@BrianJopek
To be fair, he could mean melt it down so you are not buying entirely new steel. I Hope he doesn't mean pick it out of the water and just bolt it back up.
@glitzersachen@BrianJopek no, absolutely not. But he ought to know better ~ his new staarships are made out of stainless and scraps are recyclable (not reusable)
@BrianJopek It was pretty wild when Telsa and SpaceX employees went public about his drug abuse problem and how it's absolutely a problem at work that impacts his ability to even function and the world was like, "ya think?"
I mean, people either ignored it because they refuse to believe it or, like me, kinda shrugged because its been obvious for years and yet the US government keeps pumping money into this jackass's terrible companies.
@BrianJopek frankly, I think its high time the US seized Tesla (the US seizes stuff, whole industries, with some regularity, historically) and sold it off for parts and then seized SpaceX and rolled it into NASA.
The entire reason the US funds SpaceX is so this donkey's ass can keep blowing up rockets and setting money on fire like it was doused in rocket fuel and tax payers shrug. If NASA did it they'd be done. So they get him to do it.
@philip_cardella I am curious to see some support for the claim that "the US seizes stuff, whole industries, with some regularity, historically." I am not aware of such a pattern in US history.
Perhaps you are confusing seizure with antitrust enforcement or bankruptcy, which are extremely different and not applicable to Tesla (or at least not yet, regarding bankruptcy).
Amtrak? But Thom Hartmann talks about it a bit. It's actually pretty common history, even if we Americans like to call it anything other than what it is.
@philip_cardella Both of the articles you linked specifically cited nationalizing industries in times of crisis when it was necessary to alleviate the crisis. Specifically, we've done this in times of war with critical industries.
We are not currently at war and there is no war-like crisis that would justify nationalizing Tesla.
There is to my knowledge no precedent for what you proposed.
The climate crisis. I mean, obviously it can't be left to this "genius" to be solved. We need the opportunity not to be frittered away on the pipe,dream of self-driving.
@BrianJopek There are idiots who idolize Musk who has a BA (not a BS) in physics and would have failed a basic undergrad course in civil engineering.
Why not hammer bent nails straight and reuse them in SpaceX?
Are SpaceX and Tesla built with re-used salt-corroded steel and other rusty recovered parts? Sure explains the Tesla truck, right?
@glitzersachen@pattykimura@BrianJopek
It was probably a 1970 edition, not sure of the author. I gave mine away in the 80's. I kept a "Parker's Simplified Engineering".
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