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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Falcon 9 is one of the most reliable rockets of all time. Yeah, their prototypes blow up way too often, but those never had cargo aboard because they’re in testing anyway.

[–] the_q@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

A Musk property can do nothing good while doing so much bad, my dude.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Musk is truly the worst of humanity, but just because he is vile scum doesn’t imply that everything he’s ever touched is bad.

Humans infuriatingly tend to assume that because a person is distasteful that everything associated with them must be stupid, broken, or unethical. This is not true, and is a logical fallacy called the “genetic fallacy” — judging something as good or bad based on its source rather than its actual merit.

Falcon 9 is excellent and gives NASA launch capabilities it doesn’t have, for a fraction of the price it was paying before for launch services.

But like, let’s take the Cybertruck as an opposite example. I wouldn’t care if Bernie Sanders himself invented it, it’s a piece shit vehicle.

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