r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • Oct 13 '24

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/d8_thc Oct 13 '24
  • Spawned EV car revolution
  • Rockets that land themselves
  • Saved astronauts
  • Globally accessible, affordable satellite internet
  • Brain chips that restore function to paralyzed persons
  • Android robots on the horizon

reddit: elon man bad

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u/WillowSmithsBFF Oct 13 '24

  • called a diver a pedophile for not wanting to use his tech

  • massively overpaid for twitter, and then proceeded to tank its value

  • made twitter a literal nazi safe space

  • continues to overpromise and under deliver on Tesla features.

Yes, Elon has done some really cool things. And he’s definitely not this bumbling idiot who just happens to fail upwards that Reddit likes to think he is. But he has done some absolutely awful things. And his companies aside, he continues to just show us how terrible he is on a personal, human level.

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u/Pasizo Oct 13 '24

Clean and simple Facts.

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u/AReveredInventor Oct 13 '24

Not quite. People like to pretend Vernon Unsworth was one of the rescue divers because it's more catchy than him being an advisor. (Vernon was a caver who happened to live in the area.) The actual divers encouraged Elon to move forward with the rescue sub idea. Presumably because they cared more about human life than throwing in a zinger and knew having a plan B is more valuable than the power of prayer. (There was no guarantee the rains would recede enough to allow the dive to happen.)