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Elon Musk Admits Everyone Was Right About Tesla

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Re: Elon Musk Admits Everyone Was Right About Tesla

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Post by EADGBE »

"No one...should put this many hours into work...this is not good. People should not work this hard. They should not do this. This is very painful... [Interviewer: Painful in what sense?] ...It hurts my brain and my heart."

Not gonna lie, that kinda took me aback.

Re: Elon Musk Admits Everyone Was Right About Tesla

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Post by pathartl »

cphoover wrote: post #3

Isn't it obvious to everyone at this point that the ex-gawker media empire has it out to get Musk? Constant hit-piece after hit-piece. They've burned any facade of objectivity, with the tone and repetitiveness of their reporting.

They've been like that for years. I had to stop reading Gizmodo because it turned from actual news about tech to whatever the narcissistic staff felt like.

https://gizmodo.com/runaway-peacock-ditches-his-human-family...

https://gizmodo.com/heres-how-long-itd-take-you-to-poop-a-le...

How are posts like that at all relevant? I mean I'd rather read The Verge than what these people are putting out. The bias that Gawker had is that of a crazy person. They always told us that they were there for the people delivering hard evidence, but meanwhile give a damn about a person's rights to privacy, AND THEN CELEBRATED THAT FACT.

Check out Gawker's defunct site as it stands now. It's a dumpster fire that points fingers at everyone but themselves.

Re: Elon Musk Admits Everyone Was Right About Tesla

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Post by serf »

cphoover wrote: post #3

Isn't it obvious to everyone at this point that the ex-gawker media empire has it out to get Musk? Constant hit-piece after hit-piece. They've burned any facade of objectivity, with the tone and repetitiveness of their reporting.

this anecdote is being retold by pretty much every western journalism outlet with just about the same details; not just Gawker associated ones.

( I agree that Gawker media outlets are usually terrible )

Re: Elon Musk Admits Everyone Was Right About Tesla

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Post by dmode »

This is a terrible article and should be downvoted to death. Maybe Jalopnik should have accompanied their thoughts about Musk's comment with, I don't know, some cash flow analysis from their income statement ? And pointed to what was wrong and how perilous his statement was ? You know those things are all publicly available. May be, they can actually look at a cashburn and capex numbers and point to errors ? But that will require some journalistic work. So much better to run a hit piece. And may be they should also actually publish the number of Model 3s sold in the last quarter to add some context as well.

Re: Elon Musk Admits Everyone Was Right About Tesla

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Post by Koshkin »

EADGBE wrote: post #2

"No one...should put this many hours into work...this is not good. People should not work this hard. They should not do this. This is very painful... [Interviewer: Painful in what sense?] ...It hurts my brain and my heart." Not gonna lie, that kinda took me aback.

> People should not work this hard.

True. It is painful to think about people being brought into this world, only to spend their lives worrying about money (or the basic survival in general). As an idea, or a moral maxim, working hard is inherently bad. Except when one enjoys it. But even then they should restrain themselves - just to see if there may be other good things in life.

Re: Elon Musk Admits Everyone Was Right About Tesla

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Post by rainonmoon »

cphoover wrote: post #3

Isn't it obvious to everyone at this point that the ex-gawker media empire has it out to get Musk? Constant hit-piece after hit-piece. They've burned any facade of objectivity, with the tone and repetitiveness of their reporting.

Journalists don't exist to represent the interests of maverick billionaires. That's what PR firms are for. Tesla's was very successful for a long time. Now that's changing. This is a good and natural function of a working democracy.
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