lordjohnwhorfin

Seems like a very US-centric view of things. As a result, absolutely everybody and their sister in Europe uses WhatsApp for messaging and videocalls, even when they have an iPhone and messaging or calling another iPhone user. Allowing facebook to take over that global mindshare seems like a strategic mistake.

Can anyone figure out the lunacy of having strategic export laws on computers but allowing critical industries like chip foundries to be offshored? The most advanced chip manufacturing should always be in the US, you offshore commodities, not critically strategic components. You could see this coming 30 years ago, and somehow we’re here thanks to decades of unregulated corporate greed and government incompetence — and this is one area where I will happily lump both sides together.

I can’t wait to throw away all my chargers and cables so I can use the new universal kind, that will keep so much electronics out of landfill.

Another reason to avoid Lufthansa

Here’s how it’s going to work: Musk will take your refundable $100 deposit so you can pre-order and keep your place in line for an amazing space service that may or may not ship at some time in the future.
I wonder if he’s having his dancing robots build it.