• Chronicon [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Nobody here is giving any credit to Musk. Saying “hey this is a nice building, the engineers and architects and builders really did a good job”, is not giving any credit to my landlord, we all know he’s just a guy with money. Check your reading comprehension. We all hate Musk, he’s up there with the worst of the worst, I get it

    Yes, this probably could have been done much earlier, and if it was we’d say the same things about the engineers and crew that brought that hypothetical project over the finish line. It’s cool to see things progress

    edit: also I said proportions not size. Tall shit wants to fall over more than short stubby wide shit

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          Pretty sure I wasn’t shitting on anybody but Elon. The workers at Spacex have done good work, but it’s not some earth shattering change, it’s just a progression of already existing technology. They didn’t invent self-landing rockets, and at this point people can make self-landing R/C rockets with off-the-shelf hardware.

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            Literally all technology is a progression of already existing technology. I feel like you’re being kind of persnickety.

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              Coming up with a new thing vs refining a thing that already exists seems to be extremely distinct and easy to understand. Coming up with a completely new thing - landing a rocket on its tail - was done in the 90s. Refining that idea that was already come up with and then demonstrated as possible is just taking somebody else’s idea and perfecting it.

              I think it’s very distinct and not persnickety at all.

              This is characteristic of every single thing Elon is involved with. He does not invent ideas, he takes other people’s ideas and then dumps truckloads of money into them while treating the people he pays like dogshit and pretending to be clever.

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          We disagree, instead of acknowledging that they went directly for the reddit-tier “check your reading comprehension”, which is extremely hostile so they got the pigpoopballs. I also blocked them because I don’t want reddit hostility on my communist website, so it’s a nice zero conflict result where I will no longer need to interact with them and vice versa.

          If getting ppb is too hostile for you, I dunno what to tell ya.

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          Check your reading comprehension is an unnecessary comment on someone’s ability to read, rather than just engaging with the argument at hand. If you feel like someone didn’t adequately address your point, you can say that without insulting their intelligence.

          So check your comprehension of pig pooping on balls.