So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I’ll help out.

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    However, rocket go zoom then land without boom is fun to watch.

    Yeah, Musk is a true innovater by having them blow up the concrete launchpad on launch instead…

    The government got more money from the patents NASA got then it cost to fund NASA. Privatizing space hurts everyone except the rich asshole who gets the parents.

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      For fucks sake.

      I clearly said I do not like musk. I even went as far as saying I hate him but still that’s the first place you went. What the fuck?

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        Yeah, but there’s also the cognitive dissonance of you saying SpaceX is fun because they don’t explode…

        But they do explode. Waaaaay more than NASA. Because if a NASA launch goes bad, everyone pays attention. If SpaceX goes bad, people just shrug

        So by your own metrics you just said…

        NASA is better than SpaceX.

        No matter what position I took, it would have disagreed with your comment, because your comment disagrees with itself. Which explains why you think spacex is a positive.

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          I did not say NASA was better than SpaceX, or the other way around. You are putting words in my mouth. Don’t do that.

          Here is a link to a comment that discusses exactly what you are saying, and it was posted before your comment. So maybe read first then comment.
          https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.world/t/568410/What-are-some-companies-that-deserve-to-be-boycotted-to#entry-comment-3161709

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          SpaceX has only had 2 mission failures out of 274 total missions. Since 2017 SpaceX has had a 100% success rate which is a vast majority of its total missions. The recent explosions have been test rockets and expected to blow up, it’s how they learn and innovate so quickly. NASA takes billions of dollars and 10+ years to successfully launch a rocket on the first attempt. It’s just 2 different approaches to design and innovation.

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            Nah dude. You don’t understand. A guy we don’t like is tangibly related to the space program. Fuck all them scientists and engineers. They’re all evil. Every. Single. One of them.

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            Personal insults and incorrectly using “big words”…

            For some reason the people who defend Musk and his companies love doing that.

            Does it work on 4chan? Is that where you all get this from?

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              Could you please tell me what “big words” they used? I don’t see anything outside normal vocabulary.

              Hopefully you don’t take this as me defending musk in some way.

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        Some people can’t get over the fact that spaceX is a net positive for humans. Just as Tesla helped push other manufacturers into the world of EVs. They just hate musk to the point that anything he is associated with is bad.

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          everyone was moving to EV’s with or without tesla. if you want to credit anyone go back to the Prius way back in the late 90s. They set the trend, Tesla jumped on that trend.

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            I can’t say that without Tesla EV would be as popular, mainly because at the time when Tesla started was 9 years after the GM EV1 was a failure. I don’t think other companies would have seen building EV as a good investment, but who could know?

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            I’m not defending musk. So tired of that qualifier in this thread.

            The prius is not an EV it’s a hybrid and nobody thought they were cool. Even tree huggers like me. Tesla made electric cars cool until everyone found out how poorly they were assembled. Then the other manufacturers, seeing that electric cars could be profitable, started tooling their assembly lines. You have your history completely backwards.

            The new Prius Prime is cool af in my opinion.

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              I’m not defending musk. So tired of that qualifier in this thread.

              did not say you were.

              The prius is not an EV it’s a hybrid and nobody thought they were cool.

              it sold incredibly well and proved that there was a market, and yes it was a hybrid as the technology wasn’t there. do tesla get kudos for waiting for battery technology now?

              You have your history completely backwards.

              do you think that the prius came out after a tesla? you need to explain this one.

              The new Prius Prime is cool af in my opinion.

              it doesn’t matter what you find personally cool for what it’s worth, then or now.

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                If I didn’t put that qualifier there would be comments talking shit about musk. Read the rest of this comment section and it’s clear as day.

                The prius did not sell incredibly well. That is completely false. It sold well enough to be profitable but even a standard Corolla sold more year after year. It took a decade or more before any other serious options existed.

                The previous paragraph covers your next question. You have your history wrong about how well the Prius sold and how long until EV’s became desirable.

                A better wording would have been that the new Prius is more desirable than the previous generations. Which reinforces the previous Prius not “being cool.”

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                  The prius did not sell incredibly well. That is completely false. It sold well enough to be profitable but even a standard Corolla sold more year after year.

                  … uh, yes. the traditional fossil fuel based card sold better than a car selling to a new market. do you want to compare it to, oh i don’t know, a ford focus too? are you trying to talk about the hybrid version that came out in the 2010’s like 15 years after the prius?

                  if you want to make the argument that the prius wasn’t instrumental in proving the EV market, good luck. you won’t find much backing with these talking points.

