Tesla's engineering headquarters in Palo Alto spilled a mixture of chemicals, used as coolant, into the adjacent neighborhoods. The carmaker didn't comment.
Really. Someone spills a few gallons of nonhazardous cleaning fluid on a street, and this becomes a highly-upvoted article with dozens of comments on a global news community?
Tesla broke the law on storing hazardous materials and as a result spilled 550 gallons of mildly dangerous cleaning fluid onto a public street.
It’s not a national news story, you’re right, but it’s also not nothing. Mostly it’s just interesting as one more tidbit of information about how they do things.
And this is fundamentally my point here. This is a trivial little story that at most warrants a paragraph in a local newspaper somewhere. Big companies have little spills of random stuff all the time. But since this particular company is the current hot target for Internet rage, its clickbait potential is vast and people are eager to dive in to it for their Two Minutes Hate.
If people really want a meaningful story about Tesla’s bad environmental practices or safety procedures or whatever to get angry about, do a little legwork to find some actually meaningful incident or perhaps some kind of study to determine larger scale patterns. The focus on this particular news item should be embarassing for Tesla opponents. Is this really all that it takes? Or all that they can find?
People can post whatever they want. Communities can be about whatever they want. It just looks pathetic when they post stuff like this as if it was significant news.
Really. Someone spills a few gallons of nonhazardous cleaning fluid on a street, and this becomes a highly-upvoted article with dozens of comments on a global news community?
Wait, this comment is satire right? Please?
Tesla broke the law on storing hazardous materials and as a result spilled 550 gallons of mildly dangerous cleaning fluid onto a public street.
It’s not a national news story, you’re right, but it’s also not nothing. Mostly it’s just interesting as one more tidbit of information about how they do things.
And this is fundamentally my point here. This is a trivial little story that at most warrants a paragraph in a local newspaper somewhere. Big companies have little spills of random stuff all the time. But since this particular company is the current hot target for Internet rage, its clickbait potential is vast and people are eager to dive in to it for their Two Minutes Hate.
If people really want a meaningful story about Tesla’s bad environmental practices or safety procedures or whatever to get angry about, do a little legwork to find some actually meaningful incident or perhaps some kind of study to determine larger scale patterns. The focus on this particular news item should be embarassing for Tesla opponents. Is this really all that it takes? Or all that they can find?
I’m going to share an article about a Lemmy user who can’t come to terms with the fact that it isn’t up to them what other users post, next.
I’m just talking shit, your argument is valid and you’re allowed to share your thoughts.
People can post whatever they want. Communities can be about whatever they want. It just looks pathetic when they post stuff like this as if it was significant news.