Every once in a while you run into someone doing Uber in a $100k car and you wonder about the economics of that.
(Currently riding inside a Mercedes EQS.)
Every item in this SF Walgreens is under lock and key.
There’s practically nothing you can buy without having to call an associate to unlock something.
I’ve never been in a country that lives this way.
Spanish food is better than French food, and the only reason Americans think otherwise is their (unjustified) elite perception of French culture, and their equally unjustified disdain (if not ignorance) of Spanish culture.
My Singapore driver informs me that robbery carries a minimum sentence of three years in jail and six strokes with a cane.
“One stroke almost kill you.”
“Other country you pass out drunk on the street…phone and wallet gone. In Singapore, nobody touch them.”
No shit.
I have always maintained that the "Europoor" discourse is mostly passport-less Americans engaging in autoerotic asphyxiation levels of cope around how European quality of life is better (across all dimensions other than unicorn startup formation) despite lower GDP per capita.
One of the wildest Florida stories is how the Everglades become home to thousands of enormous, gator-eating pythons.
In 1992, a hurricane blew apart a python-breeding operation, and the things adapted to the marshy ecosystem that resembled SE Asia. They're now everywhere in the
Once in my teen years, we were taking a family photo and someone suggested I kneel in front to fit everyone into the frame.
My flinty Cuban grandma suddenly interjected 'de rodillas nunca!'. 'On your knees, never!'
She ordered me to stand instead.
Thinking of that now.
What Elon is doing is a revolt by entrepreneurial capital against the professional-managerial class regime that otherwise everywhere dominates (including and especially large tech companies), and that same PMC (which includes the media) is treating it as an act of lèse-majesté.
I have thus far maintained my silence on the Apple situation as I've sought to settle things amicably with the company that I admired, and at which I hoped to build the future of ads privacy.
As they however are not maintaining their silence on the matter, neither will I.
