“Launch. Catch. Relaunch. “

Europeans discovering America is some of the best content of the internet right now:

How can America be this awesome??? Someone pinch me I think I’m dreaming!!!

Probably the absolute BEST interview by an excellent interviewer! No stupid questions. A very interesting clip and recorded back in 2007 before the roadster sales phased out.

This is the greatest fucking concession speech in the history of the world. @spencerpratt

Inject this into my veins 😤🇺🇸

12 years ago today, SpaceX Dragon was on display at the Newseum in D.C.

SpaceX starts trading this Friday. Here's what history says happens next. This is the post-IPO performance of every major tech listing of the last decade. Every name you know. Every name you use. Look at the last column: maximum drawdown in year one. – Facebook: -54% – Snap: -56% – Uber: -68% – Pinterest: -70% – Lyft: -79% – Rivian: -88% – Robinhood: -90% Median first-year drawdown across the entire list: -54%. Average: -55%. Not the speculative junk. The whole class. Including the eventual winners. Zoom eventually rose 142% in year one. It still drew down 40% along the way. Palantir gained 153%. It still fell 53% at one point. CrowdStrike, Datadog, MongoDB. All ended year one higher. All put their holders through a 40 to 67% drawdown first. There has not been a single major tech IPO in a decade that didn't hand you a brutal drawdown in the first twelve months. Not one. Now SpaceX joins the list, at the richest valuation in IPO history. You don't have to buy it today. The IPO is the seller's moment, not the buyer's. Wait for the base.

SpaceX employees commuting from PV to Hawthorne after the IPO

Date is the same but the chutes are a bit different. 6/6/1944

🚨 The state of Delaware's corporate exodus: We're now tracking 72 companies leaving Delaware. Nevada and Texas are taking nearly 90% of them. Which state wins the next decade?

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share. “Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count. First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you. Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would. Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands. Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick. Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you. The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

🚨 WATCH: A paraglider gets hit by a Cessna 172 near the Austrian town of Zell am See. The paraglider was able to pull her rescue parachute and land safely shortly after the incident on Saturday. According to police, the 44-year-old Austrian had started from Schmittenhöhe in the direction of Piesendorf. Above the Pinzgauer Hütte, she collided at 1:15 p.m. with the Cessna piloted by a 28-year-old. The pilot of the Cessna, which flew from the Glemm Valley in the direction of Zell am See, was able to land the aircraft safely at Zell am See Airport. Video: sab_thi

This tick crisis is getting out of hand and it’s going to be almost impossible to avoid if you are in these areas - The black speck all the way to the right is pepper - The speck in the middle is a grain of salt - That tiny speck to the left, that’s a tick Here’s everything that’s being effected Northeast highest activity overall Connecticut especially high submission rates with 40% Lyme-positive ticks New York Pennsylvania leads in Lyme cases Massachusetts Maine New Jersey Vermont New Hampshire Rhode Island: ER visits for tick bites are at record highs for this time of year Upper Midwest Michigan Lyme cases rising sharply Wisconsin Minnesota significant increases in tick activity and related illnesses Mid-Atlantic states Virginia Maryland West Virginia Delaware strong populations of blacklegged and lone star ticks Parts of the Southeast and South Georgia Texas North Carolina Expanding to gulf coast area Also Ohio Illinois Scattered reports in California and Florida Isn’t it amazing that Lyme disease rates from ticks are skyrocketing right when Pfizer is working on a a Lyme disease vaccine

Counting down to our second launch attempt, the 90-minute test window opens at 5:30 p.m. CT with live coverage starting ~30 minutes before liftoff. Weather is currently 85% favorable for flight → spacex.com/launches/starship…

I’m going to be honest. This entire thread is the thing I like least about my job. CLEARLY my motivation for a scrub was selfish in that I wanted to be there and felt like I was missing out on something I (and you all) have waited 7 months for. I also was being realistic about the odds of it going off on the first attempt. I was trying to temp expectations to help ease everyone (including myself) in the event of a scrub. That’s the reasonable thing to do as opposed to hype people up for a “certain” launch. I was keeping track of their timelines and given hold capabilities to try and gauge along with everyone if it would launch, again, a reasonable thing to do. I talked over Nikki Manaj because it had nothing to do with the mission as I do when there’s anything that’s a random tangent in any stream as we always do. Gave her a chance to speak, was surprised and confused to see her, thought it was funny, then didn’t think we needed to hear her asking when it was launching 🤷‍♂️ We’ve ALWAYS shared our footage with anyone who asks and especially our fellow creators. Ask anyone, @NASASpaceflight @CSI_Starbase @MarcusHouse @FelixSchlang Obviously I don’t just do this for money or else I wouldn’t spend 7 months on a video or every dime on a production trailer. This whole threads feels like a huge attack on my character and I’m not going to stand for it. I work my ass off, I’m proud of the work I do, I do right by our team and those who work with us. Just because I was sad I couldn’t be there doesn’t mean anything more than that.

