any role in your company?

u/glenndebacker

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