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Whole Mars Catalog
@wholemars · May 30, 2024
The other ironic thing about @CalPERS is that they are actually part of the executive branch of the State of California.
It’s run by the state of California, and currently massively underfunded. Elon would pay $6.33 billion in taxes to the state of California if he exercised
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
They are doing this for social reasons, at the expense of the state and their constituents
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Dan Piemont
@danpiemont · May 29, 2024
As a founder of a launch company, I disagreed with the thrust of this NYT article. I admire SpaceX and welcome their success.
Our goal at ABL is to create fundamentally better launch systems, spread them all over the world, and launch all kinds of new technology that is 10x –
Michael Madrid@buildingMadrid· May 28, 2024"please help, SpaceX is competing too good"
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
Thank you for the thoughtful rebuttal.
To the best of my knowledge, none of the rideshare missions have lost money.
I do hope that rocket companies focus on reusability. That is the fundamental breakthrough needed for humanity to become a spacefaring civilization. Falcon is ~80% reusable and the team is doing incredible work launching every 2 or 3 days.
With extreme effort, Starship will eventually take reusability to ~100%. There are many tough issues to solve with this vehicle, but the biggest remaining problem is making a reusable orbital return heat shield, which has never been done before. The Shuttle’s heat shield required over 6 months of refurbishment by a large team, so was not reusable by any reasonable definition of the word.
This will take a few kicks at the can to solve and requires building an entirely new supply chain for low-cost, high-volume and yet high-reliability heat shield tiles, but it can be done.
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Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal · May 30, 2024
🚨🇺🇸 ELON: “PROSPERITY HAS DESTROYED THE BIRTHRATE"
Elon:
“I encourage everyone in this room to have at least three children. I think we want to have a slightly increasing population and population, this applies to all countries and cultures.
I don't think we want any country
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
Yup, this is the cycle of history
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DogeDesigner
@cb_doge · May 30, 2024
Elon Musk used to rewrite code of engineers working at Zip2 after they went home, and used to work 120 hours a week. He never really wanted to be a CEO.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
True
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David Sacks
@DavidSacks · May 30, 2024
A reporter from an SF newspaper buzzed my gate.
Reporter: “There’s a neighbor having a Trump fundraiser and I want to know how you feel about it.”
Me: “I feel great about it.”
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
😂
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sophie
@netcapgirl · May 30, 2024
elon and yann have shown us that no amount of money or status can suppress the desire to post. and i think that’s beautiful
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
😂
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Speaker Mike Johnson
@SpeakerJohnson · May 30, 2024
When you’ve won the Ayatollah, you’ve lost America.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
If I-ya-toll-yah once, I-ya-toll-yah a million times!
That’s my Ayatollah joke 🥁
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Garry Tan
@garrytan · May 29, 2024
We need an Attorney General in California who will crack down on nonprofit grift
After we repair San Francisco, Sacramento is next
MissionLoco@MissionLoco· May 29, 2024Really excellent piece concisely summarizing the non-profit mafia scam-fest that is SF. How is it that @RobBonta is so busy chasing headlines that he does nothing?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
Yeah
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Caroline Downey
@carolinedowney_ · May 29, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: The California Department of Corrections is forcing female prison guards to strip search trans-identifying male inmates. If they refuse, they can be fired. 🧵
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
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Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_ · May 29, 2024
Woah. The Chief of U.S. Border Patrol reports that over 52,000 Special Interest Aliens have already been encountered crossing illegally just since October 1st, almost 90% of which have been in San Diego sector. These are illegal aliens from countries w/ possible security concerns
Chief Rosario “Pete” Vasquez@USBPChief· May 29, 20245/25: USBP agents in Santa Teresa, NM apprehended 6 special interest migrants (SIMs) from Morocco.
So far this FY, USBP has apprehended +52K SIMs. San Diego Sector alone accounts for nearly 88% of those.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
We don’t really have a border
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
Replying to @iamnot_elon
Like Cupid, but shooting Ozempic arrows 💘🤣
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Seth Dillon
@SethDillon · May 28, 2024
The reason Democrats are so terrified of Trump is because they think he'll abuse his power in the same ways they have.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
Yup
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Seth Dillon
@SethDillon · May 29, 2024
The extinctionists are at it again.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
Indeed, that is a really messed up headline!
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Rowan Cheung
@rowancheung · May 29, 2024
Ex-OpenAI board member Helen Toner finally spoke about why the board fired Sam Altman.
Plus, big news from OpenAI's next model, SignLLM, Canva, Copilot for Telegram, and xAI.
Here's everything going on in AI right now:
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
Wild times
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Penny2x
@imPenny2x · May 29, 2024
Americans are fat, and we are at a fork in the road.
The ladies at the table next to me at Starbucks are talking about Ozempic.
My workout buddy’s girlfriend is using Ozempic.
Elon is (was) using Ozempic.
We created this problem with processed food, and we are trying to solve
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
Just make a lot of Ozempic/Mounjaro. It’s not inherently expensive. The health benefits of reducing obesity far exceed the downside of GLP-1 inhibitors.
We evolved under starving conditions and now make food that is plentiful and delicious. Whether that food is “processed” does matter, but is not a game changer.
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Sawyer Merritt
@SawyerMerritt · May 29, 2024
I'll also add that if Elon gets these stock options back, he has until 2028 to exercise them. And once exercised, Elon is not allowed to sell those $TSLA shares for 5 years.
Whole Mars Catalog@wholemars· May 29, 2024All the 2018 package does is allow Elon Musk to purchase 303,960,630 shares of Tesla stock at an exercise price of $23.34 per share from the company.
On a cash basis, it doesn’t cost the company anything to “pay” him. Counterintuitively, the company’s cash balance would
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
That is a crucial point. The shares cannot be sold for 5 years, so it is impossible to cash out.
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Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueil · May 30, 2024
Statistics Korea released new South Korean birth data today.
It's really bad.
Q1 births were down 6.2% compared to Q1 2023. The world record lowest fertility is in Korea and they apparently still haven't found the floor.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 30, 2024
The birth rate collapse is happening almost everywhere
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DogeDesigner
@cb_doge · May 29, 2024
The house of the world's richest man, Elon Musk.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 29, 2024
That was my primary residence for 3 years building up Starbase from an empty sandbar to rocket factory and launch site
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David Sacks
@DavidSacks · May 29, 2024
Fauci lied, millions died, but Trump is the one on trial for his life on sham charges.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 29, 2024
Insane
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@fentasyl · May 29, 2024
In the past 18 months, Canada has imported 1,160,000 new "non-permanent residents" bringing the Q1 2024 total to over 2,660,000.
Back in 2017, there were 890,000 total NPRs in Canada.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 29, 2024
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