Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter may soon go through

[Thaluikhain]

All that "Constitutional" jibber-jabber is utterly meaningless without its ruthless defence by people in power. And when the point comes, you will suddenly find the country full of people who think a Consitution should be remarkably "flexible" in interpretation.

And this shouldn't have come as a surprise, any number of parts of the Constitution have been ignored when convenient. People might nowdays say that, for example, internment of Japanese Americans was against the Constitution, but a touch of the barn door there.

 

[Agema]

And this shouldn't have come as a surprise, any number of parts of the Constitution have been ignored when convenient. People might nowdays say that, for example, internment of Japanese Americans was against the Constitution, but a touch of the barn door there.

You defend the Constitution or you don't.

The worst of all worlds is to be like the Democratic Party are currently. Make a massive load of noise about following the rules. Then some guy comes in and tears all the rules up, and all they have is to say "He's a meanie, and we are going to state our stern disapproval".

So, I guess Biden thought it would be doing the right thing to not interfere in the work of the DoJ in that lovely, gentleman's agreement notion of governance. Biden is - allegedly - annoyed that his AG dragged the legal stuff out so long that Trump couldn't be brought to court in time. Maybe Biden should have actually said to the AG "Get a fucking move on, pal: the clock's ticking and this needs to be wrapped up well before the 2024 election" Instead Biden delivered the worst of both worlds, neither defending the rules nor even delivering a win for his side. In other words, he was just a failure.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

The genuinely scary thing about this world is to realise just how much every system relies on good will.

The German Weimar constitution is recognised has having a genuinely spectacular flaw in that it really did permit what eventually happened, that it could simply elect an absolute dictator into office. But we delude ourselves into thinking our systems are really any better. It turns out none of them are that secure. That sea wall might stop the odd storm, but it won't stop a tidal wave. All that "Constitutional" jibber-jabber is utterly meaningless without its ruthless defence by people in power. And when the point comes, you will suddenly find the country full of people who think a Consitution should be remarkably "flexible" in interpretation.

The Founding Fathers likely expected voters to keep the good of the nation foremost in their minds, instead of setting fire to everything so that they could have cheaper eggs.

 

[Agema]

The Founding Fathers likely expected voters to keep the good of the nation foremost in their minds, instead of setting fire to everything so that they could have cheaper eggs.

Well, to be fair, apparently you can live on nothing but eggs.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Shadow President Elon Musk is blaming Ukraine for the apparent DDoS attack on Twitter (I'm still calling it that, btw).

Musk points finger at Ukraine for X attack that caused major outages

Elon Musk has pointed the finger at Ukraine for a major cyber attack on X (formerly Twitter), that caused outages throughout Monday. Live blog is closed.

www.newsweek.com

It'll be interesting to see what proof he provides other than "I'm a smartboi and I know everything". He does know that IP addresses can easily be spoofed, and DDoS attacks can be reflected from innocent servers, right?

 

[Agema]

It'll be interesting to see what proof he provides other than "I'm a smartboi and I know everything". He does know that IP addresses can easily be spoofed, and DDoS attacks can be reflected from innocent servers, right?

This wouldn't be the first time he's lied about a DDoS attack on FKA Twitter.

He tried to stream a big political interview back in election time that crashed FKA Twitter, and blamed it on a cyberattack rather than admitting the more prosaic reason that his platform wasn't capable of handling the traffic.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Your daily reminder that Musk called a guy a pedofile for saving a bunch of kids in a cave that Musk wanted to save first. And this was when he was still considered a cool dude.

 

[Agema]

Your daily reminder that Musk called a guy a pedofile for saving a bunch of kids in a cave that Musk wanted to save first. And this was when he was still considered a cool dude.

Possibly more problematic is that he got away with it.

When people do awful things without ramifications then they'll learn that they can do awful things without ramifications. It's a societally concerning lesson.

 

[Satinavian]

This wouldn't be the first time he's lied about a DDoS attack on FKA Twitter.

He tried to stream a big political interview back in election time that crashed FKA Twitter, and blamed it on a cyberattack rather than admitting the more prosaic reason that his platform wasn't capable of handling the traffic.

I can believe the cyberattack.

He fired so many people, saved costs everywhere and demanded code changes based on spur-of the moment inspirations that i would assume that X is now far more vulnerable to cyberattacks than twitter ever was.

Safety costs money and it is the kind of thing you don't ever see being useful if it works.

 

[Agema]

Safety costs money and it is the kind of thing you don't ever see being useful if it works.

Indeed, and you'd be amazed at how many companies appear to think that if they're not getting security breaches, it means they're wasting too many resources on security.

You can guess the rest.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Indeed, and you'd be amazed at how many companies appear to think that if they're not getting security breaches, it means they're wasting too many resources on security.

You can guess the rest.

This could be applied to seemingly any issue that preventative measures reduce or prevent.

 

[thebobmaster]

This could be applied to seemingly any issue that preventative measures reduce or prevent.

It reminds me by contrast of when they were determining where to armor planes during WWII in Britain. Because of weight issues, they had to be strategic. So, they looked at where the bullet holes were on planes returning to base...and then armored everywhere else.

Why? Because if the planes were returning to base with bullet holes, then the bullets were not hitting anything vital.

 

[BrawlMan]

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[Agema]

Tesla shares fall​

Before we get too excited by this, bear in mind that Tesla enjoyed a massive surge in share price after Trump won the election. Whilst Tesla shares have fallen a long way, they're still around the levels they were just prior to the election.

If Tesla shares were overvalued even then back around October 2024 - and I personally think there is a good chance they were - then Tesla is still also wildly overvalued now.

I think there's another thing to consider: damage to Tesla's car division isn't necessarily a big deal. Tesla might have been ahead of the game in EVs 10 years ago, but now the traditional car manufacturers have caught up, so Tesla is really just a small voume car producer. Inasmuch as something in Tesla is worth a lot, it's probably not the car production. It's probably not the battery technology, either. My guess is it's investors taking a punt on the automatic driver technology.

 

[Chimpzy]

A mystery for the ages

 

[Agema]

A mystery for the ages

A mystery implicitly answered by the very same post that poses the question.

After all, there's a very important qualification in the statement "I've never physically hurt anyone".

(What a bunch of fucking whiners. There are few things more contemptible than listening to the world's richest man, now also exercising enormous influence over government and gleefully firing thousands, complain that the world is not being fair to him.)

 

[BrawlMan]

A mystery implicitly answered by the very same post that poses the question.

After all, there's a very important qualification in the statement "I've never physically hurt anyone".

(What a bunch of fucking whiners. There are few things more contemptible than listening to the world's richest man, now also exercising enormous influence over government and gleefully firing thousands, complain that the world is not being fair to him.)

What else can you expect from one of the biggest bitches in history?

 

[Schadrach]

My guess is it's investors taking a punt on the automatic driver technology.

Once it doesn't fall for tricks used in Roadrunner cartoons, we might be talking but, err, it turns out that cameras aren't as useful as LIDAR in this application.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

A mystery for the ages

But the left is supposed to be the tolerant side...

 

[Agema]

What else can you expect from one of the biggest bitches in history?

Little.

But I would hope that millions of people watching him be like that would start to wonder at what a pathetic, needy drip he is. Master of all he surveys, and yet there he is refusing to take responsibility for himself and whining that people don't love him enough.