JB

Constitutional classic liberal(NOT A LEFTIST or PROGRESSIVE)

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Elon Musk reveals what happens when a rocket launch needs approval from Fish and Wildlife

Elon: "Nonetheless, we were forced to kidnap a seal, strap it to a board, put headphones on the seal and play sonic boom sounds to it to see if it would be distressed."

Elon: "This is an actual thing that happened. This is actually real. I have pictures."

Before the seal, there was a shark.

Elon: "One of the things that was a bit of a challenge at one point is that they were worried about our rocket hitting a shark."

He asked for the data to calculate the odds. They refused, in case shark hunters got hold of it.

Elon: "Then they said, well, there's another part of Fish and Wildlife that can do this analysis. I'm like, well, why don't you give them the data? They don't, we don't trust them. Like, excuse me, but they're literally in your department."

Then a second agency raised whales.

Elon: "If our rocket does hit a whale, which is extremely unlikely beyond all belief, that whale has some seriously bad luck. It's the least lucky whale ever."

The seal test was for launches out of Vandenberg, where the seal population has been rising for years.

Elon: "So if anything, rocket booms are an aphrodisiac based on the evidence."

Elon: "The amazing part is how calm the seal was. Because if I was a seal, I'd be like, this is the end. They're definitely gonna eat me."

Elon: "Its seal buddies are never gonna believe him that he got strapped to a board and they put headphones on his ears."

They did it twice.

Elon: "I don't think the public is quite aware of the madness that goes on."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Hot staging

[Us_militryPower @Trumpspoof__]

Breaking 🚨;

☠️ A hacker group announced at 3:00 AM: "We have locked all Starlink ground stations worldwide. Pay $500 million in Bitcoin, or the world goes offline!"

🚀 Elon Musk replied at 3:01 AM: "Check your firmware. While you were writing that ransom note, Neural-Auto-Patch released a micro-update that routed your entire operation through a dead-end satellite in deep orbit. Thanks for testing our hotfix."

[JB @jburosh]

@Ellawest Honestly, probably not. I would imagine it to be a trick.

[Zeek Arkham 🇺🇸 @ZeekArkham]

@SenWarren Curious, Liz… after a career in politics, how much are YOU worth?

I know how Elon Musk made his money; how did you make yours?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question.

A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye.

This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist.

In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal.

But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.”

British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation?

We genuinely do not understand this.

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[JB @jburosh]

@ecom_cork I agree. It’s definitely distracting.

[Gia Macool @GiaMMacool]

I’m gonna tell you something that will save you thousands of dollars in marriage counseling.

The key to a happy household is a well fucked husband.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

7 years ago… I reported on Philadelphia’s new tax on soda. The politicians promised to spend the money on early childhood education.

7 years later… here’s what happened:

[JB @jburosh]

@elonmusk It seems pretty clear to me that all Musk wants to do is improve the world and so far he seems pretty good at it, so maybe we should just let him. Besides, people who make money legitimately, regardless of how much should not fear it being stolen by the government or public.

[JB @jburosh]

@ThomasSowell

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk literally broke down his 5-step process for applying first-principles thinking to build anything:

[JB @jburosh]

@Biaazhelia Absolutely perfect

[JB @jburosh]

@MarindaVannoy1 When you’re constantly told that you’re wrong, you’re too aggressive, you’re not sensitive, you’re not what women want, you need to be tamer, it starts to get to you. And you just give up. It’s like if that’s what they want. OK. It’s not what I want. But that doesn’t matter.

[JB @jburosh]

@femalebodybuil6 The Nancy avocado air pulse toy…for my girlfriend. She hasn’t tried it yet but I understand it’s amazing. We’ll see!

[Rep. Keith Self @RepKeithSelf]

Congress allowed this Orwellian mandate to become law. A group of us in the House tried to stop it.

Americans want freedom, not remote controls and mass surveillance.

We must move to repeal this mandate before 2027.

[JB @jburosh]

@MollyMaeson Isn’t it empowering doing something you didn’t know you were capable of? Congrats.

[JB @jburosh]

@CollinRugg @RWMaloneMD At first glance, I thought that was Will Smith.

[Mandy @MarindaVannoy1]

exactly