Artificial Intelligence by day ๐จโ๐ป family man at night ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ง Combat veteran โ๏ธ who plays games ๐ฎ exercises ๐๐ช and stares into the abyss ๐
I'm a South Korean journalist based in New York City. This is a thread about what's happening in South Korea right now after the president declared emergency martial law.
Here's what Elon Musk said about severance packages for dismissed government employees:
โWe will reduce a lot of government headcount, but we're going to give very long severances, like two years or something like that.
So, you've got a lot of time to go and figure out something else to do.
The point is not to be cruel or to have people not be able to pay their mortgage.
We just have too many people in the government sector, and they could be more productive elsewhere.โ
โThis will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in Government waste, which is a lot of people!โ
โ Great Elon Musk, Chair of D.O.G.E
President-Elect Donald J. Trump has announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been tasked with leading the Newly-Established, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will be tasked with dismantling Government Bureaucracy, slashing Excess Regulations, cutting Wasteful Expenditure, and restructuring Federal Agencies. With President Trump claiming that it will become, potentially, โThe Manhattan Projectโ of our time.
Since your handle is โWhole Marsโ, perhaps this lengthy reply is apropos:
Getting the cost per ton to the surface of Mars low enough that humanity has the resources to make life multiplanetary requires a roughly 1000X improvement in rocket & spacecraft technology.
Recent US Mars missions have had a cost per ton of useful load to the surface of Mars of about $1B. Moreover, it has become more, not less, expensive over time!
To build a city on Mars that can grow by itself likely requires at least a million tons of equipment, which would therefore require >$1000 trillion, an obviously impossible number, given that US GDP is only $29T.
However, if rocket technology can be improved by 1000X, then the cost of becoming sustainably multiplanetary would drop to ~$1T, which could be spread out over 40 or more years, so <$25B/year.
At that cost, it becomes possible to make life multiplanetary, ensuring the long-term survival of life as we know it, without materially affecting peopleโs standard of living on Earth.
Starship is designed to achieve a >1000X improvement over existing systems and, especially after yesterdayโs booster catch and precise ocean landing of the ship, I am now convinced that it can work.
That moment when someone says, "I can't believe you would vote for Trump.โ
I simply reply, โI'm not voting for Trump.โ
I'm voting for the First Amendment and freedom of speech.
I'm voting for the Second Amendment and my right to defend my life and my family.
I'm voting for the next Supreme Court Justice(s) to protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Iโm voting for the continued growth of my retirement and reducing inflation.
Iโm voting for a return of our troops from foreign countries and the end to Americaโs involvement in foreign conflicts.
I'm voting for the Electoral College and for the Republic in which we live.
I'm voting for the Police to be respected once again and to ensure Law & Order. I am tired of all the criminals having a revolving door and being put back in the street.
Iโm voting for the continued appointment of Federal Judges who respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Iโm voting for keeping our jobs to remain in America and not be outsourced all over the world - to China, Mexico and other foreign countries. I want USA made.
Iโm voting for secure borders and have legal immigration. I canโt believe we have actually have flown 380,000 illegal immigrants into our country. I am voting for doing away with all of the freebies given to all of the illegals and not looking after the needs of the American citizens.
I'm voting for the Military & the Veterans who fought for this Country to give the American people their freedoms.
I'm voting for the unborn babies that have a right to live.
Iโm voting for peace progress in the Middle East.
Iโm voting to fight against human/child trafficking.
I'm voting for Freedom of Religion.
I'm voting for the right to speak my opinion and not be censored. I am voting for the return of teaching math, history, and science instead of indoctrination of our children and pronouns.
I'm not just voting for one person, I'm voting for the future of my Country.
I'm voting for my children and my grandchildren to ensure their freedoms and their future.