Imagine buying a product and before they decide on a price they ask to see a list of your family’s income and assets. That would be crazy! Oh wait. That’s the current college system.

Can we debunk this nonsense? Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc. The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun. End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously. And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it. The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year) On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach. So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

Alex Soros is interesting because he’s a billionaire heir who dedicates his life to making cities less safe. He’s like a Reverse Batman.

The establishment attacks on Restore Britain are rapidly increasing, as expected. It is relentless. They are terrified. Owen Jones, Nigel Farage, Zack Polanski, the Daily Mail, Nadine Dorries, Michael Gove, endless faceless Labour MPs, the Guardian. The whole team. It will not work. Why? I am not in this for the money, the status, the popularity. I don’t care about any of that. I’ve got enough money. I don’t have to be doing any of this. If I cared what people in posh parts of London thought of me, I would not be doing this. Trust me. But I want to be really clear about my opinion on them. I do not give a shit what they think of me. I really don’t. I am doing this for one reason, and one reason only. To give the British people a democratic route out. It’s the only way. The last way. What we are doing is not going to be easy or straightforward, nobody has said otherwise. But it is necessary. We will not budge, backtrack or fold to establishment pressure. We are going to do what is needed to Restore Britain. If you want to vote for failed Conservatives, that’s your choice. There are now two options on the voting paper for that. Lucky us. But Restore Britain is offering a genuine alternative. Millions and millions of patriotic British men and women are taking it.

🚨 BREAKING: In a bombshell moment, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ABOLISHES H-1B VISAS from being used at state universities "We can do it with Florida RESIDENTS or AMERICANS! If we can't? Then man, we need to REALLY look deeply at what's going on with this situation!" DeSantis exposed that H-1B AUDITS found colleges were bringing in Chinese people on visas to talk to students about "public policy," among other issues. "Why do we need to bring someone from CHINA to talk about public policy?!" "I am directing today the Florida Board of Governors to PULL THE PLUG on the use of these H-1B visas at our universities." HUGE! I LOVE my state! @GovRonDeSantis ☀️

Look at NYC’s budget. Now look at Florida’s. A bigger budget for almost 1/3 of the population. One clear example dismantles the delusion that this is a tax problem rather than runaway government overspending.

The problem with many non-profits is that they get paid for "trying," not for "succeeding." That's why profit is a powerful and effective motivator.

One of the signs that rent control is obviously a bad policy, and simultaneously a factor that makes it by definition an unfair one, is that new rent control initiatives almost always apply only to old apartments. This is because you literally cannot get anybody to agree to this deal, so the only way to make any apartment a rent controlled apt is to force it on people who can’t opt out. Developers can just opt out by not building any new units and investing their money elsewhere, which is of course exactly what they do. The idea that this isn’t a taking is absurd on its face. Again, politicians who pass these laws realize that literally no new units will be created under a rent control regime, because the value proposition is so terrible. So they explicitly design rent control laws to apply only to existing units; this is a direct admission that rent control destroys value. Obviously a taking. A 12 year-old can see that it’s a taking. The Supreme Court cannot ban it soon enough.

Still thinking about how crazy this is. Only in the press world could you do something this scandalous, never provide an explanation, be hired by multiple other outlets in the meantime, and then get promoted to head of the White House press corps.

More uptime than Wikipedia, and less bias. Or at least different bias, more likely. Most encyclopedia articles are written by "guest experts". I bought these on eBay from a library and then spent 3 days removing stickers, but it was worth it!

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good. The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX. And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen. Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

FSD might have just saved me from a head on collision. My Tesla was taking evasive action before I even saw the danger.

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

Dear Microsoft, when I hit the Windows Start menu key and start typing a word to autocomplete a search, I never, ever, EVER want it to return results of something not on my computer. Ever. Like, ever, ever, never.

May I ask...is stabbing people racist ? Or only talking about it...

Every day we see layoffs at major American companies. Then we see these same companies hiring people on H-1B visas. There should not be one H-1B visa issued to any company that lays off Americans. Not. One.

US med school graduates should not have to compete with the entire world for US residencies. We need American doctors, not foreign ones. Stop foreigners from entering med schools and keep foreigners from seeking residencies.

Note the negative job growth for “information” 😢😡

Belgium is the 5th European country to approve FSD Supervised

To bastardize a Seinfeld quote: "See, you know how to arrest the criminal, you just don't know how to hold the criminal. And that's really the most important part of the arrest: the holding. Anybody can just arrest them." Even if we're all too nice for a three strikes law, a ten strikes law to just lock violent people away for good seems like a good idea.

Mediocrity does not need a villain. It only needs sustained inattention.