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Elon Musk started his companies in America.

If you want to judge Americans by global standards, then basically every single one of them is “born into wealth” because most of the people in the world live below the American poverty line.

After reading the book Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors by Edward Niedermeyer I came away with the feeling he really wasn’t a pretty good self-made businessman.

Going from a $30,000 seed investment to $400 billion dollars would tend to suggest otherwise.

Call him a terrible person, sure. You can’t buy a good personality. But as a businessman the numbers seem pretty clear.

The references there talk about them having tens of thousands of dollars to spend on things. That matches with what I linked above.

Prove it

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I don’t feel the need to prove musk was born into wealth.

I hardly need to point out the double standard here.

Certainly he was above average. But that’s not “born into wealth.” $28,000 is the price of a modest new car. There are huge numbers of people who are able to get seed money like that from friends and relatives to start a business, but clearly Elon did something more than those people to grow that to the $400 billion his current net wealth stands at.

The problem is that Musk has become such an intensely politically and culturally polarizing figure that saying even the remotely “positive” thing about him - such as “he’s actually a pretty good self-made businessman” - gets interpreted as “boy howdy do I ever love Trump and misogyny!”

This article on the company describes his funding sources, with citations for each claim.

Can you prove the contrary, that he was “born into wealth?”

The seed money he got from his father for his first business - split between him and his brother Kimbal, whom his father liked much better than him - was $28,000. After Elon and Kimbal had already raised some funds from other investors, too. Everyone seems to think Musk was born in a vast emerald-encrusted mansion. His family were by no means poor but he’s not “old money.”

Hate Elon Musk for real reasons, not made up ones.

Except it’s not denying service, so it’s just a D.

• Outrage fatigue is a thing. There was plenty of attention on the Uyghur genocide previously, but we can’t all be angry about everything all the time.
• It’s not something that Western nations are actively supporting, so protests and activism in the west would be less effective anyway. Nothing that protests in the West did has helped Tibet, what can be done differently about this?
• It’s China, the biggest oppressive regime on Earth with a billion citizens under its thumb. The Uyghurs just sort of fade into a general haze of “sucks over there.”

Reality desperately needs a better PR department.

Indeed. And that also applies to getting left-wing politicians to recognize reality, not just the electorate.

This is wildly diverging from “I want the specs for a file format.”

The “google-fu” in this case was to search for “.glb format specification” when seeking the .glb format specification.

This really doesn’t seem like a huge challenge requiring sophisticated skills.

I looked at the sites. Did you? The thing that OP was looking for that they claimed had been made unfindable or “polluted” were perfectly accessible and fine.

It’s only “polluted” if you’re looking for something specific and you refuse to ask for something specific.

If you go into a restaurant and ask them for “a drink” without specifying what drink you want, don’t complain about the quality of the coffee when they bring you a coke.

If you wanted the specification why not search for “.glb format specification”? I did that on Google and the specification was the first hit.

There was someone just inside the glass doors the truck was parked in front of, you can see them just moments from coming outside through them in the security cam footage.

If I wasn’t just so very, very tired, I would find amusement in how this story is going back and forth. “Haha, cybertruck exploded! Stupid Elon!” “Oh, it had a bomb, it was a deliberate explosion. And the cybertruck’s structure stopped anyone outside it from getting hurt…” silence “Ah! It auto-locked, something about cybertruck we can criticize! Stupid Elon!”

And people complain about the “tribalism” in politics these days.

Unless the producer knew

So there’s a possible source of liability. Court cases are used to determine whether that’s an actual liability. So a case went to court.

The attacks on Baldwin were specifically because he’s liberal and pro gun regulation.

Quite likely, but not what I’m addressing. My point is simply that there was also a non-silly reason for why these charges were laid. If there weren’t then this wouldn’t have gone on as long as it did.

Don’t know. I’m just saying it wasn’t as silly as it commonly seems.

As I recall, Baldwin wasn’t charged simply because he pulled the trigger. He was also a producer and so was involved in hiring the armorer in the first place.

I don’t have an opinion on how the case should have turned out, it’s just not so silly to bring the charges as is commonly assumed.

Probably no longer possible now that we have generative AI, a coder can now be archived alongside the codebase itself.