why not lock replies in such threads to being non-repliable? its not the initial comments or the replies but the giant argument chains that are the problem. or you could allow arguments but offload them to twitter spaces or another real-time platform thats well-suited to such nonsense.
Even if you're not a fan of Elon or the other stuff he's doing, remember that this is the product of thousands of other people who have worked for SpaceX. It also incorporates the innovations of thousands more who worked for previous rocket companies and NASA over the years since we first started firing stuff into space.
Elon deserves credit for getting this thing going, but it ain't a sole proprietorship. People who didn't like John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, or Werner von Braun could still enjoy watching human beings land on the moon.
Humans are nuts and if we go to space it'll mean crazy humans will be in space. There will be greasy politicians, arrogant business magnates, trolls, culture wars, ... all of it ... in space...
Everyone has flaws, but not everyone has a clinical-level personality disorder or unethically and unlawfully abuses everyone around them, making a career of stealing from taxpayers, vendors, customers, business partners, shareholders, lenders, employees, etc. with a total lack of empathy or remorse, and then whining pathetically about what a huge victim they are.
Why put him at the center of it all with your comment then? There are a literally million other things to talk about when it comes to SpaceX and space travel.
I never mentioned subsides or heavily but : Gov money is still our money. So I, personally, believe it should be spent on good things that profit us. Financially and socially. Space. Not war. Health not cops. Etc.
I worry some corps will allow for accepting funds and privatizing the profit. Then pivot into needing subsidies because they’re “too big to fail”
With the way musk runs things… That’s what I’m worried about.
Far as shareholder manip - I mean the choice to take roi over people is the shareholders manipulating the company into allowing this behavior by its ceo and to its employees.
The FAA has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Starship rocket - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35575298