Edit: small correction.
> Shares in electric car maker Tesla have slumped more than 9% after EU and UK sales fell by almost half in January.
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Honors_and_recognit...
By US standards, Musk is pretty good. And I doubt there'll be any economic consequences for him no matter what ideologies he holds. The literal next line on Wikipedia is "The United States Postal Service honored Ford with a Prominent Americans series (1965–1978) 12¢ postage stamp".
So look like Musk may have gotten a good deal with the couple hundred million he spent to help get Trump elected.
What do you mean?
https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/t-mobile-starlink-beta...
"T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) introduced the next big thing in wireless — T-Mobile Starlink — to tens of millions of football fans. Now in public beta, this breakthrough service, developed in partnership with Starlink [...]"
Mainstream acceptance was slow up until the last 10 years or so.
I doubt he'll succeed in his efforts. I don't think he cares as much as the people he's targeting care.
Well that's the first problem right there.
Might just be me though.
There must have been 1930s Europeans who checked out of all those news about Hitler, after all. Must have been much better for their peace of mind, until one day suddenly it wasn't.
Since we're on the topic of being informed, there are many books and articles -- spanning almost 100 years now -- that you can spend some time with to better understand how all sorts of different "1930's Europeans" were relating to the happenings of their world.
As you suggest, that kind of insight can be really enlightening.
Most people would be way more informed about current events by sourcing, reading, and reflecting on something like that once a month while absorbing big events through occasional exposure and personal conversation than by anxiously drowning themselves in the noise of 24/7 engagement media.
Being informed doesn't come by catching every bit of rumor and ephemeral trivia scattered across Twitter, but by relating major events to a learned understanding of how they may impact people and communities. For many, this becomes apparent as they live through more news cycles as an anxious news junkie and recognize that only a tiny share of the things they became fixated with actually proved to matter and that most of the people who weren't so caught up in the noise were no less informed about the things that did.
It's actually not nearly so hard to be informed as you might think and a lot of the things that people to do make themselves feel more informed often just distract and confuse them.
If you check the news once a week or once a minute you'll still notice them.
I like the description earlier in the thread of "the carnival". You can leave at any time and your life and dopamine will be the better for it.
Wow, that certainly sounds familiar.
That doesn't mean you support the person who pulled the contract.
You can scream MDS all you want. Most people are done with the meme garbage.
Unfortunately, this is true of a vast range of our institutions—they have abandoned their traditional institutional principles and become progressive advocacy organizations. For example, the ABA is peddling sovereign-citizen level legal conspiracy theories these days: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/women/initiativ...
I looked through the SFFA amicus briefs. Though the winning side was legally correct and also supported by a supermajority of the public, I noticed that every major legal organization and every large law firm was on the losing side that most Americans oppose. We find ourselves in a position where our institutions must be rebuilt from the ground up to regain the public trust.
Nor was I aware that the ABA was part of the government. It's this sort of high quality analysis that keeps me coming back to HN.
> T-Mobile since I canceled my service with them mid-Superbowl when I learned they were collaborating with StarLink
That implies spur of the moment, emotional response.
You are watching the Super Bowl one minute, you see a commercial for T-Mobile, then immediately call to cancel your service in anger? If it happened at all - you must port before cancelling, or lose the number
Glad to see others participating in the "free" market and "voting with our wallets" before that ends up being the only way we can vote. Even more glad Slim is costing him billions compared to my pennies.