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So, when I wrote "another Musk fiasco", you read that as "everything Musk does is a fiasco"? Please reconsider how that happened.

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The term fiasco is misleading. The Fyre Fesitval was a fiasco because people were almost killed.

The Boring company has dug tunnels more slowly than hoped.

They have only one publicly open tunnel:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel...

alternatively: https://archive.ph/EYPpc

And it took SpaceX ten or more years to become a success.

The same mentality that pretends Boring is a failure already, leads to people saying the Model S would never be manufactured at scale and neither would the Model 3 (HN for one was filled to the brim with such comments back then).

>Please reconsider how that happened.

As should you since flamebait isn't conducive to good conversation.

I don’t think describing another fiasco related to musk is flamebait any more than criticizing any celebrity with a hardcore fan base to be flamebait. Fans have parasocial relationships with their celebrity in question so they will flame at any negativity, warranted or otherwise. I don’t think “Taylor swifts new album has some slow points, just like her other albums” is flame bait just because she has rabid fans.

The light-gray rendering of this comment is some pretty strong support for its central thesis.

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