Sure. Why not. Anything that distracts him from messing up government departments.
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You’d almost think that indie studios and game makers don’t exist. Balatro and Stardew Valley, among others are some of the biggest games. Period. Made by indie devs.
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But, you see, the games he likes are owned by massive corporations, so clearly it’s a description of the entire industry.
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Nah, he just wants more game targeted towards people like him: white mediocre incels.
Too much “woke” going on in games, not enough cis-male testosterone fueled fantasies.
I hope he loses billions on this one, too.
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He’s claiming that accounts on X are X’s property, what’s the chance anything else you upload to X is now X’s property?
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Every accusation is a confession.
(And I’m not referring to Vindman here.)
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Idiots.
Better late than never I suppose.
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God, I have a friend (or rather my best friend’s BIL) who has a tesla and when they decided to get solar panels, they ended up going with Tesla for that too. 
the guy is supersmart, a neuropathologist, and is super-active in Democratic politics (with regards to doing things like door knocking, donating, etc), and is very progressive. But lots of people had a blind spot for tech-dude-bros for a long time. I think he’s embarrassed about it now, but most people really weren’t paying attention to what an asshole Musk always kind of was or how things were shaping up with regards to the technology oligarchs. Lots of people just held onto the techno-optimist view of the internet and technology companies far too long, because they probably found it too hard to let go of, if they grew up online and this guy is a bit younger than me, from a privileged family, so he was probably of the first generation to do that.
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The problem there is for at least the next few years, there aren’t good alternatives yet, in either category.
The whole reason I drive a gas-guzzler still (and as my 2025 lease comes up, will probably at this point get another one) is that most car manufacturers, caught flat-footed by the popularity of electric vehicles for those it makes sense for, just tossed some electric motors into their car platforms instead of spending the billions it would take to build new platforms. They suck in comparison, and their real offerings are 12-24 months away still. Even then, do you want a 1st gen car from those platforms? Probably not.
Then you have the rivians and other electric-first competitors. Consumer reports and other car reliability trackers show these are all far worse than Tesla’s reliability ratings. Tesla is still below the highest end vehicle manufacturers but not vastly so.
So this means that Teslas are a good technical choice (with caveats) if you want an electrified vehicle, and now a terrible moral decision. So we choose to stick with gasoline for now.
Solar panels are an absolute shitshow. We live in Florida, solar panels are a natural option for us. Cory Doctorow recently added panels to his home in CA and I asked him for suggestions on how to not get scammed, his answer was basically “don’t do it” - despite all his research on the topic, and even choosing a reputable, reliable company, a subcontractor botched the install of his inverter and made his power unsafe to use, and then the subcontractor went bankrupt and the reputable, reliable company refused to pay for repairs saying he had to go after the now defunct subcontractor. He actually gave up because he realized the challenge and effort that would be required to actually get his money back would exceed the value of doing so.
Neighbours have had similar issues to varying degrees, to the point where we no local contractors aren’t really an option either.
Again, Tesla’s solar division doesn’t do that sort of subcontracting. So again, good technical decision with terrible moral implications.
So we’ve decided to essentially give up on solar even though 2025 is almost certainly going to bring an end to subsidies for all of this and make it unwise to go solar for art least the next four years.
So yeah, fuck Elon and what he’s done to viable options. The Car side will get better in the next few years (provided Trump doesn’t destroy electric vehicles development) but better regulation around solar installations is desperately needed, and THAT is obviously not going to happen with this new administration, either. 
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Here’s Cory’s article on all that, btw: Solar is a market for (financial) lemons | by Cory Doctorow | Medium
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Yeah, I know… my friends tried other options and they all had wait times to get them installed or they’d heard bad things, so Tesla it was…
But this is what happens when an industry develops too fast without good regulatory oversight. It seems to me that the development has been localized and haphazard. But that’s how capitalism functions - forging ahead blindly, destroying what came before, and not really effectively planning things out as they go. It seems like the tech industry has super-charged that in the age of neo-liberalism.
I mean, this is just… living in a capitalist society of course. It’s very difficult to not make choices that will have some kind of negative consequence or another. Capitalism makes us all complicit in the crimes of the system. None of us are living outside the consequences of consumption, because there is no outside, really, no good moral choices out of a system that puts profits ahead of people… As always, this comic says a lot about the systems we live in…
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Here’s a tip for any UKians looking for solar and/or battery: Check out Solar Together and select your local Council to see if they take part.
Basically, a Council issues an invitation - via Solar Together - to get a requirements estimate online (you fill out a questionnaire form) and when all the requirements are in they put it out to tender on behalf of the Council as a bulk contract, for suppliers to bid on. Better prices due to volume, and an approved contractor (with some comeback to Solar Together if there are any problems) then wins the tender. You then get a detailed quote and can sign up to take part/get it installed.
I did mine a while back and it all went very well and I reckon the price was pretty good, too.
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No matter how bad your thanksgiving may have been- it can’t be this bad!
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