That’s my conclusion too. “Progressives” are stuck in the past with AI and seem completely determined to stay there. Meanwhile, AI models (LLM+reasoning) already work really well and are improving all the time. For instance, I can do things with Claude it couldn’t come close to doing six months ago. They are also getting cheaper.

So progressives will fall further behind and look more clownish all the time. Which is fine with me.

It is kind of amazing how delusional the idiot left is here. I love Armand’s response to that lunacy. The Bluesky screecher types (even if on Twitter) will never stop screeching.

Heh.

It always made me laugh when “feminists” would criticize some character design where a woman in a video game had breasts that actually moved a little when she did something athletic. Like, have you seen a woman in the real world do anything? Come the fuck on you fucking clowns.

These are the same vile women who don’t want you to see women competing on TV unless they are in burqas. The left really is moving to de facto Islam. So fucking oddball.

Look, I’m not the biggest Elon fan but this is absolutely fucking moronic.

This doofish “analysis” lumps together three very different things. Tesla’s carbon credits aren’t tax dollars and have nothing to do with taxes. They’re paid by other automakers, including in China and the EU, that miss emissions targets. Most of the rest is SpaceX contracts, which pay for actual launches, crew flights and satellite service, very often cheaper than the alternatives. That’s no more “milking” than Boeing or Lockheed getting paid for what they build (also highly subsidized by these standards!). By any count, the total is dwarfed by the auto bailout, and fossil fuels get roughly that much in federal support every damn year. And his fortune is mostly stock in his companies, not government checks. The only fair critique is that public money was crucial to SpaceX and Tesla surviving early on, which is hypocritical when contrasted with Musk’s attacks on government spending.

And you know what, I am absolutely fine with public money going towards advancing the interests of the nation and improving tech; that makes everyone’s life better. We should have industrial policy and it should do things like this (and far, far more). Subsidies aren’t inherently bad¹. They are how we get more of what we want and need.

I do agree that no one should be allowed to be as rich as Elon, but that’s not what this is talking about.

I just do not understand why otherwise-smart people wish to beclown themselves this way. It is undignified.

1. Hell, I am old enough to remember when liberals were fully behind subsidies all over the place when it advanced their political agenda.

Oh, don’t do that to Gen Z. You know they don’t understand jokes. Or satire. Or attraction, sex, being social or…wait, what do they understand? Oh yeah, how to be prudes. That they have covered (heh).

The most annoying part of most of the left is how they expect you to apologize to them and take the blame for them being clueless prudish clownish dumbasses.

And I’m simply not gonna do that.