The commercial producers of the symphony don’t claim credit for the piece, the conduct, or the performance, just the facility if they’re feeling particularly churlish.
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Doesn’t seem like much of a surprise there. Tesla loses more than it gains but for half the people they are just buying a car, not an ideology.
Shouldn’t there be a “Never had any intention” choice?
Probably goes in the has no impact section.
Assuming so, but it skews the perception and invalidates the survey. If there’s a group who were never even considering it then their response is irrelevant. If it’s only prospective Tesla buyers then you get an accurate survey.
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Yeah I have no doubt there’s problems with who they are doing the work for and how.(ie bypassing congress, not making technical shortcuts)
Ie I’m questioning though the attacks on the technical ability of the engineers. From what I have read of the people involved and obviously Musks background that part is not what I would be putting into question.
I understand Musk hired legal and government advice to determine issues they may run into as well. In order to understand context and legal liability. But who knows if that’s adequate
Attacks on individuals aren’t welcome, which is why Musk and Trump are always unwelcome. Questioning of these people’s abilities when it comes to the multiple complex agencies they’ve been given unconstitutional access to is about the bare bones of what should be happening. They should be marched out of every space they currently have access to. I’m not sure how anyone is missing this. The US government and its departments can’t say that they are in charge of their own processes. They have been captured.
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And people once worked with an abacus and a pencil.
To public knowledge there’s been no attacks on segregation of duty afaik.
As far as I’ve read they have been granted read only access to payments. Not subjugating congress. They will probably make the job of those who vet the transactions a lot more efficient than currently.
Whether or not as Musk used the example of say the state department perhaps sponsoring organisations linked to terror.(without any evidence) remains to be seen.
Again they weren’t interrupting payments. They are putting in very advanced decision support.
It would be up to Treasury as to how much they trust that support and I’m guessing if they do put a hold on payments how the agencies who request to make them have to justify it. That seems to be a current process.
The problem would come if they tried to fire/subvert checks and balances put in place.
I wouldn’t trust Musk and co in an Australian environment, but the Americans are much better at that.
Again this notion that the most powerful nation on earth is a basket case run by toothless old ladies and held together by knitting yarn.
The US government is having its personnel stripped and the remainder subjugated by an unelected foreign billionaire.
Years of expertise removed in a night. Regulations scrapped. Constitution ridden over roughshod then reversed over and spat on.
Foreign aid, in other words foreign policy and diplomatic relations, determined by an unelected foreign billionaire. Treasury, health, aviation…
Trump is fine to let it happen as it takes the heat off him but he’s also free to play his executive order games like last time, and enact a few actual structural changes at his P25 masters manipulation.
But they’re just advising on technical efficiency improvements.
It’s funny, but the biggest pin-heads I’ve come across in my industry are “harvard alumnis”.
No doubt they have some outstanding graduates, but lot of others are vastly, vastly overrated, to the point they are almost dangerous.
I don’t know what category this guy is in, but don’t assume anything other than he had a lot of money to start with.
Maybe.
But it would also beggar belief that for the work they want to do with a guy running it with a 400bn plus personal fortune couldn’t get people with the skills to do the job.
Its not like it’s a concern to him to drop them a salary of a million or two a year out of his own wallet.
The technical skills of whoever he has hired should be the least of someone’s concerns.
I’d say the intelligence they gather from the various systems they access is.
Some will be used to drive efficiency and cost savings(and I’m sure there’s a bunch). Others will be used to drive a political agenda.
Maybe, just maybe, some of it will be used to monopolise industries Elon has interests in and block out competitors whose details and positions he now has.
Yeah that’s valid criticism. I’m just taken aback at the assumed technical criticism. It’s just scare tactics.
Take the US treasury. They confirmed yesterday that it was read only access.
You should see how much fake news is out there propagated by other news outlets that there is some sort of write/update access.
All sloppy journalism based on unconfirmed reports out of the treasury department before official communication. Likely someone with a political agenda(unsurprisingly given Trumps downsizing or sacking and replacing agenda)
It won’t be about breaking the payments system of the US treasury. That could cause global financial panic given its size.
They aren’t about to do that and Musk wouldn’t want too.
He would stand to lose billions(as would the other billionaires whose wealth is generated from huge stakes in now publicly listed companies).
Same with air traffic control. Do you think any of them want blood on their hands from hobbling systems? They aren’t out to do that.
Theres a lot more things to be concerned about.
Take them offering voluntary redundancies to every single employee of their spy agencies.
Always back self interest.
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Like that is not dangerous, have they copied the data, is it encrypted, who has access and where is it stored. It is going to end up the biggest data breach in history
Again, I think the big picture might be getting swiped left here. I appreciate your responses but it’s getting a bit trolly in the other thread and I might concern myself with more local matters like lunch for now! Can’t save America on an empty stomach.
edit - yes, the revenge removal of top officials is just one of a dozen things that ordinarily would be a national disgrace but are, instead, just another day. Which is the point of the tsunami of exec orders and DOGE incursions.
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The best response yet.
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Just remember DOGE is advisory only, so someone told me.
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well shitt