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  • I am leaning a bit towards it being smoke and mirrors…
    Musk needs a way out to save his tesla stocks, in his political doge role he was so unpopular that it torched his Tesla value, his chance to become the first trillionaire is diminished …

    So, being visibly critical of, and exiting doge over, a new tax bill might give him some brownie points in the eyes of the public (or so he hopes) and he’ll launch some propaganda how Tesla is so good for the environment again to get people back on board.

    But besides that, he already accomplished what he set out to do, used doge to dig up all sorta of data, twist systems where needed for trumps later goals/plans, and with his help and the stolen data elon made sure lawsuits against him and his companies were silenced. This was his slightly subtle plan to do.

    Whatever the doge department was supposed to stand/work for was not important at all, just look at the real numbers of its accomplishments… All in all just about zero, since current contracts just run out their time and or get paid out anyway, they just won’t get renewed. So they’re basically shouting “doge saved 50million now by not signing a new contract in 2 years time” Which isn’t really a current saving at all, is it?

    Meanwhile he’ll be chummy with Trump, if only to make sure “people won’t ever need to vote again”, but that role does not require public appearances from elon.



  • Frankly, it feels like she’s testing you. You mention you’ve been chatting a while and she might have the urge to test you among her children to see how you interact with them.
    There’s a good chance she might not fully realize she is doing this.
    And it doesn’t even mean she looks for a direct change in relationship status.
    Her motherly instinct just tells her “here is this guy who seems friendly, but how safe is this for my children?”

    So, if you’re put off by this and have no interest in her or the circumstances, just let her know gently.
    If you blow up on her directly about her kids you’ll just upset the mother in her and she might not understand, and you might be seen as the a-hole.




  • Frankly, I am bummed by this news.

    I read the books, but seeing how it was a decade+ ago since I last went through some of them, most of it is a blur and I can forgive some of the changes in favor of smoother storytelling.

    While the show brought familiarity back, and season 1 was painfully bad in almost all ways, from adapting/changing characters to lore. The show was leaps better in S2 and with S3 each episode felt very cinematic and now told a more cohesive story.

    So, even though it was adapted, I was looking out for each new episode and had high spirits for a good S4.

    Alas, if it is not picked up by any other studio, the “unfilmable book series” will remain that way, no one will burn their hands on it again. So, those cheering its demise, take that in consideration.

    In closing, Prime definitely did not do it full justice at the starting line and it was expensive to catch up to that fact …
    But the show was treated and produced better than Rings of Power, which does get another stay and money pumped into it, a choice I rather saw turned around.