I'm immensely interested in people commenting how they are disinterested in X thing.
Please go on! I'd love to know the motivation of posting, it makes no sense to me.
Seems to be a self-fulfilled prophecy.
Please go on! I'd love to know the motivation of posting, it makes no sense to me.
Seems to be a self-fulfilled prophecy.
In other words, what makes it "garbage" to you?
If it's straight up due to Musk being involved, isn't that a negative outlook for the sake of being negative?
You could just view it as humans advancing and be happy about that.
I was just curious as to why you didn't care for the projects.
This is just PR for one of his shitty projects. It has no place on HN.
it's not like he took over an existing share of the internet, he connected more people together that weren't previously.
btw you'll still need vehicles, whether you make your city/town walkable or not, stores need trucks, people have emergencies.
and it's up to your local government to handle public transportation properly, not Elon...
See you on the next Elon article you crave.
The things I wrote and the things you responded with aren't connected, so there's not much intelligent commentary to give.
But going into each individual political talking point for the various subjects you brought up would be tiring.
I'm not going to dive into your misguided views when we can't even talk about the initial topic that giving internet to disconnected people is a good thing and not garbage.
I've ridden in Teslas. Some likes, but holy shit that drivetrain. Not garbage.
You however, have been consuming garbage media. Hint: if every other day (ahem Gawker sites) there is an outrageous anti-Musk headline or "crazy thing Musk said" headline, your media source is total garbage.
Is he a "good guy"? No. Is he "the worse thing ever?" No. What does it matter what he says or does? Nothing. Yet he is living in seemingly millions of people's brains as the sum factor of dozens of PR and advertising campaigns, in addition to the general anti-intellectualism of America.
Anyway, Starlink is a transformative data provider service that blankets virtually the entire world in broadband class connectivity, including massive amounts of third world countries and other areas.
Calling it garbage is dumb.
If you aren't catching things like his signal boosting of literal nazis on Twitter, your media sources are garbage. (Also is Gawker even still a thing?)
- Tesla kicked off one of the two pillars of dealing with climate change: EVs to eliminate as much carbon emissions from transportation as possible
on the other hand
- mean tweets
... yes there is a lot of hard work by other people involved in #1, but Musk's leadership was a major contributor. Let me ask you a question. Rank the most evil CEOs in the world. If you have musk over petroleum companies, mining executives, military contractors, gun manufacturers, internet companies hoovering your data for the government, financial wizards defrauding people for short term gain, etc, then I'm sorry, you don't know anything about the world. Oops, I forgot purdue pharma and other opioid producers, chemicals and industrialists that dump and poison the environment, surveillance and security companies enabling despots (and the US government), I mean, I could go on.
So technically, you are correct.
When Tesla started, there was zero. ZERO. movement by the automotive and governmental powers towards decarbonization of transportation beyond hollow treaties, one of which had already been utterly ignored.
Let me emphasize: ZERO, or as close as practically imaginable to it. Ten years later, every company's CEO had a question in front of them 1) how are you going to transition to electric vehicles and stay viable. If they couldn't answer that (BMW in particular, who actually were minutely ahead of the curve but squandered it), they were fired.