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Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by shapefrog »

jxf wrote: post #838
oblio wrote: post #814

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't care about costly trips. I mean, he has billions and works a lot. Spending a million here and million there is pretty frugal compared to some other people who need to prove their worth by upping each other on who has the largest yacht in the world. > What I do care about, though, is hypocrisy. Turns out, you should care about both. First of all, his private jet costs as much as a yacht, plus he doesn't own…

Is it just me or does $7,000/day actually sound very cheap? That's the nightly rate of, say, the nicest suite in a top-end hotel, but for a whole yacht. Maybe that doesn't include crew (besides the skipper, which the article says is included), fuel, food, etc.?

I think they have either the wrong boat or it wasnt a superyacht in the first place.

EUR 750k to 2mil per week is the sort of pricing I see for charter.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by thr0wnawaytod4y »

mach1ne wrote: post #787
gregoriol wrote: post #751

The thing he actually doesn't want everyone to realise is that he is a dumbass billionaire who goes on costly trips all the time. As soon as the world sees him as the kiddo who happens to have whims and does whatever he want with the mass of money he has (he bought twitter just for fun?), his aura will be over.

Why has even HN comment field lowered to nothing but blind hate? Say what you want but the man has reformed rocket technology and jumpstarted the world's shift to electrical vehicles, both against all odds. Hate-takes like this are silly.

That man literally didn't do that.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by itsoktocry »

jamiegreen wrote: post #822
axlee wrote: post #795

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should care about his costly trips. As an individual, he is wrecking the environment at a rate a thousandfold of the average person.

As an individual, he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined.

>As an individual, he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined.

This is such a terrible mindset.

So we're going to allow the rich to do whatever damage they want to the environment, personally, if they construct widgets that are slightly less harmful than the next best widget?

It's this sort of hypocrisy that prevents people from buying in to the environmental movement: celebrities lecturing the rest of us while they don't alter their lifestyle one iota. The proletariat will never accept it.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by ceejayoz »

asteroidbelt wrote: post #665
pfoof wrote: post #613

While, yes, the data could have been used to track him down, but reposting it on twitter is not enabling anyone to stalk. Crimimals that would want to hunt down Elon or X, would definitely have specialists who can gather this and other data without some random twitter user

It is more nuanced than that. Professional criminals won’t have trouble locating Musk, but nut job activists may be not that smart and providing them location actually increases risk for Musk.

Any "nut job activists" can go straight to the same source @elonjets used; https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af.

This information is absolutely trivial to find and monitor.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by pibechorro »

gregoriol wrote: post #751

The thing he actually doesn't want everyone to realise is that he is a dumbass billionaire who goes on costly trips all the time. As soon as the world sees him as the kiddo who happens to have whims and does whatever he want with the mass of money he has (he bought twitter just for fun?), his aura will be over.

Elon has recently come out as concerned for his life. Death threats and what not. Someone tracking his every move is of concern under those circumstances.

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by 2rsf »

_djo_ wrote: post #789
Reason077 wrote: post #769

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "ICAO numbers change if your aircraft is enrolled in the PIA program" Only through a manual process that sounds like it can take a month or so to complete. Perhaps, in future, this could be solved with technology that automates generation/randomisation of Aircraft IDs, much like MAC addresses on phones and laptops are randomised to prevent tracking? Next-generation ADS-B transponders could communicate with the FAA…

Every measure like that introduces safety risk into the critical air traffic control system by increasing the odds of data inconsistencies and other things going wrong. I don't believe it's worth it just to preserve the privacy of billionaires and corporations.

Of course not, but what is the risk here to actual traffic? the plane still transmit its location so others can see it, they simply can't know the exact instance. Seriously asking out of curiosity.

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Post by zanellato19 »

inglor_cz wrote: post #836
stevefan1999 wrote: post #799

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Agreed. The workers provided value for him. He decided to take it all

Was there ever a successful collective of the kind that the Left dreams about? If not, doesn't it indicate that CEOs are pretty important in the business scheme of things?

Do you mean was there any field that was advanced through the use of public funds?

Yes, a lot of scientific advancement comes from exactly that.

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Post by micromacrofoot »

jamiegreen wrote: post #822
axlee wrote: post #795

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should care about his costly trips. As an individual, he is wrecking the environment at a rate a thousandfold of the average person.

As an individual, he has probably had net positive environmental impact than the next 1m people combined.

if you ignore spacex maybe

Re: Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account

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Post by LightG »

mach1ne wrote: post #787
gregoriol wrote: post #751

The thing he actually doesn't want everyone to realise is that he is a dumbass billionaire who goes on costly trips all the time. As soon as the world sees him as the kiddo who happens to have whims and does whatever he want with the mass of money he has (he bought twitter just for fun?), his aura will be over.

Why has even HN comment field lowered to nothing but blind hate? Say what you want but the man has reformed rocket technology and jumpstarted the world's shift to electrical vehicles, both against all odds. Hate-takes like this are silly.

Helping to usher in the electric revolution does not absolve you from acting like, and being called out for being, a douche.

I'd much rather he wasn't behaving like a douche, but until he stops, I'll continue to refer to him as ... a douche.

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