vegetaElon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law
The kind of decision making others feel worthy of an over 50 billion pay package.
Fuck Elon, and fuck the board too. Never buying one with him involved.
I will also never buy a spaceship /j
Maybe if you stopped eating avocado toast and made coffee at home.
Would you download one?
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Do you own stocks through Vanguard? Other index funds? Chances are your money voted for Elonās pay package, unfortunately.
m-p{3}He would have done it anyway.
Baroness_ButtslutThis.
He is virtue signaling. He just move to avoid higher taxes kike he did before
I think this is more accurately vice signalling.
Unfortunate typo thereā¦
He has done it before. SpaceX had to move back to California because nobody wants to work in Texas.
Because schools cannot forcibly out students to their parents SpaceX is now incapable of working there? Seems like thereās something else going on.
EldritchHe has a BS cult of personality like trump. And has learned he can distract from his real scandals by causing an overload of stupid shenanigans. That will capture the media focus. And keep it from where it should be.
In the UK we call it a dead cat strategy.
There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table ā and I donāt mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point, says my Australian friend, is that everyone will shout, āJeez, mate, thereās a dead cat on the table!ā In other words, they will be talking about the dead cat ā the thing you want them to talk about ā and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.[1]
helenslunchSounds like a super long way of describing a ādistractionā.
katy āØelon despises his daughter.
I donāt know how much itās he despises her, vs how much he despises what he thinks woke people and the woke education system did to her.
Nope, I think Elon is really onto something. Woke schools means we canāt go to space anymore!
LOOK WHAT WE MADE HIM DO!!!
Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. But who the fuck knows what planet trans people are from?!
according to Hedwig, the Moon
TheLowestStoneUranus obviously.
Pluto, obviously.
Uh shouldnāt it be Earth?
Bullshit.
He just threw down big support for trump, he knows trump cant win CA so this could be a ploy to help him in TX.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ā¦/ar-BB1q5TOi
Additionally, musks good friend Ken Griffin of Citadel Securities as well as Blackrock are opening a rival to NYSE in (you guessed it) Texas. Whether or not its related, idk.
Believe me when I say that it is not to help Trump win Texas. Iāve livwd here for over40yeats, and for the last 25 I have kept hearing how this is a āpurple stateā and āitās gonna be a swing state soonā.
Itās not.
Itās not, it never has been, it never will be, and itās never been worse here. Which is why Iām leaving this hellhole once and for all next week with my cat, and I aināt never looking back.
I ain't never looking back.
Do we have a RemindMe bot on lemmy?
Or maybe the double negative was a Freudian slip š
You sound like you fell for some big stereotype-filled detached-from-reality circle jerks, of which, this comment section is one. It actually reminded me for some reason of the Huffington Post's 2016 election predictions. Well, they at least got Texas right. lol.
Someone, Iām presuming a teacher, petitioned Texas Department of Family Protective Services which, under the directions of the governor, investigated my ex-wife for daring to have a trans kid in a conservative town.
You canāt respond if youād like, but I really donāt give a bakerās fuck what you have to say, mate, because you are either willfully ignorant of this fascist bullshit at best or a supporter of it at worst. Either way, maggot-filled bicep gash is more appealing to me that your opinion.
Yeah, his daughter is trans and publicly disowned him. The dude has basically quadrupled down on his transphobia ever since just to prove how totally not butthurt he is over this.
andyburkeI feel bad for the reasonable employees at SpaceX - this sucks for decent people.
I donāt. Look, we already had this discussion years ago. You donāt feel bad for the stormtrooper, or their families when you blow up the deathstar. They knew what they were getting into.
But they didn't. The guy had me in the first half when he cried because Buzz Aldrin didn't like him. Elon wasn't always so obvious with his bullshit. There was a time when he looked minted as a purveyor of a bright future - the mask slipped.
deegeeseThe mask has been off for at least 8 years.
No sympathy for anyone who still stans that phony.
Well, good to know there's no way forward but your way.
When did he call that rescuer a āpedoā? Because thatās when I changed my mind on him forever.
Then he fired his PR team not long after that. He pushed out all the people getting paid to help him not look like an idiot.
Musk should likely have all his storage media searched, just randomly accusing people of things like pedophilia for no reason is often projection, "don't look at me, I clearly can't be one as I'm the most vocal about being against them, look over here instead" or whatever
What Elon did was terrible, but it wasnāt āfor no reasonā
The dude attacked him in the media.
Was the harshness of Elonās response representative of the attack? Absolutely not. But it wasnāt nothing.
bizarrolandYeah see there is a thing called disproportionate response.
If you've got a guy with 100 million followers talking shit about someone else and making wild accusations against them against another person who has practically no following at all, then the response is far too powerful for the issue at hand.
It was 100% a disproportionate response, I wasnāt saying otherwise.
The guy told it like it was. It was a PR stunt and nothing more. His submarine was rigid and stood zero chance of navigating the intricate cave system, of which the caver was an expert. Elon didnāt like his sub (and him by extension) being ridiculed, so he used his social media clout to make an unsubstantiated and nigh libelous claim that the guy was a pedophile.
Whatever Elonās retaliatory reasons are for his vindictiveness, a rational person can safely assume that those reasons are tied to his hollow soul and crĆ©pĆØ-paper-thin ego.
He was bullied as a child, he probably never got over it and the power has gotten to his head.
I was bullied as a child, and I now work as a math teacher in Title I schools and engage in mutual aid. Whatās your point?
