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| james_s:
--- Quote from: tszaboo on December 08, 2022, 11:53:46 am ---Musk got obsessed with electric cars, and that made him successful, because he also had the money for it. He also is obsessed with a lot of other things that are utter failures. And the electric car took like 15 years to become successful, and their only redeeming quality is being "first electric" because they are not very good cars in other ways. --- End quote --- I've driven a few Teslas, and a handful of other electric cars, and a large number of cars in general. To say their only redeeming quality is being the first electric is ridiculous. Yes they have had some problems, but the performance is so far ahead of every other production EV around that it's hard to even compare. A Tesla next to just about any other electric car is like a high performance supercar next to a Toyota Corolla. I was blown away by the acceleration, the Model Y my dad had is the fastest car I've ever driven by a wide margin and it isn't even the fastest version they offer. It drove very nicely too, smooth, quiet, my friend's dad owns it now and it has been problem free. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Siwastaja on December 08, 2022, 01:13:45 pm ---Note that assburger was the trend diagnosis of late 1990's and early 2000's, AFAIK it has been completely removed from official use as a diagnosis everywhere. (Wikipedia says retired as diagnosis in 2013.) It was always quite iffy as a diagnosis, being some kind of "Autism Lite 2000TM". Many people are like me, they tick quite a few boxes out of assburger diagnosis but not enough to get it. It makes little sense to diagnose people like that, when most of the criteria are more like personality traits everyone has, just more focused and stronger in some. --- End quote --- Yep. Anyway. Now Musk has a mental condition that would expain his very nasty behavior. Is this where the thread is heading? Next step should be to claim that he has a cancer, which would explain everything. :-DD |
| Kasper:
Sometimes I wonder if everyone is on the autism spectrum. It is a spectrum. I think there is more difference between people diagnosed on either ends of the spectrum than there is between people with a mild diagnosis and people without. Take the social butterfly that goes to clubs often. I would initially think they are not on the spectrum because they don't seem to mind bright lights or loud noises or eye contact but they obsess (about socializing and drinking), they get upset if the pattern changes (if they can't go out or friends don't want to go out), they partake in repeating words and actions (singing and dancing) and self harm (hangovers). Some of them even get anxious in social situations, hence the attraction to the anxiety depressant: alcohol. |
| Psi:
--- Quote from: Kasper on December 08, 2022, 08:51:56 pm ---Sometimes I wonder if everyone is on the autism spectrum. It is a spectrum. I think there is more difference between people diagnosed on either ends of the spectrum than there is between people with a mild diagnosis and people without. --- End quote --- Yep, its just a made-up word to describe a personality trait that exceeds some arbitrarily level. Everyone has the trait it's just small enough to cause no real problems in life. 'personality trait' is probably the wrong word for it, but i couldn't think of something better |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Psi on December 08, 2022, 10:41:11 pm ---Yep, its just a made-up word to describe a personality trait that exceeds some arbitrarily level. Everyone has the trait it's just small enough to cause no real problems in life. 'personality trait' is probably the wrong word for it, but i couldn't think of something better --- End quote --- I think that is an understatement to say the least. I often literally feel like an alien that was dropped into a planet of strange inhabitants, their apparent thought process not making much sense at all to me in most cases. It was far more acute when I was younger, since then I've learned largely by observation the appropriate way to respond to people in various situations. I occasionally feel like an actor in the role of a "normal" person. |
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