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Starship is the first rocket that has the potential to make us a multiplanet civilization. That's truly profound. - Elon Musk

FortWayneHatesRealtors says

He's hitting up Saudis for some of it, selling out some part of America.

Qatar gifts a 400 million dollar plane to President Trump and a few weeks later we bomb Iranian nuclear facilities. Pay to play...that's my conspiracy theory.

Muhammad bin Salman promises a yuge investment...what does he get in return 1. President Trump declares him innocent for murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in press conference in White House. 2. Security guarantee for Saudi Arabia for decades...and 3. it appears that President Trump has forgotten 0/11 was done by Saudi Arabians.

Like Russel Buffalino says in the movie, The Irish Man, "its always the dollar"!

Poor guys are being sent into a meat grinder just for money. That's what's actually going on.

“First of all, I think we should have empathy for the people dying at the front lines. That's the most important thing. How many more years is this supposed to go on? And imagine if that was your son, your father. What exactly are they dying for? The line of engagement has barely moved for two years.

There's a whole bunch of people dead in trenches for what? And I'll tell you for what. It's like, for the biggest graft machine that I've ever seen in my life, that's for what. It's unreal. The amount of money that is being taken in graft and bribery is disgusting. And so, what's actually happening is that those poor guys are getting sent into a meat grinder for money. That's what's actually going on. Yeah. And it needs to stop.”

- Elon Musk, February 20, 2025

We should look at anyone who permanently castrates a kid as a modern-day Josef Mengele. They're mutilating children. - Elon Musk

gabbar says

We should look at anyone who permanently castrates a kid as a modern-day Josef Mengele. They're mutilating children. - Elon Musk

He as a parent allowed that to happen to one of his kids. And it's not like he was short on money or power to fight it.

"Once the Democratic Party in the US and the left in Europe realized that if you have open borders and you provide a ton of government handouts, which creates a massive financial incentive for people from other countries to come to your country, and you don't prosecute them for crime, they're going to be beholden to you and they will vote for you. And that's why Obama and Hillary went from being against open borders to being in favor of open borders.” - Elon Musk, The Joe Rogan Experience, October 31, 2025

I think it is actually human nature to love humanity unless you are indoctrinated otherwise. The actual default for most people is to love humanity and to love being around their fellow humans. For example, one of the worst punishments in prison is solitary confinement. All solitary confinement means is that you don't get to hang out with the other prisoners, which might not be the best group of people to hang out with, but even that is considered a terrible punishment to not be able to hang out with other prisoners. So in truth, I think in our nature, we all love humanity unless we are indoctrinated otherwise.”

- Elon Musk, European Jewish Association, January 22, 2024

RWSGFY says

gabbar says

We should look at anyone who permanently castrates a kid as a modern-day Josef Mengele. They're mutilating children. - Elon Musk

He as a parent allowed that to happen to one of his kids. And it's not like he was short on money or power to fight it.

Back then the ENTIRE medical and elite establishment were saying this was the correct treatment by saying would you rather have a dead son or a living trans daughter.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1997279325876367719

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/running-for-dexit-saturday-december

But after a liberal woman judge bent the rules to punish Musk —there’s no other way to put it— Delaware has faced a steady erosion of its status as corporate America’s default home. Unsurprisingly, Tesla and SpaceX rage-quit Delaware as fast as the paperwork could be shoved through the little window to panicked Delawarean state clerks who kept pretending the office was closed for renovations.

Oh, and Musk complained. Loudly. In public. On the world’s most popular social media platform. For years. It took a toll. Headline from Reuters, this May:

In Tesla's wake, more big companies propose voting "Dexit" to depart Delaware
By Tom Hals May 14, 2025

According to that Reuters article, by this May, thirteen major U.S. billion-dollar corporations had either already voted to depart Delaware or had votes scheduled to approve such a move. The media took to calling it “Dexit,” which financial reporters thought was a very clever name but which never caught on with normal people, for some reason.

The controversy also encouraged a slew of other states, smelling blood in the corporate water, to begin legislating like crazy, seeking to seduce the country’s biggest companies into reincorporating in their jurisdictions. This caused Delaware politicians, who had always enjoyed a close camaraderie and good working relationship with the state’s corporate citizens in the form of generous campaign donations, to panic and start proposing reams of new laws to shred the wings off the state judiciary, which seemed to have lost its damned mind.