Itās not an excuse.
Some people grow up and move past an experience, some people donāt. Some hold onto that hatred and become the bully themselves.
How you handle situations makes you who you are, but itās up to you to do that.
Itās not an excuse. [Provides an excuse.]
Get wrekt, son.
Iām sure there are plenty of people who started at SpaceX before we all truly knew the monster is. Also, the work they are doing is incredibly important. Itās hard to give that up. It shouldnāt be this hard to empathize with people
PeppycitoI thought that spacex was āincredibly importantā once. Now I realize itās a fast track to a more fucked earth. By the time we get to āplanet Bā āplanet Aā is going to be a fiery ball of shit.
Iām not saying SpaceX isnāt without valid critiques, but if you donāt see the value of reusable rockets and canāt even give them credit for spearheading that, Iām not sure what else to say. Make no mistake I think Elon Musk is a bigoted piece of shit, but I can also acknowledge that SpaceX has done important work
Yes, the rocket is reusable. The fuel is not, and by lowering the cost per kg of space freight, it has driven more usage of rockets. Which use non-renewable fuel at astounding rates and make huge emissions for a minor payload total.
Weāre seeing extreme temperatures and unseasonal weather events already - James Webb is cool and the ISS does need service missions but Starlink is just more orbital trash waiting to happen.
Starlink will never be orbital trash in any meaningful way. If everything failed today, theyād all deorbit within 5 years. Itās only in higher orbits where shit gets stuck for decades or hundreds of years.
Starlink will never be orbital trash in any meaningful way
Youāre right. Theyāll be atmospheric pollution. Thatās what āburn up on reentryā means.
Well in that case, 100% of things that weāve launched into space are either
1: Space trash 2: Atmospheric Trash 3: Ocean Trash
Except for the 1st stages of F9 and itās fairings, and one or two first stages of some other small start ups.
xthexderThat does seem to be the point this thread is making: Going to space is really bad for Earthās environment. SpaceX and starlink are just accelerating that.
Iād like to see what peopleās reactions would be if we put all the 6,219 starlink satellites in a pile on the ground and lit them on fire. Would they say āfuck yeah! Fast internet!ā or would they say āare you out of your mind?ā
And they plan on having 12,000 or something each lasting about 5 years.
Rocket launches are not why climate change is occurring.
Itās not helping. We arenāt going to get a ādeus ex machinaā moment on righting damage done to the environment. Yes focus on the bigger goals and pollution sources, but this is a trend in the wrong way to enlage Elonās money pile.
Youāre missing the forest for the trees and way over estimating how much pollution rocket launches put out.
We have to leave the planet, which means we need to practice so to speak, and those rockets are the only way we are going to get out there right now.
We need to leave the planet? For where?
For a planet thatās completely incapable of sustaining life?
Do you realize that itāll take many, many orders of magnitude more resources, time, and effort to make literally any other celestial body within several years of space flight of us capable of sustaining life than it will be to fix the habitable planet we have right here?
Weāre not getting off this rock without stabilizing it enough to sustain us long-term first. And by then, we wonāt need to leave. Either way, though, evacuating isnāt a viable solution.
And if you donāt believe me, go talk to some biologists.
Gotta do it eventually dude or this will be our grave.
Itās hard to me that you can have the foresight to see the existential threat that is climate change, but not the risk of having all of our eggs in one basket.
What the hell are you talking about? Where did I contradict that argument, and hell, where did I even make it in the first place?
I said that it will take far more resources to terraform and colonize another planet than to fix this one. I didnāt even touch on the pollution and use of finite resources (which is also an issue, mainly because of how much weāre doing it)
Iām all for space exploration, we have so many breakthroughs that are usable here on Earth through it that not doing it at all would be foolish. But youāre kidding yourself if you think weāre going to succeed in leaving.
This planet will be our grave, sadly. We might, if weāre very lucky and can actually change what weāre doing finally, make that be a very distant thing.
But settling another planet, as much as I would absolutely love to see it, is likely never going to happen just from the sheer logistics of it, not to mention the fact that we still havenāt managed to build a self sustaining and isolated ecosystem that can support humans indefinitely on this planet, where we can truck everything to the site rather than have to shoot it into space a tiny amount at a time and then have it spend 9 months to 2 years to reach the nearest planet
And unless we want to save a tiny population living under domes, weād have to extend that to an entire planet thatās far, FAR further from our target than this one which already sustains life, and which doesnāt have a magnetosphere in the first place so even if we managed to give it a thick enough atmosphere with the right blend for us, itāll simply bleed away into space anyway.
And unless youāre thinking of going to the hellhole that is Venus, the next nearest potential candidate is probably going to be one of the moons of Jupiter, which have plenty of their own issues.
Do you know what all those puffy clouds coming out of the engines at engine cut off and start up are? Kerosene or methane and oxygen. Do you know what injecting methane and kerosene into the upper atmosphere does to the planet? No, no one does because it wasnāt ever a problem when there were 5 launches a year. Now that thereās 5 launches a month weāre getting to the find out stage.
Same with starlink. What does aerosolized aluminum (and whatever else is ājust burning upā on reentry) do to the upper atmosphere? When there were one or two satellites a year how would you know? Now that thereās several a month (20 in the last launch that didnāt make it up) weāll find out.
Iām going to go out on a limb and say none of that will prove beneficial to life on earth. But yeah, the rocket is pretty cool.