Musk’s Echo Chamber Is So Deep He Thinks People Like Him
Musk’s Echo Chamber Is So Deep He Thinks People Like Him
The world’s richest man has effectively “canceled himself,” according to The New Abnormal’s Danielle Moodie.
People do like him. We call those people idiots.
You spelled Nazi’s wrong
Idiazis, perhaps?
Our echo chamber is so deep we think people hate him.
Both is true. Many still admire him, many (rightfully so) hate him. But even more people still don't care.
ya.. i think the whole algorithm is a positive feedback loop. it keep feeding us whatever we want to hear.. no matter which side we are on.. so the algorithmis IS the echo chamber..
He was a liberal darling and tech god, even during Trump's first term and a large part of Biden's.
I always thought that was kinda fishy, and that teslas were really elitist and economically wasteful, but man, he had a following and loads of people worshipping him. I have whiplash, and I can only imagine how that conditioned him.
The lesson is: don't worship people, especially living people. Even religious texts push forms of this, but that part seems to have been lost.
How are Teslas "economically wasteful" compared to other cars of a similar size?
Because the model 3 is about 4000lb, and the higher tiers are even heavier. They're all super expensive, even with tax breaks. The "comparable" cars are like huge luxury vehicles or massive SUVs.
That’s the nature of pure EVs. The drivetrain may be light, but the battery is extremely heavy.
If they were eco friendly, they'd have tiny (I’m talking like 5 horsepower) cheap, ridiculously gas efficient range extenders in them instead of massive batteries, which correspondingly needs a massive chassis, suspension, fire protection systems, higher power charging and control electronics and so on. That’s the nature of the EV: they're like rockets, where you pay exponential costs for carrying more mass around because the “fuel” is so heavy. And that’s setting aside the production costs of something so massive.
And they're mostly outfitted, and sold as, luxury vehicles, with the corresponding economic costs.
…Don’t get me wrong, I think EVs are incredible, the philosophy behind teslas is cool… But a 4000lb+ compact car, or a 6,600lb personal truck, are not economical or environmentally friendly, however you slice it.
How are Teslas “economically wasteful” compared to other cars of a similar size?
"How are Teslas economically wasteful compared to other economically wasteful things?"
Don't move goalposts.
Teslas, like all cars, are absurdly wasteful on an absolute scale. And it has fuck-all to do with the energy needed to propel them, by the way; the real waste is in the way they force cities to be ruined to shoehorn them in.
The more and more I think about this comparison, the more it makes sense: Muskrat = Pyro