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Would like to read more detail, background and context about this. If it’s as straightforward and cut-and-dried as the tweet portrays, that’s horrendous. But you have a sensationalist history of posting clickbait that is dishonest, so forgive me for casting a skeptical eye that this is what happened at face value.

He’s one of those lawyers enriched by IP law that Elon references, so you have to understand that as context too…

immac looks like all the pictures of guys who were cool in the 70's.

But I bet our boy BrickHorn knows about all these things, and more. Joking aside, I mostly agree with you on this season, would say; Season 1: A+ Season 2: C+ Season 3: Seems like potential with pieces set up to be B or higher?

I saw this movie once many years ago and remember really thinking it was dark and awesome and from time to time I think to myself "I should watch that again" but never end up doing it.

I was thinking Patreon, but of course you would think onlyfans first, being a non-creative civilian.

Why would that charge be downgraded?

Yea i assumed that there was off screen justification being there, like he was a GA and came up through the ranks and bled and sweat and cried for the team or whatever, but mostly because he is the X's and O's mastermind and lives the game where as Ted is a dumb yank football coach, I guess?

Good season finale. Loved the Ghana rant, that was hilarious. I think the guy who acts as Nate has killed it this season. His character sucks and his turn has been mostly hard to watch, but he's played the role and part pretty awesome and emotionally I believed his little whiny incel mentally ill tear-stained F-you Ted Lasso you are a joke and I have earned this! bit at the end. Also he looks like a little north korean dictator at the end which was fitting and if he really owns the baddie role and can graduate from his mewling cowardice, I think we have a nice season 3 set up with Rupert/Nate vs Ted/et al. Roy continues to be lame to me so I don't care that he got all sad and thought they were breaking up, which they will next season, but I think that was supposed to be poignant. I'll let people who have bought into Roy as an interesting character weigh in on if that landed for them or not. But most of all, I miss @BrickHorn. He was the best part of this thread and the real MVP of the mostly inferior Ted Lasso Season 2 which saw it decline in originality and interestingness but had a few episodes where some of the magic shined through like diamonds that glittered amongst mostly broken glass. BrickHorn rules; I'd probably pay a subscription to read his reviews every week for season 3 if he has to be paid to be pulled back into this thread.

Read it for yourself. This is a pretty dang visionary statement to make in 2014. Heck, it would still make you look smart and forward-thinking in 2021: All Our Patent Are Belong To You Elon Musk, CEO June 12, 2014 Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology. Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology. When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors. After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible. At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla. We couldn’t have been more wrong. The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn’t burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales. At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. Some produce no zero emission cars at all. Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis. By the same token, it means the market is enormous. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day. We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform. Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard.

I've said no less than 4 times that I am empathizing and seeing the situation through the eyes and shoes of others, these deplorable people who decry and protest what they think is CRT (despite it not being so, by technical definition). I've also stated that, like our friend hpslugga, I reject postmodernism and agree with his assertion that the best thing about truth is that it's immalleable. Since you brought it up, here is a humorous thought: We know for a fact that these same people (people like them) decried and hated Postmodernism first, in the 70's, when progressives and academics and colleges were teaching it. Yet now it is the lens through which they see the world! The greatest irony of all is that the most likely outcome for CRT will be the same: in 30-40 years when the aggrieved white person deplorable who hates CRT today is the minority in the future, CRT will be something they advocate for as a tool to try and retain a voice and be seen as they fruitlessly try to stop from being drowned out and quieted as the demographic wave engulfs them. It's actually quite poetic and beautiful, in a way.

I watched a video today that said one of the biggest impacts Elon has had is that he came around to the idea that patents are landmines which actually stifle growth and innovation and creativity for moon/loonshots. People like @TwiceHorn probably hate to hear that, but that's the idea. In 2014 he decided electric vehicles are a great way to help the environment and nobody had the abilities or technologies, and that he can help by essentially making it open source and so he opened up his patents to be used by all knowing that the huge announcements and gains (and valuation and market caps!) we've seen of Ford, Stellantis and GM of 2021 would not have been the same because they didn't have the resources (people, technologists, etc. in 2014) for their programs and would not have made the heavy investments. Back in 2014 when he did this less than 1% of the market was electric vehicles compared to today. That's pretty visionary IMO.

