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FaceDeer@kbin.social 7 months ago
And I heartily encourage people who loathe Elon Musk to do this. Perhaps then it will be easier to discuss subjects like reusable rocketry or electric cars without so much "but the Twitter!" digression.
nobleshift@lemmy.world 7 months ago
FaceDeer@kbin.social 7 months ago
Henry Ford was an antisemitic loon. Should we abandon mass production of cars? Wehrner von Braun was a literal Nazi, should we abandon efforts to land on the Moon?
Elon Musk is a terrible person, yes. But the technologies his companies work on are not affected by his terribleness as a person.
tabular@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You suppose his terribleness has zero impact on the technologies his companies work on? That is the whole issue of him owning Twitter.
One shouldn’t trust a black box technology (software) in the first place but even moreso from his companies.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 7 months ago
Based on the comments about him online, I find that he is simultaneously in complete control of every aspect of his companies and their technologies, and also an idiot rich kid who bought every company fully-formed and relies entirely on the people he hired to get anything done.
nyar@lemmy.world 7 months ago
His rockets suck and his cars suck.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
His cars really suck, the amount of build quality problems on those cars is way too high for a car that costs as much as it does
FaceDeer@kbin.social 7 months ago
And that's something that can be discussed entirely without jumping to "Elon Musk says bad things about people."
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He’s not designing the rockets, dude. He’s on ketamine posting rot about Jews. The world does not need Elon Musk to have technological progress.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
He’s very much involved in the designing of those rockets. That’s a fact, not opinion
octoperson@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’m often reminded of a SpaceX render they put up on the 'Tube back when they were still working out the reusability thing. Commenters had a lot of questions about how the particular flight plan impacted on their fuel budget. And so, Elon himself waded in with the answers. Except he was talking about the dollar price it cost to buy the fuel. He was like ‘why are you worried about fuel, it’s not that expensive, guys’ because he didn’t understand the questions. He didn’t understand why the amount of fuel and the mass of the fuel would be significant to anybody. Guys, I think he doesn’t understand the rocket equation. He doesn’t understand the central problem of rocketry. I think the guy might be full of it.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 7 months ago
So doesn't that make it even more reasonable to not constantly jump in with how awful Elon Musk is when discussing SpaceX's rockets?