Comment by phi1997@kbin.social on Musk says Twitter will no longer have a light mode, making dark mode the default option

Since Elon Musk became Twitter’s CEO, he’s been pushing through a lot of changes to the social network. But perhaps…

The thing is, I don’t think he’s deliberately trying to destroy the birdsite. He’s exhibiting the same mentality as the billionaire who got himself and a few others to die in a faulty submersible. He thinks he knows better than everyone but is completely out of touch from reality because his money usually shields him from consequences.

Elon Musk is just an idiot. A useful idiot to those who fund him like the Saudis, but an idiot all the same.

Elon Must is just an idiot. A useful idiot to those who fund him like the Saudis, but an idiot all the same.

He’s a useful idiot to us as well in lots of ways. The current EV situation only exists because of him. Space travel etc is only happening again because of him.

Keep in mind if it weren’t for him, the USA would have started building high speed rail by now. And remember that the ego rockets have a massive detrimental environmental impact.

Keep in mind if it weren’t for him, the USA would have started building high speed rail by now.

Elon Musk doesn’t control if the government builds a high speed rail or not. If the Government wanted a high speed rail line they would have started building one by now.

And remember that the ego rockets have a massive detrimental environmental impact.

Calling them “ego rockets” is silly. Those “ego rockets” are better for the environment than normal rockets, and they’re helping to further mankind.

California had plans to build high speed rail. Elon Musk convinced them to fund his hyperloop project instead.

Remember that recent SpaceX rocket that exploded on the launchpad? That pollutes the area and could have been predicted by any actual expert. It’s a waste of resources when the society needs them elsewhere.

California had plans to build high speed rail. Elon Musk convinced them to fund his hyperloop project instead.

So who’s fault is that? The people that decided to give elon musk the money. Why on earth would they go with a private company instead of building a public high speed rail? That story doesn’t make any sense.

It’s a waste of resources when the society needs them elsewhere.

What resources are wasted in SpaceX rockets that society would otherwise use elsewhere?

Remember that recent SpaceX rocket that exploded on the launchpad? That pollutes the area and could have been predicted by any actual expert.

It did not explode on the launchpad. It exploded 4 minutes into flight, at an altitude of 39 kilometers.

There was no “pollution” in the area. A bunch of pulverized concrete and sand got thrown around. They actually did expect the pad to be damaged by the launch, just not quite to that extent; they already knew they would need to rebuild it with a more robust design but figured it would survive one test launch so they delayed the planned renovations until after the launch.

Even if it had exploded on the launch pad, it would not have polluted the area, Starship is fuelled with liquid oxygen and liquid methane. Whatever didn’t burn would have simply evaporated away.

If you’re going to criticize Elon Musk or SpaceX you should use criticisms that are actually based on real facts, otherwise you end up hurting your position.

liquid methane

Isn’t methane one of the worst greenhouse gasses? It doesn’t have as much longevity as carbon dioxide but traps significantly more heat and will decompose into carbon dioxide afterward. The debris apparently also affected hundreds of acres of land, including damaging the habitats of protected wildlife. As well as that, Musk chose to forgo launchpad frame trenches which are historically used to keep launch pads from exploding but didn’t have his water-cooled steel plate idea ready, so instead idiotically used nothing (Source). In the past, I would have been willing to write off these mistakes as unfortunate but unpredictable, but after seeing the debacle with Twitter I’ve honestly come to believe that Elon Musk is a profoundly stupid man that just got lucky.

Why did you conveniently leave off the rest of my sentence there?

Also come on…talking about how many birds might have died from the rockets explosion way up in the sky, when the likely answer is zero? Really?

Why did you cherry pick the one thing you can dismiss and ignore that they’ve been causing actual environmental damage?

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