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Re: German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving

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I didn't expect Musk's defenders to offer up a defense whose cornerstone is that his judgment is so poor and his knowledge so weak that it is foolish to trust even short-term predictions about his own products.

It’s not exactly how you’re reading it, but you could say bleeding edge is how he operates. When there is a 51% chance of success, he goes for it. We’re talking in the lab. For consumer products, the standards are different. A lot of his statements are about the lab versions.

His statements are very clearly _not_ about the lab versions.

But I also understand that he has a large army of people who, for reasons I will never understand, spend their spare time lying and bullshitting on his behalf. So, congratulations on providing free labor for a billionaire. You definitely aren't a stooge.

Re: German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving

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There is a weird personality cult around somebody who is basically the Trump of tech.

Not a Musk fan by any stretch but that's unfair to Musk. He does deliver, albeit too late and overhyped. He also has a tendency to shoot his mouth off and doesn't know how to deal with dissent. But Trump is an outright fraud and that's several levels removed from where Musk sits, arguably Musk has done more in two decades than Trump has managed to achieve in his entire life.

likes to rewrite history and ignores facts he doesn't like, bullies people that oppose him, goes on unstable twitter rants, builds a cult of personality around his persona, paints himself as a rule breaker, etc

They are not the same person by any means, but they do share similarities

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