SweaterNerdGeoff

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[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

The main difference is that he doesn't have that cash on hand. He would have to diminish his stake in his companies for this "one time" payment and for each "one time" payment after that. Besides, that money would never actually help anyone. It would disappear into the void of administrative costs, per usual. Then you could say he didn't do enough, clearing the path to another one time payment. Rinse, profit, repeat.

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@brivael One of the crazy accusations leveled is how SpaceX get gov contracts. When you are the cheapest and most reliable, you deserve the contract. And SpaceX does flat rate, unlike their cost plus competitors that frequently run over their bids.

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@RoKhanna @elonmusk Does you lying about USAID children dying count as free speech?

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Beaucoup de figures de gauche, aux US comme en Europe, qualifient Musk d'extrême droite. Certains vont jusqu'au mot « nazi ».

J'ai fait l'inverse de l'accusation : lire avant de juger. Deux biographies. Des dizaines d'heures d'interviews et de documentaires. Zéro once de racisme détectée.

Ce que j'ai trouvé, c'est une obsession constante pour la liberté : rachat de Twitter au nom de la liberté d'expression, réintégration des comptes bannis, publication des Twitter Files, ouverture du code de l'algorithme, open-source de Grok, brevets Tesla libérés en 2014, Starlink rallumé pour les Iraniens coupés du net pendant les manifestations et pour l'Ukraine, refus répété des demandes de censure étatiques.

Maintenant, faisons l'expérience de pensée que ses accusateurs ne font jamais. Imaginez que Musk soit réellement evil.

Cet homme possède un réseau de satellites qui couvre la planète, soit une capacité de surveillance quasi totale. Il possède la place publique numérique la plus influente du monde. Il possède la première fortune à 1000 milliards de l'Histoire, depuis l'IPO de SpaceX le 12 juin. Aucun individu n'a jamais concentré autant de leviers.

Un Musk réellement malveillant, avec ça dans les mains, ne tolérerait pas une seconde qu'on le traite de nazi H24 sur sa propre plateforme. Il bannirait. Il surveillerait. Il écraserait. On serait déjà dans 1984.

Or regardez la réalité : les comptes qui l'accusent de nazisme tweetent toujours. Tous les jours. Sans entrave. Sur son réseau. Avec son algorithme. La dystopie totalitaire qu'on lui prête se démontre par l'absence du goulag.

Voilà le retournement. 1984 le contrôle de la parole, la surveillance de masse, la désignation publique des hérétiques ce n'est pas son projet. C'est le fantasme de ceux qui l'accusent. L'accusation décrit toujours l'accusateur.

C'est du Girard à l'état pur : on désigne un bouc émissaire pour ne pas voir le mécanisme qu'on porte soi-même. Celui qui hurle « nazi » rêve souvent, en silence, du pouvoir de bannir, de ficher, de faire taire.

L'homme qui aurait tous les moyens de bâtir 1984 est précisément celui qui laisse ses pires détracteurs parler. Demandez-vous qui, dans cette histoire, rêve vraiment du télécran.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

NEWS: Flow Cayman partners with Starlink to keep networks online during hurricanes.

“If a hurricane cuts off one of our towers from the core fibre-optic network, then the tower will switch to the Starlink backup and our users will still be connected via satellite”

• Starlink will provide satellite backup for Flow’s mobile network
• Designed to keep customers connected during hurricanes and major outages
• Network can switch to Starlink if traditional infrastructure is disrupted
• Rollout expected before the peak of hurricane season

Another telecom operator is integrating Starlink into critical communications infrastructure.

[Starlink @Starlink]

Starlink is connecting 100,000 students and 1,500 teachers in Malawi across 30 rural schools to online learning resources. For many, this is the first time students, teachers and families have access to reliable internet 🛰️❤️

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@Tesla I don't think my driveway issue can be fixed. If I pull straight in or out, the car scrapes. I have to go into my driveway at an angle and then staighten out to get into the garage.

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@stevenmarkryan Yup

[Sam @DigitalSamIAm]

Can we debunk this nonsense?

Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc.

The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun.

End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously.

And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it.

The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year)

On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach.

So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@MikeBales More times than I've actually replied. 🤣

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@BenjaminDEKR My take was that they saw which way the wind was blowing with protests and sentiment against terrestrial data centers, which was what made the orbital version obvious. It's also a play that SpaceX is uniquely well-positioned for.

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@remountco Split. I've seen mention of a 30/70 split with 30 going to Tesla, but I don't think that's official.

[Matthew Donegan-Ryan @MatthewDR]

🚗CONTROVERSIAL TAKE BY @DougDeMuro & @JasonCammisa 📐

“The Tesla @cybertruck is the best car that’s ever been made!”

Doug advice to the people: “it’s time to go electric”

$tsla

[Rishabh @Rixhabh__]

This guy used AI to put himself in Game of Thrones and fix everything

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@NeverteIImeodd Who they should have been filming is the third person outside of the car that kept moving the carts away from her car.

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@micheal_ws18 I was doing 40 on each, at max, which I think was 395.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

On page twenty-six of “The Billionaire Tax” proposal in California, it explains how the state legislature can convert from a Billionaire Tax to an Everyone Tax without voter approval.

They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval.

Intelligence test for you: if this was meant to just target Billionaires, why did they write this in?

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@StephenFleming The cancel apparatus was very effective. Most of the things people have said to me are from click bait headlines that weren't even true. It's a shame, because he is out there making things better for humanity as a whole. People are missing out on the wonder of it all.

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@niccruzpatane Nevermind. It's Software 14.1, but only 12.6.4 FSD. Tricky!

[SweaterNerdGeoff @SweatrNerdGeoff]

@niccruzpatane I received 14.1 on my HW3 2018 M3 day before yesterday and 14.2 is going to install tonight. Isn't this 14 Lite already?