In June 1775, the British military governor of Massachusetts offered a full pardon to every American rebel who would lay down arms. He named two exceptions. Samuel Adams was one of them. By that point Adams had spent over a decade engineering the destruction of British rule in America, and the Crown wanted him hanged for treason. He was 52 years old, broke, often dressed in clothes his friends had quietly bought him, and shook with a tremor so bad he could barely sign his name. He was also the most dangerous man in the empire. Sam Adams was born in Boston in 1722, thirteen years before his more famous cousin John. He entered Harvard at 14 and wrote his master's thesis on whether it was lawful to resist the supreme magistrate "if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." He argued yes. He was 20. He would spend the rest of his life proving it. He was terrible at business. He inherited his father's malt house and ran it into the ground. He tried merchant trading and failed. The town of Boston eventually made him tax collector, possibly as charity, and he proceeded to not collect taxes from people who couldn't afford them. He ended up personally owing the town thousands of pounds, an enormous debt for the time. Boston never made him pay it back. Voters loved him for it. In 1764, when Parliament passed the Sugar Act, Adams wrote one of the first major American arguments that taxation without representation was unconstitutional. When the Stamp Act followed in 1765, he organized the Boston resistance, helped grow the Sons of Liberty, and pioneered something new in politics: he turned the Boston town meeting into a weapon, a place where ordinary tradesmen voted on questions of empire. He wrote constantly. Under more than 25 different pseudonyms, Vindex, Candidus, Determinatus, Populus, and on and on, he flooded Boston newspapers with essays attacking British policy. Loyalists complained that fishermen and dockworkers were now debating constitutional theory in taverns. That was Sam Adams's doing. After the Boston Massacre in 1770, he stood in front of the royal lieutenant governor and demanded every British soldier be removed from Boston. Not some. All. The governor caved. The troops left. His younger cousin John then defended those same soldiers in court, and Sam never held it against him. They were running the same revolution from opposite ends. In 1772, Sam Adams invented the system that made the Revolution possible: the Committees of Correspondence. He organized a network of patriot writers in every Massachusetts town who exchanged letters, news, and grievances. Other colonies copied it. Within two years, an unofficial shadow government stretched from New Hampshire to Georgia, faster and better informed than the British administration trying to govern it. It was, in effect, the internet of the American Revolution, and one man designed it. Then came the tea. On December 16, 1773, after a final mass meeting at the Old South Meeting House, Sam Adams reportedly stood and said, "This meeting can do nothing more to save the country." It is widely believed to have been the signal. Within minutes, men disguised as Mohawks marched to Griffin's Wharf and threw 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor. Adams did not put on a costume or board the ships. He didn't need to. He had built the crowd that did. Britain responded with the Coercive Acts, shutting down the port of Boston and rewriting the Massachusetts charter. Adams used the crisis to summon the First Continental Congress. On the night of April 18, 1775, British troops marched out of Boston with two missions: seize the patriot weapons stockpiled at Concord, and capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were hiding in a parsonage in Lexington. Paul Revere rode ahead to warn them. They slipped into the woods minutes before the redcoats arrived. As the first shots of the Revolutionary War cracked behind him on Lexington Green, Adams is said to have turned to Hancock and exclaimed, "What a glorious morning for America." He signed the Declaration of Independence the next year. He helped write the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, the oldest functioning written constitution in the world, still in force today. After the war, the firebrand became an elder statesman. He opposed the new U.S. Constitution at first because it had no Bill of Rights, then supported ratification once one was promised. He served as Lieutenant Governor under John Hancock, then as Governor of Massachusetts from 1794 to 1797. He watched his younger cousin John serve as the second President of the United States while he ran the state where the whole story had started. By the end, the tremor in his hands was so severe his wife Betsy had to write his letters for him. He spent his last years quietly in Boston, in the same plain coat, in the same plain house, talking about scripture and republics. He died on October 2, 1803, in genteel poverty. His funeral procession was the largest Boston had ever seen. The brewery wasn't his. The beer is just a name. The country is the monument.

I’ve mentioned something like this before, but, if any of my companies goes public, we will prioritize other longtime shareholders of my other companies, including Tesla. Loyalty deserves loyalty.

The hydraulic pin holding the tower arm in place did not retract. If that can be fixed tonight, there will be another launch attempt tomorrow at 5:30 CT.

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