Well spoken IMO.
After winning WW2 America was a proud nation for more than half a century, and they had many things to point to that were good reasons to be proud. Obviously this got a boost again after the moon landings, which was not only a massive achievement, but back then NASA attributed it to the whole world, including the first words Armstrong spoke when he set foot on the moon.
Americans were the heroes of the free world, and we all admired their success.
It’s absolutely insane how this former pioneer nation has regressed to be scorned for their selfishness and disrespect for democracy and human rights. To a degree where even allies have to protect themselves against USA! This already was pretty bad with George Bush and the false intelligence used to invade Iraq, and the use of torture by Americans which was previously totally unheard of, and the use of Guantanamo Base for the GITMO prison, completely disregarding rights as either prisoners of war or civilian and human rights. This was in 2002, and USA still hasn’t managed or even attempted to repair that damage for 24 years now.

It must be at least as surreal for the Americans that never wanted this, as it is for the rest of the world.
Putin is probably ecstatic, because this is what he wanted, and probably a result of his political influence in USA.
And Xi is probably pleased that USA is looking to become a more “manageable” problem in the future, as USA is losing the power of having many allies working towards similar goals.

USA will never be the same again, and the world will never be the same again, and the winner is China. For Putin it is probably a Pyrrhic victory, as all his efforts will only result in the decline of Russia and possible the destroction of the Russian federation, which is the exact opposite of what Putin wanted.

The problems with USA now are far from just Trump, they are a result of many years of mismanagement, declining moral and disregard for human rights and international law and a failing democracy, and is rooted in the American people.

How to shamelessly shoot children probably.

I made a digital drum reader using Piezos on an Arduino with my wife some years ago, For that you need way more than 2 analogue pins.
I don’t see why newer Raspberry Pies couldn’t have something like 12 analogue pins, it would be amazing for many things, and it’s dirt cheap to make today. The ESP32 has 18 AFAIK.
In some ways ESP 32 has way better features than Raspberry Pi, but it is not nearly as user-friendly and it lacks audio. It’s also not a general purpose computer with the things that entail, but “just” an embedded system, although a very good one for sure.

Yes he does have that childlike look. 🤣

I think it’s strange that they haven’t extended the 40 pin IO capabilities. For instance analogue IO would be very welcome for many purposes.

The message should have been “take accusations seriously” rather than “believe women”.

100% this!

The “me too” movement highlighted a lot of patriarchal flaws in the current justice system,

MeeToo is not all bad, it is fine IMO that they caused more focus on such problems, but it escalated too far IMO.
I’ve often heard stories of women being rejected at the police station already when they are received there.
Of course I’ve also heard women being treated with great care and consideration for what they have (likely) experienced, and that should of course be the norm throughout the system. But the point where a criminal case is raised should be based on the evidence, which unfortunately is a HUGE problem. But I just don’t see any alternative. And hanging people out publicly in media without evidence should absolutely be illegal.

I understand why many women never report it, but that has very much to do with how they are received at the police station.

DEI is nowhere near as serious, a white male will have the advantage in the next job he/we apply for.
The problem with false accusations being trusted without evidence, is that it can ruin peoples lives.

I know it’s not the PURPOSE of MeeToo, but I’ve seen this results in many cases. Especially people being fired on mere accusations without evidence. Sometimes on things dating back 10 and 20 years, and sometimes despite the accused had many women he had worked with vouching for him.
People (managements) probably don’t do this because they are evil, but because they are afraid that if they don’t kick out the “evil” man, they will face a shit-storm of bad PR.
We had a case here in Denmark, where such a firing of a TV host was based on a lawyer investigation, and after about 10 years in courts, it was final decided by our supreme court that the investigation was flawed and performed contrary to good practices. And the lawyer was later judged in civil court based on this to pay compensation.
But the man had not been able to find himself a job for 10 years because of that “investigation”. This was a DIRECT result of MeeToo which was revealed both the female management of the TV station and the female lawyer were strongly supporting. If that guy had ever said anything to anyone that could be interpreted wrong, he never stood a chance. Incidentally even the people interviewed who’s comments were used to fire him, claimed they had never dreamt of such consequences. So in this case it was not the women he worked with that made false accusations, it was in fact management and a lawyer that blew it out of proportions, and after being fired, he wasn’t even allowed to know what he had done wrong!!!

If you are inclined to check up on this, the guys name is Jes Dorph. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/jes-dorph-vinder-sag-i-hoejesteret-skal-have-millioner-i-erstatning

There are a lot of wackos out there, and they are absolutely not all men. Just see for instance Amber Heard.

Edit, I also edited this post a couple of times for added details.

I made changes to clarify, nothing else.

MeToo movement was about holding abusers accountable for their actions,

I have absolutely no problem with that part, but we’ve seen examples where it caused a reversal of the burden of proof, the mere accusation against someone, can ruin their life, even if they are innocent.
That’s the problem with holding the courts in the street as MeToo has often done, instead of in actual courts.

