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SpaceX cut government space-launch costs by 90%. Starlink delivers better connectivity for less. Taxpayers benefit.
Socialist response: “Defund Musk - nationalize Starlink and SpaceX.”
American response: Private companies stay private. Nationalizing ends innovation.
Musk’s response: "Stealing companies is a serious crime. Prison for Reich."
One week from Election Day. It's time for another scripted and carefully rehearsed lie.
These claims fall apart in a few weeks, but they hope that's long enough to nudge a few votes.
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NASA moved the final operational SR-71 Blackbird from public display at Armstrong Flight Research Center to Edwards Air Force Base.
The history of the SR-71 is full of quiet rumors.
Time for a new one.
ALT SR-71 meme highlighting its altitude capabilities
Happy birthday, X.
Four years ago today, Elon took over Twitter and restored a measure of free speech to the world.
Thank you, Elon!
ALT "Musk begins his Twitter ownership with firings" headline from Reuters
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SpaceX cut government space-launch costs by 90%. Starlink delivers better connectivity for less. Taxpayers benefit.
Socialist response: “Defund Musk - nationalize Starlink and SpaceX.”
American response: Private companies stay private. Nationalizing ends innovation.
Musk’s response: "Stealing companies is a serious crime. Prison for Reich."
I married exceptionally well and we have been happy for 40 years.
Bigamy is one wife too many; skip the jokes about how often monogamy is also one spouse too many.
This is illegal with good reason.
Why take that risk twice at once?
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Walter Koenig, Pavel Chekov on Star Trek (TOS), passed away yesterday at age 90, from "natural causes".
The world will miss him.
ALT young and old Walter Koenig
Even NYTimes highlights two possible challenges to the far-left's claimed election win over Bolsonaro in Brazil:
- a technical audit on whether unequal voting conditions affected the outcome
- an abuse-of-power case through the Superior Electoral Court’s inspector general
It's not over.
Please join me in prayer for a fair decision.
Remember when doing anything without a mask was unsafe until your food came, and then it became safe?
That was equally dumb.
The rotary washing machine received a patent on this date in 1858.
In a 2001 study of households in Soweto, both men and women described washing machines with the phrase “washing machines make lazy women.” The machine was seen as undermining proper domestic roles.
More broadly, societies often adapted to labor-saving appliances by raising cleanliness standards so much that total housework time stayed flat or rose.
ALT Image of very old washing machine
Happy Granddaddd retweeted
Dude is entitled to grow his hair and use whatever pronouns he wants.
Byron Donalds is entitled to ignore cosmetic changes and use biology-based pronouns like the last 10,000 years of civilization.
Both are exercising basic freedom, which is grand!
Question: Does anyone still major in the humanities?
Answer: Barely.
At the University of Texas, Austin, only 300 of 12,000 graduates (2.5%) majored in the humanities last year.
Students are voting with their tuition dollars for useful education instead of low-ROI credentials.
I approve of studying history and literature, just not at the current college price tag, and not when many departments overlay their political bias.
Humanities degrees are down nationwide, not just UT Austin.
Link:
spectator.com/article/anybod…
Far-left Lula claims to have won in Brazil, after a two-hour extension of voting hours by a judge who is a close friend - when Lola was trailing.
Far-left media will treat this claim as legitimate, which could be terrible for Brazil.
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Incoming media spin on Trump’s latest numbers:
“Opposition to Trump doubles - even inside MAGA.”
It's true. Those who don't approve doubled ... from 1% to 2%.
ALT Truth Social post showing Trump approval among MAGA dropping from 99% to 98%
Five years ago today, Tesla stock jumped 12% in one day, making Elon Musk the richest man in world history.
Hertz announced that day that they were leasing 100,000 EVs, mainly Tesla, which is what boosted Elon's wealth.
Since then, the (former) trillionaire's companies have delivered more value than ever, tripling his net worth and delivering even more value to the world.