You are thinking of this:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

Yep, my first thought on seeing this was … ‘and who will be enforcing this?’

No one, the answer is no one.

While the information about Elon’s history of making false claims, hardware and software details are accurate… there is no official body that has ruled as the title of the article suggests.

A more accurate headline would be ‘should’ not ‘has to’.

There is basically zero chance that this guy’s desire would be effectuated in the US … as the US agency that regulates cars… was recently gutted by Musk’s DOGE idiots.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/car-safety-experts-at-nhtsa-which-regulates-tesla-axed-by-doge/

Maybe the EU or China or other governments could… legally agree with the author, and order a similar command…

But uh yeah, the Trump admin is currently blatantly telling the Supreme Court to go fuck themselves, the law will soon be whatever the hell Trump and his orbiters want it to be, has already told the entire world to go fuck themselves and also beg and grovel at the same time.

Elon would just… continue doing whatever the fuck he wants, even if another country mandated a recall/replacement.

Sorry, but uh yeah, we have a fascist government now, the rule of law is dead, the law is now whatever the fuck the Trump admin says it is.

Do you know if there are significant differences between the Korean language of North Korea, and the Korean language of South Korea?

Or are they still very similar?

I only really know one word in Korean… I would sound it out as ’ gam zeh hah mee da '.

I asked some local, older aged, shop owners of South Korean descent how to say ‘thank you’ in Korean so I could thank them with more respect when I shop at their stores… I may be pronouncing or spelling my pronunciation wrong.

Apoarently it is 감사합니다 in Korean… but that is likely South Korean, and it seems that South Korean and North Korean use different words, or pronounciations, for at least some terms…

It would be interesting to learn if there are more differences between the two forms of Korean. :D

American here:

About 20% of Americans are functionally illiterate, 2nd grade or worse reading and writing skills.

The average literacy level of Americans is between 5th and 6th grade… meaning the next 30% have the reading/writing skills of someone who basically only conpleted elementary school.

These are numbers for adults 18 and up, by the way, not kids.

Almost every single person I’ve met who learned English as a second language… can speak it more fluently than most native English speakers I’ve known who grew up in America. More extensive vocabularies, better grammar, better spelling.

And this will get worse.

Covid resulted in a year to two years of remote or missed classes for Gen Alpha, and the Repulicans look poised to finally kill off the public education system in all but the wealthier, solid blue states. Department of Education will be disbanded by the end of the year or earlier if nobody stops it.

Not an unreasonable assumption.

That or he’s a die hard fan, really into that subculture.

… Delete… all… IP law?

So… just literally make all piracy legal, switch all gaming and tv show and movie production/consumption… to an optional donation model?

Fuck it, why not.

I am both an avid pirate and have a degree in econ, wrote papers as an undergrad on how to potentially reform the DMCA… and uh yeah, at this point yeah no one has any fucking idea how any thing works, everyone is an idiot, sure fuck it, blow it all up, why not.

Don’t forget they also spun up their own ‘production studio’, and… it mostly produced basically the anime equivalent of lolcows in terms of their general reception and percieved quality, always overbudget and/or massively missing deadlines, never renewed for another season.

And then that was shut down within 3 years.

Oh right, and the union busting, also very cool.

Numbers 5:11 to 5:31 uh, fairly clearly explains that if a woman is suspected to be pregnant by ‘not her husband’, she is to undergo a ritual and drink a potion which will cause an abortion/miscarriage.

https://biblia.com/bible/esv/numbers/5/11-31

ESV uses a … too literal translation to result into ‘her thigh will fall away’…

https://biblia.com/bible/niv2011/numbers/5/11-31

But the NIV translators are capable of understanding context dependent modifiers and just directly uses ‘miscarry’.

https://biblia.com/bible/nlt/numbers/5/11-31

NLT ends up with ‘womb will shrivel/shrink’.

https://biblia.com/bible/nkjv/numbers/5/11-31

NKJ also goes for a very, word by word literal approach (what a surprise) and says ‘thigh will rot’.

…

So yeah, there you go, anytime you run into a bible thumper who proclaims that the ten commandments are the basis of western civilization, show them that the old testament also very clearly and explicitly … not just condones, but mandates abortion in certain circumstances.

If they then say that we are under the new covenant, throw this at them:

https://biblehub.com/matthew/5-18.htm

Matthew 5:18

Jesus, the man himself, says to follow the Law (ie, the old testament, or at the very least the first 5 books, the torah, which includes the entire book of numbers) exactly, precisely, to the letter, to the ‘jot and tittle’.

