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That's like, what? 60 or 70 Somali-run Learing Centers?
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The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.
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I want this to work. But I am trying to think of any time where a pressure campaign made a studio turn around and *really* support a production that they had cancelled.
Star Trek got a third season back in the 60's after a letter writing campaign (shadow orchestrated by Gene Roddenberry), but the network passive-aggressively cut its budget and gave it a terrible time slot, guaranteeing failure anyway.
It took freakin' *Star Wars* to get Paramount to about-face on Star Trek.
People have tried crowd-funding stuff and online campaigns and petitions and on and on for various cancelled shows.
Egos are involved and there are also competing shows involved. Not sure what the answer is.
You get that we can totally keep this up until y'all call Martin Gero and #SaveStargate, right @AmazonMGMStudio @PrimeVideo?
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A product of Ohio State and Yale history classes, I guess.
Jun 12
JD Vance:
If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.
Community note
World War II ended with unconditional surrenders by Germany on May 8, 1945, and Japan on September 2, 1945, rather than negotiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditi… archives.gov/milestone-docu… nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/end…
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I only have one quibble with this characterization of the all knowing & benevolent @neiltyson.
He does not provide his wisdom for free. He farms his audience with "wisdom" then sells that audience to advertisers.
Neil is upset because the Common Folk no longer unquestioningly believe self-styled ‘experts’ like him. He has credentials, damn it! We are lucky to benefit from his wisdom. And he offers it free of charge.
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I'd ask if they have people that confuse religion with science.
People "deny" religions. People "believe in" religions.
Science is a methodology, not a religion.
Jun 12
If I were ever abducted by Aliens, the first thing I’d ask is whether they came from a planet where people also deny science.
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This video giving me 1970's used car salesman vibes.
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🚨 FOX NEWS ALERT: Jesse Watters just interrupted his show with breaking news on Iran: “Tonight, a senior White House official tells us that Iran has agreed to a deal and that they’re 75-85% confident it’ll be signed in the next couple of days.”
“They’re not even negotiating over terms any more. The framework has been agreed.”
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True Trivia: Before "Reckless Ben" became a youtuber representing himself in criminal court, he was an Air Force pilot call-sign "MUSTANG CALHOUN"
Oh noooo
"Reckless Ben" is representing himself in criminal court
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Oh noooo
"Reckless Ben" is representing himself in criminal court
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Jones was always a jew hating creep who enjoyed the company of other jew hating creeps.
'F*CK YOU!' Alex Jones Calls Ben Shapiro a Traitorous, 'Beady-Eyed Rat' in Unhinged Attack mediaite.com/media/podcasts/…
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I wonder how much the timing of SpaceX's IPO is really about Musk preparing for the next WH administration?
The regulatory noose for SpaceX was growing ever more malignant and deranged before Trump won a 2nd term.
Deranged: like kidnapping a wild seal and making it wear headphones to demonstrate that rocket noises do not "unduly disturb" seals.
Malignant: like the DOJ suing SpaceX for refusing to hire illegal immigrants. "Discrimination." Ignoring the fact that federal law bans hiring illegals at aerospace companies like SpaceX for national security reasons.
Having an IPO at this point in time is making a lot of analysts scratch their heads. The timing is odd. Starship hasn't even reached low earth orbit yet. A lot of analysts accusing Musk of manipulating NASDAQ's rules, playing things fast and loose, etc.
But it kinda makes sense to me. A "batten down the hatches" maneuver before 2028. A much bigger publicly owned company makes a harder target for a deranged and malignant government.
Not bulletproof, mind you. Governments will always be more powerful than any one company. But the larger the company, the harder it is for the government to get malignant and deranged towards it.
Of course, going public brings its own set of complications (and Elon Musk is trying to reduce those as much as possible in this offering structure, but he can't eliminate them all). And of course he needs more money to get Starship into low earth orbit, and beyond.
But the dates seem to me to be aligned to a political calendar. If the midterms are a wipeout for Trump, the SEC might've been inclined to delay a SpaceX IPO. And if 2028 goes bad for Republicans, well... a SpaceX IPO in 2029 might've been impossible.
Just a theory...
Jun 12
🚨 NEW: As SpaceX makes its stock market debut, Fox’s @cvpayne says: “At some point, everyone should own SpaceX...”
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He's completely out of his mind.
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