Now that I am older, my eyesight isn’t what it used to be. I could still hit that target at 100 yards with iron sights. Meal Team 6 wannabe tacticool moron wouldn’t last thirty seconds in a firefight.

How absolutely and entirely unexpected.

I’ve written on Cross since middle school (1980s)…

Fuck Trump, but this one is a bipartisan effort that has been ongoing since the Clinton administration accelerated the deregulation train. There has also been very little action towards anti-competitive practices for a very long time.

Don’t get suckered into a red vs blue mindset here. This is a battle against corporate and billionaire abuse of power.

EDIT: If I am being honest, I was all onboard the deregulation train back in the nineties. I was young and ignorant. I never imagined the damage it would bring.

*Chihuahuas have entered the chat*

Stoat

They are super cute but also super aggressive when they feel threatened. Please do not purposely approach them in the wild.

(You shouldn’t approach any animal in the wild)

I have never, and will never, see anyone vandalize a Tesla. 🙈

Props to Benn Jordan for doing this a year ago on a slightly lower budget.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DOd4RLNeT4

I bet Trump and Elon would love a distraction away from the crashing economy and stock prices. Expect a “tweet” or “thruthiness” declaring the Houthis as one of the greatest threats on Earth and a subsequent ineffective but quite flashy bombardment.

If I was earnestly blaming Obama, I wouldn’t have purposely phrased it and typed it the way I did.

I was too subtle and it didn’t land. It happens.

Sure. That’s why I put it in quotes AND italics. Let’s also ignore the context that Elon is once again begging the federal government to save his ass.

The joke didn’t land. I’ll take that L.

Did everyone really forget about the “Thanks Obama” joke? Anyway, I clarified my point in the edit.

Everything SpaceX is doing and has done could have been done by NASA had NASA been given the equivalent funds and leeway. This has been covered multiple times in many interviews of NASA scientists and engineers. Simply put, NASA cannot afford and is not allowed to take risks. They are not allowed to blow up ships over Florida and the Caribbean until they figure it out. They used to be allowed, but not anymore.

read my edit

Why do kill switches when you can just hog all the work of maintaining some critical part of the infrastructure and make it’s functioning and maintenance so opaque and impenetrable that the employer can’t replace or fire you without their shit catching fire soon after.

This is literally my firm’s core business practice. We’ve been at it for so long that at this point we have to be included in competing bids because we are the only ones in the world that can do certain specific things.

If you really hate Elon Musk, I have two words for you. “Thanks Obama”

Every single aspect of Elon’s “success” has been heavily subsidized or paid for by the US government (aka, tax payers).

EDIT: It seems the “Thanks Obama” meme has fallen into obscurity. It is an older joke in which everything was blamed on Obama, no matter how far fetched. I even used italics.

The point of my comment is that Elon is the biggest “welfare” beneficiary in history. All of his businesses would be a financial failure without billions of dollars in grants, benefits and contracts from the government, and that he’s been sucking on that government teet since Obama was in office. In fact, it was Obama who saved Tesla, hence the 'Thanks Obama" joke. Even Obama is aware and why the crashing Teslas scene is in the Netflix movie he produced. Now Elon is looking for federal assistance to block his competition.

I reject this fuckin’ race
I despise this fuckin’ place

“Disciple” by Slayer