Congressman Massie's homebrew powerwall built from a wrecked Model S

What he built is really cool and exactly the reason I come to HN. I don’t care at all about his or your lame politics in this context and your post is inappropriate.

As a side note, I find it hilarious that you think that the tweet you “discovered” was so offensive that he would take it down so you posted a screenshot.

Re: Congressman Massie's homebrew powerwall built from a wrecked Model S

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Post by rayiner » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 3:05 AM UTC

slater wrote: post #3

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Lots of people got vaccinated but opposed vaccine mandates. With respect to Massie, he had contracted covid before a vaccine was available and didn’t get vaccinated because of natural immunity. Studies repeatedly have borne out the effectiveness of natural immunity to covid: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220120/vaccine-plus-prior-...

> Jan. 20, 2022 -- A new study from California and New York found that people who were both vaccinated and had a prior COVID-19 infection had the most protection against the coronavirus last summer and fall.

> Unvaccinated people with a past infection came in second. By October, when the more contagious Delta variant had become dominant and booster shots weren’t available to most people, the unvaccinated group had a lower case rate than vaccinated people without a previous infection.

Massie is pretty much exactly the sort of person you’d expect to build a Powerwall from a wrecked Tesla. An MIT engineer who is smarter than his critics but also an arrogant asshole who can’t just go along to get along.

Re: Congressman Massie's homebrew powerwall built from a wrecked Model S

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Post by cato_the_elder » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 3:20 AM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #7

slater wrote: post #3

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Lots of people got vaccinated but opposed vaccine mandates. With respect to Massie, he had contracted covid before a vaccine was available and didn’t get vaccinated because of natural immunity. Studies repeatedly have borne out the effectiveness of natural immunity to covid: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220120/vaccine-plus-prior-... > Jan. 20, 2022 -- A new study from California and New York found that people wh…

> just go along to get along

That's not really a virtue.

Re: Congressman Massie's homebrew powerwall built from a wrecked Model S

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Post by woodruffw » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 3:45 AM UTC

bequanna wrote: post #6

slater wrote: post #3

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Ah, got it. Someone doesn’t pass your arbitrary purity test so we should ignore everything they have to say? What he built is really cool and exactly the reason I come to HN. I don’t care at all about his or your lame politics in this context and your post is inappropriate. As a side note, I find it hilarious that you think that the tweet you “discovered” was so offensive that he would take it down so you posted a sc…

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Re: Congressman Massie's homebrew powerwall built from a wrecked Model S

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Post by manquer » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 3:45 AM UTC

cato_the_elder wrote: post #8

rayiner wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of people got vaccinated but opposed vaccine mandates. With respect to Massie, he had contracted covid before a vaccine was available and didn’t get vaccinated because of natural immunity. Studies repeatedly have borne out the effectiveness of natural immunity to covid: https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220120/vaccine-plus-prior-... > Jan. 20, 2022 -- A new study from California and New York found that people wh…

> just go along to get along That's not really a virtue.

For a politician it is probably not, however for inventors going off the regular path and not getting along goes hand in hand and is sometimes useful .

On a side note I find "Cato the elder" making this comment a bit amusing, who was known for his opposition to new ideas, of doctors and of course "Carthago delenda est"