Mostly Anger

Flatlander in Lineland
ASD, ADD
Go SpaceX
Idealist, cynic, mostly peaceful nihilist
Pessimist tryin' not to be
Failing the forced-swim test
B.S. C.S.

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

"waste" indeed, since it doesn't change the company's bottom line—you're talking about just shifting an expense from one column to another. Doing that would make the Starlink business *less* profitable though, not UNprofitable, and it has much room to continue to grow revenue faster than costs.

(Amazon Leo believes so too, though as a AMZN shareholder I'm not happy they are doing this LOL)

Numbers, sources, discussion: https://t.co/QFY6y1eO4x

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

@SpaceInMiBrain @SciGuySpace Yeah, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and put a TPS docking port cover on there. If you could just go ahead and do that, that'd be great…

[Milei in English - Official Account @jmilei_english]

For the first time in 123 years, Argentina has achieved a sustained fiscal surplus without being in default. We are one of only 5 countries in the world in this position.

LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT...!!!

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

@ApriaHealthcare couldn't find its own arse hole with both hands and a flashlight 🔦😳. Maybe it's so incompetent because it can be. Being the only "in network" supplier for many insurance plans, its customers are captives.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Give me your best Star Wars nitpicks. No reasonable criticisms or analysis, I'm talking real pedantic here.

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

@ApriaHealthcare you're hilarious. You apparently forget how to bill my insurance for CPAP supplies and, instead of telling me, you just keep shipping and send the unauthorized bills to a 3rd party collector. Yet you spam me with texts and email to try to sell me a new machine.😂

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

💛😃🤩🌎🚀🌕

[Dave Limp @davill]

Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.

I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.

We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

@ApriaHealthcare After moving on from your fraud scheme that you paid $40M to settle, now you're sending unauthorized charges to a collection agency without ever bothering to contact me first. Whatsa matter, did you forget how to bill my insurance and just shrug? WTF.

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

@FreshFifth @AstroForge @NASASpaceflight Sure, the Moon will soon be the top domestic market for automobiles and jewelry. Earth will only use "scraps" of platinum by comparison 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Ivan Werning @IvanWerning]

A friend just revealed to me that the middle name of Benoit B. Mandelbrot is Benoit B. Mandelbrot.

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

@FreshFifth @AstroForge @NASASpaceflight

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

Turns out the opposite is true. It's more expensive to find, collect, and return platinum from the Moon than from the highly concentrated original source: the near-zero-gravity M-type near-earth asteroids.
* Because the asteroids have near zero gravity, "landing" on them and escaping them requires almost no extra energy. 🌙 is obviously much more expensive.
* "The local concentration of target material within a crater…is heavily diluted by native lunar silicate rocks (Chennamangalam et al., 2025). To find pure asteroidal fragments, an operation must sort through millions of tons of barren lunar material."

Sources at end of this AI summary: https://t.co/T50fSJNWER

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

👍. I'm constantly bemused at the questions people *don't* ask him. Especially given how many interviews he does in which he repeats the same things. Which make it obvious to anyone with curiosity and half a 🧠 what to ask that would be novel/interesting/dig deeper.
As for Tim Dodd…does he not ask bc he knows/assumes Mr. Musk won't want to answer?

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

@KennyEdgar >…engineers are stuck in dead end jobs working for some dog shit company

Not sure what you're saying here. "Stuck" because other companies "keep underpaying"? The dog shit companies pay the most, so engineers stay there?

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

@SpaceX Is it usually fogged up this time of year? I know that doesn't prevent launching, but it's bad for viewing in person.😥 If foggy most days, is it at least often clear like from mid-afternoon to ??

[Thomas Massie for Congress @MassieforKY]

Now I know why woke Eddie won’t debate me! He uses AI to write all his social media posts. Unfortunately for him, he’s not smart enough to remove Grok’s feedback to him. 😂

[Mostly Anger @MostlyAnger]

@PhilipJohnston Philip, @PeterDiamandis's figures are wrong (outdated at best). His post will be Community Noted. Link to sources citing AI inference energy use an order of magnitude lower than he stated: https://t.co/qyHjQdG5Ea

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Bono spent 30+ years inside the aid industrial complex and came out saying this:

[Estado Mínimo @xestadominimo]

"El Estado no crea riqueza, el Estado la destruye, la creación de riqueza viene del sector privado. El Estado no puede dar nada porque no produce nada y, cuando lo quiere hacer, además lo hace mal".

- Javier Milei -

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

China blocked the airspace. Germany said no. The Czech Republic said no. Taiwan's president found another way and landed anyway.

President Lai Ching-te just arrived in Eswatini, Taiwan's only diplomatic ally in Africa. His greeting: "Sanibonani," the local Swazi word for hello. Simple, human, and pointed.

Two weeks ago, this trip was impossible. The Seychelles, Mauritius, and Madagascar revoked overflight permits for Lai's presidential aircraft less than 24 hours before departure, in what Taiwan described as a coordinated act of pressure at China's behest. It marked the first time in history that a Taiwanese president was forced to cancel an entire foreign trip due to airspace denial. Taiwan then made urgent requests to transit through Europe. Germany refused. The Czech Republic refused.

So Taiwan found another route. The details have not been fully disclosed. Lai arrived unannounced, posted a photo from the aircraft stairs, and greeted the Swazi people in their own language.

Beijing deployed the airspace of three countries to stop a democratic leader from visiting a democratic ally. It pressured two European nations into refusing transit. It failed. Lai is there.

Eswatini has held firm as Taiwan's only African partner despite sustained Chinese diplomatic and economic pressure for years. Taiwan has only 12 diplomatic allies left globally. The CCP has spent decades systematically eliminating each one with promises of investment and political pressure. It has not gotten this one yet.

"Taiwan will never be deterred by external pressures," Lai wrote. After what it took to get there, those are not empty words.

#Taiwan #CCP #China #Eswatini #Lai #Diplomacy #Geopolitics #Airspace #Freedom #TaiwanStrong