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It wouldn’t. His wealth grows at a 5–6% rate minimum every year.

It would be a handicap in the billonaires race to “who will contribute the most to the collapse of civilization?”, though!

Best part is this tax wouldn’t have the slighest impact on his quality of life. His wealth would still grow faster than the rest of the economy.

Let me fix the first: “France running up huge deficits because Macron spent his whole political career reducing taxes for the ultra-wealthy, and these parasites still pocketed a large amount of France and the EU Covid’s relief money as dividends and buyback schemes.”

Right now the EU regulation is pushing banks to require more of Google or Apple because it’s unclear and banks won’t take a chance of getting fined.

Among the requirements are: ensure the device and the OS were not “altered”. What does that mean exactly? Answer: [crickets].

But that’s why many banks just go with the Google Play Integrity API.

But they’ll likely be older, and learn to be more tech savvy to get around the block.

The school my kid attens provide Chromebooks, with a tight control of course.

That’s why 11y old had to learn from one of their classmates how to bypass the control. Thanks to tech protection they were safe from accidentally finding porn (did that ever happen to anyone in real life??) for at least one week.

The only part I mentioned was child development, which research has shown to have a negative impact (just like we did with cigarettes and alcohol).

We all agree. Yet I don’t understand why you so much want to defend a mechanism that is already failing its stated purpose. In case you missed it: it is a miserable total failure. It just increased VPN usage. That, and the massive data collection. Period. Nothing else achieved.

So now I guess it’s going to be ok to control VPN.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vpns-porn-online-safety-act-childrens-commissioner-b2810092.html

That’s going to fail, by the way. Then I guess you must ban Tor at ISP level. Completely block it, for the sake of the children.

Then, then, then…

Then children are still exposed to porn, but we’re working on it! Meanwhile, would you come to the station explain why you visited that website and posted that nasty anonymous comment about the PM last wednesday night?

And eventually, we always, always figure out their leaders don’t abide to the rules they set for others.

Why do we regulate alcohol and cigarettes? Why dont parent’s just parent their kids? How would the kid even bave the money to buy them in the first place? To be clear, when these restrictions were being put in place, people absolutely had the exact same arguments you are making right now. The onus is on the parents.

And so now no kid can’t access alcohol or cigarettes, right? Right?? Aaaaah, yes they can…

Even kids with parents that have reasonable restrictions are easily able to access internet pornography because internet devices are everywhere. Internet devices are easier to access than cigarettes and alcohol, and can do just as much damage to their development. Why wouldn’t the government also control access to confirm someone’s age.

It’s going to have exactly the same efficiency: none. Kids educated enough to know they shouldn’t seek it won’t. The others will definitely find a way to get it. We will never hear about it after. There will be no report, stats, anything. How much stats have you seen on the efficiency of “anti-terrorists” laws?

Please do not respond to me about giving out your ID if you do not acknowledge my comment on use zero knowledge proof’s to verify you’re over an age.

I don’t acknowledge vaporware.

“Child’s protection”, “anti-terrorist”, “against pedophile” so many emotionally triggering words so that we slowly accept more and more control. Had this been proposed 10 years ago, people would have screamed this is “soviet-style”. Nowadays, it’s just one more small step.

I don’t give it another 10 years before you accept webcams in your house with IA monitoring you with complete guaranteed privacy as the IA is only to report cases of harm on children by their caretakers. It will just take a bit more push and a big case of child abuse on the news. We do watch people’s behavior outside the house, right? Why not inside? How many more kids are you ready to sacrifice in the name of privacy??

The internet is different, and it’s currently the wild west.

As opposed to real world where I could buy alcohol without any problem at 15–16 and was offered cigarettes at the same age despite both being forbidden in my country? If kids wants something bad enough, they’ll get it. The stronger the ban, the higher the interest it creates for teens.

Again, if done correctly, it can be done privately and securely.

The only thing you could try is parental control on their devices. Be aware they will seek other devices outside, from their friends, etc. UK has seen an explosion of VPNs use since implementation of their control: it’s miserably failing already.

