Devon Baird

Advocate for governments to stop being the village idiots. Also, I ponder why humans are so delightfully weird.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.

SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.

Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.

SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.

Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.

The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.

Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.

Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.

Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.

Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.

We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.

[david friedberg @friedberg]

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.

you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.

i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.

i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.

let’s leave it at that then.

perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

[shirish @shiri_shh]

bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015.

didn't even know what SpaceX was.

they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions.

that stake is now worth $880,000.

and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is biblical.

A woman in her eighties. Ten years into Alzheimer's. Hadn't spoken a full sentence in five years.

Takes one, 5 gram dose of psilocybin.

She slept 19 hours and woke up and spoke for hours about her life, recognized family and held real conversations. She regained bladder control after five years, walked on her own. and dressed herself. Gains held for weeks.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Congratulations @SpaceX team on an epic first Starship V3 launch & landing!

You scored a goal for humanity.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Tesla released a view of FSD conquering the infamous Arc de Triomphe roundabout in Paris.

There are 12 avenues leading into the roundabout, there are no painted lane markings. If there is an accident here, each driver is considered equally at fault. This is the only place in Paris where the accidents are not judged. No matter what the circumstances.

FSD handled it perfectly, mind blown.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Sadly prescient.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Senator Josh Hawley has reintroduced legislation that would ban members of Congress and their spouses from trading stocks while in office.

He reintroduced the PELOSI Act: “Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments.”

[Devon Baird @_devon_baird]

Also, people can barely drive electric scooters.

[Devon Baird @_devon_baird]

Just imagine how annoying this would be flying around in mass.

I’d love one, but fuck I’d be annoyed if it flew over me.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The Volonaut Airbike takes flight

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

The goal is neverrr Gucci bags. The goal is acres of land.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: Tesla Cybertruck saves father and daughter after getting hit by a drunk driver that was going 60 MPH.

Police: "If you had been in any other vehicle, the car would’ve flipped and been torn in half."

[Tesla @Tesla]

Btw, Teslas are the most American-made cars

[Devon Baird @_devon_baird]

Why we can’t or why we should?

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

This is why we can’t defund the DOE

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Tim Walz is a national disgrace.

Actively rooting against the success of an American company who employs thousands of American employees.

This same company is accelerating the advent of sustainable transport - something the Democrat Party seemingly was trying to champion.

What is his response? Celebrate when the stock is down. The same stock that thousands of Tesla employees receive as part of their compensation.

This same moron ran for VP of the US.

Democrat Party has shown itself for what they truly are - a group of deranged, hateful, disgraced politicians that hate success stories like Tesla.

Instead of courting Tesla, they actively push it away.

Absolute disgrace.

[Vernon's Speakeasy @gottapassword]

Spring Tasting Menu at Vernon’s Speakeasy—Wed & Thu only! Shape our main menu. Taste and vote!

[Vernon's Speakeasy @gottapassword]

This dessert’s a lustful affair—chocolate and raspberries that seduce

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

I am directing the FDA commissioner to start the process of changing the rules to eliminate the self-affirmed GRAS pathway for new ingredients. I am also calling on the @US_FDA and @NIH continue to conduct and improve post-market assessments of GRAS chemicals currently in our food so we can rapidly identify the compounds that are making Americans so sick, and so that American consumers and regulators can make informed decisions. This is an important step in our pursuit to Make America Healthy Again.