We should oppose the Trump administration's abuse of the law to intimidate and cripple private advocacy organizations they don't like. But what they say about the Southern Poverty Law Center (which I used to donate to) is, unfortunately, correct: It “long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine.” Among the targets in its McCarthyite "Hate Watch" list are ordinary academic behavioral geneticists whose research challenges the blank slate. https://t.co/uI6L6Da8wX
SpaceX's shocking competence:
"Somebody I know once worked for
@SpaceX and they were asked what it was like, and he said, "It's like being dropped into a zone of shocking competence."
Everybody is ultra competent.
And the reason everybody's ultra competent is because if they're not, Elon sniffs it out and fires them.
Elon's talking to the people actually doing the work. At this point having done this for 25 years he can sniff this out really quickly.
The best engineers in the world want to work for him because he's the one CEO who's able to work with them as a peer on whatever the technology is.
What would be better as an engineer than being able to design a rocket with @elonmusk as your engineering partner?"
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Fukuyama's "The End of History and the Last Man" explicitly draws on Nietzsche's "last man" from "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," critiquing a complacent post-historical society. The "end of history" concept originates with Hegel, but Nietzsche's specific formulation of the "last man" as a warning is his own, influenced by earlier thinkers like Hegel and Schopenhauer.
David Friedberg on the Nonprofit Scam: 90% Are Bullsh*t
“ The definition of exempt activities is charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literacy, public safety, or fostering amateur sports competition, or preventing cruelty to children or animals.
You tell me how the f**k 90% of what we call nonprofits today fall under that definition.
We have completely f**king closed our eyes to the fact that organizations, regardless of political affiliation or social interest, have fundamental commercial and probably not aligned interests with the definition of a 501(c)(3), and we've allowed them all to get away with it for far too long.
I don't think that this is a blue or red thing.
I think that this is a thing where we let these organizations make it easy to get money, to hide the money, and to do whatever the hell they want with the money, and we need to stop it.
And I think that it's an amazing opportunity right now for everyone to kind of reset the decks by cleaning all the sh*t up, and getting all of these organizations flushed, and make sure that any organization that wants to do whatever bullsh*t, nefarious things they want to do, by all means do it.
But it's not a nonprofit and you shouldn't get a charitable donation deduction, and the government should not be putting money into these sorts of things.
This is an entirely different sort of activity in the social order.
And as a libertarian, I'm all for it, but I don't think that they should be tax exempt, and I don't think they should be getting government money, and I don't think that individuals should be benefiting from giving them money.
And if we could fix all that shit up, I think a lot of these problems are going to go away.”
In just 3 years since Starship’s first flight, the iteration has been absolutely INSANE
SpaceX is literally moving at of light speed - building more than a decade of advancements in just 3 years
From Flight 1 exploding to preparing Version 3/Flight 12 with:
• All-new Starship V3 + Super Heavy Booster
• Raptor 3 engines - a true engineering masterpiece (simpler, lighter, record thrust)
• Upgraded launch mount + brand new Pad 2
• 11 integrated flights with orbital attempts, reentries & multiple mid-air booster catches
This is now the most advanced & powerful rocket system ever built in history - solving full rapid reusability at light-speed….
The ADL classifies a shitload of stuff as “right wing extremism” and almost nothing as “left wing extremism”. That is the heart of the problem.
If white people killing black people, which is rare per capita, is classified as “right wing”, then, logically, blacks killing whites should be “left wing”, but they don’t count that at all!
The ADL pushes extreme anti-white propaganda, therefore they are a hate group. Plain and simple.
To me, one of the main lessons from SpaceX is that companies can continue to experience startup-like rates of progress as long as their founder doesn’t lose any of their intensity over a quarter of a century.
If the leftwing masterminds were half as smart as they think they are, they would realise that the collapse of the West they’re working towards will cause their collapse too.
If.