Gosh, it seems like Tesla’s claims are just made up or something. Like the thing costs twice as much, is short a third of its range, is four years late to market, doesn’t have a magical exoskeleton, charges slow… it’s like Tesla answered the question “What if we made en EV pickup, but worse than the ones already on sale?”

He can’t ask probing questions or he’d inadvertently expose the scam. These people are hucksters, plain and simple. Lex is getting that sweet ad revenue from rubes that think he’s asking deep or meaningful questions, and the fact people haven’t caught on to his scam blows my mind.

Joe has a personality. It might suck, but Lex sucks at everything.

You’re missing a TON of history here. Like udev being a dependency to all those projects AND systemd, which led to systemd adding it to their project. Really it could be said that udev is the critical component here.

As you mentioned networkmanager, you clearly know that many popular distros use that rather than systemd-networkd.

Grub2 is by far the most popular boot loader, so far ahead that it’s not even worth considering others. Grub has had several major issues, every distro uses it, why not pick on grub as the risk?

Did you have these same concerns about sysvinit? About the various distro network scripts? What about libc? Good god if there’s a problem with libc we’re all in deep trouble.

Yes, code has bugs. But New code has new bugs (ironically an argument previously used against systemd). Whatever you replace these components with will be just as likely to have a critical vulnerability, but far fewer maintainers and resources to fix it. Systemd has simplified and improved features of so many parts of Linux that it’s funny to see how vehemently people argued against it. Feel free to disable any parts you don’t need, but I think you’re missing 20 years of painful history that led us here.

Look! A scapegoat!

For a dude that pretends truth matters, he hasn’t even accidentally told it once.

Yeah, it’s crazy that their largest sales push sells vehicles that their largest production push botches constantly. Needless self owns. But improving quality would require such a cultural shift that it just will never happen. So here we are, every quarter end. 😆

That’s remarkably close to Tesla’s estimates reported in their first responder guide.

ToiletPaper USA has a well earned reputation, and fox thought they could get some of the crazies on their side for a while. Nope. Crazies used Fox for all they were worth and left them with the bill. 😆

Imagine getting outdone by these dweebs and not hiding your shame in a hole forever.

Going to run a turbofan in a vacuum chamber for propulsion and use air bearings to float on the surface. Like any of it ever made sense from day one. Fever dreams of an idiot.

I can’t imagine anybody using the disney app in a Tesla to begin with, but this is a perfect case of cutting off ones nose to spite ones face. The dude can not stop himself from cycles of massive self destruction.

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You tried hard to White knight but you fell off your horse. You should try reading before commenting, because I did answer the question, and he said thanks.

Take your poor reading comprehension elsewhere.

I certainly understand that even if they knew all of the Musk BS and scams, they need to ease the general public that does know who Musk is into realizing he’s a dipshit. You can’t just come over the top rope and say this guy that’s in the press all the time is a moron and here’s 30 minutes describing why. So, choosing their battles no doubt.

I liked the segment as a whole, as you can see from the fact I only had two criticisms of it. So I’m not really saying I didn’t like it, just that it could have been more researched. I’m just disappointed that they repeat the same musk lies we continuously see repeated. It lends them credence, and as you see in the comments below people completely believe that SpaceX is the first commercial space company, first reusable rocket, first vertical landing rocket, all the bullshit we know FOR. A. FACT. is a lie. But because Musk’s marketing machine makes people repeat it online, these people fall for it not realizing what they’re doing.

I’m very happy that Rolling Stone, WaPo, NY Times, and Last Week Tonight are exposing Musk for the liar he is. And I have no doubt this is the first of many segments we’ll see over the next several years exposing fraud, deceptive practices, bilking world governments out of untold billions, and who knows what else.

Without question.

Took all of 10 minutes to find if you steer clear of Musk Marketing Enterprises. Space history didn’t start in 2006, and documenting space history is a serious past time for some seriously dedicated people. They’re a resource all of us can use.

Shotwell is a liar for Musk and just as culpable as him for SpaceX’s marketing liberties.

As for your first (easily researched) question.

First fully private space transport company- OTRAG in 1975

First government “spin-out” Arianespace in 1980

First commercial rocket- Conestoga in 1982

First commercially successful rocket- Pegasus from Orbital Sciences Corporation founded in 1982, IPO in 1990. First Pegasus launch in 1990.

First fully vertically integrated (business) commercial rocket company - Beal Aerospace in 1997

Space Vector was working on DARPA FALCON in 2002 as Musk was looking for staff. Perhaps this is where the name came from?

The reason most companies started focusing on expendable vehicles again was NSDD 42 issued by Reagan in 1982 requesting expendable launch vehicles from suppliers. There was also the issue of needing to launch maximum payload, which made carrying fuel for recovery a non-starter.

Lockheed performed a study on reusability in the 1960s to see if it was economically feasible to reuse launch vehicles for everything from a space station to a moon base. So this idea was not new, not unknown, and not experimented with.

The ROMBUS study from 1964 demonstrated the potential to have reusable orbital modules and shuttles. Launches would use a modular vertical takeoff and landing (stop me when this sounds familiar) system. ROMBUS’s design reads basically like Starship, and it’s from 1964.

SpaceX has failed by their own benchmark to have a commercially viable reusable vehicle, since their refit times are still three weeks and they can’t recover fairings or upper stages still. There’s no cost justification to do this, so it’s an obvious priority to cancel.

Resuable Vehicles

• Russian R-1B missile was fully recoverable and resuable. In 1951.
• X33 VentureStar SSTO
• X34
• X43
• Shuttle first stage
• Shuttle SRB
• SpaceShip One
• SpaceShip Two
• Falcon
• Rotary Rocket Roton SSTO, VTOL

Were all of them viable? No. Is SSTO a fool’s errand? Yes. Is full recovery necessary for lost costs? No. Was SpaceX the first full recovery of the lower stage(s)? No.

If Shuttle doesn’t count as a reusable vehicle, then neither is Starship. Shuttle actively contributed to launch with its own engines and the external tank.

I did, but it seems you didn’t watch the whole thing. I suggest watching it fully, then coming back.

I love it when you musk simps come through and do this bullshit.

He didn’t create the first reusable rockets, his company didn’t pioneer reusable rockets, and yet the lie keeps being repeated.

This segment was sort of a let down, because the same lies about reusable rockets were repeated without researching them apparently. Some of musk’s most agreed upon accomplishments were achieved 30-40 years ago, but people on TV can’t help but give him the accolades.

Also not much digging into the Starlink for Ukraine debacle, or the fact that he didn’t actually donate all that hardware, didn’t donate the service, and it wasn’t being used in nearly the capacity initially reported because the people receiving the units were happy to bullshit for him as long as they got gear to use.

What I find most interesting about her is that my MAGA family loved her character on Rosanne the TV show. Then HATED her when she sang the national anthem and scratched herself like a baseball player. Now they love her again.

None of this is supposed to make sense, it’s just supposed to make them feel good to have someone “rejected by Hollywood” saying the same idiotic shit they say. The fact they are responsible for her being “rejected by Hollywood” doesn’t even cross their minds.