All true! But we live in the stupid timeline and can’t have nice things anymore… 
Even from my own childhood…
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Oh, it’s positively vast.
But now it looks like the tide is coming in.
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Oh, god. That term “disrupt.”
What Elon really means is that he wants to do whatever he wants without any repercussions. He isn’t doing or creating anything that’s novel.
He’s so exhausting.
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Let’s not forget:
Yet perhaps the greatest thing in this scene is that most of the people in it weren’t actors at all; rather, director Michael Curtiz filled the scene with actual French refugees. Keep in mind, this movie came out in 1942 and was filmed at the height of World War II, at a time when Germany looked nearly unbeatable and Nazi occupation of France was indefinite. And here was a group of refugees from that occupation, given the chance to sing their anthem with defiant pride. For one brief moment, this wasn’t a movie. It was real life, and it was tragic, and it was brave. Reports have said that extras were crying on set during filming, and the passion is evident any time you look past the main actors to the background singers.
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There’s a line Leonard Cohen wrote about WWII songs “back then I thought songs defeated the Nazis…”
Well they do make you feel like you can.
Some of them recognise the suffering you go through and you share that and people sing them long afterwards for dead comrades and to recognise the cost.
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The Robotaxis are hitting stationary non-emergency vehicles too:
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The bulk of the whole cast were refugees. Including the guys who played the Nazis.
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Not only that this is the line (and the beach is freakin’ big, as you suggest) but this line is as thick as the beach if he’s only starting to cross it! I bet it takes a very long time before anyone decides he has actually crossed it.
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After all the effort Tesla went through, to avoid responsibility for “autopilot” crashes, after making sure everyone knew that full self-driving wasn’t actually fully self-driving and that drivers needed to be ready to take control at a fraction-of-a-second’s notice, it’s baffling they just went directly to “robotaxi.” Despite the fact that Teslas are clearly not fit for purpose.
It’s funny that they described the incident as “inexplicable,” though. Given the poor design decisions by Musk (i.e. to leave out all the sensors that a self-driving car really requires), it’s only surprising that they aren’t constantly driving into parked cars. I guess they’ve only been on the streets for a couple weeks, so give it time…
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With the amount of telemetry and data Teslas collect, I’m sure it’s completely explainable.
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In addition to the “La Marseillaise” chorus, several of the main cast (for anyone who didn’t already know) also fled* the Nazis (or, Axis): Conrad Veidt & Peter Lorre both left Nazi Germany, Paul Henreid left Nazi Austria & S.Z. Sakall (Carl the waiter) left Axis Hungary (after deportation from Nazi Germany).
*Here I’m not making much distinction between “fled” and “left,” when either way it’s because of the Nazis/Axis.
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I believe they were going to call it the “ED-209-Taxi,” but decided “Robo” sounded a bit better.
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Explainable, predictable…
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A few other words that pop into my head are negligence and perhaps culpable.
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Except Musk isn’t actuallygoing to try for widespread representation of those 80% at all. What he’s actually going to focus on are “just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts.” Why? “Given the razor-thin legislative margins, that would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring that they serve the true will of the people.
So, Musk will be handpicking seats to install representatives and senators by deploying his enormous resources, but that’s not about representing the people. Instead, it looks much more like Musk has simply decided to shift his locus of control from Trump to Congress, and will use those people he ushers into office to ensure he controls vote outcomes.
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1,3,2? What?
It’s not like that in the article, so AI generated summary?
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Cut and pasted some relevant parts. As one does
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