That is the thing though, everyone knew someone should be doing what Musk did but no one with real money actually was. Even if he is just the money and the direction and doesn't help figure a single thing out, he is still the driving force.
Should he be necessary in a perfect society? Of course not. In the society we have though, he was instrumental in pointing Space Travel, EV, and to a lesser degree self-driving in the direction many people were hoping it would go.
The reality is that after he became wealthy enough for most people to want to retire he risked it all to do a couple of good things at an important time. Even if he only did it for the chance to make more money, I am still glad he did it.
What has the world come to when people actually think Zuckerberg is the lesser of two evils.
Musk is starting to look like a bit of an asshole, but Zuckerberg is the king of assholes.
Where would the EV market be without Musk buying Tesla? The Prius hybrid would probably still be the most electric thing on the market.
Where would private space exploration without his founding of SpaceX? We would still be waiting for the next US President to cancel their predecessor’s NASA plans and make new plans.
Where would be without Zuckerberg? Probably using a myspace clone with a lot more UI flexibility and crazy banner ads.
Musk put self-driving EV cars on the road and William Shatner in space. Zuckerberg convinced people to give them their data then monetized it and used that knowledge against them.
Weird. I copied it starting with the "j" and ending with the ";" Also it is on the toolbar.
I decided to search the exact string and see what came back. Didn't find a solution to the problem, but did find an alternate version that works for me.
I appreciate you introducing me to these. They will be super handy in the future.
Here is the other version in case anyone runs into the same issue.
javascript: (() => { window.location.replace("https://12ft.io/" + window.location.href)})();
From: https://tildes.net/~tech/10ko/little_12ft_io_bookmarklet
He also has the text for a bookmark a ladder icon in the comments, in case anyone is interested.
This seems like a great idea, but doesn't do anything for me. Are there any caveats? Have tried it in Firefox and Brave.
As reasonable of a stance as I have ever heard.
For example, you might end up with a group of lemmy instances which refuse to federate with any instances which federate with meta.
Oh how much I hate this mentality.
My morals are so superior that not only will I not be friends with you if you disagree with them, but I won't be friends with you if you dare associate with anyone that disagrees with my morals either.
As far as I am concerned the fediverse will become the next reddit or facebook as soon as a large enough group starts defederating with instances that refuse to follow its defederation brigades.
Sorry man, we can't be friends because your friend John doesn't boycott WorstCompanyEver™. They are fascists and if John supports fascists you must be a fascist too.
Agreed. It is funny to hear about, but they would have to roll back years of changes for me to even consider it at this point. Since there is no money in that for them it is pretty much a moot point.