I don’t do it often, but pasta with a cream of mushroom or clam chowder soup.

Maybe not too weird, but that’s probably as weird as it gets.

I wonder how things would go if they made you agree to the terms before being allowed to purchase it.

People bring it to the till, and then just hand it back saying nope.

There a lot of reasons to hate Elon. He’s making new reasons every day lately.

A lot of people hate him for completely bs reasons like this though and then come off as hating anything he does just for the sake of hating him.

Preventing engaging something in bad conditions is a lot easier than what do you do if the conditions suddenly happen.

If it’s suddenly foggy it needs to be able to handle the situation well.

Cameras/Lidar don’t work well in fog. Radar does, but it isn’t a primary sensor and can’t be driven on safely alone in any circumstance.

So now you need to slow down (which humans will do) but also since the sensors are failing or insufficient, safely get out of the way of what might be other incoming vehicles behind you, or slow/stopped vehicles ahead of you.

You could restrict hours the system can be engaged which will reduce the likely hood of certain events (e.g morning fog, or sunrise/sunset head on sun) but there’s still unpredictability.

For twitter, he actually isn’t. That was the original plan, but he moved away from it and got additional external financing, and then put up more cash himself by selling additional Tesla stock.

Not sure about boring company / neuralink.

Google: We changed a color

Fork Developer: they changed a color and it caused 50,000 breaking changes that a diff tool can’t handle automatically wtf.

Google: sorry wrong color here’s a new one

Fork developer: another 100,000 breaking changes that a diff can’t handle?!?!

This is a pretty textbook definition of monopoly abuse.

I can’t see them keeping control of chrome as this goes forward.

There were some patent fights involved that resulted in features being altered.

That cant explain it all though.

Just any voice assistant in the kitchen to set cooking timers.

I’ve heard of places doing solar panels above landfills as well. So if you tap it for methane, and then put panels over it, you can get even more energy out of the space.

Elon founding spacex in the first place had people laughing at him and the thought of him destroying all his wealth.

Jeff Bezos and his massive overcompensation of a dick rocket that can also land propulsively, but not worth discussing.

In case anyone doesn’t know why… it’s not an orbital rocket. It just goes up and down. Orbital is going up AND sideways very fast.

I tried to explain to someone months ago that SpaceX testing things to failure was part of their success, and gave an example like purposely leaving heat shield tiles off starship to see what happened, or launching a version of starship that didn’t have all the improvements that the next starship had, and they then came back saying that is exactly why they (and other people) hate SpaceX. They don’t know everything up front and they should!

I thought it was the boosters that were in retrospect pointlessly refurbished and would have been cheaper to make new.

Are you sure it was also the shuttle itself being cheaper to make new? The shuttle also took something like 6 months to refurb. Reusable, but not rapid.

The Pentagon is directly working with SpaceX on this. Awhile ago they said they had a handle on it but that it was going to be an ongoing problem as Russian evades their measures.

This was in May, and they’ve obviously figured another way around.

“At this time we have successfully countered Russian use, but I am certain Russia will continue to try and find ways to exploit Starlink and other commercial communications systems,” Plumb said. "It will continue to be a problem, I think we’ve wrapped our heads around it and found good solutions with both Starlink and Ukraine.”

Reusing f9, landing F9 on barge, and Stainless steel were his initiatives. The SS one was a particularly hard win for him with a lot of internal push back.

Catching Starship on the chopsticks might have been an idea he heard outside of SpaceX, but that he then championed, again to a lot of internal push back, I’m not 100% about it being an external to spacex idea though.

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Those are just examples though. And I’m sure there are times as you suggest that people suggest a difficult idea that he then champions as well.

That he can champion these radical things, his idea or not, is still the key point of his leadership that will be lost.

For example, someone must have suggested they use a full-flow staged combustion fuel cycle for raptor. He had to sign off on that. No one had ever designed and flown a engine like this before. The russians came closest making one, but never flew it. The predecessor to this engine in the 60s or whenever, NASA didn’t even think it was physically possible to make until the Russians made it.

Serious question - is it nasa over spending, or is it congress forcing certain requirements on them making things more complicated that leads to over spending?

People really under estimate how important he is to SpaceX.

Reusing f9 1st stage - His initiative

Landing f9 on a barge - His initiative.

Making Starship Stainless Steel - His initiative

Catching Starship booster on chopsticks - His initiative.

The list goes on and on.

Without someone like him pushing for these radical things that everyone else thinks is impossible or a bad idea we wouldn’t recognize what SpaceX would be.

Instead we have things like starliner which is a disaster, and blue origin which started before SpaceX and has never reached orbit.

SpaceX would slowly transform back into ‘old space’ if he was forced out as there are very few people willing to take the risks he takes.

Edit: and it’s even very possible that the wrong CEO takes SpaceX public too soon which would make all the risk taking and fail fast development cycle they use impossible. Think of the stock crashing when a test flight fails and the pressure from investors around that.

Sir/Madam

You appear to be wearing the wrong glasses. Try these ones one

OP: Tesla BAD! How dare Tesla!

Me: Tesla doing this doesn’t mean it’s going to be bad!

Hope that helps.

(edit: and all those votes came after my edits which were very early on)

He said eventually for the robot price. They’ve been designing it to be cheaper to build, so if they get it to the scale they’re talking (big if) then it doesn’t seem unreasonable to be that price.