Elon Musk

M18CTID said:
I came off there 10 days ago. Mainly because of all the far-right bullshit regarding the riots and the amount of time I was taking calling people racist cunts. It's bad enough with having to put rival fans in their place all the time regarding the PL case against City but despite all that I found it a decent place to keep up to speed with genuine fan related issues, hence why I thought I couldn't do without it.

Well I have to say that after 10 days I haven't missed it one fucking bit!
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I have had an account for year's, but have only ever used it for local club cricket scores, and most clubs now have real-time updates on NV PLAY so couldn't tell you the last time I logged on
 
mattcity5 said:
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As a student of physics I had a similar experience with the Hyperloop (remember that?). The cars and rockets were all very well, and I didn’t know enough about aeronautical engineering or AI in self-driving cars to understand the challenges.

But Hyperloop is basic physics. And that basic physics tells you it is a stupid fucking idea. The largest vacuum we have ever created is a room about the size of a circle with a 15 metre radius and 30 metres high. And it was a feat of engineering. Because vacuums and near-vacuums are incredibly unstable, it only takes one small leak and the whole thing will shatter explosively.

And Musk wanted to build a vacuum thousands of kilometres long. And then put people inside!

Yeah mate, I’ll take the bus.

By the way Hyperloop One went bankrupt last year. Funny how everybody has forgotten about it though.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
Hyperloop One went bankrupt last year. Funny how everybody has forgotten about it though.
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IIRC Elon has actually admitted that the Hyperloop stunt was just to kill development of high speed rail in california which would decimate the car industry, and particularly the electric truck freight idea he's been trying to get off the ground for a decade.

Speaking of which they've delivered 140 units. 100 are used by tesla, 40 by PepsiCo, who had to return 15 of them because they failed/broke. Oh and the 500 mile range is just for crisps, if they want to transport bottles or anything heavy, it's ~100mi.

So in the nearly 7 years since the prototype was launched, orders and deposits were taken and 5 years after delivery was supposed to start (over 3 years since they actually DID start), Tesla has mnaged to get about 25 of them into the wild and they are barely 20% functional in terms of range.

Make that 24...

www.latimes.com

Tesla big-rig battery ignites after crash, spewing fumes and shutting California freeway

A Tesla semitruck crashed into trees on Interstate 80 in Northern California and its electric battery caught fire, sending toxic fumes into the air.
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mexico1970 said:
The people who think he's fucked it are still on it then?

Excellent ;-)
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It still has some uses when looking for certain information ( Developer communites etc I use it for are still OK on there ), but there is no doubting its fucked compared to what it was.

If you take a look into the "for you" section you can witness bubbles forming in front of your eyes. the Adverts are getting nuts, some game adverts on there are taller than full page. Bots are rife.

Community notes however are a decent Idea.
 
grunge said:
It still has some uses when looking for certain information ( Developer communites etc I use it for are still OK on there ), but there is no doubting its fucked compared to what it was.

If you take a look into the "for you" section you can witness bubbles forming in front of your eyes. the Adverts are getting nuts, some game adverts on there are taller than full page. Bots are rife.

Community notes however are a decent Idea.
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When you try to look at most websites on android now it's appalling just how many adverts there are, some sites are genuinely unusable.

Twitters biggest problem is that many users believe only the people they like should be allowed a voice, you see it on here too when people are called WUMS because other posters don't follow the hive mind.

Developer communities access sounds useful, most of it isn't.
 
mexico1970 said:
When you try to look at most websites on android now it's appalling just how many adverts there are, some sites are genuinely unusable.

Twitters biggest problem is that many users believe only the people they like should be allowed a voice, you see it on here too when people are called WUMS because other posters don't follow the hive mind.

Developer communities access sounds useful, most of it isn't.
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Twitter’s (and bluemoon’s) biggest problem is that some people think everyone should be mandated to listen to and believe them, and when that doesn’t happen or they get castigated for the shit they post, they throw their toys out of the pram.

It’s a very simple rule — if you don’t like what people say about your tweets (or posts), leave or stop yer bitchin’. Know your audience and stay in your lane. It’s the first two rules of public speaking.

I never post, I’ve blocked well nigh thousands of ads and other tweeters, I nearly never read comments sections about anything, and the algorithm finally seems to feed me what I care about: City, music, news on certain topics, and a dozen tweeters whose perspective I regularly enjoy. Took a lot of work but finally a semi-reasonable experience.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
Twitter’s (and bluemoon’s) biggest problem is that some people think everyone should be mandated to listen to and believe them, and when that doesn’t happen or they get castigated for the shit they post, they throw their toys out of the pram.

It’s a very simple rule — if you don’t like what people say about your tweets (or posts), leave or stop yer bitchin’. Know your audience and stay in your lane. It’s the first two rules of public speaking.

I never post, I’ve blocked well nigh thousands of ads and other tweeters, I nearly never read comments sections about anything, and the algorithm finally seems to feed me what I care about: City, music, news on certain topics, and a dozen tweeters whose perspective I regularly enjoy. Took a lot of work but finally a semi-reasonable experience.
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Sounds like a lot of work to get a credence of truth. No wonder people are so fucked.
 
mexico1970 said:
When you try to look at most websites on android now it's appalling just how many adverts there are, some sites are genuinely unusable.

Twitters biggest problem is that many users believe only the people they like should be allowed a voice, you see it on here too when people are called WUMS because other posters don't follow the hive mind.

Developer communities access sounds useful, most of it isn't.
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Yeah its shocking. Ive totally given up even trying to read the Manchester evening news site now.
 
I just deleted twitter from my phone, and logged out of facebook in my browser ( not had the app for ages ). I've not killed the accounts but just adding a barrier from the constant doom scrolling.
 
Just a thought, but...
How do you ruin somthing that was shit in the first place?
As is all social media - Basically a channel where you can say somthing obnoxious to others without getting a punch in the face.
 
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