Didn't see this posted (SIAP): This is the first year Trump was not included in the Forbes richest people in 25 years: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/10/05/trump-misses-forbes-list-first-time-25-years/6009431001/ Former President Donald Trump was not included on the annual Forbes 400 ranking of the wealthiest Americans – the first time he hasn’t made the cut in 25 years. Forbes reported the former president is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, which is $400 million short of the cutoff to make this year’s list. Trump’s wealth is down $600 million since the start of the pandemic, according to the outlet. The drop is largely a result of big-city properties, which make up much of Trump's fortune, taking a hit during the pandemic. Trump ranked 339 on the list in 2020, down from 275 in 2019. Trump had made the list every year from 1996 to 2020. He also made the list every year from 1982 to 1989.

Over/under to when Fitlump is the new Grimes. A lot of you will burn when fitlumpkhaleesi is a half-a-billionaire and remembers how some of you people treated her! Continue to underestimate her at your peril:

I would think it's poor form to treat family like a commercial deal with strangers and haggle and bake-in points you can give to get. Just say, I've thought about it and while not completely in love with the idea of selling, $XYZ is my number, best and final, and that is with some familial consideration because I love you/the family. Then add-in a pressure valve statement of like, "no pressure or obligation to you if that doesn't work for you, we can continue as is and no hard feelings-- I totally get it if you think that's a bridge too far."

Are you implying that a creationist is a white supremacist? or are you just giving two extreme examples? I'm confused as to what you mean there. Otherwise to your question, I'll spoil my response because it is probably off-topic and a derail and I want to keep others on track with replying to you and the direction of the discussion as you are taking it

I don't think it means nada. At the very least it means that Texas is getting the tax base versus California, in this case, for the corporate taxes (if any are actually paid after creative accounting). It also means that the "culture wars" clickbait of the OP was not sufficient enough of a deterrent to make the move, which is something and not nada, in today's world where optics are very important and market moving.

And not only that but PE firms are buying up whole tracts of homes from Pulte or KB or Toll Brothers, etc. (production, mass builders) and adding them to their portfolios, getting these houses at the source now versus buying gently used or later model homes from the original homeowners.

Regarding your post; it is both things. California sucking at something AND Texas offering something: "It’s tough for people to afford houses, and people have to come in from far away....There’s a limit to how big you can scale in the Bay Area,” Musk said at the company’s shareholder meeting yesterday. A new report projected that the median price for a home in California will reach $834,000 in 2022, after growing 20% this year. And Silicon Valley is even more expensive: A house in the metro area has a median price of $1.7 million. Advantage Austin (until it becomes too expensive and another upstart city starts disrupting Austin, in however many years that takes).

Elon Musk (and other famous, celebrity CEO's/founders/billionaire's) have ample reason to fight for one side of the "culture war" as the OP called it, which is to say, for the maximization of wealth through lower taxes. Everyone underneath an SVP for those people and companies, however, might feel differently. But it does makes sense why Tesla, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, just to name a few since COVID-19, have moved HQ's to Texas...

He's too rich, happy and smart to want to wade into politics-- especially Texas politics.

11 for me. Last one I went to was 2008 and seared in my memory still is the feeling and the noise and being able to actually see a collective psyche and emotion manifest into a physical state as Jordan Shipley crossed the 50 yard line on that kick-off, crescendoing until he crossed the goal line. It's one of the memories we all have that are permanently tattooed; the synapsis cemented and not to be replaced or eroded. Excuse me while I go watch the youtube video and reminisce some more...

I can't read this due to not being a subscriber. Do you pay for NYT?

On Wednesday morning, before the proceedings, Judge Davila called a juror into the courtroom to discuss Buddhism. The juror, an older Asian woman, said she had become increasingly distressed about the trial. Her Buddhist practice is centered on love and forgiveness, she said, and it would be difficult for her to vote to convict Ms. Holmes. The juror said she could not follow the judge’s instructions to avoid thinking about punishment. “What if she had to be in there for a long, long time,” she said, her voice breaking. The juror said she would blame herself. Lawyers from both sides agreed to dismiss her. The replacement juror, a young woman, had her own concerns. English was not her first language, she said. “It’s her future,” she said of Ms. Holmes. “I could make a mistake.” The juror said she had understood all of the proceedings thus far. Judge Davila did not allow her to leave.