14 ms·

I personally don't care either way about the guy. (Wouldn't work for him though, heard too much dirty laundry.) But recently waded into the BoringCompany-Las

I personally don't care either way about the guy. (Wouldn't work for him though, heard too much dirty laundry.) But recently waded into the BoringCompany-LasVegas thread at… arstechnica I think. Don't really care about that either. Interesting but not critical. I mean, maybe it will work out? Maybe it won't. It's not my money. Let them try and fail or succeed on the merits. Either way it pushes knowledge a bit forward and costs me nothing to observe. The discussion? Complete, over the top, absolute negativity—from every single poster, and no one even questioned it. Who are these people that hate everything about an engineering experiment so much that they go online overwhelmingly to bad mouth it relentlessly? Before its even finished? Haters need to go outside for a bit, take a walk, and rethink their lives.

JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
The counterpoint to that is that people with a loudmouth and promotional attitude are proven to be more often than not like the monorail guy from the Simpsons Especially as it pertains public transport systems.
- mixmastamyk 3y ago
  Right, because paypal, spacex, and tesla have a track record of being complete failures. So the "foaming at the mouth" is warranted. Twitter is kind of a mess, but not the same kind of project I think. It is ultimately unfixable to a large degree.
  - JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
    > > Right, because paypal, spacex, and tesla have a track record of being complete failures Musk was kicked from Paypal in the early days, and yes...SpaceX and Tesla have done nothing for the consumer, they are 2 companies leeching off government money for political goals. Musk managed to be the vehicle of both Left wing goals (climate change and electrification) and right wing goals (Military-Insustrial complex domination of space), if they went bust tomorrow the consumer won't be affected one bit.
    - mixmastamyk 3y ago
      > SpaceX and Tesla have done nothing They revolutionized two major industries as a matter of fact. People benefit from their existence every day. Trying to dismiss that is silly—it's the most objective part of the argument.
      - JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
        > > They revolutionized two major industries Re-inventing the wheel for political reasons isn't a merit. I remember life before Amazon, before Windows, before the iPhone, before Facebook, before Uber....those were real struggles and the quality of life jump that such companies provided is tangible. Life before Tesla actually meant nicer quality interiors, buttons and doing away with the touchscreen nonsense which is a danger that should be abolished by the government People who claim Tesla and SpaceX are a revolution are so brainwashed that they can't even compute where their quality of life comes from. Or more likely they treat the stock as it was a product but it's not and won't ever be.

JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago

The counterpoint to that is that people with a loudmouth and promotional attitude are proven to be more often than not like the monorail guy from the Simpsons Especially as it pertains public transport systems.

mixmastamyk 3y ago
Right, because paypal, spacex, and tesla have a track record of being complete failures. So the "foaming at the mouth" is warranted. Twitter is kind of a mess, but not the same kind of project I think. It is ultimately unfixable to a large degree.
- JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
  > > Right, because paypal, spacex, and tesla have a track record of being complete failures Musk was kicked from Paypal in the early days, and yes...SpaceX and Tesla have done nothing for the consumer, they are 2 companies leeching off government money for political goals. Musk managed to be the vehicle of both Left wing goals (climate change and electrification) and right wing goals (Military-Insustrial complex domination of space), if they went bust tomorrow the consumer won't be affected one bit.
  - mixmastamyk 3y ago
    > SpaceX and Tesla have done nothing They revolutionized two major industries as a matter of fact. People benefit from their existence every day. Trying to dismiss that is silly—it's the most objective part of the argument.
    - JumpinJack_Cash 3y ago
      > > They revolutionized two major industries Re-inventing the wheel for political reasons isn't a merit. I remember life before Amazon, before Windows, before the iPhone, before Facebook, before Uber....those were real struggles and the quality of life jump that such companies provided is tangible. Life before Tesla actually meant nicer quality interiors, buttons and doing away with the touchscreen nonsense which is a danger that should be abolished by the government People who claim Tesla and SpaceX are a revolution are so brainwashed that they can't even compute where their quality of life comes from. Or more likely they treat the stock as it was a product but it's not and won't ever be.