I would say go with whatever company that doesn’t have a CEO throwing Nazi salutes.

I have no doubt most CEOs are psychopaths, but they also don’t own a global Nazi mouthpiece like twitter

So did you mean “CEOs not throwing a Nazi salute” or “CEOs whose Nazi salutes don’t show up on your twitter feed”?

It seems you forgot what your argument is in a span of two rebuttals

You definitely sound like your advocating for musk.

You should work on your reading comprehension then

buy the car that isnt overtly a fascist car.

that isn’t really an argument in favor of china 😂

They make decent “point A to point B” cars

which is, coincidentally, what most people need from a car ;)

i am afraid it is just that most CEOs are sane enough to keep their embarrassing moments for their private life. do you think musk is the only narcissistic psychopath on drugs in the business world?

this is not advocating for musk, but it is important to be grounded in reality ;)

i hate musk, but i am not wild about our dependence on china either, so i am not really sure who to root for in this fight…

Not our.

i talk, and you talk. it is our discussion.

It’s a discussion you are trying to have

i am not trying to have, i am having it. here you are, replying to me. why are you trying so hard to prove that a discussion is not a discussion? it does not make sense.

I labeled as a layman’s guess.

yeah. and since i am more knowledgeable than you in this particular regard, i contributed some information you might not have had. now you do and your future layman’s guess can be more educated. that is how the discussion works. and for some strange reason, you seem to be pissed about it.

indeed it is. it is not very relevant to our discussion though. it is not a “cell tower” and it needs rather expensive end user hardware. limit of proliferation of such hardware among population during some kind of government internet shutdown will be approaching to zero.

also, as any kind of radio communication, it can be locally jammed, which further reduces its usability in a crisis.

oh, then i did misunderstood, but i still don’t see what you are suggesting. maybe if you get assigned address you can have some limited p2p communication with nearby people, but if that is the case, a guy with a megaphone does similar job.

it is far easier to just shut down local peering center and transit for major providers. far less moving elements to take care of than cell towers, which would not even address the whole problem (“problem” from the government’s point of view)

has found that Uber’s use of dynamic pricing has led to higher fares for passengers and lower earnings for drivers, whilst increasing Uber’s share of revenue

so, working as intended…

Then the student could just ask the AI to simulate a thesis defense and learn answers to the most likely questions.

while my opinion of economy as a field is not very high, i still have high enough opinion of any teacher to believe they do outperform shitty ai…

more like “how bad is the education”?

well, not sure if it works the same everywhere in the world, but here, you first write the graduation thesis and then you have to publicly defend it.

if the defense committee (or is it an attack committee, since it is the student who is on defense? :D) can’t ask questions in a way to find out whether the student actually wrote the paper and understands the topic, then what fucking pseudo-scientific field is that? (and the answer indeed is - it is economics 😂)

no, it means they will try to somehow apply the knowledge they acquired to real life problem. creating a project, instead of writing a text.

it is not just the US… the VSE - Prague’s university of economics and business has decided to abandon graduation theses, because it is supposedly “impossible to verify” whether they were written by student or AI, and replaced them with “hands-on” graduation project)

Just be happy that the jpg is not embedded in docx

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the true mind-fuck is that people in us intelligence community now have to think twice about what they can share up the chain of command.

Why do you think you understand every person

i have not said that. also, the thinking of the people is not relevant here, the result is.

Bravery does exist.

it does exist, but going on a suicide mission that is not going to change anything is not bravery. it is useless.

There are people willing to risk their lives for their ideals without being selfish and proud about it. It’s not always main character syndrome just because you’re unable to imagine any other explanation.

yes, it is. there are only two possible outcomes. either your death for the cause does not change anything, and then why would you decide to suicide in the first place?

or you think you are so important that your death will change things, and if you think that, you are just delusional. i am not trying to be asshole here, i am being realistic. if the fucking pope decided to visit there and they would accidentally bomb him to sto’vo’kor, they would say “oops, that was unfortunate” and people would mourn for a week, before things would go right back to where they were before.