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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.

The personal information is blacked out... and Elmo still seem to block people for 12 hours when you share the link.

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."

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.

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?

Yes and it just around the corner presumably next year.

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…

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.

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.

Would you hire Trump for any role in your company?

The fixed schedule is the case for most EU countries, in Belgium every 4 year we go out and vote.

The only possible way to vote earlier is when a government falls and they write out new elections but that is extremely rare.

It helps me to code (or helped me with mathematical concepts that I find difficult to implement or would take me a lot of time) but then again I use it for generating mainly graphics related code in Blender or as part of a grasshopper script so the code doesn't that much as the correct output.

That being said, I often come in a situation that its not the code that is bad but the solution. Where I need to tell the LLM that it's not logical to do it in a certain way leveraging on my own knowledge.

I've noticed that when using a language model for rephrasing text it also sometimes seem to miss important details because it clearly has no real understanding of the text.

It's not a problem when you are aware of it and with some follow up input you can get it mitigated, but often I see that people tend to take the first output of these systems at face value. People should be a bit more critical in that regards.

Don't know in the States but here in Europe I think it will hurt Tesla. The only ones that are really supporting Elon are the same people who deny climate change and are against EV cars, solar energy, batteries where they suddenly are caring for coloured people in the mines,...

Empirical but I know a lot of Tesla drivers that are looking for a different brand when their lease is over. Although its not only about his politics but also quality, broken promises,... .

You should really read the book “How democracies die” for some insights and signals how it begins.

Maybe it’s because I’m from Europe and there are numerous examples (Germany, Spain, Italy,…) how it starts, but there is no single bone in my body that does not think that Trump has the same traits. (Not that the solution should be violence)

And the problem is that “the shining city upon the hill” is dimming and it’s becoming more and more a bad example for other countries. I never ever would think to live in an age that political parties would question if we should throw basic human rights in the trash while dealing with people we don’t want.

The situation in Europe is worsening rapidly, and it's not just in Greece—it's a trend across several countries. The rise of nationalist parties has increased the influence of corporate lobbies as well.

Migrants frequently bear the brunt of blame in this environment. Additionally, there's a troubling misuse of subsidies and tax breaks, with funds often channelled to companies who exploit them solely to boost their profits, rather than fulfilling their intended benefits.

Certainly, in Belgium, this issue is significant. We allocate billions in tax breaks for research and innovation, yet politicians sometimes appear at technology fairs showcasing outdated VR technology as if it were still groundbreaking in 2014. Now, they are using lag in the development of AI as a way to justify new tax breaks, all the while proposing cuts to social benefits.

In Belgium, the "loonnormwet" or "wage norm law" controls how much workers are paid to ensure the country stays competitive. Jobs are also classified into pay scales based on their type and the qualifications needed.

This means that even if technical jobs are in high demand, if you have a lower educational degree — which is often the case — you might not earn much more because of it. As a result, these jobs may not attract many job seekers.

This situation creates a cycle where lower wages make these jobs less desirable, which can lead to difficulties in finding enough qualified workers. Now, business lobby groups like VOKA are considering bringing in immigrants from Mexico and India to fill these lower-paying positions.

In Europe we don't have any alternative to go too for now. The day that I have a bluesky code or threads is available I will drop it in a heartbeat.

I don't think this has a lot to do with the open source spirit but the fact that competitors like Bambulab are eating their lunch. That seems to rub them the wrong way.

I also see a lot of FUD from the Prusa community regarding that particular brand, where you can't claim it's a 1:1 Prusa clone. Even the remarks from Josef Prusa about speed or noise are targeted to the X1C or P1P printers while if you want to talk about clones and copying there are brands out there that fits the bill better e.g. Sovol 06.

The part where you can only sell "consumables" that must be verified by Prusa also has zero to do with open source or freedom.

There is a do not call me register here in Belgium. Not using this list and calling someone on the list, results in heavy fines.

The Atomium in Brussels is the same... It became so ridiculous that lawmakers introduced a Freedom of Panorama Bill here in Belgium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomium#Worldwide_copyright_cl...

We have multiple of these here in Belgium and the Netherlands. Even between countries.

https://www.thebulletin.be/first-wildlife-bridge-over-brusse...

https://www.thebulletin.be/wildlife-crossing-flemish-brabant...

Also in Belgium as it redirects to Disney.be/Winnie which does not exist

I was under the impression he was talking about Saudi Arabia.

Don’t know how this is in other countries but there seems to be a line with local mosques where they preach extremism and always get their funding from people within that country.

I think I’ve read somewhere that Sir Dyson was pro Brexit because of strict EU regulations. They moved their HQ to Singapore so it’s certainly not about the UK.

I’ve read the title as “Google to reimplement curl in libcurl”. I only noticed the libcrul after reading the article so they certainly have a point that’s it’s very confusing.

Yeah there is just one problem... European companies are also getting fines when they don’t play by the rules. And in some cases very hefty fines...

The whole “US taxing” argument is produced by people who would know how ridiculous that claim is if they would look further than US borders.

You can easily find examples where you can replace China with the US. And now with the current American leadership I can't say personally that I trust the US more than China at this point.

I don’t know about the quality it’s not particularly bad as they also have a brands but Lidl is certainly not all about efficiency. Not those here in Belgium regardless where you go to the Lidl.

I really dislike going there. They have 8 cash registers and open only on or two. The reason being that they are understaffed and employees have a gazillion of tasks: baking, unloading, stock, cash register,...

In some cases the cheaper Aldi products is the same as the more expensive product from another store.

When I was younger there was no difference between olé’s chocolate and Leo with the exception of the package. It was the same taste and factory producing them.