… Oh but also the Bible is inerrant and never contradicts itself, which must mean the old and new covenant have perfect agreement and never contradict, and are therefore identical, right?

Roll the dice huh?

You know, I’m actually really into TTRPGs… and I actually keep my a few of my dice on me as a sort of silly good luck charm, here, lemme show you!

rolls for initiative in my own mind

reaches into jacket, draws concealed pistol

Great work kitty kat.

Yep.

Yes.

That is the mouse, right in front of you, juuuust out of reach.

Again, great work.

Oh goodie, thats wonderful news for the 401k havers, rofl.

I believe you.

… so we now have fractal, simultaneously compounding and also decohering layers of irony.

The irony factor now has an imaginary, unreal component rofl.

Oh lord.

Ah, ok, I appreciate the correction!

Doing my best trying to remember my course work from almost two decades ago, looks like I missed an important detail.

… and that detail makes the situation… even worse, wonderful.

Hey.

HEY!

There are a lot of penguins on some godforsaken island in the middle of nowhere that need to be bombed until they understand democracy and freedom.

(‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ subject to terms and conditions, limited time offer, no refunds)

No disagreements, no notes.

We (USians) are completely cooked, totally fucked.

We’d have to erect a new government, and then actually demonstrate stability for a decade or two… to begin to be able to undo Trump’s damage, to be treated as anything other than basically a rogue nation that also has the world’s… either the first or second largest/most powerful military.

I can only hope some more civilized places may begin to more seriously consider Americans seeking asylum… though I of course completely understand why they wouldn’t.

For reference:

May Day, A View to a Kill (1985):

May Day, Goldeneye (N64, 1997):

Fuck, that sounds awesome!

I used to have a set up like that, though it was wired, not wireless. I’d just haul the rig out to the living room lol, had a fairly small and light pc, so it wasn’t too much work, did cable management to make the transitioning easier.

Also somewhat related… I was just talking with another person who was unable to get that level of quality, resolution and frame rate via streaming their PC to their living room TV… also they mentioned input latency with very fast paced and fine tuned racing games.

You mind if I ask how you’re actually doing the streaming?

I meant it jokingly, meta referencing the toxicity of the entire ‘real gamer’ elitist nonsense.

You are still a real gamer to me lol.

Though I genuinely would suggest you play Ocarina of Time, if you can.

You say you’re a PC gamer? Yesterday I was in a Nintendo Switch 2 / Steam Deck discussion, and I just set up an emulator and am running the 3ds OoT remaster at 60 fps!

(Somebody just asked 'hey can you run 3ds games on a Deck? So I just… did it, and reported back lol)

If I can do that on a Deck, you can do it on a PC =D

My only quibble is: Great Depression 2.0, not Great Recession 2.0.

This will be much, much worse than 07 08 09.

Also IMO absolutely yes, Obama should have let the US auto industry collapse if they didn’t accept being completely nationalized.

Play stupid games, win stuoid prizes.

Thats how capitalism works, right, right?

Oh wait no, its actually uh, bribe politicians to subsidize your inefficient and mismanaged business, and then also fund a bunch of PR to convince people that… that isn’t happening, that isn’t your business model.

Instead we got basically this situation where US auto mfctrs are stupendously subsidized by the US gov… yet have no accountability to it in terms of high level, long term business strategy.

That lead to all of C Suite just chasing as much profit as possible by basically just saying… fuck making a reliable cheapish car, everything is now a luxury priced giganto sized pavement princess with horrendous maintenance problems.

If they’d accepted being nationalized, well then at least we would have kept actual ownership domestic, and the GAO could have just done audits on these entire companies and then everyone would know where all the mismanagement was going on. …

Same thing with Boeing. Boeing is massively subsidized, is a near text book perfect example of how to do regulatory capture, and wow what a surprise, it was run in a manner to maximize balance sheets at the loss of fundamental ability to actually deliver a reliable product.

When the news about that came out, around a decade ago now, I deleted my Facebook profile and tried to tell all my friends/family using FB that … this is pure fucking evil and they should also get off FB.

They all gaslit me, pretended that news wasn’t real, and acted like I was a paranoid delusional maniac.

Nowadays we have basically the same kind of conclusions regarding TikTok and other platforms that focus on short form video content… well, actually even worse conclusions… and they come from actual peer reviewed scientific journals…

But you’ll still get people saying ‘brainrot isn’t real’… when uh, yes thats a clumsy term, but it is basically confirmed at this point that TikTok is as addictive as a drug, ruins your motivation and attention span, fills your with mis and disinformatiin, ruins and warps your self image and self esteem, promotes wildly irresponsible and often illegal financial mindsets/strategies… etc etc…