People are in fear of the lack of accountability and respect of privacy because government is rarely accountable or respectable.

He's lost a substantial part of his base, and now appears to be losing his mind.

I highly doubt that.

The part of "small govt." is reaching into all sorts of businesses and directing them what to do and what not to do. (Amazon, Google, Apple, even the Smithsonian !)

What did they direct Apple, Google, and Amazon to do?

Trump directed Amazon to stop displaying itemized bill with tariff rates. Amazon folded in a few hours.

Trump has directed Apple to start producing equipment in America multiple times.

Trump has directed Google to refine its search results and AI results in line with Party views.

Edit : Trump also directed Apple and Google to stop hiring Indians.

Also directed pretty much every company to drop DEI.

look at his opinion on h1bs flipping. its a cover

Also, the deals he is trying to do with countries are... weird to say the least. Often it requires the country to buy Boeing airplanes. With Japan, it was 100.

Like, how do you even manage to meet that goal if the country don't have a state-owned airline? It feels for me, Trump thinks every country is either a dictatorship or a state capitalism.

Lost part of his base? What because of the Epstein stuff? You new here or something? If history is a guide, any drop in support among the base is temporary. They just need a few more weeks to get comfortable with the mental gymnastics they’ll use to spin this to themselves as being Hunter Biden or Hillary Clinton’s fault and then Trump’s base support will be right back where it was.

He has certainly angered a lot of the Miami folk I work around in the office. Latins here were very much pro-trump and now it seems they are just bitter about his presidency because of the the iran move, now supporting the ukraine war, these are viewed as an extension of the "swamp". i've even heard more than once that he is now "king of the swamp" from people who were generally favorable of him over anyone else(not nutjob magas, just didn't like kamala).

it should have never been allowed to be published anyway. not trying to justify what is happening, but these kind of apps are historically abused and create more problems than they intentionally try to solve.

A bit hyperbolic

If his execution is right he can set himself up for leading the next tech counter culture. I'm against everyone knowing everything about me to the point they show me everything I want but don't need.

I have adopted for the last 5 years glassware and stainless kitchen items to avoid plastic as much as I possibly can. But then I read something in the last week or so that said recently made glassware has more plastic leeching than some plastic containers...FFS....

FSD saves people, naysayers here of the technology are like bureaucrats, raising a problem for every solution.

As someone who has tried both, FSD is still so much better in my experience. I use FSD in Miami and drive down to Key West often and it drives more than 99% of the trip and it just makes the drive so much more enjoyable. Even with all the recent road work going on, it handles it almost without error. I have the occasional take over due to things like it not wanting to get over soon enough into a lane for a turn or whatever and I just get impatient, move over myself and then re-engage it and relax again. I collect all of the car telemetry via API into graphana and it just amazes me all the sensors and telemetry I can look at and understand while also not driving!

> it just makes the drive so much more enjoyable

If I had to hazard a hypothesis, I think we'll see two forms of self-driving kit make it into the market. One that's aimed at being enjoyable, even at the expense of edge-case performance. Another that's aimed at being effective, even at the expense of breadth of use. Folks who fundamentally enjoy driving their cars will probably be appealed to by the former. Those who see them as mere tools, probably the latter.

I agree with that. I use FSD for interstate driving primarily and also open road driving like the Keys where its just flat and open highway. Inner city for me I like to drive, because I am admittedly an aggressive driver, mainly because Miami calls for it(to get into lanes, to get out of a driveway or deck, etc if you're slow you get nowhere) but lately I have let it rip on my commute through Brickell and downtown and it has gotten more bold.

I may be going out on a limb, but I think Tesla is popular with people who like to drive but also like technology. I work for one of the largest software companies in Miami and almost all the tech workers have a Tesla and when they talk about it, it's like talking about a video game system they are currently obsessed with.

Using the turn signal will nudge it to change lanes.

No one here is ready to have that conversation.

A public display of seething hate aimed at someone adding to the world from someone only attempting to critique it. Fred, checks notes, tracks human beings that kill each other for sport for money, to make money. It must not be lucrative enough so he gets the rest of his green from writing half-truth hit pieces about companies that have more success. I'm surprised he's not writing for business insider.