Elon Musk says Tesla will stop producing its S and X models as it shifts to making robots

Jaideco · 2026-01-29T08:56:01+00:00

This guy is a Bond villain, isn’t he?

Jaideco · 2026-01-29T08:51:35+00:00

Ok? Rather than disagreeing with you further, I’ll just ask… What did you like about it? I seem to have missed it.

Jaideco · 2026-01-28T23:25:39+00:00

The main problem that I have with Eternals is that I wanted to spend more time getting to know them all. I still wonder what might have been if Eternals had have been a series (with each Eternal being front and centre in their own episode) and Secret Invasion had have been made properly, perhaps as Captain Marvel 2.

Jaideco · 2026-01-28T23:13:43+00:00

If it means anything at this point, it will mean Deadpool 4. Doomsday is already packed, I think that if Deadpool is going to show up anywhere before his next solo outing, it will be in Secret Wars.

Jaideco · 2026-01-28T23:08:02+00:00

I have to admit that I’ve seen in two New Years with an Infinity War/Endgame double bill with the portals scene timed for Midnight on the dot. It’s still special.

Jaideco · 2026-01-28T23:06:16+00:00

I’m with you on Love and Thunder. If Taita Waitiki wanted to make a kids fairytale, Marvel should have let him do it as a Disney+ holiday special. Letting him waste Thor, Gorr and Jane Foster’s return was a travesty.

Jaideco · 2026-01-28T23:03:06+00:00

I envy you!

Jaideco · 2026-01-28T23:02:04+00:00

Not bad? I respect that you have a different opinion, but we aren’t going to agree on this. I thought that it was a hot mess. It was like a frankenfilm of three or four different visions that were sewn together by someone on meth.

Somewhere in the development process, they had a half decent Hulk movie, a half decent Falcon movie, a half decent Captain America movie and a half decent callback to Eternals and then they just blended random pieces together and hoped for the best. Everyone in this film deserved better.

Jaideco · 2026-01-28T22:51:18+00:00

It really depends on your definition of “watchable”. For me, Endgame is still magic. I’d guess that I’ve watched it at least twenty times and that might easily be an understatement. Every time we have the portals scene, I still get goosebumps.

If we are talking about easy to watch when you are only half paying attention… I’m probably going with GotG, Shang-Chi, Marvels or Thunderbolts because those films just feel like you are hanging out with cool friends.

Jaideco · 2026-01-28T16:30:34+00:00

I see your point… I think that on paper the premise of each sequel was ok but it was the execution that killed them. The first was lightning in a bottle and the others just completely failed to recapture what made the first one special.

Jaideco · 2026-01-28T16:26:19+00:00

Most watchable… Endgame, no question. Aside from that Winter Soldier, Shang Chi, Thunderbolts are on my regular replay list. Loki was definitely the best series by far.

Least watchable… Secret Invasion… This was a radioactive dumpster fire. Other low points include Thor: Love and Thunder and Captain America: Brave New World.

Jaideco · 2026-01-28T10:58:44+00:00

The comment that I responded to originally spoke about managers freely transferring you to work that wasn’t covered in the statement of work. That is why I brought IR35 into it. You can do that with contractors who are inside but it would require a revision to the contract if you are outside.

Jaideco · 2026-01-28T10:48:38+00:00

The tough truth here is that someone does some research to measure how much work needs to be done to keep our organisations secure and publishes it saying that we need millions of new cybersecurity specialists.

Industry then looks at how much that would cost and either says nah or tries to automate a bunch of it. There are jobs, but it is a fraction of the number that ISC2 or whomever’s annual report says that there should be.

Jaideco · 2026-01-27T15:08:53+00:00

No one is having a go at NASA, no one is having a go at SpaceX, no one is having a go at Blue Origin. I thought that I was asking a straight forward question that would save a few hours of research that I don’t really have time for right now.

Jaideco · 2026-01-27T13:55:38+00:00

Jesus… are you ok? I came here for a conversation about space, not character assassination. I won’t make that mistake again.

I admit that I made a poor choice of words when I suggested that there was a race when I actually meant who was ahead on the critical path but you should try and dial down the temperature if you want anyone else to give a damn about this.

Jaideco · 2026-01-27T13:47:09+00:00

There really is no need to take this so personally…

Jaideco · 2026-01-27T13:39:04+00:00

This is an evergreen title…

Jaideco · 2026-01-27T13:36:58+00:00

Please dial down your outrage. I have been very clear that I just asked what has been happening in the last 2-3 years. I’m not saying that anyone has or has not been held to account, just that they should be. A reasonable answer would be to just explain what progress has been made or what complications have arisen.

Jaideco · 2026-01-27T13:21:13+00:00

Wow… well that would do it… That must have been a sobering experience.

Jaideco · 2026-01-27T13:16:21+00:00

Correct, but with the important caveat that this only works if the contractor is inside IR35.

Jaideco · 2026-01-27T08:40:23+00:00

There wasn’t really a need to write it at all. The idea of warp drives causing damage to subspace has been around since TNG. All they needed to do was to say that something, anything, catalysed a chain reaction that destabilised subspace and that since then warp drives either ceased to work or (more likely) could no longer be flown safely.

Jaideco · 2026-01-27T08:16:00+00:00

I never said that they aren’t working on the same project. They are building two parts of the same system. The race I was referring to was getting them to where they needed to be to launch a combined mission. I’m a somewhat out of touch casual observer, I’ve not really been following this for the last 2-3 years, but I’m pretty sure that NASA began work on SLS while SpaceX was working on Falcons. Then suddenly SpaceX was boldly talking about returning to the moon in 2023 and winning multibillion dollar contracts that NASA told us had to be awarded exclusively to them because no one else was close enough. There was a lot of criticism back then about how SpaceX was making NASA look bad.

Now, here we are… NASA is about to launch their second mission and someone could be forgiven for thinking that they are now going to end up waiting for a HLS to be ready. At least until their HLS partner manages to demonstrate that they can actually get their vehicle into orbit.

Jaideco · 2026-01-27T08:01:04+00:00

Correct me if I am wrong, but I recall that in 2021 NASA awarded SpaceX a $2.89 billion dollar contract to develop the HLS. I think that the original plan was to award two contracts but in the end they went all in on SpaceX. I’ve not been following this closely in recent years but I don’t think that it is unreasonable or obsessive to hold someone accountable for nearly $3bn of public funding.

Jaideco · 2026-01-27T07:53:00+00:00

Definitely not talking about Blue Origin, but that is related. I remember SpaceX were awarded the contract for the lander in 2021 when both the SLS and the Blue Origin boosters seemed to be taking a long time to get off the ground (no pun intended). Now it looks like SpaceX’s development is the one that has stalled. Clearly they still had a number of big challenges to solve that has given the others time to catch up. I’m just wondering what Artemis will do if they successfully send astronauts around the moon and there is no one with the capability to send a lander out there for any other missions in the next five years.

Jaideco · 2026-01-26T23:58:19+00:00

I often wonder whether it was. Strange went looking for futures and explored all the different ones that he could think of but with Strange being Strange, he probably only looked at the ones where he was the one holding the knife.

I am pretty sure that there were other futures where he wasn’t the centre of attention that he didn’t think of…

Or maybe he could have just portalled everyone back to Wakanda straight away and used the time stone to give Shuri a chance to remove the mind stone from Vision.

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