It is a Rorschach test.

I see an awkward attempt of someone with Asperger's saying "my heart goes out to you", which is what he said while making the gesture.

You apparently saw a Nazi salute.

Given he has no other Nazi tendencies before or since, I did not see a Nazi salute.

In fact he visited Israel after Oct 7, a decidedly non-Nazi thing to do. Netanyahu himself praised Elon and said he is being smeared.

https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1882392668497756279

> I find it deeply dismaying that people consider that "just politics" or that opposing it is "ideological"

It depends: if you support far right viewpoints, like wanting to deport minorities, the MSM will cover it as just politics. If you support far left (for America) viewpoints, like, wanting free healthcare, the MSM will cover it as if you're a radical communist.

This is entirely framing.

To most people “I want to deport minorities” would imply nothing about citizenship status.

Someone with the opposite opinion would frame it as “open borders”, which is an extremist viewpoint globally and also not what people on the left in the US are advocating for.

Media coverage in the US is partisan. This is not an insightful viewpoint or nearly as incendiary as you’re making it out to be.

No country can survive this level of waste and stupidity. Not even the US.

Keep in mind, Carmack heads an AI company now. His opinion should be viewed with that context.

This is absolutely backwards.

Let's not imply the world changed on its own. Trump changed it.

"or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads"

Right, because Node is the only package ecosystem.

"owning" the decision doesn't mean anything. It's just words.

One day there will be a CEO who actually pays the severances out of their own compensation.

So, like Nintendo and other Japanese and Chinese companies where the CEO of a company treats the company like their child and takes the hit when they make errors?

Or maybe like the US employer that gave everyone at the company a flat wage?

Even better they fire themself, the exec team can replace them with AI

Agree materially no consequences but still better than many deflection strategies we have seen from others during layoffs.

It is but those words could be long flowery corpo speak or short.

“Yall gonna get money and most yall fired. My bad woops”

The CEO's last visionary move was to go all in on crypto, even renaming the company. Now he's a visionary again, but firing half the company instead of himself.

The recursive type constraints are excellent.