After the 2008 crash. Central banks opened the faucet and started printing money like crazy. It was supposed to be temporary but it has continued. All this money went primarily to the financial industry which is flush with cash to invest in "the next big thing".
The result today is that there are just a small handful of companies (Meta, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple, Amazon, Tesla) have a combined market cap of $19 Trillion. More than the GDP of Germany, Japan and India.
It's all a speculative bubble.
https://youtu.be/S7NHhYlb1Gk?s...

FSD is not anything close to self driving. You have to constantly monitor it to correct the frequent screwups.
It really a poor level 2 drive assist and not even close to level 5 which is real FSD.

Except their car autonomy (autopilot, full self driving). These "features" work poorly and are dangerous. They've been trying to get it right for almost 10 years and keep promising "by the end of the year" but they still are not ready for prime time. I think part of the problem is that they are stuck using "vision only" whereas other autonomous car systems use a combination of sensors (vision, ultrasound, radar, lidar, etc.) which seem to work better.

OTOH, the frequent software updates have improved many other aspects of the car.

Because the capitalists control the government.
I personally believe that all health care should be non-profit.
Profit seeking corporations just leech off of the health care system. They add expense and barriers.

Fortunately, solar, wind (and battery storage) are cheaper than fossil and nuclear power. This keeps the greedy capitalists happy to invest in green energy.
Even the massive subsidies for fossil fuels can't overcome solar and wind cost advantage.

The US medical system is designed to ensure profit insurance companies, hospital corporations, pharma.
Any benefit to health is merely a secondary side effect.

Social Security is only in financial trouble because the politicians are bribed and don't raise taxes on rich people who get a real bargain with their SS tax capped at a ridiculously low income level. They get a real bonus far beyond their contributions.
Everyone else gets a fair return on their contributions to the fund.

Most people don't want to live under US fascism.
People and leaving the US (especially the educated).

I am amazed at the laggard US banks.
20 years ago I lived in Switzerland. Banks had no checks. All payments were electronic. I could pay and receive money from anyone without hassle or fees.
The US is backwater slowly slipping into irrelevance.

I've found Venmo cheaper to use since it doesn't have transaction fees for many transfers.
PayPal extracts fees from most transactions.
Who is the idiot?

A recent survey of technology leaders found that China is leading in 61 of 65 tech areas. (A similar survey decades ago found the US leading in most of the tech areas.)
China is focused on leading the world economically and the efforts over the past decades have shown steady progress.
This recent action just doubles down on their commitment. They are not afraid of "aliens".
Unfortunately, the US is going in the opposite direction. Instead of leading economically, the US is focusing on military power, fear, and intimidation to "lead".
The US has hundreds of military outposts around the world. China has none but is becoming a leading economic power.

TFS says satellite services were cut off.
Don't know how they did that.
TFA says: Mobile internet and satellite TV has also been severely disrupted across the country.
Nothing about Starlink... are they even allowed to operate there?

Nobody wants to go to Texas
(BTW, why do people here think the shuttle is in NY? TFA correctly states that it is in the Smithsonian outside Washington, DC.)

How about "Ladybird Killer Edition"