Savage Saif 🫡

This decade is so exciting

I’m in automotive and share contractors with Tesla. I’ll repeat what I said. His ingenuity is not what has made his money. His marketing of a vision has tricked many people I know to go work their asses off there for much less compensation. That isn’t a problem, but they need the company valuation to rise more and more to make their received stock worth it. I only focus in part of manufacturing, but I know for a fact that they are working to exact deliverables and nothing more. Some things are given no focus. Some of the conversations I have had lead me to believe a Tesla is only as safe as the government is smart. That’s all I can really say.

Scam or not, for those of us in rural areas, Starlink has been a lifesaver. There is literally no other option besides DSL or even slower more expensive satellite. I don’t care at all what Elon’s personal affiliation with Starlink is, but I’m grateful for faster internet where I can actually run my own node.

Loved The Bitcoin Standard! Read it twice. Currently reading it for the third time.

Mars is a scam too lol the firmament says otherwise

Don't count on it lasting long. Like all his ideas its shell life is attracting investors, not operating sustainably and profitably

Yeeeeerp

We’ll see how long the Starlink party lasts but for me in a rural setting, it has been life changing. And it keeps getting better month after month. I hope it’s not a grift because I have no other workable options atm.

I mean, I very much dislike Elon and criticize him harshly. But Starlink actually works, contrary to your characterization of it as an "unworkable scam".

How is Star link a scam? It works. Providing higher speeds in Sydney, more than I can get through a land cable. You’re talking bollocks to get some likes. Steve Jobs had government subsidies too. You all sounds like a bunch of kids jumping on a band wagon. Lyn sits around looking at charts and tweeting all day. Hardly inspiring

And when real break through happens like #ChatGPT, Elon wants to slow down the progress cuz he ain't in the driving seat of the next generation technology revolution.

Starlink is disguised as internet for the underserved. The bread and butter for that one is governments and military.

I kind of refuse to believe the Mars stuff is a scam because I refuse to believe anyone is actually stupid enough to believe he's serious.

Their carapace of thick stupidity may allow for the belief

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The only thing that is sustainable about Elon is his ability to conjure up new projects to get buzzword investors to subsidize.

The first cars were electric. Nobody wanted gasoline cars because they made too much noise and smoke, and the crank could break your arm when you started it. But batteries had very small capacity back then, so gasoline won. What I find a bit strange is for someone who promotes an independence tech, I would imagine a more balanced view of a mode of transportation using a form of energy that can be created in a hundred different ways, including in your own home, vs being dependent on a form of energy produced and sold in a very centralized way, and for which many wars have been fought and many bad political compromises have been made. Also the fact that it's not a "treehugger scam" that what comes out of tailpipes is not just CO2 but a host of extremely toxic and carcinogenic particles. As for Elon, I have neither a great love or animosity towards him. Plus he paid 44 billion for Twitter, he can do whatever the fuck he wants to it! If he was just in it for the money, he would have joined the vaccine scam business like Gates. I really don't subscribe to the idea that Tesla has become one of the biggest auto makers, because of subsidies. Do the actual products have anything to do with it? Fuck yeah. If that's your take, how much has GM gotten compared to Tesla?...

I feel like could he be the owner of the controlled opposition to keep people there and don't go to Nostr

Salty... but true

Sorry Saif, but this is just false. I work in remote locations frequently and it's night and day since Starlink became a thing. Prior to it I would have no access to the outside world for weeks at a time, now it's just the standard to have internet available. While there were other remote services prior to Starlink, they were literally never brought to a site because of the outrageous expense.

Couldn’t disagree more lol