This needs to become the norm in future builds and be retrofitted into existing facilities. It will address both the power and water issue.
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Democrats are openly talking about jailing Elon Musk as soon as they retake power.
@micsolana on how American politics became a blood feud — on both sides — that's only getting worse.
@andrewtlloyd@Francin28577060 Bold of you to assume they’ll pay him. These people’s ideal scenario is taking SpaceX at gunpoint and jailing Elon for the fun of it.
Elon Musk understands something that the political establishment desperately wants people to forget.
Government isn’t some magical institution that protects you from concentrated corporate power. It is concentrated power. And unlike corporations, it has the legal authority to use force against you.
Now imagine giving that power to a global government. One political hierarchy. Billions of people. No competing jurisdiction to escape to. No meaningful alternative when the people in charge decide your rights are inconvenient. That’s not progress. That’s the blueprint for the most terrifying monopoly in human history.
Look at what’s happening across Europe.
More authority concentrated in distant institutions. More regulatory power. More restrictions on speech. More decisions made by people ordinary citizens can barely hold accountable.
The answer has always been decentralization, private property, free markets, and the freedom to walk away.
Yet the political left keeps demanding more centralization, more bureaucracy, and more authority over ordinary people. And somehow they call that liberation.
What a fucking joke.
Owen is right.
Look, I don't agree with Musk on everything. Especially in politics, I think he isn't quite as savvy as in his other domains.
But I have watched as most of my family has come to hate him, driven by the media that relentlessly reports his every action in negative framing.
It's tiring.
Elon Musk quite literally saved the US commercial space launch industry.
He saved taxpayers billions of dollars in launch costs.
He restored American manned space access.(Yes, I can say that because despite getting twice as much money, Boeing still can't do it)
He built a global internet system that enriches millions of lives.
He kickstarted the EV revolution and literally built the EV charging network that the Greens so desperately wanted..., and yet they despise him for it.
Yes, his purchase of Twitter was bumpy. But while the media demonized him for mass firings and "selling" blue checks, Zuckerberg et al. did the same a few weeks later with nary a peep.
And look at this platform now. Voice calling, video chats, XMoney, Grok, Articles- it's not the cesspool the media makes it out to be.
In fact, I'd wager old Twitter was worse.
Tax the large asset-backed loans used to access unrealized gains, instead of imposing a direct tax on net worth or unrealized appreciation.
A net-worth tax creates liquidity pressure that can force sales of publicly traded shares by large, concentrated holders. Those sales put downward pressure on the affected stocks and, by extension, on index funds and retirement accounts that hold them. Targeted loan-tax proposals address the specific ‘buy, borrow, die’ preference without those broader effects.
I swear, every time Elon’s net worth moves, the internet collectively forgets how equity ownership works.
His companies become more valuable. His shares become more valuable.
Nobody handed him a fucking suitcase containing $88 billion.