What a surprise. Strip out the equipment that can unequivocally know that there’s a solid object in front of you and you drive into solid objects from time to time.

No it is absolutely not theft. It is not theft by law. (There’s a reason why we have both “theft” and “infringement” in the lawbooks: they’re different things!) It is not theft morally. (Theft removes the owner’s ability to use something. Infringement does not. Infringement is a lesser moral crime if it is a crime at all.)

Please do not fall into the trap the IP holders like to lay by equating theft and infringement in your mind. You can have your opinions on whether infringement is bad or not (and the facts are … complicated with both sides being largely full of shit on this), but it is a matter of fact that theft and infringement are entirely different things.

Use the right term for the offence. Don’t let IP holders’ deliberate conflation to confuse the issue get to you.

Oh no! Talentless louts don’t like people who’ve cultivated actual skills that people appreciate!

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Wait, remind me: Whom does this inconvenience?

I’m pretty sure it is too. For starters the part that’s been layered on top doesn’t have that suspicious 50/50 light/dark thing going on that gives away so many AI generations.

Wow! He has enough self-awareness to figure this out! (Not yet enough to actually stop being a human being made entirely of intestinal effluent mind. Baby steps.)

Toward the end they mention also the bit about the writing also being bullshit generators, no?

To paraphrase someone far more clever than me: “If you can’t be bothered to actually write it, I can’t be bothered to read it.”

True. The actual percentage is likely far higher.

A record high number of Nazis found social media that would tolerate them.

Woohoo! Finally a company I can boycott that’s not already in my boycott of all American companies!

He can be both: really awkward and a Nazi. Or am I huffing paint thinner?

Again, judges don’t GIVE A SHIT what you call it. They give a shit what things ARE.

And they will utterly fucking smack Tesla over this.

Judges aren’t stupid people (at least not in Canada; can’t vouch for American judges seeing some of the decisions Down South). You’re not going to fool them by renaming things. That’s the kind of view of law that a toddler would hold. “I didn’t spill my juice because I call it … ah … foobles now!”

Yeah, I imagine it stings.

That’s OK. I learned more than a few things about my nation of citizenship when I moved abroad and watched it from afar. A lot of them stung badly. You get over it; even get motivated to try to undo some of the bad things.

Allow me to fix that for you:

computer scientists: We have invented virtual dumbasses who are constantly wrong: Tech CEOs.

Starting to spread outside of the USA?

Non-Americans were first to drop Tesla thank you very much!

Jesus American exceptionalism is one HELL of a drug!

I seriously question how these “richest person” “statistics” are calculated.

Oh, that’s easy.

Take the number of shares he owns in various enterprises and multiple by the share price.

Yes, it’s really that stupid.

This is why the long fall of TSLA was such a visibly harrowing time for him. A few back-of-the-envelope calculations with some reasonable assumptions about the loan deals he has (which we lack specific details of, but have long histories of banks making these sorts of deals to draw upon) says that TSLA being at 200 is where trouble can start, with 175 being the point where it’s almost certainly started (and likely been going for while). By 150 he’s in full-on disaster mode for certain, as one margin call after another forces him to dump stock to pay, causing the stock to drop farther and trigger ANOTHER margin call and so on and so forth until TSLA fell into penny stock territory and he had nothing from it.

I think you’ll find that (aside from Tesla dealerships not being independent businesses) judges aren’t stupid. They issue judgements on what things are, not what you call them.

This kind of legal shenanigan has been smacked down time and time again (even in corrupt third-world countries like the USA!) to the scammers’ shock. Tesla is fucking around … and finding out.

Ouch! That hurts!

I know. That’s why I was so touched!