Enter the Delaware Supreme Court. Yesterday, in an unsurpassed display of judicial independence, and demonstrating the profound courage of its convictions, hastily ran up the white flag. In its unanimous decision yesterday, the five-member state Supreme Court wrote that “although the justices have varying views on the liability determination, we agree that rescission was an improper remedy.”

The short version is they didn’t exactly admit they were wrong. Instead, they fined Musk $1 (one dollar) and restored his full “unfair” pay package. Ironically, back in 2018, the bonus stock would have been worth $59 billion. Now, seven years later, it is valued at $139 billion. So.

Musk’s origin story is so delicious it is worth retelling. On May 9, 2020 —a day that will live in Democrat infamy— at the height of Alameda County’s covid‑shutdown fight over Tesla’s Fremont factory, California state Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D‑San Diego), intoxicated by pandemic powers, drunk-tweeted “F*ck Elon Musk,” and the rest, as they say, was history.

Musk, intensely frustrated that his car plant was deemed “non-essential” by county officials, saw the tweet immediately. Musk shot back, “Message received.” It underscored that a Democratic state official was openly hostile to one of the state’s most prominent employers, and signaled that the billionaire took the insult personally, as confirmation of California’s broader opposition to him— not for his political ideology, but over pandemic policy.

At that time, mind you, Musk publicly described himself as a Democrat voter and donor. After all, he specialized in “green technology” that directly benefited from Democrat electric car subsidies. Musk donated to politicians and causes in both parties, but had a long record of backing Democrats, and described himself as a supporter of Obama, Clinton, and then Biden in 2020.

But thanks to Lorena “Dumb as Rocks” Gonzalez, as quickly as possible for humans or robots, Musk moved his companies from California to Texas. By 2022, he’d switched his party registration and was urging voters to back Republicans. He was funding GOP candidates and pro‑Trump PACs heavily, and positioning himself as a key cultural and regulatory antagonist of the same Democrat Party he once supported.

You can’t beat the irony with two belts. Had there been a single sane Democrat anywhere in California in May 2020, Elon Musk might never have swallowed the red pill. History is funny like that. Be sure to send Lorena Gonzalez a Christmas card this year.

https://x.com/patrickdotnet/status/1931527642387530117

Suggestion for X:

- debates between two famous people
- explicit statement of question to debate
- each tweet limited to 200 words
- strictly alternating turns
- public comment allowed at all times

“I'm a big believer in empathy. I think we should have empathy. We should have empathy for our fellow human beings. But what I see on the left is a lot of shallow empathy, sort of empathy that's skin deep, essentially, very thin empathy. They have empathy for what they term homeless people when they're actually violent drug zombies, but they lack empathy for the victims of the violent drug zombies. And so we should have deep empathy for everyone, not shallow empathy. Have empathy for the victims of the criminals, not just the criminals.” - Town Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 18, 2024

There is no place to hide except in America - Elon Musk
https://x.com/ElonClipsX/status/2006940567247245441

“Homeless is the wrong word. Like, homeless implies that somebody got a little behind on their mortgage payments and if they just got a job offer, they'd be back on their feet. But someone who is totally dead inside shuffling along down the street with a needle dangling out of their leg, you know, taking a dump in the middle of the street, they're not, like, one job offer away from getting back on their feet. You know, these sort of charities, they get this money. The money is proportionate to the number of homeless people. Their incentive structure is to maximize the number of drug zombies, not minimize it. That's why they don't arrest the drug dealers 'cause if they arrest the drug dealers, the drug zombies leave and they would stop getting money from the state of California and from- from all the charities. This is a diabolical scam. You're taxed on any money going through the system in San Francisco and that money goes to the homeless industrial complex. When you add up all the money that's flowing, they're getting close to a million dollars per drug zombie. It's like $900,000 or something, like some crazy amount of money is going to these organizations. So they wanna keep people just barely alive. They need to keep them in the area so they get the revenue. They don't arrest the drug dealers because otherwise the drug zombies would leave. If they get too much drugs then they die, so they're kept in this perpetual zone of being addicted, but just barely alive.” - Elon Musk on Joe Rogan podcast

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-trump-republicans-donations-finance-gop-b2893321.html

Elon Musk indicates he’s ‘going all in’ on financing the GOP ahead of the midterms: ‘America is toast if the radical left wins’

https://nypost.com/2026/01/01/us-news/musk-signals-hell-back-republicans-in-2026-months-after-feud-with-trump-and-pledging-to-start-new-political-party/

Billionaire Elon Musk signaled Thursday that he’ll fund Republican candidates ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, arguing the country is doomed if Democrats take control of Congress.

