@DAM_the_ITGuy@marge_knows It’s not going away. Homestead exemption is increased. So the counties will get less money. If they stop spending on non essentials they will be fine
@DAM_the_ITGuy Not a single word on the waste and grift … Floridians have once in their lifetime chance to reduce their taxes.. let’s see if common sense or fear mongering wins
@neoavatara The amount of entitlement is mind boggling. Investigate what exactly? SpaceX is a pvt company that has done more than a lot of European countries for Ukraine. it’s a sensible decision to prevent starlink being used for offensive operations.
Owen is right.
Look, I don't agree with Musk on everything. Especially in politics, I think he isn't quite as savvy as in his other domains.
But I have watched as most of my family has come to hate him, driven by the media that relentlessly reports his every action in negative framing.
It's tiring.
Elon Musk quite literally saved the US commercial space launch industry.
He saved taxpayers billions of dollars in launch costs.
He restored American manned space access.(Yes, I can say that because despite getting twice as much money, Boeing still can't do it)
He built a global internet system that enriches millions of lives.
He kickstarted the EV revolution and literally built the EV charging network that the Greens so desperately wanted..., and yet they despise him for it.
Yes, his purchase of Twitter was bumpy. But while the media demonized him for mass firings and "selling" blue checks, Zuckerberg et al. did the same a few weeks later with nary a peep.
And look at this platform now. Voice calling, video chats, XMoney, Grok, Articles- it's not the cesspool the media makes it out to be.
In fact, I'd wager old Twitter was worse.
@JeffreyBrandes@jaywiliams9 Yeah … let’s stop this. I disagree with him on substance. I am sure he genuinely believes this will be bad for Florida. I just think he’s too much an insider and its hard for him to see major changes
@davehanson Mercedes had a golden opportunity, they even once owned like 10% of Tesla. Even now licensing FSD will be great for the European brands but @MercedesBenz@BMW@Audi won’t do it
Idiots like you allow me to get a lot of use out of this list I've saved.....
Larry Page: “Elon is one of the people who genuinely understands physics and applies it.”
Sergey Brin: “Elon is someone who thinks extremely deeply about hard technical problems.”
Eric Schmidt: “Elon is extremely smart. He thinks about problems at a fundamental physics level.”
Satya Nadella: “Elon has a deep understanding of engineering trade-offs.”
Yann LeCun: “He’s a very smart guy and I’m in awe of some of his projects.”
Jeff Dean: “Elon Musk is extremely capable technically.”
Andrew Ng: “Elon is clearly very smart and technically capable, even when I disagree with him.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Elon Musk understands engineering at a level that most CEOs do not.”
Chris Hadfield: “Elon Musk is clearly very intelligent and serious about engineering.”
Andrej Karpathy: “Elon has an incredible ability to reason from first principles. It’s very rare.”
Tom Mueller: “He’s a super smart guy and he learns from talking to people. He’s so sharp, he just picks it up.”
Jim Cantrell: “Elon taught himself rocket science faster than anyone I’ve ever seen. And I’ve been doing this my whole career.”
Robert Zubrin: “Elon Musk is a brilliant engineer with an extraordinary ability to cut through nonsense.”
George Church: “Elon Musk is extraordinarily intelligent and unusually well-read across sciences.”
Vaclav Smil: “Elon Musk is a very intelligent engineer, though overly optimistic.”
Miguel Nicolelis: “Elon Musk is a brilliant mind, even when he overreaches.”
George Hotz: “Elon is actually very smart. People underestimate how technical he really is.”
Sal Khan: “Elon Musk is a deeply intelligent person who genuinely understands the science behind what he’s building.”
Mark Cuban: “Elon is very smart and ahead of the curve.”
Naval Ravikant: “Elon Musk is operating at a different intellectual level.”
Rodney Brooks: “Elon Musk is smart and technically literate, even if provocative.”
Cory Doctorow: “Elon Musk is obviously very smart. That’s not in dispute.”
Tim Urban: “Elon Musk is one of the deepest first-principles thinkers I’ve ever encountered.”
Uday Kotak: “Elon Musk is a genius in the way he combines engineering with execution.”
@chris_komatsu@ratlpolicy Did u kno it was his idea of the chopstick catch of the rockets 🚀, infact the engineers said it was impossible and he made it happen.
@JeffreyBrandes@AdamClampitt I think you guys will have your wish. Talking to some people, the fear mongering is insane , I don’t think this will pass. There will never be any accountability for the local govts. The grift will continue.