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Education hasn't been defunded. I don't know why so many people keep posting that misinformation when the opposite is true.

Inflation-adjusted funding per student rose from $14,969 to $20,322 over the past two decades.

K-12 funding rose $1,610 per student in real terms between 2020 and 2023 alone.

"Schools in the United States spend an average of $20,387 per pupil, which is the 3rd highest amount per pupil (after adjusting to local currency values) among the 40 other developed nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)."


"I don't know why so many people keep posting that misinformation when the opposite is true."

Because it suits their prejudice.


Would you ban alcohol and video games and Netflix?


Alcohol would have been definitely banned if it was feasible


Do you think your anecdote is more likely to be true than an insurance company putting its money where its mouth is?

"Tesla Full Self-Driving is twice as safe, so Lemonade takes 50% off every mile driven with FSD."


I don't know anything about Lemonade, so I can't comment on the logic behind that business strategy, but by definition all the dangerous behavior of FSD is excluded from the analysis since you have to shut it off to avoid the danger.

Beyond that, the effect size of my anecdotes assures me that it is not safer than a human driver. It's just obvious.


1. Tesla has $40B in cash and is profitable. To say it's worth $5B is beyond absurd.

2. The market determines what is a fair value, not rando haters on the internet. Even professional Wall Street consensus is that it's fair value at approximately $1.2T market cap.


$40B in cash/equivalents, minus some $13-20B in debt (depending what source you pick).


Plus assets


“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/312605-schumer-t...


One way some people suggest is at least one of the 3-letter intelligence communities will send/drop CP on their computer or phone if that congressmen doesn’t vote their way. If that’s even partially true, then it makes them more powerful than all of the elected bodies.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ThIfbGXWTxBITTsj18aBw


If that were true, Trump would have been carried out of Helsinki feet-first.


why, what was/happened in Helsinki?


Trump announced that he believed Putin over his own intelligence.

But then there was the time Biden installed Hunter on the White House staff and ordered that he be given a security clearance, despite dozens of discrepancies, undisclosed foreign contacts, and other red flags on the paperwork. Oh, wait, no, that was Trump, too.


The only person willing to take them on is Trump. Look at all of the fake cases and mainstream media attacking that followed. I don't think anyone can stop them now. When America is replaced as a world power that day will come.


He said a while ago that he was open to trying it in response to some shareholders who kept asking him to advertise.


This applies to discussion too.

For instance, how many Reddit comments are bots? With the extreme groupthink present there, it wouldn't be a huge shock if it already makes up over half of the comments in popular subs.


I don't even have an account on Reddit these days, but still view it regularly.

On the popular subs if you read at least half the posts (not comments) you'll see "Op is a bot that reposts content". They typically have some algorithm that digs up old popular posts that haven't been posted in a while and reposted them. With the number of people complaining they are reposted crap I have my doubts their initial upvotes legit, instead getting enough bot votes to get them on the subs front page which then gains more natural votes.



Whenever I read comments on big subredditss I'm convinced ~95% of them are astroturfing bots

Real question is who pays for 'em?


Twitter/X has a productive approach with Community Notes. Scam ads get noted.


I'm afraid Community Notes is on borrowed time, considering Musk's incensed reactions to getting noted lately.


Perhaps but surely it's a small change for them to "whitelist" accounts for exemption from community notes.


I think they're already adapting to that- posting lots and logs of slightly different ads from different accounts, probably all going to the same place.


"under-delivering"

Delivered millions of EVs that everyone said would never work, dragging the entire car industry out of its stupor.

Delivered a vast electric charging network and made it available to the competition.

Delivered the best satellite internet.

Delivered rockets that NASA uses.

Delivered the most payload to space, more than even China.

Gee, imagine under-delivering that badly.


"under-delivering" was paired with "over-promising". Elon has done some cool stuff, yeah. He promised cooler stuff and so far it hasn't been possible for lots of reasons. So you are both correct.


over delivering compared to the world, under delivering compared to where Musk wants to be


He's an engineeer that worked through this with other engineers from first principles.

You're spreading bullshit with 2 seconds of effort.


> He's an engineer that worked through this with other engineers

Who? Because you can't mean Elon, not if your objection is to people spreading bullshit...


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