Capitalist Waterfowl

You shouldn't identity yourself based on groups. You are an individual, wholly unique and not meant to be bound by the opinions of others merely for belonging.

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

Success is not forged on a streak of luck, but on the back of dogged determination to learn, grow, try, repeat.

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

The abstraction makes it harder to see. The timescale is larger, the social structures more complex. But we domonstrate ever self destructive problem the mice did.... for the same reasons.

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

Look at every first world country and realize we live in Universe 25 now.

If you don't know about that experiment, look it up.

The only way to combat behavioural sink is deliberate awareness and expansion of humanities horizon. We must stretch beyond and find new struggle.

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@mymatrixplug Would that I could go with you. But when the rockets fly, when they accept volunteers.... go for me.

Ehlers Danlos locks me to humanity's cradle. For now at least. No medical tech yet makes it safe for me to endure a launch and my willingness to take the risk doesn't matter.

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@TheBuckYouWill @Yumyum_bacon_26 Same goes for the U.S.

When you really look at our spending bills, look at how much was going to "foreign development", you realize 70% of people shouldn't be paying any taxes and the remaining 30% should pay less than they do now.

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

To think this intervention could have changed the entire course of human history....

People need hope in a future worth living to see.
Life can't be just barely solving each next crisis.

[Adeo Ressi @adeoressi]

I organized an intervention to stop Elon from starting SpaceX. Here is the story...

Twenty five years ago, Elon and I sat in a car on a dark stretch of Long Island highway, two neurodiverse geeks staring at the night sky and wondering what came next. We had both experienced substantial exits and felt the weight of possibility ahead of us.

When I joked about 'space' while gazing upward, neither of us imagined we were planting the seed for what would become the largest IPO in history. We spent the next two hours debating why space was so hard. In the end, rockets are fuel and metal. We also debated where to go, and it was crystal clear that Mars was the only real destination.

Upon returning to NYC, we embarked on a global tour of space, meeting space agencies and luminaries worldwide. This opened our eyes to an industry stuck in bureaucratic thinking. If things continued at that pace, it was clear that we would never explore space in our lifetime.

So, we launched Life to Mars to show the world that two ambitious young men (29 and 30 years old), could send life to Mars without any government backing or support. We planned to send and grow plants on Mars, though some were pushing us to send mice.

We had a $50 MM budget that rested on our purchase of two Russian ICBMs for $7 MM each. We assumed one ICBM would fail, and we would learn and fix everything before launching again. When Elon went back to actually buy the ICBMs, the Russians tripled the price, bringing out launch costs from a total of $14 MM to $42 MM.

Our ambitious Life to Mars plan was no longer viable.

As you might imagine, Elon was not pleased. So, he decided to start SpaceX and create his own Mars rockets. Now, this is a crazy idea, both now and at the time, so I organized a large panel of top space experts, and we ambushed him at the Georgian Hotel one morning. It was set up like an intervention for an alcoholic, but for space.

Elon looked me in the eye when leaving the room and said, "I am going to do this." The intervention failed. Elon was committed. The rest is history.

I am excited to see this IPO after 25 years of hard work. What SpaceX has done is a testament to human will and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. It's nothing short of amazing.

Congratulations, E. Amazing.

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@benthecarman @elonmusk if there was such an advanced civilization, which we have literally ZERO evidence of, yeah we wouldn't be able to find it.

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@utsav_mehta33 @elonmusk *ahem* consume phallus

Sincerely, the people who want to get off this fucking rock.

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@royermattw @Toddsmi89574624 remind me what was the AVERAGE price of gas across the entire nation 4 years ago.

Please. Do. Not the price in Commiefornia, the entire nation. Oh yeah... it was $2 per gallon higher than it is now.

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@royermattw no, if it doesn't leak millions of gallons of water a year it won't be doing what it already did.

Glad we cleared that up

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@Rust_ranger57 @stoke_space Are you sure Thor wasn't just battling a snake nearby?

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@Mallard143 @Alexphysics13 Shame to have them sit there and rot is all I'm saying.

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

I think the sudden drop in the stock market could be from people liquidating assets to be able to buy into $SPCX

but also... JEESUS MY PORTFOLIO holy crap its red across the freaking board!!!

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@Jordanguidry6 @mymatrixplug @FelixSchlang give me a bit of time for work to forgive what a PTO approval nightmare flight 12 was if they go that way lol

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@ValueInIdeas the long term potential or SpaceX will always beat the long term of RocketLab. RKLB is just a safe investment because they don't really compete for the same payloads. It's a decent place to stash money that will grow better than a savings account.

Long $SPCX man....

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@JeebsTX @RobinhoodApp they require 20% buffer because legally even a locked in single price can be changed by up to 20% on the last day before the IPO finalizes.

the IPO might say 135-135 but it's LEGALLY 108-162

[Capitalist Waterfowl @DaQuackers]

@PhotonBull Index funds don't tend to pump and dump but more than half the people who buy at IPO that's all they're looking for. Get in and out before the first crash (that they cause by mass sell off).

Index funds would have acted to stabilize, so it's a shame.