More positively than unregulated capitalism. More negatively than other parts of the world with far more heavy regulations.

Only if you want to take the discussion off topic. No you don't have socialism when it comes to your insurance system.

How many of your friends are in the news? The fact that there is a specific law about this with specific punishments should tell you that just because something isn't seen by you personally doesn't mean it doesn't happen. There's a Texas passed a law due to this, and the law was signed into power with the blood of children.

Also it's a false comparison. I bet you know out of your extended group of people at least one person who has been a cause of an accident, maybe even someone who has hit a person. The schoolbus overtaking rule is an "idiots rule", just like boomgates at a level crossing are "idiot gates". Both exist to resolve an issue created by imperfect driving in the first place (the first being fast passing combined with slow reaction time, the second being idiots who ignore the blinking lights). The risks applied to automated systems aren't the same. That's not a reason to say that Waymo shouldn't follow the laws, but it is a case to say that the laws may not need to be equal for both systems (up next: let's talk about stop signs and why cyclists are legally allowed to not stop at them in many jurisdictions, and why it's a good idea in general to not consider all vehicles as equal.).

That is absolutely false. Firstly, prices are almost universally changed during business hours. You can probably walk down the isle of your local supermarket and find someone with a price / tag labelling machine adjusting one *right now* if you bothered to look.

The register issue is handled quite simply: you keep the lowest of the two prices at checkout and you have zero legal liability. There is no paperwork involved.

I can tell you've never worked retail before. I agree with the rest of your point: this is stuff that was already happening. But the idea that somehow this only happened at night without customers present or that someone is opening themselves to massive fines is just plain absurd.

Only in a general sense. Prices are constantly adjusted. Go to your local store you'll probably find someone *right now* with a price sticker machine. It would take an employee all of 10 minutes to do the entire drinks section, and you can predict a heatwave days in advance. The reality is price adjustments (e.g. during sales) are a constant event for a retail business and the whole digital price tag thing is just a general cost reduction scheme, not some nefarious idea to invent new capitalistic ways to fuck you over.

Amazing milestone aside, the choice of wording here remains spot on. The capabilities of the system has nothing to do with the testing regime. The fact that they had an abundance of caution and focused on other things first has nothing to do with this achievement. They reached orbit. All the other things alone are only relevant if they were building a commercial air-liner.

Reaching orbit is a milestone for a space fairing vehicle, and one that they just reached. Kudos to the team, but they don't need you making excuses for them.

Which makes me wonder: Is there more to this? Or are some of the world's best paid lawyers working for the world's wealthiest company simply incompetent? It's hard to think Apple just fucked up and didn't patent a key invention of theirs, and hard to think that they didn't follow all avenues to invalidate the plaintiff's patent.

Ineed, that doesn't make it correct though. That's the fun thing about being pedantic in the face of otherwise perfectly reasonable phrasing ;-)

Ooooooh I like it. Now we're in the weeds. Wet is being in contact with a liquid. What is water? Is it an individual molecule, or is it a fluid? If it is a fluid, can it touch itself just simply by being a mass or not? Is water segmentable, or is all liquid that contacts liquid now considered that liquid instead of considered to be in contact with that liquid? I.e. Can water be in contact with itself?

X.Ai can't even stop Grok from shitting over Musk. I think you're pushing a conspiracy that just isn't reflected in reality.

The actual reality is that AI absorbs an entire world of source information, and most of the time it's spreading misinformation because that bullshit is so prevalent. You don't need e.g. the US government to pay off OpenAI when there's 10s of millions of useful idiots happily poisoning the dataset with their own stupidity.

You may get misinformation from them, but AI doesn't prioritise it precisely because it is objective bullshit. You can check this yourself, go type your favourite Epstein conspiracy into your favourite AI bot and watch it ruthlessly criticize that "establishment". It's especially funny when Grok calls out Musk's bullshit in response to people @tweeting Grok a reply "Is this true" to Musk's own posts.

Either you're delusional or you're so far down the rabbit hole that the algorithms don't even try and feed you sensible stuff from established news media anymore. The source you cite are constantly criticising "the establishment", openly, publicly, continuously.

While you're right about the patent trolling, there's more to this than "Thing go brzzztt!". What happens in a watch has zero to do patent wise with what is going on in controllers. They are fundamentally different, covered under different patents, ... and had it's own patent lawsuit back 20 years ago (which Sony lost by the way).

Water isn't wet, water makes things wet. I don't know why anyone thinks this is a question.

Trump's own press releases. You should listen to dear leader a bit more often.

Oh thank god. Let's just keep killing 36600 and injuring 1.5million Americans ever year because fluffernutter thinks that bad driving is an abnormality.

You're a psychopath.

Oh I know capitalism quite well, and I don't hate it irrationally, I hate it rationally. You quote competition as the great mediator. That's good, you've passed ECON101. Now let me introduce you to the course curriculum next year. In ECON102 you'll learn about market consolidation and insurance underwriting where policy prices between "competing" businesses are set by the same external force. You'll also learn about customer resistance to change and hate of paperwork, you'll learn how much you can actually keep prices higher than competitors while not losing customers who have been previously locked into a past contract. Stick with us to 3rd year and we'll discuss consumer behaviour and accepting of new price norms which reduces customer willingness to shop around as they generally lament of a time long ago where prices were cheaper under the assumption that all prices are now equally high.

That is capitalism. It's a system which in its only stable form has complete consolidation, no competition, and always tends to a monopoly since that is capitalism's ultimate goal.

Competition describes a temporary market condition (called a "perfect" market, *not* a "free" market) in capitalism, and the only way to preserve it is through very strong regulation.

You should get an economics degree, I highly recommend it. It'll open your eyes a lot.