1/ Here is how the abomination that is the AT-ST came about. Spoiler alert, it comes down to compromises & mission creep. "Initial Requirement: We need a small dropship deliverable armored sentry tower (ST) for forward operating bases with space for 4 sentries" An early sketch:

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

Saving LA - Phase III

i see people are upset that elon didn't generate his wealth the right way, drawing a 7 figure annual salary from a prestigious washington dc based ngo with a 25% program expense ratio

Try doing math Ro 1) it’s closer to $350B a year 2) he doesn’t have that liquid 3) even if he did, he’d be destitute in 2.5 years and the kids in school would have money to finish their degrees. Of course the actual impact would be massive inflation in tuition costs which we’ve already seen based on government subsidies. Subsidizing demand doesn’t work. Confiscating wealth and spending more doesn’t actual solve most problems, it just creates the illusion of a government that cares.

Maybe it’s about money or maybe they also don’t want a senator who has an SS tattoo? Or a senator who was cheating on his wife right after they were married? Lots of potential reasons for getting involved

Graham does Nazi the value of entrepreneurship.

Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax

I’m at the bottom of a multi-layer SPV and am looking forward to the SpaceX IPO in much the same way a golden retriever looks forward to a car ride: - thrilled to be involved - no clue how cars work - unsure if going to the park or getting neutered

Final fuel inspection underway with our partners at @RadiantNuclear before loading onto transportation. ☢️ All hands on deck this summer. 🇺🇸

🇺🇸 American power. ☢️ Made in Tennessee.

I don’t think I’ve ever been to any of these conferences. I might be doing VC wrong. I’m not a VC though.

Colonialism is bad, right? Wrong. The Aztec Empire ran sacrifice at industrial scale. Excavations of the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack next to the Templo Mayor, have uncovered hundreds of skulls of men, women, and children. Spanish eyewitnesses described tens of thousands. The Aztecs fought "Flower Wars" whose purpose was capturing live victims for the altar. Hearts were cut out of living people. Subject peoples hated Aztec rule so much that Tlaxcalans made up most of Cortes's army. The conquest was largely an indigenous uprising against an indigenous empire. The sacrifices ended under Spanish rule. India: burning a widow alive on her husband's funeral pyre. British records from Bengal alone documented thousands of cases between 1815 and 1828. The British, with Indian reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, banned it in 1829. When priests told General Napier it was sacred custom, he answered: my nation also has a custom, we hang men who burn women alive. You follow yours, we will follow ours. India: Thuggee cults murdered travelers by the tens of thousands over centuries as offerings to Kali. It was a hereditary profession. William Sleeman's campaign in the 1830s wiped it out. Slavery was a universal indigenous institution. Dahomey and Ashanti were built on slave raiding and sold captives for a thousand years to Arab traders before any European ship arrived. Pacific Northwest tribes held up to a quarter of some village populations as slaves and killed them ceremonially at potlatches. The Comanche ran a captive-raiding economy across the Southwest. What colonizers introduced after 1807 was the first attempt in history to abolish slavery globally. The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron spent fifty years hunting slave ships and freed about 150,000 Africans. African kings protested. The King of Bonny complained that abolition was destroying a trade ordained by his gods and priests. The Dahomey kingdom's "Annual Customs" beheaded hundreds of captives and slaves every year to honor dead kings. Documented by European visitors for two centuries. It ended when France conquered Dahomey in 1894. Sailors called Fiji the Cannibal Isles. Chief Ratu Udre Udre kept a stone for every victim he ate. His pile holds nearly 900. Shipwrecked sailors were killed and eaten. Within a generation of missionaries and British administration after 1874, the practice was gone. Nigeria: In parts of Igboland, newborn twins were left in the bush to die and their mothers ostracized or killed. Missionary Mary Slessor spent decades in Calabar rescuing abandoned infants until the practice collapsed. Indigenous genocide of indigenous people. In 1835, two Maori tribes invaded the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori, whose own law forbade them to fight back. They killed, enslaved, and ate them. The Moriori population fell from about 2,000 to barely 100. No European did this. British colonial law ended it. Add headhunting in Borneo, the Philippines, and Nagaland. Female infanticide in India and Polynesia. Foot binding in China, dismantled partly by missionary campaigns. Every one of these ended under pressure from the colonial powers we are taught to treat as history's unique villains. Colonialism was not charity. The Belgian Congo was a horror, conquest was for profit, and rule was without consent. But the ledger has two sides and one has been erased. Pre-colonial societies practiced slavery, human sacrifice, widow burning, infanticide, and genocide, because cruelty is not a European invention. The first civilization that tried to abolish these practices worldwide is the one you were taught to be ashamed of. If "indigenous" means innocent and "colonizer" means guilty by definition, that is not history.

