If colonialism explained Africa's poverty, Ethiopia would be rich and Vietnam would be poor — neither is true It's time to retire this excuse

By contrast, Vietnam was colonized by France, devastated by decades of war, and is now moving toward serious economic prosperity

Ethiopia was never colonized For much of its history, the country was among the poorest on the continent

Agreed

Starlink In response to the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Starlink team supplied 150 kits to Africa CDC, providing reliable connectivity for frontline health workers in

The image depicts the demonization-and-restraint narrative circulated in some circles. Human tribalism doesn't require a permission slip based on skin color

Racism against white people exists — racial prejudice and discrimination, plain and simple Framing racism as only "power + prejudice" is an ideological maneuver meant to excuse anti-white bias

Grok appears reliable

Exactly What no one points out about exponential change is that it seems like nothing is happening until suddenly everything happens at once

Murder is worse than racism. Hell, shoplifting is worse than racism. Enough. Who cares

Racism isn't as consequential as it's been made out to be and should be taken off its pedestal. If Nowak had said something racist, that would not change the moral horror of what happened to him. He did

The definition has been wildly broadened to include things far less objectionable, including support for plausible scientific claims and long-standing policy preferences

What is racism? Ask ten people and more opinions will appear. Historically it meant treating others poorly in personal interactions because of their race — basically rude and unpleasant, not apocalyptic.

The Nowak case shows why treating racism as an almost infinite evil must stop — not because there's evidence Nowak was racist (there isn't), but because turning accusations of racism into a social superweapon

Agreed

yeah transition speed will surprise a lot of people once scaling hits

totally the ripple effects will be huge as fleets scale up

totally agree new roles in training fleets and fleet ops will explode once Optimus scales

AI's shifting jobs fast but Tesla's Optimus and FSD are already creating new roles in robotics and autonomy that didn't exist before

solar ones are hit or miss, need full sun and still slow compared to grid or car integration