“They’re our brothers and sisters. When we stop seeing people that way it’s so easy to start making laws or enacting policies that harm them.”

Oh yeah, this guy is a real hatemonger.

Remember, with Trump in power cops don’t need to pretend anymore.

Evangelicals Are Now Rejecting ‘Liberal’ Teachings of Jesus

“Multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching’turn the other cheek’[and] to have someone come up after to say, ‘Where did you get those liberal talking points?’” Moore said.

“When the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ’ … The response would be, 'Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak,” he added. “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”

Yep, plonk.

The fact maga is excusing this shows how despicable they truly are.

There’s a sentence that works for many contexts.

I do have to agree with that.

Hey if everyone you meet is an asshole, maybe they have lots of alts. But that’s not usually how that sentence ends.

(“ha, try putting a vacuum lidar in a car and see if it can do anything useful outside at the speeds & range a car needs”).

Because no one suggested that.

Maybe it was a DOGE kid he hired to come up with ideas or something. Doing with cameras only is more like a technical challenge, nobody looks at that and goes, WOW they can just do that with cameras, they go wow, that’s a horrible idea full of dust, dirt and mud issues.

How are people still giving this man a fucking pass on everything?

August 2019:

Elon Musk: “Anyone relying on lidar is doomed.” Experts: Maybe not

“They’re all going to dump lidar,” Elon Musk said at an April event showcasing Tesla’s self-driving technology. “Anyone relying on lidar is doomed.”

“Lidar is really a shortcut,” added Tesla AI guru Andrej Karpathy. “It sidesteps the fundamental problems of visual recognition that is necessary for autonomy. It gives a false sense of progress, and is ultimately a crutch.”

Jan 2025:

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Dismisses LiDAR Again: ‘Humans Drive Without Shooting Lasers Out Of Their Eyes’

I am not going to click a link to X, but this article covers that, and links this raw footage video on X which supposedly proves this claim to be false.

In addition to the folks pointing out it likes to shut itself off (which I can neither confirm nor deny)

https://www.pcmag.com/news/tesla-on-autopilot-runs-over-mannequin-hits-wall-in-viral-video-but-is

Some skeptical viewers claim Autopilot was not engaged when the vehicle ran into the wall. These allegations prompted Rober to release the “raw footage” in a X post, which shows the characteristic signs of Autopilot being engaged, such as a rainbow road appearing on the dash.

https://twitter.com/MarkRober/status/1901449395327094898

Closer than you might think. 41%

https://www.project2025.observer/

Keep the space hostile to them, it worked for punk bars it works for us.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gay-bar-defends-decision-to-eject-supporters-despite-their-cries-of-discrimination/ 🔥🔥

On the other hand I can understand Tesla going “Humans use visible light only, in principle that has to be sufficient for a self driving car as well”, because, in principle I agree.

The whole idea is they should be safer than us at driving. It only takes fog (or a painted wall) to conclude that won’t be achieved with cameras only.

On the other hand, if it would cost me 20k more down the road, and Cameras would reach the same safety,

You had a lot of hands in this paragraph. 😀

I’m exceptionally doubtful that the related costs were anywhere near this number, and it’s inconceivable to me that cameras only could ever be as safe as having a variety of inputs.

Musk’s ethos is clear, both in business and government. He will make whatever short term decisions his greed and the ketamine tell him to make, and fuck whatever happens down the road. Let’s not work so hard to sanewash him like the media has Trump.

Everyone needs to understand things are only still this absurd because we allow a small percentage of people to live better than any kings from the past ever lived off the backs of the rest of us. Hording the vast majority of our wealth.

We absolutely have the means to prevent people from having to take their kids to fucking work with them but we choose to let billionaires do things like dismantle our government and destroy our international relations instead.

instead choosing to design a device for a paranoid ketamine addicted indoor boy who wouldn’t be capable of surviving the apocalypse he envisioned the truck for without someone else heating his canned baked beans for him

If President Musk and VP Trump manage to actually destroy the country, I hope I live long enough to laugh at how quickly every last Cybertruck becomes an unusable hunk of stainless steel rotting away wherever it gasped its final breath.