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Pity that BYD is banned in this country, thanks to Biden, and now Turnip. But as for Musk, I always thought something was absolutely not right with him. I thou
by mystraline 1y ago
Pity that BYD is banned in this country, thanks to Biden, and now Turnip.
But as for Musk, I always thought something was absolutely not right with him. I thought of him as a pandering populist with feudalistic tendencies. And I lost what little credibility with him back in 2015/6 with him screaming from Twitter about the flooded cave rescuer was a pedophile.
I also remember him launching the first starlink SATs, without any permission. Flooded the LEO with thousands of space junk. I'm just waiting for a Kessler syndrome event.
And come to find out, he also defrauded customers on FSD on teslas.
Basically, stay as far away as you can from anything musk. It will come toppling down. And when it does, all the devices will come with it. (Think of when IoT companies shut down, and equipment is now landfill)
- aDyslecticCrow 1y ago> I'm just waiting for a Kessler syndrome event. That will thankfully never happen. LEO is a range, and Star-link is near the bottom of that range. Their satellites have a 5 year lifetime, because that's when the fuel needed to re-adjust their orbit runs out, and atmospheric drag pulls them down. A Kessler syndrome event in that orbital plane would resolve itself within a decade at most. > Pity that BYD is banned in this country BYD makes unreliably good EV's for the price. From a consumer perceptive it's a big loss. But i understand why we restrict their import if we want to keep that industry around ourselves (In particular lithium battery production). There is some truth to china using it as a leverage. That being said... the approach Biden and especially Trump took to supposedly help the local industry is ... a bit crude.
- jhgb 1y agoWhat do you mean by "without any permission"? Any sort of orbital launch in any country is subject to government permission.