“America is toast if the radical left wins,” Musk wrote on X. “They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud.

“Won’t be America anymore.”

I knew it! It was all a show.

If Elon didn't buy Twitter, Tim Walz would be VP of the United States. Instead, his career was ended from a video on 𝕏.

Elon may be the only billionaire who actually deserves every penny of it.

https://x.com/ClassicLearner/status/2008315421707866429

“Something that people should be concerned about is that there's an increasing movement to place activists as judges. If you look at who the Biden administration confirmed as federal judges and who have been confirmed at the state level in far-left states, increasingly, they don't care about following the law; they care about social justice, not justice justice, what they call social justice. Activists as judges. Now you've got a real problem. If that continues, we will not have a real justice system.” - Elon Musk, Interview with Tucker Carlson, October 7, 2024

Patrick says

https://nypost.com/2026/01/01/us-news/musk-signals-hell-back-republicans-in-2026-months-after-feud-with-trump-and-pledging-to-start-new-political-party/

Billionaire Elon Musk signaled Thursday that he’ll fund Republican candidates ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, arguing the country is doomed if Democrats take control of Congress.

“America is toast if the radical left wins,” Musk wrote on X. “They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud.

“Won’t be America anymore.”

He is aiming for favor trading. Third party is nuclear option, because if it controls swing states it’s the only one that matters.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/awkwardness-saturday-january-31-2026

This morning’s entry comes courtesy of PC Magazine, which yesterday reported, “SpaceX Eyes 1 Million Satellites For Orbital Data Center Push.” That’s not a typo: the space giant seeks official permission to launch one million satellites. ...

SpaceX currently has more satellites than any other company or government, totaling around 9,600. It would even be remarkable if they doubled it.

But a million of them? For what?

The filing explained that the proposed massive satellite array is intended to support artificial intelligence. Here is the formal description from the application:

SpaceX is designing its satellite system to accommodate the explosive growth of data demands driven by AI, machine learning, and edge computing, where processing needs are already beginning to outpace terrestrial capabilities. To deliver the compute capacity required for large-scale AI inference and data center applications serving billions of users globally, SpaceX aims to deploy a system of up to one million satellites to operate within narrow orbital shells spanning up to 50 km each (leaving sufficient room to deconflict against other systems with comparable ambitions). This system will operate between 500 km and 2,000 km altitude and 30 degrees and sun-synchronous orbit inclinations. SpaceX plans to design and operate different versions of satellite hardware to optimize operations across orbital shells.

This is strange. They are going to be compute devices in the sky?

I can see that there is a lot of solar power up there, but CPUs still rapidly get obsolete, so it seems kinda crazy to spend so much to launch them.

Jeff Childers points out that China has an undersea data center:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suwannagauntlett/2025/10/20/china-has-an-underwater-data-center-the-us-will-build-them-in-space/

China’s Highlander has launched an underwater data center in Hainan, the first project like it to be deployed at commercial scale. The energy demands of Ai data centers come largely from the cooling requirements of the servers, and China has answered this question by placing their Ai data centers underwater. This is something that’s been successfully experimented with by Microsoft among others but hasn’t been deployed commercially before now. The benefits of submerged data centers include a reduction of 90% in cooling costs as the ocean’s currents do what fresh water would otherwise; this translates into 40% more compute than a comparable land-based system. When coupled with renewable energy the costs drop further as this project is largely powered by an adjacent offshore windfarm; the company says that it’s 95% powered with renewable energy.

Ah, SpaceX is counting on space to dissipate the heat.

Patrick says

Ah, SpaceX is counting on space to dissipate the heat.

I've wondered why nobody (apparently) has considered Alaska. Electrons travel easily.

SpaceX is putting out missiles on the moon and into space, it’s not for peaceful purposes.

FortWayneHatesRealtors says

SpaceX is putting out missiles on the moon and into space, it’s not for peaceful purposes.

The idea of military use of the Moon has been considered 50-60 years ago and was laughed out of the room.

Dissipatiing heat in space (radiation) is much less efficient than convective cooling (using a fluid to carry heat away). Why do you think the ISS has those gargantuan heat radiators? If they could take advantage of convection, they would only need a 30 ton HVAC.