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I mean realistically speaking a guy like Dale would have been horribly racist in the 90s and 2000s as well. But nobody wants that in a TV show so it made sense to just sidestep that and stick to the “fun” conspiracies. So I don’t see why you’d change that now.

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You do realize that the foods we are going to have a crisis over includes literally all the stuff you eat instead of meat too right

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Even if you think Elon is wonderful and doing just a great goodboy job in the government, you have to admit that he can’t possibly be monitoring Tesla at all right now. There’s only 24 hours in a day for everyone.

And while it’s probably for the best that he ISN’T in the office at all, he does still own the thing, so what he does is still a problem for the company.

So even if you ignore that he’s a nazi, which you shouldn’t, and just care about the car, you can’t imagine that Tesla the company is very secure right now. And these are not cars that are easy to just go get literally anyone to repair. So if Tesla fell apart tomorrow, it’d put your car investment in a very bad place.

I mean 99.99999% of people are going to care more that he’s, again, a nazi doing nazi things right now, but chances are a lot of those people already knew that and already bailed on Tesla cars. His behavior now is going to affect the people willing to overlook that. Instead of putting out new (and ideally for just about any market more affordable) models he’s theoretically more focused on his robots or whatever, and in practice focused only on fucking around in the government and not Tesla at all. Nobody is looking to buy an old Tesla, and he’s not doing anything new besides the massive failure that is the Cybertruck, so why WOULD someone buy one?

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He has gotten at least three grants in the past that I saw on the NLNet website for Pixelfed, but none were listed as active when I looked. However, since you have to complete your project to get paid out I didn’t see a way to know if he actually received any or all of those grants. The current active grant is just for Loops. I believe the old Pixelfed grants also required certain licensing and the project being open source though.

Also, as of this morning, he was posting about how in order to make Loops open source and federated he needs to hit $200k on his Kickstarter. However, he was previously challenging people who were claiming it’s not currently federated or open sourced. So now the story is that it’s not yet and he needs more money to make that happen when previously he was claiming it already was both of those things.

It’s…a mess for sure.

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I don’t care how long a season is anymore I just care how complete the idea is. The amount of shows with a satisfying ending is extremely low. And it’s always been low but it’s only getting worse. A ridiculous amount of shows just get tossed in the garbage as they’re trying to develop a cohesive story.

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They got some unknown amount of VO recorded for him so I guess they intend to use it. I have to assume that if they weren’t this far along already they would have cancelled it but it sounds like they were pretty deep in already.

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Seriously they’re going to fire just about everyone. It’s not much of a threat.

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I really don’t see any reason for them to believe they’ll have jobs in even a week anyway by behaving.

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I was posting this elsewhere recently but people massively underestimate how the US’s size factors into this. You can drive 10 hours from some parts of Texas and still be in Texas. The amount of money it would take to assemble all of us willing to protest in locations that would actually matter is incredible, and protesting in small town Kentucky won’t do much for you. We flat out cannot get the whole country together. I’m like 9 hours away from the capitol and I am closer than 80% of the country to the capitol.

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