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So is my understanding correct that only institutional investors are allowed to benefit from making outrageous public claims about the health of companies regardless of the claims basis in reality?

pretty much. check out https://gme.fyi as a decent compilation of resources and informations

Just as one example, given that Elon has blatantly lied about capabilities of Tesla to deliver promises. I think it’s adequately clear to everyone at this point that nobody cares.

Does simplicity in their design really detract from the feat of their accomplishments? There’s a tendency to gravitate towards expensive big budget missions. Is success measured by the biggest budget or the complexity of the problem? The deserving accomplishments here are the length of time and distance traveled while still returning useful scientific data that has never been done before and may not be done again for some time.


> Is success measured by the biggest budget or the complexity of the problem?

Certainly not by the budget, spending money isn't hard -- but by success in the face of complexity, yes, absolutely.


How is success tied to a budget or complexity? Success doesn't care how hard/easy it was. It just means it was able to do the thing it was made for. If the task was to be able to write in space, a pencil would be just as successful as a newly developed pen that writes in 0g.


Until graphite dust shorts the emergency hatch release switch. I do agree though that making a sensor and datalink that lasts half a century outside the magnetosphere and can even get updates over that time is extremely impressive and might not be replicable with today's mindset.


I have the same thought but I also wonder if it’s a western propaganda phenomenon though.


In some places it is.


How silly.


How do you feel about the thousands of hours hydraulic press youtube videos each with millions of views?


They are not created by a trillion dollar company as advertising to sell more product.


So it's ok merely because the creator makes less money by doing it? Because, make no mistake, the hydraulic press channel does it for the money.


I feel like the reactions here are selective outrage. Real objects and sometimes living organisms are created and destroyed in the name of science every minute of every day.

An ad that was likely done in a single take, let’s be real, doesn’t matter at all in the big picture.


Luckily, I haven't bumped into anything like that yet. Watching one of these would probably make me feel physically sick.

I've turned away from favorite bands in the past whenever I'd find out they habitually destroyed musical instruments on stage.


I’m in it for a free t-shirt.



Game over folks.


I was wondering the same thing, multiple well-known medium-sized banks fold. Am I wrong to say that it reminds me of 2008? Is there a bubble that’s about to burst?


The massive irony here is that the internet itself has become a much more dangerous place for kids than itself or going outside ever was. Particularly when it comes to mental health, parents don’t let their kids go out but the same parents put no parental controls or at the very least, screen time limits on their devices.


I'm happy to report that the internet is still safer than what "going outside" meant for me as a kid. Mostly we were blowing things up or seeing which roofs we could get on.

All that freedom was good for my head though, so I'll give you that one.


I'll argue that blowing things up and seeing which roofs you can get on are a lot healthier than Facebook.


> the internet itself has become a much more dangerous place for kids

There used to be a joke about the Internet:

Where men are men, women are men, and kids are FBI agents.

It seems that this is no longer true, and with the massive influx of kids, that itself has increased risk.

It wouldn't make much sense to be a child predator on the Internet in 1998. There just weren't that many kids.


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