Yeah, to me it's not bashing or negative to call a spade a spade.

What if you were just reporting on electric cars then dropped most reporting on electric cars from the foremost electric car company unless there was a way to include ceo-bashing for half the article? I get being fair or even a decent amount of hatred for whatever reason, but Fred really changed his tune and became quite spiteful. It was sad to watch, and many people tried to help in online comments, but seems like the negativity mostly won out.

In my view, the negativity was commensurate with the company CEO's increasingly erratic behavior and choices.

There are plenty of CEOs who have had this result on trade publications and/or market analysts. The only difference I see is that Musk can be neither thrown out like the majority nor pressured to listen to PR experts who normally spend as many hours as it takes to convince a schmuck like him with a majority stake that being a silent partner shows strength and confidence.

It was an early booster of Tesla, but I think it rightly went negative when the unkept promises and CEO antics started piling up.

I think it's real, just post-processed to look like Costco from the perspective of someone dreaming about it

> I've found exchanging with others fruitful, even when I don't want to and find it repellant.

Agreed. It's almost like taking bitter medicine for me- I loathe the idea of going to outings and meeting new people, but however tired I am afterwards from masking, some part of me comes away better off for it (assuming I'm not being forced to do it all the time).

Can you point out what was condescending about what he said?

Huh, didn't realize it did that- weird feature to have if it's automatic imo.

Yeah, I mean it's still newsworthy, but not nearly as earth-shattering as the headline without "These" makes it seem.

I feel the same way, and both mobile apps are pretty janky, with Meshtastic being extra obnoxious because the UI teams between Android and Apple apparently don't talk to each other- very hard to onboard/answer questions from someone new if you're on a different platform than them.

It was fun and cheap to set up, but I look forward to something with better messaging persistence so you can at least reliably not miss stuff.

That video is imho his best work, the ending made all the more powerful by how reserved he normally is.

I really liked the land usage discussion. That (for the US) if you took the land currently being used to grow crops for ethanol based motor fuels. Turned them into solar farms you'd cover 80% of current grid demand.

I was already pro renewables for a myriad of reasons. But that put the scale into a much better perspective.

That, however, would be vastly more expensive. Maybe worth it from an overall ecological PoV, but I doubt power companies have an appetite for the CAPEX involved.

I thought Adobe was boned 15 years ago (2011) when they debuted Creative Cloud and it was universally despised while their stranglehold on PDF manipulation was already well on its way out, yet here they are still alive and kicking. I chalk it up to the inertia of big dumb orgs that would rather keep paying for a piece of crap they're familiar with than risk trying something new.

A few years ago we had issues deleting some PDF files because they were in use, well, it turns out Creative Cloud agent decided to upload confidential PDF files to cloud for no particular reason, a service you cannot even turn off.