It’s theft at a scale so large that investigators are now calling it a mass transfer of wealth from middle-class Americans to criminal gangs. Last year, the FBI estimates, pig butchering scams stole nearly $4 billion from tens of thousands of American victims, a 53% increase from the year before.
Instead of moving up or gaining some future reward they eagerly awaited, victims are instead ruined and even committing suicide.
Their stories are a reflection on Trump constantly manipulating people, and Elon Musk too. Without fraud there would be no Tesla, as many grieving families found out too late to help prevent loas of their loved ones.
The rapid rise of scammers, domestic and foreign, who target the American middle class is symptomatic of a country that lacks necessary defenses against national security levels of fraud.
…we’ve only begun to understand the implications of having thousands of retired and malfunctioning satellites burn up in the atmosphere. […]
In total, if constellations from the likes of SpaceX continue to [fail and fall apart] as planned, the levels of aluminum oxides in the atmosphere could increase by a staggering 646 percent over natural levels every year.
And that doesn’t bode well, considering we’ve only begun to study the phenomenon.
The sad thing about the boy who cried wolf fable is that fox did come and it did eat the sheep.
Dan Cziczo is an atmospheric scientist at Purdue University in the US, and a co-author of the recent study that found ozone depleting substances in the stratosphere. He explains to me that the question is whether the new particles from spacecraft will help the formation of these clouds and lead to ozone loss…
I’m reminded of 2016 when we started studying Tesla and very loudly called it a Titanic level disaster, likely to kill far more people than any other car on the road. Early prediction? It can be done. We have been proven right many times over.
SpaceX satellites, like Tesla cars, intentionally were rushed into public spaces and designed with low standards — lack of concern for impact to environment coupled with careless acceleration.
“Meteors only contain trace amounts of highly conductive metals” Solter-Hunt said. “Satellites, on the other hand, are basically entirely made of superconductive metals.” […]
…Starlink satellites alone will be re-entering at a rate of 23 a day…. “This is approximately 29 tons of satellite re-entry material every day, just for the Starlink megaconstellation,” Solter-Hunt said.
So we’re shifting from trace amounts quickly towards 30 tons of toxicity dumped every day by garbage engineering with little or no understanding of what will happen?
…in the case of SpaceX Starlink 30167, the orbiting broadband router failed to reach its intended orbit and Wednesday night it generated some serious fireworks…
Here’s a hint: Imagine a Tesla car slamming into pedestrians and then a pole, killing people with “some serious fireworks” that require a year’s worth of water poured out to stop toxic chemical plumes from spreading. The constant deadly reality on our streets from garbage engineering and immoral management is set to become the SpaceX story above our heads.
Failure rates have been ramped already into hundreds of their toxic craft falling off course and exploding like a death-trap Tesla, which shifts the discussion to dangerous harms for earth with zero accountability.
SpaceX is becoming little more than the tragic Tesla fraud of the skies.
Related: What are the satellites doing? South Sudan’s genocide allegedly runs on SpaceX.
Just more of the usual news about the “extreme survivability” design of the Cybertruck failing to handle basic weather.
One owner in Florida said a downpour occurred shortly after picking up his truck last week. Of course, the wiper didn’t work, so he resorted to waiting at a local Dunkin’ Donuts until the rain passed—for three-and-a-half hours. That’s a lot of Munchkins and mocha. Roadside assistance transferred him to the service center, which gave him a multi-week timeframe. In the meantime, Rain-X and driving with his head out of the window has been his recourse.
Sitting duck for over three hours. Or the window has to be rolled down on an “extreme survivability” truck with the owner’s head sticking out?
This window?
Armored window failures were foreshadowing.
As a result of this rapidly growing rain design failure, according to a slew of customers loudly complaining with online forums, all Cybertruck orders were abruptly shutdown last Friday with indefinite delays or no explanations at all.
Tesla’s auto wipers are known to start when they shouldn’t and don’t start when they should. The Cybertruck’s wipers were doing that, but they were also starting and stopping at the bottom rather than at the top position and just staying there.
Because of drops of water, no “survivability” trucks are being delivered.
The Cybertruck design flaw is so awful, so intentionally broken, that the manual apparently tells new owners to expect not to be able to see the road for 30 seconds while driving.
Quick math on back of napkin… a mile every minute means going 88 feet/second; driving 60 mph in rain for 30 seconds is 2,640ft — half-a-mile blind.
Is it a joke? Tesla clearly says that they have delivered owners no visibility for 30 seconds “while driving in the rain”, by design.
For some reason in 2014 Elon Musk decided to promise the world that Tesla would deliver robotic charging cables, which were called a “snake“.
They never happened, despite a shameless Tesla PR stunt posting a video in 2015 claiming they were real.
In 2016 some people tried very hard not to forget a “snake” was ever promised to them.
So then… nothing. No “snake” but in 2020 Elon Musk promised them again, more emphatically lying by saying their “snake” concept was real and even would enable cars with no humans to drive across America.
Yes.
Of course there’s no “snake” at all and Tesla was incredibly stupid to not use a socket design for charging stations.
Here we are a decade later.
Snake? No.
The significance of this robot can’t be understated. It is the kind of robot that is manifestly simpler than an entire car being driverless. Tesla couldn’t figure out the “snake” so it really sets the context for all these other CEO promises of something far more complicated during the same exact period.
2015 December 22: “I think we will have complete autonomy in approximately two years.“
2016 January 11: “In ~2 years, summon should work anywhere, connected by land & not blocked by borders.“
2016 June 02: “I really consider autonomous driving a solved problem. I think we are less than two years away from complete autonomy.“
2016 October 20: “By the end of next year, said Musk, Tesla would demonstrate a fully autonomous drive from, say, a home in L.A., to Times Square… without the need for a single touch, including the charging.“
2017 April 30: “I think that [time to deliver technology to allow Tesla drivers to fall asleep] is about two years.“
2018 November 15: “Probably technically be able to [have Tesla cars drive themselves to new customers for delivery] in about a year.“
2019 February 20: “We will be feature complete full self driving this year. The car will be able to find you in a parking lot, pick you up, take you all the way to your destination without an intervention this year. I’m certain of that.“
2020 July 09: “I remain confident that we will have the basic functionality for level five autonomy complete this year. There are no fundamental challenges remaining.“
2020 December 05: “I’m extremely confident that Tesla will have level five next year, extremely confident, 100%.“
None of that was true. None of it. Complete autonomy? Level five? Tesla can’t even get their “snake” to work.
Do you see why failing to deliver a basic robot to automate charging, while claiming to be on the road to do so much more in automation, really stands out as testament to why Tesla can’t deliver?
During the Q1 Earnings Call in 2020, Musk described his idea for the Robotaxi’s imminent rollout in 2021.