[mnky9800n]

I think it’s even more nefarious than that. They can attack other countries that claim intensifying climate and weather scenarios by saying their data is biased while claiming to have the best data in the world but not share for national security reasons. While this may seem like something unbelievable to you or me it is easily eaten up by their supporters who love propaganda. Like, my republican parents are convinced robotaxi is amaxing after the unreasonably bad debut in Austin. They simply didn’t hear or want to hear that Tesla would not produce a working product.

[whatshisface]

They could claim that even with the satellites. The "alternate reality" can be anything - if facts aren't inserted into it the people inside won't know.

[JumpCrisscross]

Idiots will buy it. The courts won’t. Cutting off the data stymies the latter.

[pstuart]

The courts are compelled to defer to SCOTUS, which has demonstrated that it is ideologically aligned with the regime.

[JumpCrisscross]

> SCOTUS, which has demonstrated that it is ideologically aligned with the regime

If you read SCOTUS's opinions this is obviously false. Alito and Thomas are bought. But the others have their own quirks and agendas.

[tialaramex]

You could probably imagine that ACB is just very stupid I guess? She's made choices which only make sense if they're out of blind loyalty to the man who gave her a job she shouldn't have or because she's not smart enough to understand the consequences.

For ordinary people it can feel reasonable to keep your head down and hope that somehow this blows over. But for SCOTUS it's entirely within their power to draw a line, and it seems like at best their idea has become "Maybe if we give him what he wants he'll go away?" which is dumb, Kipling wrote his famous poem "Dane-geld" about this, it's well over a century old and it's about a mistake England (or rather one of its Kings) made last millennium (when he wrote it, ie now over 1000 years ago).

[JumpCrisscross]

> could probably imagine that ACB is just very stupid I guess? She's made choices which only make sense if they're out of blind loyalty to the man who gave her a job

Barrett has sided with the liberals on various decisions. SCOTUS has a problem. But its problem isn't blind loyalty to Trump. It's that there is a deeper conviction about the way the world should work that sometimes aligns with Trump in ways that are deeply damaging to our society.

If you want to see a judge who's blindly deferential to Trump, that's Aileen Cannon.

[zeristor]

Regime indeed

[Buttons840]

> while claiming to have the best data in the world but not share for national security reasons

"The getaway car was green."

"No it wasn't!"

"What color was it then?"

"I don't know what color it was!"

...

[827a]

What I find interesting is how clear your media biases shine through even while attempting to make a statement about how this is something that's happening to the other side.

I haven't seen evidence that the Austin robotaxi launch was unreasonably bad. There were a couple viral incidents of undesirable behavior, though no collisions as far as I've heard, which is significantly better performance than one expects from typical human drivers.

[trehalose]

You expect a group of less than twenty human drivers to have at least one collision per week?

[827a]

Between 0 and 1 collisions per week, the actual number significantly more than FSD as a whole system experiences.