Obviously the reason MeToo exist is that the problem they address is real, and I acknowledge that women needs to be protected against that problem. But when what is considered sexual assault becomes 100% subjective, and a man can be accused of it, by merely taking an elevator with a woman, then we are at the level of insane. And this is not just hypothetical, an entire congress of hundreds of people was disrupted on exactly this issue. The woman admitted the man didn’t even approach her, but she was offended that he dared enter the elevator with her, as to her she claimed it broke her boundaries.
Men can’t be required to behave according to such paranoia of women. And for comparison, the man could say the same, that women shouldn’t enter an elevator with a lonely man, out of fear he might be accused of rape.

That is insanity. And is not based in any form of moral standard. Being psychotically paranoid should not be treated as the norm.
If the woman asks if a man could please take the next one, I bet 90% of men would respect that. In case someone doesn’t, it must be the woman that leaves the elevator, because it is her that has a problem using elevators normally.

Falsely accusing someone of rape is wrong, sure, and if that’s what the MeToo movement was about, you’d have a point, but… it wasn’t.

No it’s not what MeeToo is about, but their principles are so extreme, they demand that women be trusted on their word alone, and THAT has an enormous potential for the above result.

I’m afraid the PC ideology goes a bit too far on the left sometimes.
But as I see it, the right is way way more constantly overboard on NOT being PC, and is repulsive.
At least the idea of being politically correct is to protect the weak, unfortunately that too can go to far, when it tilts the burden of evidence so far it becomes reversed, and you have to prove innocence to be cleared.

That’s not the point, the point is that their new developments do not do for the community what the original products did.

It looks to me like they have lost focus on their original purpose. Which was to provide cheap and open compute opportunity for education and tinkering.

MeeToo is 100% contrary to the morality of it’s better to let 10 innocent people go than to judge one innocent person.
that is supposed to be the foundation of our judicial system in most western democracies.

In Denmark where I live we already see innocent people going to jail on false accusations of rape. We had one such case for instance a few years back, where one woman was the reason for 4 men going to jail for years, but she admitted to a family member of one of the accused that she had lied, unfortunately for her, she was being taped.
This atrocity of a court decision was only possible because there’s an absolute disregard for lack of evidence in rape cases.
A crying woman complaining about assault is almost automatically trusted over the “evil” men that allegedly did her harm.

It’s absolutely disgusting and insane that we condemn innocent people on nothing but an unproven allegation. That is not how the judicial system is supposed to work. And you can see on the statistics of court cases that women are consistently favored in the judicial system already, both here and in USA and most western countries. In USA this is extremely clearly revealed in research papers regarding who get the death penalty in USA. In that situation, you better not be a black guy. Well guess what? To MeeToo all men are even worse off regarding a guilty verdict than black guys facing the death penalty.

Women are already seen as the ones that need protection, even in cases where they aren’t.
What we need is to establish fairness in the judicial system, not to make it worse.

MeToo went way to far, claiming every man ever accused of sexual assault is guilty, and the accuser should be trusted unconditionally is insane.

Of course every accusation must be taken seriously, but assuming guilt as the default without evidence is wrong.

Edit:
You do realize that if you downvoted this, you are a borderline totalitarian sociopath with regard to the judicial system, judging people without evidence. Right?

I think Canada would have to ditch the monster trucks to become a member of EU.
But I don’t think it will ever happen to be honest. Some sort of associate membership like Norway is way more likely.

According to his father, he didn’t use to be a racist fascist, which disappointed his father a lot.
After becoming openly both racist and fascist, his father has expressed how happy he is that Elon finally came around.

So no I don’t think he was always crazy. Selfish and entitled yes, but not crazy like he is now.

Sorry I didn’t specify, I have edited so it is specified that it is January 2026.

It’s still way worse for Tesla than the market in general.

Absolutely, but that is back in the Tesla S days, before Trump was elected the first time.
And Elon Musk has gone more and more insane over the years. And now USA as a country is becoming an enemy, and Tesla stands for everything bad about Trump.

USA becoming an unreliable partner became clear November 2024. And Crystal clear within months of Trump taking the presidency.

That’s bad enough, but it’s actually worse.
Problem with that chart is that it assumes USA is a democracy and the press is actually independent, but in reality USA is as much an oligarchy as a democracy, and viewed by that standard, the majority of the press is owned by the same ruling class that control the government.

And that would make USA more like for instance Turkey.
As I mentioned before, they’ve managed to keep up the appearance of a free press way more than actually being a free press.
Democrats may criticize Republicans and vice versa, but when Democrats began talking about taxing the rich, some key press leaderships were quickly changed to more Republican leaning.

Actual press freedom in USA is dead.

Considering Model Y was only 2.8% of sales, then with a 20% bigger drop than the market in general, it would probably have been about 25% higher, speculating that model 3 would add another 1.5% that would be (2.8+1.5) x 1.25 = 5.4% marketshare before this latest drop.
So with a total drop of about 70%, discounting Tesla it would probably be about 67-68%. It wouldn’t for instance be less than 65%.