Not so friendly reminder that musk specifically came up with, and pushed, for hyperloop knowing that it would never be made, as an effort to stop the development of highspeed rail in America and shift all political discussions of it because “something better is around the corner”:
As I’ve written in my book, Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it. Several years ago, Musk said that public transit was “a pain in the ass” where you were surrounded by strangers, including possible serial killers, to justify his opposition.
Also: 2024 update, the total length of China’s high-speed rail tracks has now reached well over 45,000 km, or 28,000 miles, by the end of 2023.
They are additionally five years ahead of schedule and expect to double the total number within ten years. And, before someone inevitably complains about “how expensive it is”, they are turning over a net-profit of over $600M USD a year.
Search Thunderf00t on YouTube. Researched and sourced refutation of each of musk’s many and always evolving lies, from an actual physicist with a PhD.
thunderf00t is a raging misogynist. Like he made hundreds of gamergate videos obsessing over this one woman for daring to criticize the portrayal of women in videogames
OK then, I’ll make sure to only watch the Musk hate videos.
I’m down to reject bigots being bigots. But even a broken clock can be right twice a day.
Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to let that broken clock into your YouTube algorithm and reward it with clicks.
Really though, what specifically are you talking about? I’ve been subscribed for literal years. This guy literally just debunks scams from musk, religious zealots, kickstarter/startup scams and things like that (and also randomly does science experiments with sodium that are completely over my head.). Haven’t seen any of what your saying as a focus or expressed opinion in his videos.
My algorithm is better for having this person in there.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Thunderf00t
This goes pretty in-depth into his problematic past regarding attacking feminists and feminism in general, with sources and links to back it up provided as well. Most of it is old, dating back to the GamerGate days.
yes he’s a scientist and has a lot of videos debunking tech bro pseudoscience, I just think it’s worth knowing how muvh of an unhinged asshole he is
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Completely false.
Helps for you to cite claims with some source material.
You say “raging” here and mention “hundreds of videos” so it seems like you would easily have hundreds of slam dunk examples to share at your fingertips? And please point out exactly what you take issue with and done just push plain links to hours long videos and just say “see”.
I’ve been watching him for years and have not known him to be any of what you’re saying - Maybe you’re confused?
Adam Something does a good job of savaging Musk’s bullshit as well, along with lots of other “tech bro” bullshit in the same vein (and no misogyny that I’m aware of). He does talk a bit too fast, however, so I always slow his videos down a bit and they come out alright.
I think he’s great as well. I think he was recommended to me because I subscribe to Thunderf00t. I’ve never seen any direct or indirect misogyny in Thunderf00t stuff. None of the people above are citing anything, so I’m still not sure what they are getting at.
But I like Adam something and Thunderf00t content because they both make supported claims exposing fraud, they don’t just confidently say, “this person is X” and move on without support.