What exactly has Elon Musk done to affect you personally to the point where you feel this way?
Let's see. I can count two things Elon has done that have affected me personally to some extent that piss me off:
- Disobeying orders from Alameda County to keep his stupid factory partially closed in 2020 to stop the spread of COVID-19, while at the same time, he hasn't even tried to challenge the Shanghai government's COVID-19 restrictions. The restrictions had a good reason for existing in 2020, when there were no vaccines and the strains going around were far more deadly, but that's when Elon decided to keep his factory open against the orders of the Alameda County Health Department. They have no reason to exist anymore in 2022, but he still hasn't told the Shanghai government to go to hell. If he's going to stand on principle, then stand on principle and tell the Shanghai government to go to hell just like he told the Alameda County government to go to hell. I can at least respect people who stand on principle consistently. But he's not even consistent, just like when he claims to be a free speech absolutist while at the same time tries to get a teenager to stop tweeting the whereabouts of his private jet, which is not illegal. And in any case, his stupid shenanigans helped spread SARS-CoV-2 to more than 1,500 employees and since I live less than 30 miles from the factory, some of those cases probably affected areas I visit regularly.
- Tesla's software SUCKS. I installed a software update in December 2021. It had a bug where the charge port slammed shut with no delay as soon as I removed the charging handle from the port. Tesla took 2
months to fix this problem. When they finally did fix it (February 2022), that update had a bug where the text that displays on the screen when the car starts charging was in font so mall that I had to press my head against the window to see it. I decided at that point that Tesla's software QA process sucked and they weren't going to use me as a beta tester any longer (if I beta test software for people, I expect them to be paying me) and I wouldn't ever install a software update without it being out for at least a month and I would only install it if I hadn't seen any reports of serious problems on the forums for that entire time. I also removed my car's WiFi credentials so that it would stop downloading updates and constantly nagging me to install them. The next update I installed was in September 2022. I thought everything was good with it, as I had waited the full month and hadn't seen any reports of issues, until my wife started complaining that the playlist of songs on her phone did not show up and someone else started complaining about the same thing about a week after I installed it. It's not an issue with the phone's OS (the other person uses iOS and we use Android), it's another bug that got through Tesla's crappy QA process. As of right now, this bug has still not been fixed, even in the most recent version my car wants to install (I've checked and people are reporting that it's still an issue, along with who knows what else). Elon is a notorious micromanager and I don't believe any of this would be happening unless he thinks it's somehow acceptable to push software releases out the door with bugs in them and use customers as their testers.
