One can hope that reality intrudes before the bubble gets even more dangerously inflated, but how many years has Tesla had a ridiculous P/E ratio. Even after growth stagnated and market leadership was lost in Asia and Europe. Number still goes up.

There are problems that arise from a population that contains a lot of old people, but that's a problem that fixes itself in a few decades, and balance will be restored.

Pick one crisis: no jobs, or no people.

Cops, who commit domestic violence that rate at least twice that of the general public, misuse ALPR's to stalk women.

But I will accept an example of any punishment for any misuse as a sign that such punishment could actually happen.

But quantum seems to have infected some more legit players. Whatever became of Majorana chips, for example? That got some high-level attention at Microsoft.

There's no way that the launch cadence is going to accelerate to where they can refuel a Starship in orbit in a reasonable amount of time.

Three years ago I looked at all the dependencies in the starship project and concluded that the schedule is pure bullshit. It's worse: they never really made a proper schedule because it would've scared them. They're announcing stretch goals and smoking hopium.

That behavior happens all the time in projects. But not at the scale of starship.

It's a simple as a moron failing to observe that Iran is too big to invade on a whim. That's it.