On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 2:06 PM Lennart Sorensen via Talk < talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Tesla promises everything and delivers very little of it
The gap between promise and reality is quite large, but Tesla is hardly the only tech company guilty of that, indeed that quality seems rampant in the field. Boring is simply a very very stupid idea. Probably why you almost never hear
about it.
I had a good laugh seeing the joke Boring brought to Vegas <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvK2i9Jxy5c>. Not surprising, since Vegas already hosts a monorail. X is twitter decimated after having a well known brand destroyed using
a stupid brand and then policies changed to make the worst parts of
twitter worse and the good parts mostly gone.
It depends. If you want to use Xitter to conduct debate or express opinion, welcome to the cesspool and best of luck to ya. But it also has replaced the press release, a function not to be undervalued; if you use Xitter mainly to make or consume various kinds of announcements, it still serves that role extremely well. That "good part" remains intact and vital. Given xAI makes grok, I think it is safe to say they are not doing a good
job.
SpaceX seems to be mostly doing OK. Starlink seems OK, other than the occational questionable policies. Neuralink seems like another stupid idea that will probably never work.
So... we have some hits, some misses. Not out of character for entrepreneurship.
As for Elon Musk himself, he seems to be clearly a horrible person.
Sorry, but I have better things to do with my time than evaluate my purchases based on the morals of corporate leaders. If you like the results, or don't like others, vote with your wallet on whether they survive or not. I have affected purchase decisions based on the ethics a *company* has displayed (ie Bell), but care less about the bios of the stuffed shirts who execute the bad deeds. Most of his own kids despise him [...] I have little patience for the soap opera section of business news. I prefer to judge on the results. Frankly I think that all of the American tech oligarchs are big children who had some good ideas and are good pitchmen but haven't well handled the wealth and fame that followed. Following their histories and lifestyles teaches little about success or leadership ... so I don't. - Evan