• Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    15 days ago

    How the fuck do people keep giving him more money??

    Most of his ventures are dumpster fires, and SpaceX only runs well because he doesn’t touch it.

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      15 days ago

      Because he’s in charge of the government now. Oligarch power. We are rightly fucked. They will all make even more money and dump any losses on us.

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        15 days ago

        Absolutely amazing thar nuclear power is now so close to his control or influence. Nothing to be afraid of.

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      14 days ago

      He does touch it. Remember the obliterated launch pad that also critically damaged his rocket about a year ago? That was him.

      Also, SpaceX runs “well” because it got billions of government dollars to get humans to Mars and so far they’ve been able to blow up a banana over the Indian ocean. Literally. SpaceX has spent all that money and hasn’t even hit the first target on a long list of targets.

      Think about this: SpaceX has spent more time and government money than NASA did for the Appollo project and what did both do? NASA got the first human to the moon. SpaceX shot a car in low earth orbit, obliterated a launch pad (amongst so much more) and fried a banana over the Indian ocean. Their big rocket managed to hit LEO in an uncontrolled spin until it burned up. Seriously, SpaceX is playing at step one and failing to reach step 2

      They do cheer loudly when yet again a rocket blows up. Do you remember all the cheers at NASA when their tickets blew up all the time? Oh yeah, that’s right. They had a tiny fraction of the computer power of today and went for the “do it right the first time” and they did.

      SpaceX sucks. It’s just another Musk toy that peoplem are giving a free pass because reasons.

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    15 days ago

    Why does Elon need all these handouts? If he wants to build toys he should do so with his own money.

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      14 days ago

      He doesn’t have that kind of money.

      He owns stock valued at insane prices. No one will buy 6B worth of stocks. Trying to crank it out on the open exchanges would make the value dive.

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        14 days ago

        So since he is actually broke it wouldn’t hurt if we took all that wealth and redistributed it?

        Lmao it’s insane what some people do to downplay the insane excess wealth of the literal richest person ever.

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      15 days ago

      Too, bad. He won the election he bought, and so now he’s (no joke) being proposed as speaker of the house (3rd in line to presidency) which is an unelected position.

      Then if/when Trump dies and JD Vance gets killed/abdictates, you have Elon President.

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    15 days ago

    Huh.

    You know, when I think of supercomputer applications, I think of deeply analytical problems based on solid math and well understood algorithms that can be highly parallelised to take the maximum theoretical advantage of the hardware at hand.

    You know, the opposite of what the “AI” crowd is doing. Throwing vast amounts of crunching power at a barely understood hypothetical black-box problem in hopes that it potentially yields some interesting results. Maybe.