Drugs cooked his brain.

Germany and Italy learn from their mistakes. The US keeps repeating them more than any other country (except for Argentina)

But those are Americans.

Mandrake 2003. Followed by Ubuntu server 5.10 in 2005.

Switched to Debian in 2020, been on Debian since.

I use it because of the lack of BS.

Secondly, it’s stable.

Would not say equally shitty, otherwise they won’t have popular support they do.

You are correct however that they are not pro consumer.

They are just a smarter, wiser business with a sustainable business model that understands the importance of consumer trust.

This bubble does not just need to be popped, it needs to evaporate.

“Mediated” talks

Its a pebble

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/

Native Realtime collaboration on documents and spreadsheets is the last feature holding us back from switching in business environments.

The ones forced to go to work keep dropping.

Except you supercharge the mutation of the disease as well, so its a rinse and repeat cycle.

Yes, I recall at the time experts saying it was a terrible mistake and Elon saying Machine learning will bridge the gap.

The real reason was to increase margins.

Just a bit of South African context. In South Africa, in order to get a telcoms licence, you have to comply with BB-BEE (Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment) requirements. Basically, you have to sell 30% (soon to be 51%) of your company to a local black owner. This is in addition to DEI requirements for employment.

For most businesses, these requirements are not mandatory to exist or operate, but gives you a bidding advantage for government contracts. For example, Microsoft, amazon and Temu can operate here, because they dont need any special licences. But for some sectors, companies need to aquire a license.

It can be argued that such legislation was necessary to incentivise business to diversify their employment and ownership to those previously excluded.

BUT, the way it is implemented, there is a huge emphasis on black ownership for various sectors. What will basically happen is a business needs to acquire a license from a government department. These licenses would only be granted if you give ownership of your company to the “appropriate” investor. Invariably someone connected to the government. They determine the price and basically get gifted portions of companies.

So what has basically happened is that this legislation only effective portion these days, is to enrich the politically connected.

So basically Elon is not wanting to pay the bribes necessary to get the required license to operate.

I Hate the buffoon, but on this he is correct.

Market shows that the market buys into hype, not value.

FYI, the IDF regularly uses bulldozers to clear bodies for fear of suicide vests.

Not clear why they would shoot them. Don’t see a clear threat. Possibly an assassination or just being indiscriminate.