MAYE🤴

Mother of @Elonmusk Thanks y’all for the love and support 🥰

[SGCorbett @corbett_sg]

@Mayeli702 you must be so very proud of your family. Those grandchildren! If they were mine, I'm afraid I'd have to keep sewing my buttons back on, I'd be that proud of them all!😎 I am very *im*patiently waiting to see what @DOGE will accomplish for us, after such a start!👏

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Make a beautiful custom greeting or birthday card with Grok instantly!

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

When I say "we are in the looting phase of institutional decline", this is what I mean

The money wasn't really meant to connect rural broadband. It was meant to be funneled into left-wing NGOs in order to enrich the party faithful

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Nuts

[Ryan Caton @dpoddolphinpro]

It's been another year of mass-to-orbit domination by @SpaceX. Their Falcon family has launched approx. 1,500 metric tonnes to orbit of reported mass.

That's over 20x 2nd place worldwide. That's over 500x 2nd place in the US.

Full results are below the fold ↓

Company | Mass-to-orbit | % of launches with reported mass
1. @SpaceX | 1,497,848kg | 85.5% reported
2. CASC | 62,680kg | 18.8% reported
3. @Roscosmos | 60,610kg | 91.7% reported
4. VKS RF | 10,000kg | 40% reported
5. @MHI_Group | 5,665kg | 40% reported
6. @ISRO | 3,909kg | 100% reported
7. @Arianespace | 3,514kg | 100% reported
8. @ULAlaunch | 2,783kg | 40% reported
9. @RocketLab | 881.1kg | 50% reported
10. ISA | 300kg | 50% reported
11. IRGC | 110kg | 100% reported

Operators who launched this year but reported 0% of the mass they launched are not included in this data set.

With CASC only reporting the mass of 18.8% of their launches this year, it's likely that they actually launched much more than 62.6t, but it's impossible to confirm that number. Regardless, @SpaceX is the clear leader in the industry.

Why is some mass launched unreported? Either because it's classified, defence-related, proprietary, etc.

Data from @NASASpaceflight's @NextSpaceflight

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

Curtis Yarvin’s Parable of of the Motorcycle Helmet:

Let’s say you see a motorcycle driver who’s crashed on the side of the road. You immediately rush to help. You take off his helmet to help him breathe—and this is a big mistake. You’ve forgotten your first aid class where they told you you very much mustn’t do this as it can hurt their spine. The man you were trying to rescue is now paralyzed from the neck down for the rest of his life.

Horrible tragedy, anyone would agree, but you are morally blameless. After all, you were just trying to help and only innocently caused the carnage.

Yes. But what if we discovered there was someone who drove around looking for crash sites, and whenever he saw a crashed motorcyclist, took off their helmet, paralyzed them, and then said "Oops!"

We would not consider that person blameless. We would be forced to conclude that far from being a misguided, but well-intentioned good samaritan, they are actually a psycho who gets off on hurting motorcycle crash victims.

Same with the left. Take any issue. The poverty trap effects of welfare have been beyond dispute for decades for any reasonable observer. The black-lives-destroying effects of under-policing have been beyond dispute for decades. Etc etc etc etc. And yet they keep pulling off the motorcycle helmet at every opportunity, and then going "Oh no! Who could have foreseen this?"

At some point you have to be forced to conclude that they’re not well-intentioned but misguided. That there’s something much darker going on.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

“Europe has to tolerate grooming gangs for the economic benefits”

The economic “benefits”:

[max tempers @maxtempers]

The grooming gangs trial summary transcripts are utterly grotesque. It’s incredible we haven’t had mass civil unrest. Media reporting guidelines helped bottle it up. Some of these people are going to walk free soon.

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

By the way, grooming gang leaders were allowed to stay in the UK when it was decided that deporting them would breach their human rights.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

One of the most shocking events in my academic career was at Oxford Uni (Oxford actually had a grooming gang) where professors denied it was a serious scandal. It was about 2 years ago. One tried to blame the white British. I wrote about it here
https://t.co/2XFSjqocdu