I'm in the U.K. This still has the unpleasant whiff of money about it.

If any of you guys buy this, please casually send $300 my way as well.

Nah, leave it up to local municipalities to make their call. I’ve had countless hours of my life wasted yearly due to having to wait at intersections at red lights where absolutely zero cars passed through the intersection for the entirety of the light cylce as I was waiting for green. I’d add ban the bs left turn…

Ummm, the government would have spend all the billions on R&D to “do it cheaper” than Space X, which means they wouldn’t be doing it cheaper unless you’re suggesting the government commander Space X’s decades of work and not pay them for it. There’s no such thing as a charity space program. And the most ludicrous…

So you have no answers to your own questions but you are still certain you are correct nonetheless. Capitalism sucks, socialism for the win, etc. But since there’s nobody else out there doing it even remotely better let alone cheaper at this time, Musk deserves some credit. The US and EU space agencies were some of…

Space X is way cheaper and effective than NASA and the EU and every other nation. The lack of competition in the space industry for too many decades allowed government agencies to atrophy and go through brain drain then Musk comes along talking about Mars and offering jobs that pay way more than the government does…

*gestures broadly at your nothing then points out that one failure doesn’t negate several successes*

Except the hundreds of thousands of Teslas they’ve built aren’t promises, they exist. The thousands of Starlink satellites they’ve already launched aren’t promises, they exist and the system works. In fact the Ukrainian government got an expedited, free shipment of Starlink terminals allowing their government to…

Fairly sure the person most likely meant to say, “Everywhere I look I see Teslas” not that almost every car is a Tesla. But we’re online so you can never underestimate a person’s intelligence too much. 

Ah yes, before Musk came along and destroyed all the trolley cars to space that I fondly remember floating weightlessly in with the family enjoying the majesty of the cosmos. Space has always been the domain of the rich and powerful.

He’s definitely a garbage person. That doesn’t mean his accomplishments are also garbage. I mean if trolling somebody trying to save trapped kids as a pedophile doesn’t make one a garbage person I don’t know what does but I also know I’ve watched two rockets land themselves simultaneously and I’ve seen his Tesla now…

This sounds far more like sour grapes that you weren’t smart enough to do the dumb thing you say Elon fell ass backwards into.

Did I hallucinate his reusable rockets landing themselves after ingesting said snake oil? Or his personal Tesla orbiting between Earth and Mars for the next few million years? The dragging forward of all the ICE car companies forward as they kick and scream about how impossible it is? I hate billionaires and that Musk…

I get it and it’s true Elon has done some great things. BUT what is California going to do with all those EV batteries when all those Tesla’s get too old to hold a significant charge to drive?

I don’t like Musk but SpaceX has been an important part of space technology for over a decade. Tellingly it seems like he needs to stay more hands off there than with Tesla. Your interpretation of the “privatization” of space isn’t really correct. NASA has been launching payloads into space for decades on “private”…

How many billion dollars did you give to end world hunger? 

Can you cite some sources? I’ve never heard a bad word about a Tesla from a Tesla owner, so if there are widespread problems or significant design flaws that are going unaddressed, or if they’re “shoddy garbage,” I’d be very curious to see more information.

He’s not an engineer, he’s not a scientist, he’s just a techbro who dropped out of grad school after three days to found a startup where he takes other people’s money and uses it to pay real engineers and real scientists to re-invent tunnels.

You can fundamentally disagree with basically everything he says or tweets, but You clearly don’t know what a snake-oil salesman is if You think that.

Yeah, I’m not saying I like Musk much.