kerrigan778
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- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 1 week ago:
The business strategy wasn’t remotely proven though, it was still just an idea, no part of the car was designed yet. It was two people who had no idea how to design a car doing the groundwork to start a company working with Lotus and AC Propulsion and then a few months later it was three with Ian Wright lending some business work with the relationship between Lotus and AC Propulsion, then a few months later it was four with Elon who lent money and knew about as much about designing a car as the previous three, then a few months later it was five and they finally had a CTO at least.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 1 week ago:
This meme hurts me physically every time it gets reposted. It is not a complete picture of anything, it’s just easy to make people thoughtlessly accept stories if they shit on Elon, who to be clear deserves it. Those two guys were the main guys who made Tesla and decided to bring the work of AC Propulsions to market. They are first and foremost tech millionaires (now quite likely billionaires) and do not deserve idolization either. The engineers of AC Propulsion ie Wally Rippel who also helped design the EV1 are the ones who actually made the technology happen.
The Tesla guys had the idea to put the tzero concept and tech into production shoved into a Lotus Elise and to market it to silicon valley investors as essentially a tech company. Elon was the main investor who went for it, the rest is pretty well documented history of Elon being a huge asshole who accomplished very little if anything off his own merit while pushing out everyone around him.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 1 week ago:
Engineering a practical prototype for an electric sports car in the year 2003 makes you pretty cool, if nothing else.
Yeah that was AC Propulsion though, and in 1996, and a completely different group of people.
The Tesla guys had the idea of shoving it into a Lotus Elise and marketing it as a tech company.
- Comment on Do not trust it. Do not follow it. 2 weeks ago:
He’s Jewish I’m pretty sure, a lot of ours hair just does that when it gets a little longer and the conditions are right.
- Comment on It is truly magic 2 weeks ago:
Have… Have you never seen a roundabout?
- Comment on This is me when I've got time 1 month ago:
(don’t worry I upvoted after screenshotting)
- Comment on This is me when I've got time 1 month ago:
- Comment on I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free 1 month ago:
Well that’s just the piracy magpie collector instincts lol. I dunno, I’ve never paid for that kind of porn, just AVNs
- Comment on I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free 1 month ago:
I mean, you know how there are a million free indie games and lots of slightly shady websites where you can download free copies of paid games? But lots of people still buy games because it’s a better experience or they like to feel like they’re supporting people who are making the kinds of games that they like? It’s a lot like that, but with stigma.
- Comment on Lol 2 months ago:
Haha, okay
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 2 months ago:
I mean, a lot of meh too but I thought Bridges Not Walls was a great EP
- Comment on What game fits this? 2 months ago:
I’ve spent 200 hours on just this building and I’m almost done making the working parts of my item storage facility lol
- Comment on Where are the good political songs? 2 months ago:
Billy Bragg is still making bangers
- Comment on How can I clean my mouse wheel without taking apart my mouse? 3 months ago:
I’ve only ever used it on musical instruments electronics, not anything as tiny and complicated as computer peripherals but Deoxit might be worth trying. It’s good stuff
- Comment on If only it was like that 4 months ago:
Honestly people who insist on using Celsius for their daily lives rather than just for science have way more comfort than me having to deal with fractions of a degree on a regular basis. But I guess that’s the point of metric, dealing with precise decimels constantly rather than just having a unit conveniently sized for the thing you’re doing.
- Comment on 4202 g 4 months ago:
What the heck are you talking about? I work in the meat industry, non-medical antibiotics is extensively used in poultry in the US and many other countries to cause them to grow larger. It was discovered in the 50s that continuous antibiotic use in poultry caused them to grow substantially faster. This is also done in many other livestock animals.
- Comment on 4202 g 4 months ago:
Sorry what about in humans ?
- Comment on 4202 g 4 months ago:
It’s not hormones, non-medical antibiotic use is absolutely a contributing factor though.
- Comment on Humans Against Shitting 4 months ago:
I work in the food industry. Only time I’m on Lemmy at work is breaks/bathroom
- Comment on Humans Against Shitting 4 months ago:
But when will I use Lemmy then?
- Comment on gatekeeping 4 months ago:
There is nothing “past” infinity, infinity is more a concept than a number, there are however many different kinds of infinity. And for the record, infinity + 1 = infinity, those are completely equal. Infinity + infinity = infinity x 2 = still the same kind of infinity. Infinity times infinity is debatably a different kind of infinity but there are fairly simple ways of showing it can be counted the same.
- Comment on This toilet paper at my work 4 months ago:
Or install it yourself, it’s shockingly easy
- Comment on You may want to sit down 4 months ago:
Did you feel a lot of parental consent vibe from the OP?
- Comment on You may want to sit down 4 months ago:
A clue is that it’s covered in tattoos, yes