And in typical Aussie fashion, we ripped that off for ourselves!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsfBxs53vBo&t=149s

I think the issue is that the drive train below them is the same. Who is in charge does have a BIG impact on some very key points but the larger general shape of something cannot be changed drastically.

Alan watts once said that you would have to mad to want to be President because it is like nominating to be in charge of a runaway truck with no breaks. You can steer it in different directions but you also have somewhat limited agency. So long as the core funding structure below persists, you can only nudge things.

I am not 100% convinced that if Democrats won 2024 election that we wouldn’t be in Iran right now. That said, if we were in Iran, it probably be a lot more sedate and measured. Probably be Also that is a big IF. I mean Democrats were the ones that spent 2 1/2 years negotiating a peace deal with them only to have Trump rip it up in his first term. I’m not saying it would be the same, but there would be the same pressures from below.

So in that sense, it does matter who is in charge but we also need to tackle the base drive train.

It was Nate Hagens (The Great simplification podcast) who said this when he worked at Lehman Brothers about confidence. Don’t worry, he learned quickly that he was the bad guy and changed his ways completely.

Anyway, when all the new recruits came in they gave them a pop quiz. It starts off simply “What is a derivative?” “How to bonds work?”, and with everyone being young an confident they all answer enthusiastically. Eventually they drop in a question that is really difficult and oddball that nobody would know, naturally everyone starts trying to formulate and answer only to have the teacher stop them. Teacher just says, “Don’t try to fake it, that helps no one. What you say is. I don’t know, I will find out, and I will get back to you.”

You don’t have to have an answer to everything.

It was always heading this way, I am surprised it lasted as long as it did.

I knew it was a flop well before it even came out for one key reason. Remember when the iMac/iPod/iPhone came out, it seemed like everyone else started trying to desperately copy Apple on those. Other businesses saw these and immediately thought “Oh crap we need to catch up now!”. Before iPhone even released Nokia was demoing a phone (that never came out) in which they rushed multi-touch onto Symbian OS just to not look behind.

Cybertruck came out and nobody else even remotely hinted at copying it. Every car company was like ‘Yep, you guys can just go for it, we won’t stop you.’.

Absolutely! This is the one part where I diverge from most vegans. I am not conceptually against meat, but I am completely against it in the context of the modern hyper exploitative system. And I suspect the indigenous folks that harvest salmon would be to.

The reason they have had to much issues with that over the years is because some bastard came in and decided to try and scrape the rivers clear of salmon because they could get $2 a head or whatever.

Alas, in the modern system, as soon as you put a dollar price on something, it no longer remains that thing. If you are paid $10 per tree cut-down, you see a forest and nothing but money. When a salmon can get you a dollar, you just seen dollar bills floating in the river. Money is a useful tool to allow trade to happen smoothly but at this extreme end is is the lubricant of ‘The machine’ and it will consume everything it can.

It has been kind of sad seeing his decline. Look at his writings from 2010-2015 to where he ended up on Youtube and the decline was steady with it finally hit rock bottom in the last year or so.

He craved attention in any form that he could get it.

No that is a conspiracy I can get behind.

Exactly, he actually kind of was heading in the right direction but when you end up mentally stuck at age 12 it will never be enouh.

Yeah that tracks. I didn’t pay that much attention to the details on that.

You haven’t lived until you have seen a the Grok AI Waifu data center burn up on re-entry.

On top of all the other explanations is that deeper realization that can bend your mind a little. Space isn’t hot or cold, it is a void outside of that definition. In the same way you cannot see out the back of your head and that you are not aware of there being a deficiency of sight in that direction. It’s a non-event.

Also when it comes to heat radiations, on the right wave length we are all glowing all the time. That’s now heat vision works. Very neat to think about.

I don’t know, he has engineered one of the most amazing financial grifts I have ever seen.

Fundamentally, he should have been broke several times over now but somehow he manage to form and merge a few hundred companies over the course of 20 years in just the right way that it makes him still walk free. It cannot last forever but it has lasted WAY longer than it should have.

Data-centers in space was only pitched as an idea so they could pave the path to a SpaceX buyout of xAI/Twitter. This is the same reason they put rockets on the Roaster, so they have a “legitimate” reason to merge Tesla and Space X.

It is all just financial shuffling.

Pretty much. As a car they are fine, they have some nice touches but overall they are a solid 6 out of 10. Introduce the factor of who you fund by buying them and they become a 0 out of 10 car.

I would think putting them a few hundred meters under ground on Earth would still be orders of magnitude easier to do and get you like 90% of the way there to the same goals.

Ok, these are the only two good points to Musk;s name.

Yes, he did do a decent job of kick starting EV’s again even if it was by crushing down the founders for narcissistic reasons.

Secondly, he did generally tend to have a decent eye for enabling some design details (pre-cyber truck era). He did at least push them to move car design a little further on the original few models, you know the ones that actually sell decent numbers.

Beyond that, there isn’t much good to his name.

There is a very clear line you can see in their cars between the stuff that had the founders Eberhard and Tarpenning working on it, and the stuff that Musk as had a hand in. The original Roadster, and the S/Y/3/X range are all based on the original design and engineering team. Then you see the Musk lineup, Cybertruck, Semi, Cybertaxi, “Flying”-Roaster.

The desperation is starting to become very apparent, just waiting for the final merge between Tesla and Space X and to have the entire company renamed X.

The worst of Dunning Kruger manifest.

See this is how you know he is kind of full of crap, he won’t step on one of his rockets. Credit to Bezos, at least he was willing to take a ride. Unfortunately, it was a successful launch and landing.

Unfortunately for him, ambition is all well and good but we obey the laws of physics in this universe.