What a day to forget to bring lunch. I had to eat my ‘emergency popcorn’. 
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Better get some more right quick!
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Yeah, he was really giving Musk way too much credit here. They’ve done some work in this direction, but I really wish the press would drop they mythologizing of Musk they’ve been doing for years and be honest about him. He’s not even an Edison - he’s a rich kid who used his Stanford connections to get into positions where he got absolutely massive pay-offs for, in the case of Paypal, getting pushed out as he was driving the company off the cliff, who then invested that money into the companies he’s associated with today. Those companies are massively overvalued and he’s not responsible for any of the technical breakthroughs, his contributions have largely had negative impacts in those companies, and Tesla is now falling apart. So much as hinting that he’s a tech and/or business genius is absurd - even suggesting he’s competent at either isn’t particularly credible anymore.
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Rightoid talking heads be all like, “he’s a genius and visionary because he builds rockets, he’s saving our astronauts, he’s putting people on Mars, he’s building cars, he’s building AI, we need someone like him to save us!” as if he’s the one personally doing all these things versus just being the one getting rich off of it.
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I am willing to personally credit him with the Cybertruck, a vision employees apparently tried hard to mitigate. Also probably the idea of many-engine rockets only tested at full scale and all the changes to X.
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You are misrepresenting what Galloway said. His point was that some level of technical innovation doesn’t excuse depravity or moral bankruptcy. This is a better point than calling Musk a dickhead.
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No I’m not. He said that his innovations (landing spaceships etc.) didn’t excuse being a dickhead.
His thesis was that we accept these horrible people because they do great things.
I was kind in my original appraisal of what he said because I didn’t say what I thought which was that he was full of shit.
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all of the engineers would leave, literally all of them
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Whether they would or not… I wouldn’t like the chances of the company succeeding under the government as it is currently.
Which isn’t to say that I think Musk contributes much, I just think that Trump’s idea of running a business (and, specifically, one that requires scientific understanding) would be so much worse.
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Especially when it so, so, so goes without saying.
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Growing number of micro-fractures following the big-ass crack heard 'round the world. C’mon, catastrophic failure!
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I am really struggling to take this shit (
) seriously!
Catturd army…
“Can’t take this shit”
How am I supposed to be intimidated by this idiot?
@hecep I think the term is “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” But I’ll take either!
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Careful, he’s armed with a vial of toxoplasmosis!
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As if half the things they give him credit for aren’t things he promised and his companies haven’t delivered on, and as if he wasn’t more an impediment than a contributor.
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I won’t be happy 'till there’s some serious lithobraking going on.
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Because I have no idea who this Catturd is or why I should care about what they have to say:
Yup, still don’t care.
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