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VC won't give you the time of day if you lack a product or platform. This isnt go-fund-me or r/wsb. VC appear to bet big but are frequently pretty well informed and diversified. Their big bets aren't much from their prospective... and frequently will be the first to squeeze "their due" from a failing venture.

I dont see how Elon makes a good example for this. If anything it supports what I said:

Elon is wealthy. He has a platform. He has shit he's bought and is reselling snake oil from those things. He's not poofing something from nothing.

Third generation curse.

I personally believe the cybertruck was a designer who was making fun of musk. He submitted a pinewood derby car he made when he was 7.

Its the literal emperors new clothes.

Finally deleted she who shall not be named from my address book.

Do I win?

I'm hearing 'once you have money do.....'

Care to tell me where that gullible userbase is coming from? Pray, tell - what do they come for?

Before that is even a factor you must either be first - with research and development ... and manufacturing... and distribution... or better. Or cheaper! Or able to undercut the competition.

Of the things mentioned... I seem to be struggling to find the element lacking a substantial financial investment.

You seem to be mistakenly conflating getting rich with increasing wealth. Just about nobody gets rich. Many people leverage their existing wealth to gain more. Frequently, that exchange is the start of what is now defined as enshitification.

Everyone cannot do it. Fundamentally its easy: Have money and pick something to middleman. Waste capital until you 'disrupt' that flow. ????. Maybe profit. Who the fuck cares? You got yours. Repeat.

Simple: have wealth. Easy.

Step one is have money to make money. Aside from being the result of two wealthy people fucking... care to detail how so many people are checking that box?

Certainly - there ARE paths to wealth... but they are rare, risk heavy, and frequently are destined to be prey to a resource rich competitor.

This was obviously a warning. Had Salem actually been serious they'd have brought kindling and torches.

You're ready king.

I imagine the feat itself is possible and plausible - though I couldn't speculate further without digging into the specifics.

What left me feeling wary was, at least in the US, theres been a massive push to limit the spread and use of renewables... and normally when sowing fear and doubt you generally want to tie in your preferred boogie man. Presently that would be China.

Misinformation campaigns and astro turfing frequently will rely on half truths as it is FAR easier to sow dissent in a community. A half truth becomes opinion - an easily disproven lie can backfire and unify communities.

Tons of Chinese equipment is exploitable. Most of the time its simply a product of "cheap, fast, stable/secure" pick 2. I promise you it won't be the thing that costs time and money.

I won't speculate further on something I noticed in passing but... very frequently the third play in the trifecta is to accuse your boogie man of something that you are doing as well. It weakens the opposing observation, true or not, by increasing difficulty in finding data (similar search terms... two different parties) and lizard brain "feels" like your arguement is weaker because its copying the opposition.

Either way - I'd hesitate to take an organization seriously if they fucked up their own.distribution platform that badly and didnt IMMEDIATELY fix it. Either they are inept or unaware... and unaware implies lack of traffic who might @ a dev.

It read like it was laser focused on pushing an idea while ignoring too many obvious parallels. The fact that the site is basically all facade - no function ... kind of provides a physical representation of this entire movement. Its practically modern art.

That said - it really does drive home how this virtual snake oil is literally sending us in the wrong direction.

Thats some impressive reporting from a news org utilizing an AI stock image that has no apparent ties to the content. To be fair I can't think of any obvious choices either.

I'll just take a peek at their publishers:

Damn. 404. (not that one)

No worries - follow the money! Let's see who your advertisers are...

404? The plot thickens.

About us! Surely they are going to describe their attention to detail, their quest for truth, and their refreshing lack of baises at this establishment...?

404. Very well then. Keep your secrets.

There can only be one explanation for this. Obviously.

The dangerous hacker known as En Jin X. This would have never happened if everyone needed their ID online!

And we hope they go broke, dont pay their bills, cause a panic sell on AI services, which causes private equity to panic sell everything... which pops the bubble... and leads to the literal version of 'its raining men' on wall street as executives and profiteers have their horde of ill gotten gains evaporate in seconds.

... too much?

They wouldn't steal a.... oh wait they did.

Turns out some of this is showing up at other datacenters... Now weve already set precedent that stealing intellectual property isnt stealing if its for training models or some such bullshit... Time to find out if we can legalize piracy in the physical sense as long as were 'using it differently.'

Turns out were just a few small steps away from the east india company era again.