50% might prove optimistic. The rules that were bent for SpaceX exist for reasons. The August dump will be 4X the shares already in the wild. You are right, employees would be crazy not to sell at current rates. SpaceX employees are probably smart and/or educated enough to read the white papers on all these science fantasy projects and know they are pure fantasy. Cool stuff to fire up investment bros, but not the kind of thing they want to be tasked with trying to make reality. Point being, the floor for what an employee would not sale is going to be really low. True believers might hold, but anyone who smells the BS or just likes money will gleefully sell at 50% of current.

Meanwhile, China is making great strides in VTVL and much cheaper, open source LLMs. The EU is eager to find home grown or at the least not-American tech solutions. Every headline makes SpaceX look less and less likely to make ANY profits, let alone completely dominate supposedly multi-trillion dollar markets.

We ain’t seen nothing yet. In 2-3 weeks the Q2 report will release at which 20% of stocks held by employees will be unlocked, which has hit even profitable and not-fantasy-based companies hard in the past. There will also be a wave of resignations from people who cash out and if that takes key people then investors back off even further. My guess is fElon wants the stock to stay high until next summer when he can sell, but he NEEDS it to stay high until November when early investors can cash out. He has borrowed billions from people you wouldn’t want to owe $1 and been delaying and juggling for a few years with tacking together this SpaceX nonsense amalgamation.

Costco, where everything moves around except the rotisserie chickens.

US auto makers were too busy doing stock buybacks and building Canyoneros while the Chinese were building next gen factories and investing in battery technology. The Chinese government has subsidized their auto industry to dominate the EV market while the USA subsidizes their auto industry but with wild and often stupid swings in expectations.

It makes it very difficult to believe the Democratic party isn’t just controlled opposition when they tolerate the Manchins and Fettermans of the world. Bending over backwards to appease someone who clearly hates you so you can have an on paper advantage with absolutely no real world application is… actually, having listened to Democratic Strategists speak, that checks out. My bad.

They’ll ride the self driving Teslas we got in 2014 to the Mars base built in 2022.

Voting for things then getting mad at them is a Texas tradition. I had to stop talking to people because hearing people say “God damn [insert politician] rabble rabble rabble. I mean, I voted for him and will again, but fuck that guy.” Somewhere in their brain files is a line that says politicians are untrustworthy bastards and instead of fixing it they make it a self fulfilling prophecy.

That’s basically Clinton’s “Third Way” which Democrats view as the greatest political revelation to ever occur, the move that saved the party! They treat the 1992 election like it was a miraculous win against an unbeatable opponent, not Americans realizing Reagan was a fraud thanks to two depressions in 5 years. It has guided the party ever since, which is why Obama’s big healthcare plan was Heritage Foundation slop and Biden’s big win was giving the most valuable companies in the world a shitload of taxpayer money.

It’s sort of like Springfield versus Shelbyville. To the people that live there, the difference is distinct and vast. To anyone on the outside, they might as well be the same place.

Not really. And it isn’t “woman bad”, it’s “culturally and religiously woman do x, y, and z- that list does not include lead”. Mexico addressed this head on my requiring political parties to nominate roughly equal numbers of men and women. North of the border, no such rules.

Wow, it sure must take a lot of processing power to go through that much surveillance data.

#lifegoals

Did Carville just find out about primaries? Did he just wake up from some kind of cajun hibernation where he missed the DNC primarying the fuck out of everyone who identifies as leftist since the dawn of time?

Sadly, this would probably work. The GOP would back it 100%. Democrats would be split between writing a stern letter or welcoming back their dear friend, Mitch. The media will sane wash anything at this point. DOJ would investigate… anyone who said that isn’t Mitch.

“If it isn’t happening right in front of my face at absurd rates, it must not be happening at all.” Meanwhile, https://worldmetrics.org/daylight-savings-time-accident-statistics/

Ending the clock change is a great idea. The question becomes, do we want to:

Go the permanent daylight saving route. Be an hour off from the rest of the world adding to the stack of weird and arguably stupid things the USA does different so we can have a bit of light after work instead of questioning why we’re working our lives away. Also, drastically increase the number of morning injuries and fatalities, especially among children, as schools will be starting in the dark.

OR

Be sane.

It appears Congress has spoken.

In the above video, his decision to attend a protest wearing a beard is beyond dubious. I sure hope he had several independent lawyers weigh in on exactly what he could say and do that won’t violate the court order, because on the surface that seems like begging the judge to throw him in jail. Even if he technically followed the order, the appearance of it is probably enough for the judge to go nuclear.

Most everything leading up to that I could write off as a combination of telling a good story, boundary testing, and shining a light on how absurdly corrupt our criminal Justice System is in operation, but that beard scene has me concerned that Ben just lost whatever ground he had to stand on.

mhhhh, I wonder if there is a hormone that is to being a greedy POS as ghrelin is to hunger? We should start cutting into billionaires until we find it.

It turns out there are more than zero options between “do nothing” and “become what you hate”. Many in fact.

Also, just a plain old idiot. Imagine having the magical power to kill anyone undetected and you’re like “hooray, I can go after local crooks!”. Had Light ever seen a newspaper? Did he know the world outside his city existed? If you aren’t starting with and primarily focusing on people globally known are you even trying?