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                    Because there was nothing else to compare it to at the time. It was the first viable hybrid, we agree on that. The part that I’m having a hard time explaining is that it was not hugely successful and not the motivation for all current EV’s. It wasn’t even a plug-in hybrid until 2012. That is 9 years AFTER Tesla.

                    Major manufactures did not attempt EVs until Tesla made a killing on them. Most of them did not even make serious attempts at hybrids until the mid 2000’s.

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            EVs are still going to be the wrong answer to the problem. Sure, more efficient than combustable, but still vastly less efficient than good public transport systems, walkable/bikeable cities, etc. If Elon really wanted to save the planet, he’d be building bullet trains.

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            Tesla did help get the economy moving faster to EVs which is a net positive.

            I think the way things turned out, anyone could of had that effect Tesla just happened to be in the right place at the right time though.

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          I don’t get the crazy musk hate. I mostly ignore him but I love that he created the market for electric cars.

          Being an adult means you can look at situations in more complex terms than Elon bad.

          I think he’s a man child. I dislike his attitude like the Wikipedia name change. That’s just douche material.

          I love that he funded Tesla and now we have a viable electric car market.

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            but I love that he created the market for electric cars

            This is like saying OJ Simpson invented Smuckers Uncrustables so he’s not all bad…

            Firstly, it’s not true.

            Secondly, even if it was true, it doesn’t amount to enough to celebrate him.

            Because putting peanut butter and jelly in a sandwich was already a thing that was popular. It just became worse for the environment and more expensive for consumers by individuall packaging them and requiring them to be frozen.

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              It is true. Tesla paved the way.

              Who said celebrate him. I said I’m glad he did it.

              I get you have a binary view of the world. As you mature you may outgrow that but the world is wildly complex.

              We wouldn’t have modern electric cars without musk. It took someone willing to take the risk and the big 3 weren’t doing it.

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                Oh wow…

                I mean I was going off of actual facts that you were wrong…

                But “it is true” completely changed my mind, without Musk buying a company that already existed, we never would have gotten EVs!

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                  Who had a large scale consumer product before Tesla?

                  Your claim he didn’t create the market. Who had the market before Tesla? Who else had large scale production before Tesla ?

                  Who has the largest market share?

                  Let’s see you prove your claim.

                  Tesla would have folded if Elon was not part of it. People only started to take notice after the success of Tesla.

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                    Your claim he didn’t create the market

                    No, you said Tesla created the market…

                    I said that was false, now your demanding I prove your wrong because you can’t prove your opinion is facts.

                    That’s not how this is supposed to work…

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        They do…

        The only advantage SpaceX has is that if NASA blew up a launchpad, there would be an investigation.

        Everyone is used to Musk fucking shit up, and his defenders pretend it’s really a success.

        Your problem is with the politicians who control NASA funding, not NASA.

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            Hey it’s got the best lawyers alright? It’s an amazing legal team, one of the most powerful in the space industry.

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          There was a very long investigation, pretty sure it hasn’t even concluded since they don’t have their license yet for their next test flight.

          And why wouldn’t it count as a succes? You don’t see learning from design flaws as a succes? They clearly learned and iterated on the design

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            If you read all the comments by givesomefucks you will see that they ignore context and make wild assumptions repeatedly. They are on the hate musk train and not addressing the topic.

            You: SpaceX?
            givesomefuck: musk is terrible, musk blow up things, musk stole my girl/boyfriend
            You: Okay, but what I was asking was…
            givesomefucks: musk is the worst human ever, EVER!!!

            Dude or lady is triggered. I get it musk is a douche of the highest order but givessomefucks has let it cause them to miss context and make wild assumptions. Sad really. I wish we could talk about things without whatever bullshit their on. My original question was only answered to the extent of musk is bad.

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              I just worry there could be GPT-4 instances here that’ve been instructed to make these conversations turn nasty

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          They don’t.

          That’s the difference. NASA wants every launch to be a success.

          Space x is willing to blow some shit up to test an idea.

          I prefer the nasa method for rockets. Too much risk just blowing shit up in my opinion.

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            I disagree. I think NASA still innovates but they do it on things like propulsion and earth sciences.

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              They are slow but it is by design. They want things to be safe. Some say they over engineer things but I think when we are talking about people, that is needed.

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              SpaceX created the first successful Full Flow Stage Combustion Cycle Engine, so they’re also innovative in the propulsion department.

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          They literally don’t innovate in the same way. Like you said, if NASA blew up anything there’d be an investigation, making it impossible for them to iterate rapidly, meaning they are unable to innovate in the way private companies can.

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        They can’t because when they fail the public and then congress wants to cut their budget. NASA can no longer innovate and maintain funding.

        I hate that I have to put this qualifier but this is NOT an endorsement of musk.