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Maybe we just dont have oligarchs in government, yeah?

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You canā€™t just DĀ³ all the oligarchs.

(this is a challenge, I want you to but I canā€™t just say that.)

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If we got rid of all the oligarchs, weā€™d barely have anyone left.

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25 points

You son of a bitch, Iā€™m in

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13 points

Me n the boys with our pocket guillotines

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ā€¦ Is that an AI generated thing or an actual physical item?

I love the gag, but if someone actually made it I assume it has an actual use and the things that come to mind that would fit in that hole frighten me.

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24 points

Looks like a straight cigar cutter to me

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4 points

ah, that makes far more sense.

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8 points

Mel Brooks had a gag in one of his movies where he was a rabbi who carried a pocket guillotine.

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The sad part is, that allowing Elon to export ā€œFull Self Drivingā€ or whatever other technology to China wonā€™t even help Tesla that much, and will even harm the company in the long term:

The Chinese will just copy/steal the technology, because all foreign investment is through joint ventures with local corporations, and give it to their domestic manufacturers, like they did and continue to do with all other offshored production that winds up in their hands.

As a recent spate of articles about GM, Honda and Nissan, tells us, the Chinese domestic manufacturers now own 60% market share.

Teslaā€™s market share in China has dropped in nearly half over the last 3 months from 9/24 - 12/24, from 6.43% to 3.39%, and that was already down from 9% in 2023.

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FSD isnā€™t the leader in the market anyways and faces significant problems right now because they abandoned radar to focus on cameras.

So China likely already has that techā€¦

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No, you donā€™t understand. FSD canā€™t be copied because itā€™ll be entirely server side, and hosted in the USA!

Hope your ping times donā€™t spike while making a left turn in a busy intersection.

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10 points

No doubt running on starlink.

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Have never heard that and doubt it is true.

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Bit off topic maybe but isnā€™t Teslas self-driving setup the worst of all implementations? Iā€™m no expert but i thought the cars only used cameras and other companies were closer to full autonomy (though none have achieved it)

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FSD is less reliable compared to say Googleā€™s Waymo. GMā€™s Cruise gave up on autonomous driving

Chinaā€™s dubious state media, says their autonomous robotaxis are quite safe, and theyā€™re rolling out fleets of them in major cities already

But Iā€™m sure that bits and bobs in Teslaā€™s FSD systems have some value to someone.

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Itā€™s called an ITAR violation, and itā€™s probably more than just EV parts.

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Critical support for comrade Musk in his protracted struggle against Sinophobia.

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