Some kids got trapped in a cave in Thailand. Elon said Tesla would build a small submarine to get them out. A local cave expert who was advising the Thai government on how to handle the rescue operation said the Tesla idea was a pipedream and suggested a more practical solution. He called the Tesla proposal a "PR Stunt." Elon got upset and started bad mouthing the guy on twitter, eventually calling him a pedophile. Elon's rationale seemed to be that because the guy was an older, white male living in Thailand, he must be into pedophilia... The guy sued for defamation and Elon ended up winning because his defense argued Elon didn't really mean it. I'm serious...
There is so much military hardware up there, military hardware disguised as civilian, satellites that were launched successfully but publicly described as a failure/"useless orbit".
The article is essentially asking that all countries need to share the location of their nuclear subs because the Ocean is getting crowded.
>Congressional acts are the most public thing possible
Not when said action occurs a week before the Congressional act is announced. Is this HN thread flooded with bots or something? Have never seen this level of sympathy for politicians.
It's not "infantilizing," it's linguistic mutation, and it's what languages do [0], for all manner of reasons. Text lacks intonation, plain text even more so, and internet dialect tends to evolve ways to add emphasis. In this case "pupper" is inflected to suggest endearment.
Your flaw is the assumption that all, or even most, customers prefer the non-tangible idea of "reducing pollution" to the tangible experience of greater performance.
That's exactly the problem with the public's understanding of pollution [1]. If they can't see people dying in front of their eyes, they won't believe it...
There is a big difference between Elon Musk pre and post-March 2018. For reasons that would take weeks to explain.