Or is it? Many adults went through the ID confirmation process…

Education: that works! Mindless coercion never works. But the advocate of these solutions know that very well. The kids were never their target.

Assuming people upload their code to fix it, that means it’s non working code. Great training material!

I’m joking but I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t think that through…

Yeah, that’s what the rest of us try to convince ourself so that we can cope with it. That or the idea that these people must sleep very poorly thinking about what they’ve done, while we’re actually the ones who have poor sleep thinking about what they’ve done and feeling powerless.

I doubt Elon will go to jail for being an asshole. Tesla may get in troubles for the promises of unsupervised FSD, but that’s not the issue here.

I was more thinking about the brand’s reputation recovery.

Some of them may quietly have the same political view as him, and at worse, most of them don’t care about his views. Their failure to understand the rest of the world does mind just show that they’re not half as smart as they think, and they’re totally disconnected from the normal world.

And at these times, they could claim “Nazism is dead”. The issue with Musk and Tesla is nazis are not going anywhere anytime soon. Maybe they should hire VW’s CEO, actually. He managed to get the brand past the diesel-gate.

Sooner or later, the stock price will tank. It’s actually quite something that it is still that high, if anyone needed anymore proof that stock investors are not smarter than average Joe.

But Tesla sales are crashing worldwide, not just because of the brand, but because competition has caught up and is now getting ahead. Robo-taxis are going to compete with players that are years ahead on self-driving and safety concerns are going to force Tesla to trim down their price (assuming they manage to no longer need their “safety monitors”, in which cas they will just not happen).

Humanoid robots are a tool that needs to find a use justifying its price (and there again, we might see competition from China…).

What’s left??

Don’t you know that he’s a genius and none of what he says or does can have any bad consequence? If it’s not because of him, it must be because of someone else. Oh, BTW: he also fired a manager in Tesla who voiced against him damaging the brand name.

https://electrek.co/2025/06/18/tesla-manager-fired-sounding-the-alarm-explains-why-automaker-screwed/

None of these people know anything about anything. Only Elon knows!!

Go explain that to Iran’s leaders. Good luck!

On 9/11, the message sent was very unclear (“we hate you for your overall activity in the middle-east and the rest of the world” and/or “death to America”).

This time, it may be very clear: “that’s retaliation for the unjustified bombing of our country” (though Iran had its share of chanting “death to America”, so yes, YMMV).

I agree with you, you know: more deaths will lead to more retaliations, from both sides. Someone has to act like a true adult responsible pragmatic leader now. But there is none in power on either side.

Or Ukraine’s civilians. Or the 500k–2M dead civilians during the war against Iraq. Oh, sorry, those were “collateral”…

Usually citizens are not considered fair targets. They’re just targeted all the same.

Iran does not have the military capabilities to fight off Israel, let alone the USA. So they will most likely use terrorist attacks, targeting civilians, because that’s the best hope they have to end the war: when the people back home get serious about ending it as they’re taking losses.

Unfortunately, and as usual, the very important people who decide to keep going or stop are also the least likely to see their life at risk. And in this case, they also happen to not give a flying fuck about civilians lives.

That’s why France 's De Gaulle wanted its own bomb in the first place: he was convinced the US would not risk mutual annihilation if the USSR really invaded western Europe. See also how shy the west has been shy with supplying Ukraine because Russia kept threatening to use a nuke in the area.

France nuke’s umbrella for Greenland would be but a PR op only. Neither Macron nor anyone after him would ever nuke the US over Greenland.

The only good answer to that:

“No, that won’t happen. So I guess we’re in this for another year. Here’s the list of wapons that we will deliver to Ukraine, as well as spare parts and ammo that go with them. And here’s the list of new sanctions we’ll apply against Russia. See you next year, except if you have a change of heart”.

But that’s not going to happen…

It’s the second attempt for Greta. The first ship was sunk, probably by a drone. This time there is more press coverage though, so maybe this time they won’t risk killing anyone.