• aramis87@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know why anyone’s surprised by this, Musk admitted years ago that the intent of the “hyper loop” was to kill high-speed rail projects in California.

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      1 year ago

      This isn’t even the same thing. But I forgive you for being confused because he’s got a lot of stupid things he’s half working on.

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    1 year ago

    It’s almost like tech billionaires are all completely full of shit! And like maybe the shittiest parts of our society have much more to do with private business screwing over the public than “lazy” or corrupt government workers!

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      After years of salivating over running the country like a “business” we finally put a couple billionaires in charge who immediately took a strong economy and turned it into a dumpster fire while personally enriching themselves, just like big business today!

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        1 year ago

        Yep whenever someone says they want government run like a business I just hear I want government run poorly (because that’s how businesses are run).

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    1 year ago

    That quote at the end about how hard the rock is in Tennessee really sent me. Worth a pause to read the whole thing.

  • 𝜯𝐞𝐡 𝜝𝐚𝐦𝐬𝐤𝐢@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Here is the video’s thumbnail.

    I use an Extension called vidIQ to find and use the video thumbnail easily. The current thumbnail will be shown just below the video view count, on the right hand side on PC.