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[Pocket]

I'm beginning to think Luigi shot the wrong CEO. I'm also really hating the fact that I'm beginning to think that violence may be the answer this time... I've NEVER thought that way before and I'm a little scared that I'm trending that way now.

Welcome to the dark side; we have cookies.

There's no such thing as shooting the wrong CEO. Luigi just didn't shoot the CEO whose death would have benefited society the most.

Counterpoint: no one wants to shoot the costco CEO.

Amendment: it's only wrong to shoot one particular CEO.

Apparently I'm out of the loop. What's this about?

 

[Ungnome]

I think it's in relation to Costco rejecting the pressure to end it's DEI initiatives and NOT bending the knee to Trump.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Actually, it's over the costco hotdog. Similar story for the CEO of arizona iced tea. They saw no reason to gouge people, or extort over basic commodities, and were happy to take lesser profits.

You know, as businesses should be run: Well treated workers and a reasonable expectation of profit.

 

[Paladin]

Including settling a strike with their union for decent wages.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/31/nx-s1-5280640/costco-pay-raises-teamsters-union-threatens-strike

 

[Ultra Magnus13]

Actually, it's over the costco hotdog. Similar story for the CEO of arizona iced tea. They saw no reason to gouge people, or extort over basic commodities, and were happy to take lesser profits.

You know, as businesses should be run: Well treated workers and a reasonable expectation of profit.

They arn't making "less profit" on the hotdog soda combo, they are losing money on it, it's a marketing gimmick/expense.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Which is an entirely valid strategy they teach in any business school.

 

[Ultra Magnus13]

Which is an entirely valid strategy they teach in any business school.

oh 100%, I'm just saying The Costco CEO isn't trimming margins for charitable purposes, and places charging more for a hot dog arn't gouging people.

 

[Ungnome]

It won't pass, but I love this:

Pocan to Introduce ELON MUSK Act to Ban Federal Government Contracts for Special Government Employees, Similar To Bans For Members of Congress, Many Other Federal Employees

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) announced plans to introduce the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy (ELON MUSK) Act. The legislation would direct Federal Agencies to terminate any contracts held by a Special Government...

pocan.house.gov

 

[KidTDragon]

Not a bad backronym.

 

[Ungnome]

In the good timeline branching from this one at this moment it would pass and SpaceX's stock would TANK overnight. They would be forced to either fire Musk as CEO or Musk would have to quit USDS(not calling it DOGE anymore, gonna call it the name Congress gave it when it was originally created during the Obama administration
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[Dekafox]

Apparently Musk actually put two people in charge of the Treasury systems, and one is a 19 year old who hangs out at Russian forums and has tried to rent DDOS botnets.

DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers

Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

www.wired.com

Supposedly they're going to get Read Only access approved by a judge according to CNN, but they apparently claimed Read Only also just before we heard they were pushing untested patches to production.

Also:

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video Palantir CEO and sociopath Alex Karp, addressing investors during a board meeting, defending DOGE: “Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world. And, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them. And we...

mas.to

 

[abates]

I wonder if anyone has pointing out to Trump how much blackmail material Musk is potentially accumulating on him.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Elon Musk supporters thought he was going to colonize Mars, but he colonized the US government instead.

This is what happens when people ignore reality and stupidly fall for a carefully crafted public image.

Elon Musk's unregulated paradise would be heaven for bad people, and hell for good people. Regulations don't just keep bad people in check: they reward good people for doing the right thing.

Without regulations, bad people get rewarded for behaving in wildly irresponsible ways, while good people are effectively punished for their own good deeds because they are costly and now seem pointless, because any good you do with your ethical restraint is easily outweighed by all the damage that the bad people are gleefully doing.

Take pollution for example: if you take away all anti-pollution regulations, some people might still try not to pollute. But for every one of those people, there will be five people whose pollution footprint skyrockets, and the good person's efforts will seem completely futile and pointlessly costly. What's the point of carefully disposing of your waste properly, when your neighbour is dumping paint thinner into the river that you share with him?

Look at traffic laws as another example: eliminate all penalties for running red lights and stop signs, and those behaviours would become rampant. Traffic chaos would ensue. Deaths would increase. And you could not possibly stop this by driving responsibly yourself: that's not how shared environments work.

Contrary to libertarian fantasies about self-regulating markets and invisible hands, the elimination of regulations will drop us all to the lowest common denominator, and reward the worst among us.

Apparently, when techbros say "move fast and break things", the thing they want to break is the law.

 

[Pale Rider]

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-treasury

 

[Dekafox]

So between that and https://therecord.media/treasury-agrees-block-doge-access I guess Mr Big Balls is the only one still with access? (Assuming none of those unreviewed code changes added a backdoor)

 

[Anonymous X]

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

Trump cuts aid to South Africa over ‘racial discrimination’ against Afrikaners https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/08/trump-cuts-aid-to-south-africa-over-racial-discrimination-against-afrikaners?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

bsky.app

Remember in the film Casino (Dir: Martin Scorsese) where Robert DeNiro’s character is running a casino, despite not legally being allowed to, and there’s also an official boss of the casino who is just a figurehead? Yeah.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Yeah, we knew that back before the inauguration. Trump didn't want the job, he just wanted the perks: including keeping his ass out of jail.

 

[Paladin]

This is the kind of information he bought a social media network & a Presidency to bury.

The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis

A new analysis suggests that the Cybertruck might lead to 17 times more fatalities than the infamous Ford Pinto.

futurism.com

 

[KidTDragon]

On the plus side, every Cybertruck that blows up means one fewer tool in the world.

 

[Rhinox]

I see no downside to this, honestly. I have yet to meet the cybertruck owner who isn't an absolute tool. And, yeah, I'm willing to paint this with the big brush right now.