Iran overplayed its hand in using the Strait of Hormuz, now many alternative routes (pipelines/rail/etc) will be developed.

Founders in prison for wire fraud, founders raising enormous sums of money and treating it like their own piggy bank, egos the size of Elon’s without a single penny of profit or live saved to show for it. The stories are wild but the incentives are to stay quiet and move on. The cost of doing business.

One day, there must be accountability for all those knowingly spreading the genocide blood libel. Blood on their hands.

IRAN WAR UPDATE & WHY THE PRICE OF OIL KEEPS DROPPING The media has not been covering this. According to the U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND, approximately 1,000 commercial vessels have crossed through the Strait of Hormuz in the last two months. Iran has not been able to do anything about it. And commercial traffic through the Strait is slowly increasing. Meanwhile, the U.S. blockade on Iran's use Strait of Hormuz is costing the Iran Regime $500 MILLION per day. The Regime's entire annual budget is about $56 BILLION. The Regime can no longer pay its soldiers or security police. Mass protests against the Regime are now starting up again in cities across Iran, as the people are now sensing the Regime can's do much about this. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced that the $24 BILLION in Iranian assets that we have frozen will be used to reimburse and compensate countries in the region Iran keeps hitting with its missiles and drones. The damage Iran has done to airports, power grids, buildings, and infrastructure, as well as casualties inflicted by Iran in the region, will be billed to Iran's account. Iran has been saying any deal Iran strikes with the U.S. hinges on the U.S. unfreezing $24 BILLION in Iran assets. Welp, so much for that idea. This $24 BILLION will be used to compensate Iran's victims in the region. There is no reason for the U.S. to negotiate anymore with Iran's Regime. It's quite cheap for the U.S. Navy to keep patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, escorting ships in and out. Our Navy has to be somewhere. Might as well be there, conducting occasional target practice on whatever is left of Iran's military capabilities. No one fears the Iran Regime anymore. It's proven itself to be a toothless tiger. Meanwhile, the rest of the Arab World has joined with the United States and Israel in an alliance against the Iran Regime, which is now completely isolated. That's pretty amazing. Thanks to President Trump, the rest of the Arab world is now allied with Israel. Who would have thought that possible? We should allow Israel to do whatever it wants to do to the Iran Regime. We should also continue arming the Kurds and pro-freedom groups inside Iran. When Epic Fury started, the prediction was that oil would rise above $200 per barrel. This has not happened. Oil is around $90 a barrel and will continue to drop. The reason we have not seen anything close to $200 a barrel is the United States has ramped up its oil production. Thanks to President Trump, the United States is a net oil and energy exporter. With Trump's arrest of Venezuela's Communist dictator Nicolas Maduro, the United States also now has an oil production partnership with the new government of Venezuela, which as the world's largest oil reserves. Oil production by Venezuela will only continue to increase. Trump has also chased China out of Panama. China is no longer running the Panama Canal. We are. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait are increasing their pipeline capacity to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, further rendering Iran irrelevant. Only about 20% of Iran's people are practicing Muslims. The strange theocratic ideology that has been imposed on the Iranian people for 47 years is an alien minority force. We can just continue to watch the Iran Regime implode financially under this economic pressure we've imposed. Eventually, the IRGC leadership and Mullahs will receive the Gaddafi treatment.

Make it make sense.

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Snoopy is, and has always been, a real one.

Plenty of bad VCs, plenty of good ones too. A lot of these stories probably originate with the same handful of bad actors. Now do PE for villainy on a grand scale Or LPs for a set of really wild stories of odd personalities and casual disregard.