So you’re allowed to build clean energy projects as long as you don’t mention what makes them worth doing, and only employ white men?

It’ll destroy capitalism by creating many new causes of poverty. There won’t be enough food, water or shelter and it’s not going to be fun.

Good luck. I hope it goes well for you. You might want to find a different therapist.

How’s your family doing?

He’s addressing the real problems of society: people trying to save the planet, people trying to learn, people trying to use the bathroom without getting beaten up.

And without right-wing politicians working hard to hamper it.

Don’t you have to install that? I thought Ubuntu came with vi and nano.

A laptop should easily handle a database of 60,000 rows. I run much bigger databases on my own laptop for development purposes.

He wasn’t worth the trouble.

I bumped into the CEO again about 10 years later at a funeral. He was thoroughly obnoxious and spent the time making fun of the deceased (a colleague of ours) and taunting my friend about how many hours he had tricked him into working for free. Then he bragged about his current business and its success. Really one of the most awful people I’ve ever met.

That wasn’t the first deceased colleague of ours he had disrespected. We had a very skilled but very obedient guy working on our team - call him Jim - whose brother (also an colleague) was terminally ill in hospital. These brothers were good guys and popular with all their colleagues. One day Jim got the message that his brother had taken a turn for the worse and might not have much longer, so he asked his manager if he could take the afternoon off to visit his brother. Word came down from Mr. CEO: no, Jim was needed in the office so could not have the afternoon off. Being a loyal employee, Jim stayed. His brother died that evening and he didn’t get to say goodbye. I left the company soon after that.

Miserable as this all was, it was a good lesson in just how self-centred and self-important some people are. This CEO is now very wealthy and still goes through life convinced he’s a success and we’re all losers who don’t know how to do life like he does. He’ll probably never figure out the truth.

I’ve never had a boss who didn’t do this. Promise, set timeline and price, get contracts signed, then come to the development team to ask whether it’s possible to do by Wednesday. Many years ago I had a boss who promised a major client that we’d provide an entire online advertising network to rival Google Ads, and gave us 4 days to design, develop and deliver it. Then when it wasn’t ready he threw one of the developers under the bus in a meeting with the customer. He actually used the words, “This is Dave’s fault.” Dave was professional and didn’t argue. Good look for a CEO. I’m sure he thought he had won. The project went nowhere because all the execs had different ideas about what it was supposed to do, and the dev team was oddly unmotivated to help them out.

It is for most people. For narcissists and sociopaths the calculation works differently.

Ah, some actual government. Stay sane, Minnesota. Don’t get sucked into the vortex.

Actually we are working hard to accelerate it.

The company might one day pay but the individuals responsible for its behavior will almost certainly not, except if they’re still alive when climate change kills them as well as the rest of us.

So many decisions that are bad for the USA, bad for its people, bad for its businesses, bad for its global standing and bad for the planet. And the only answer to “why?” is some childish quest by bitter men to hurt people they don’t like.

Oh look, they go to X for some balanced commentary:

THIS is the result of Democrats and legacy media calling Elon Musk “HitIer.”

Now why on Earth would they do that?

Absolutely. With a bit of investment this is an opportunity for any other country to poach some of the world’s best scientists. And Canada has geographical and cultural advantages in that competition. It would be a good investment for the long term.

The ethical route, ie “white hat”, is to contact the owners about the exploit with a fixed period disclosure. Ie, “fix this in 30-90 days, or we will publish our method”.

I’m not sure that is the ethical route when you’re talking about disrupting the operations of a Nazi-led government.

Anyone who leaves a message in full view to announce they’ve accessed the system isn’t the real danger. If whoever this is could get in, so can the real experts from China, Russia, North Korea, etc. There’s no way Musk’s DOGE people, in their destructive haste, have taken any care over security. It’s even likely his team of punchable kids put in their own backdoors, thinking they were being clever. If and when foreign adversaries find their way in through those, they’re not putting up an announcement.