On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 12:25:12PM -0400, Jon Thiele via Talk wrote:
As I've mentioned before on this platform, I'm very happy to pay $160 a month for my rather fast(!) Starlink connection because it allows my wife, my son, my daughter-in-law and myself to work remotely in northern Quebec.
As for Musk, he is truly one of the great entrepreneurs in our lifetime. His companies, Tesla, Boring, X, xAI, SpaceX, Starlink and Neuralink are revolutionary.
Almost nothing wrong with him as far as I'm concerned...
Tesla promises everything and delivers very little of it, and given Elon clearly does not understand the problems he claims to be solving, I doubt they will ever solve it. Boring is simply a very very stupid idea. Probably why you almost never hear about it. 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. Given xAI makes grok, I think it is safe to say they are not doing a good job. What a joke. SpaceX seems to be mostly doing OK. Apparently management there is quote good at distracting Elon and keeping him out of the way of actually doing things. Starlink seems OK, other than the occational questionable policies. Neuralink seems like another stupid idea that will probably never work. As for Elon Musk himself, he seems to be clearly a horrible person. Most of his own kids despise him, people that have worked for him generally don't seem to like him (no wonder given he seems to have little respect for workers in general). The DOGE mess was a huge disaster that as usualy delivered none of what was promised and created waste rather than remove it, which was another one of his ideas. The nazi salute was definitely not a good look either. Only thing I think qualifies as revolutionary is spacex making much cheaper reusable rockets. -- Len Sorensen