The difference between Musk and Theil is that Musk followed his own investments by actually leading his companies. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla, and is well-documented as spending many years of his life grinding at both jobs, often to his detriment. He is/was heavily involved in key decisions the…

He has totally disrupted multiple industries, and the risks he took involved not just his money but crazy amounts of his time and effort as well (80+ hours a week at some points). I don’t get this constantly downplaying his skills as a businessman, people act like he just threw money at smart people and reaped the…

If a ‘journalist’ can’t be bothered to look through the actual court case and instead just publishes whatever they are told by ChatGPT with no secondary verification, they should not be a journalist. And they should be the target of the libel, not the company that formed the basis of their incredibly thinly-sourced…

This is a mostly US website. I’m not concerned about the US spying on China, I’m concerned about China spying on the US. It’s okay to pick sides.

Do you have any conception about how much fuel it takes to launch a rocket relative to, say, flying a whole crew to remote locations around the world for a typical blockbuster? Do you imagine Tom Cruise is going to be raiding the pantry of the astronauts already up there? Do you think there is a limited supply of…

The first film shot on the ISS happened nearly a year ago https://gizmodo.com/russian-film-crew-returns-to-earth-safely-after-12-days-1847882247

From what I’ve seen in the last year, yes it is too much to ask Gizmodo to refrain from non-sequitur jabs at Elon Musk. They are openly disdainful of him and take every opportunity to find a bad spin on whatever he says or does. I’m actually shocked at how little they did that in this particular article.

Have you read Gizmodo’s coverage of Elon in the last couple years? They are fundamentally incapable of ascribing anything good to him or his companies. I was actually waiting for this article to come out yesterday to see what kind of spin they would push. “Lower income users who need it most” (a dubious claim…

Somewhere in the cutting room at Gizmodo:

100% this. First off, Elon does not currently control day-to-day operations at Twitter and likely had nothing to do with the fact check. Second (and I may be wrong here), I don’t think Elon ever said he would completely do away with fact checking. Third, this article seems to focus on Elon’s own comments about the…

No they don’t. Did Maxwell have dozens of stories accusing her of human trafficking prior to 2014 when that photo was taken? No?

Why do think the elite are somehow more in-tube with the illegal activities of their acquaintances than you or I? Again, do you know which of your coworkers have drug problems? Do you know which of your neighbors commit domestic abuse behind closed doors? Can you vouch for the moral integrity of 100% of the people you…

This could all be cleared up if Congress could get its act together and actually pass laws. But unfortunately one party has taken up the mantle of “any government action is bad government action” and is entirely uninterested in governing, to the extent that they had no new policy ideas in their 2020 platform.

I’ve said it before, but I can’t see a good compromise between iPadOS and MacOS. If you want to make Mac touchscreen, you still have to deal with a little cursor and little menu bar items and it’s just not ideal for touch input. You could adapt the iPad circular mouse cursor thing but it would be hard to make that…

I would think the majority of people are happy with the invention of the internet and smartphones. They have collectively made a ton of aspects of life much easier, and made it easier to connect with friends and family from far away. “Silicon Valley” as a collection of corporations that harvest your data and make you…

And like clockwork on any article mentioning Dan Crenshaw, we see the tasteless mockery of his disability. You don’t have to be a fan of him to show a little decorum. Yikes.

I would love a 4.7 inch full-screen phone with an under-screen touch ID. And my hands are huge. Currently debating upgrading my iPhone 8 to either the SE or the 13 mini. A 4.7 inch screen is completely capable of handling most daily workloads. The only exceptions might be if you watch a lot of TV or type long emails,…

My point is not that we need to voluntarily make decisions like turning lights off. Reducing military energy usage would help, sure, but the broad societal changes we really need can’t be borne by the ultra-wealthy alone. Upper and middle-class people should be flying less, for instance. A carbon tax by the government…

Nah, I didn’t twist myself into knots, just using some undeserved hyperbole. But real talk, sometimes I feel like this site sees fossil fuel companies as the epitome of evil, and that they should be wiped from the earth as quickly as possible by any means necessary. And that is neither a realistic view nor is it…

I don’t know, I think there is a case to be made that BECAUSE it is so hard to make changes on an individual level, that is why we need the government to ENFORCE those changes (or at least, make it very difficult to not change, like by implementing large carbon taxes). The problem is with leftists who claim to want…