Net profits $2.3B. “Poor financial results”. How does one reconcile these two things?

But yeah, I live in a country that has had about 0% growth since 2008 :-| Perhaps this is bad news for you rich yankees.

Also note that the automotive industry seems to be pretty much flatlining for the last 5 years or so: https://www.vettafi.com/indexing/index/autos – so Tesla is not doing particurarily badly in the large picture.

Exactly. What changed? Why does Zuck now takes it seriously?

Does all this sound like they’re actually loving Trump or are there credible threat to their health from the Trump admin? They seemed to fall into line so smoothly and fast that it seems a bit weird.

I should really start looking into shorting stocks. I was looking at the news and Nvidia’s stock and thought “huh, the stock hasn’t reacted to these news at all yet, I should probably short this”.

And then proceeded to do fuck all.

I guess this is why some people are rich and others are like me.

For the cost of an education we could end up with smart people who contribute to the economy and society. Instead we are dumping billions into this shit.

Those are different "we"s.

I wonder why nobody is considering the most obvious solution to all this complication around what is NSFW and what is not: Children shouldn’t be on these platforms at all to begin with. They shouldn’t be anywhere near social media until age 14. Definitely not free roaming everywhere on the internet.

For us adults, I honestly cannot say whether moderation instigated by a company is better than moderation instigated by the users. The devil is in the details. This place isn’t moderated by a company and you’d probably think the moderation here is superior to Meta’s.