Boating and boaters: I have heard it said that the two happiest days in a boat owners life are the day they buy the boat and the day they sell it. I think this might be true for those who probably should not ever own a boat. Those who buy a boat thinking it would be romantic to sail into the sunset, those who think it would be a great write-off for business, or a second home deduction, those who cannot fix things themselves and have to hire out everything from changing lightbulbs to washing down the hull and changing the oil. In the years that I towed and salvaged boats for a living, I saw many of these people. Dead batteries, out of fuel, on the rocks, no charts, and knot a clew (sailor joke there). I believe that if you buy a boat, you should be ready to learn everything about it, study about engines, drive systems, rigging, sails, charts, rules of the road ESPECIALLY rules of the road. Understand how the electronics work, RTFM! Use your RADAR when it's sunny outside. Those who go into it with the idea that boating is all rosy summer days and romantic sails into the sunset with a cocktail will be gravely disappointed. I have met folks who bought a sailboat, having never been on a boat before and expected to sail around the world in a few weeks of training. They tend to be the most disappointed that it was harder than it looked on TV. I love the movie Captain Ron, it's in my top 3. But it is so un-realistic how they took a near wreck of a boat and made it bristol while sailing it in the Caribbean. I can't do any project without 3 trips to Englund Marine. I'm not saying don't go boating or be scared off by this, but at least do your research and learn what you are getting into. YouTube is not going to save you in the fog with rocks nearby. I have loved with a passion every boat I have ever owned (well except one that was left on my hands that I had to cut up for scrap). I cried when we sold my first big boat, the Carver 32', to move up to the 36' and I miss that boat too, when I moved aboard the big workboat. Boating is my full time job and I love it. I think it takes a special kind of insanity to do what I do. Our friend John just bought a near basket case tugboat built in 1944, he has that insanity in spades. I have owned in my life first at 12 years old, an 8 foot fiberglass over plywood dinghy that was powered by oars or a small electric trolling motor. a 13' FB over wood with 5.5hp johnson 5 different Jet Ski or PWC's 3 inflatables under 10 feet 2 inflatables at 15' with 50HP outboards 2 RIB's 21' a 19' sailboat that I raised up from the bottom and the owner gave it to me and I sold it 30 minutes later for $100. Another 14' sailboat that was given to us that was scrapped. A 16' aluminum skiff with a jet outboard 2 21' Triumphs CRMA workboats A 26' twin aluminum cruiser 32' Carver Mariner 36' Carver Mariner 42' Canoe Cove and my current full time job, the 80' workboat charter. edit...and another 15' inflatable, with a 40hp. 24, now 25, boats over the years, I have a special version of insanity. So...why am I looking on YachtWorld right now...LOL Happy Boating Captain Ron.

The level of abject stupidity with supposedly educated people in this country is infinite. This idiot watched Disney's Scrooge McDuck as a child and thinks Elon has a vault full of gold coins he skis down every morning.

Going on for many years. Started with Russia sending money to the hippies in the Sierra club to protest against nuclear power. Who wants to bet that climate change hysteria was started by the chinese trying to bankrupt the west?

well that is pretty cool.

Can anyone point to a single Democrat who congratulated Elon and SpaceX on a record breaking IPO launch? Anyone?

Ask yourself, why does the left vilify successful people as the enemy? Why do elitist politicians like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Ro Khanna, who are all multimillionaires by the way (Ro is actually worth over $200 million), get angry that an immigrant and an African-American has achieved such success? Why do they claim that Elon being the richest man in the world is somehow wrong or an injustice, like wealth is a zero sum game and he must take from others to have. Well, I’ll tell you why: because they are communists. Communists want the wealth and power to themselves, exclusive to the state and those in power. Powerful private individuals are a problem to them and to the world they are trying to build. They want bread lines with no bread. They want everyone to have little while they have a lot. Stalin never lived in destitution while ruling. Mussolini didn’t give up his wealth and inequality to rule. Mao didn’t go hungry while millions in his country perished from starvation. America is a place that anyone, regardless of their history, race, nationality, or religion, can be successful if they are smart, determined, and work hard. You can do it too. You can build whatever you want. You can earn as much as you want. You just have to be willing to work for it. Don’t fall for the victimhood trap that the left levies against successful people. Success is to be praised and emulated, not denounced and vilified.

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement. Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier. Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème. Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs. Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours. La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

Finally some truth from the media

“Elon Musk is a trillionaire.” As a securities law attorney, please allow me to explain how anyone who says this is basically lying to you: 1. The Securities and Exchange Commission has a myriad of laws that prevent founders and other large stockholders of publicly traded companies from dumping their shares. There are substantial holding period requirements, volume of sales limitations and public reporting obligations for stock sales. Basically, Elon holds largely illiquid shares, he is a “trillionaire” on paper only, and the best analogy is when people peg your net worth based on your home’s market price. That’s not money in your pocket, that’s the house you live in. 2. All that money raised in the IPO? That’s not going into Elon’s pocket like the lying socialist idiots want you to believe. It’s a capital influx that will be used to make more rockets and get more payloads into orbit. It’s a CAPITAL investment—that money is like a business loan, it’s not your money to keep, it’s your money to grow the business. 3. If it WERE legal for Elon to dump his shares, the share price would crash basically instantly and the company could very well fail. If you bought SpaceX shares in the IPO, congrats. You just bought a lottery ticket, just like Elon. May the odds ever be in your favor. So the next time someone screeches about how unfair it is that Elon Musk creates wealth that benefits all of humanity, throw the truth back in their faces.

I will never understand the mentality of vegan. Home made banana bread declined because it has an egg in it. Like somehow it hurt the chicken. And yet no problem with abortion. People can be stunningly stupid.

This single tweet cost California hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, revenue, and jobs:

Lemme explain something to y'all, and I'm gonna try to use small words so it sinks in: Being illiterate, functional or otherwise, isn't cool. You're harming yourself, and through your ignorance, others. Almost the entirety of humanity's knowledge -- that we still have access to -- is written down. I'm not saying you have to run out and become proficient in Latin, or Greek, or any other foreign language. But stop being a fucking embarrassment to yourself and everyone around you by being incapable of reading and understanding simple statements in your own native language. Read a fucking book every now and then. There are plenty available that align with just about every ideology in existence. Information becomes knowledge. Knowledge becomes wisdom. And you become better for it. If you cannot educate yourself, you are left at the mercy of what others tell you about everything. And some of y'all are REALLY completely dependent on others for what you know, because it's painfully clear to the rest of us that you can't read for shit.

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

Reading the comments on here remind me that, other than ambulance chasing lawyers, real estate agents are the lowest form of life.

And here we go!

Who wants chocolate chip walnut banana bread raise your hand. Fresh out of the oven

So...not a rocket company then? Ready to blast off anyway, first IPO I have participated in.😀 LFG @elonmusk and @SpaceX

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽 My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ?? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."