Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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Yes, but people can get to the moon in less than 3-5 years. Before we can even think about mining asteroids, we have to invent automated mining rigs for use in space -- and the best place to do that would be on the moon, not on the asteroid belt 3 years away.

I don't know what they are looking for on the moon, but we wouldn't be bringing back iron. I suspect what would be retrieved would be ore with a very high value density. Not diamonds, but same idea -- you can pack a lot of $$ worth of diamonds into a small rocket blasting off.
These people did it.

 
No, not literally. His botched penis enlargement surgery means all his recent kids are the result of artificial insemination.

At least, if the rumors are to be credited.
So, the man who doesn't believe his daughter should have surgery to change her body in a way that makes her feel better about herself, has had jaw implants, hair implants, and a dick implant?
 
WSJ reporting:

Ashley St. Clair wanted to prove that Elon Musk was the father of her newborn baby.

But to ask the billionaire to take a paternity test, the right-wing social-media influencer had to go through Musk’s longtime fixer, Jared Birchall.

“I don’t want my son to feel like he’s a secret,” St. Clair told Birchall in a two-hour phone call in December.


Birchall offered St. Clair some advice. His boss was a “very big-hearted, kind and generous person,” he said. But Musk had a different side. When a mother of his child goes “the legal route” in these discussions, “that always, always leads to a worse outcome for that woman than what it would have been otherwise,” Birchall told the 26-year-old. Plus, he said, Musk wasn’t sure the child was his.

It wasn’t the first such conversation for Birchall. His public job is running Musk’s family office, and he recently helped organize Musk’s more than $250 million push in support of Donald Trump’s election.

Behind the scenes, Birchall also manages the financial and privacy deals Musk wants for the women raising the world’s richest man’s babies.

Musk has had at least 14 children with four women, including the pop musician Grimes and Shivon Zilis, an executive at his brain computer company Neuralink. Multiple sources close to the tech entrepreneur said they believe the true number of Musk’s children is much higher than publicly known.


Musk offered St. Clair $15 million and $100,000 a month in support in exchange for her silence about the child, whom they named Romulus. Similar agreements had been negotiated with other mothers of Musk’s children, Birchall told St. Clair.

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Musk’s baby-making project is relevant to his ambition for NASA, which he wants to move faster to go to Mars. He said on X that making people multiplanetary is “critical to ensuring the long-term survival of humanity and all life as we know it.”

In Musk’s dark view of the world, civilization is under threat because of a declining population. He is driven to correct the historic moment by helping seed the earth with more human beings of high intelligence, according to people familiar with the matter.


His businesses are set up to serve the idea: The main objective of SpaceX is to build a rocket ship capable of getting to Mars, and his other companies, including electric-car maker Tesla, help finance the plan.

Musk refers to his offspring as a “legion,” a reference to the ancient military units that could contain thousands of soldiers and were key to extending the reach of the Roman Empire.

During St. Clair’s pregnancy, Musk suggested that they bring in other women to have even more of their children faster. “To reach legion-level before the apocalypse,” he said to St. Clair in a text message viewed by The Wall Street Journal, “we will need to use surrogates.”

He has recruited potential mothers on his social-media platform X, according to some of the people.

Musk has used his wealth to buy the silence of some women who have his kids, according to St. Clair as well as other people, text messages and documents reviewed by the Journal.


Nondisclosure clauses are part of some of the payment agreements. If the mothers push back or seek outside counsel, Musk’s advisers, including Birchall, have threatened financial retribution, according to the documents and people.

Birchall described Musk’s expectations to St. Clair: “Privacy and confidentiality is the top of the list in every aspect of his life, every aspect, and his entire world is set up to be, like, a meritocracy.” Benefits flow, he said, when “people do good work.”

During the call with Birchall, St. Clair told him she had received outreach from a woman Musk had invited to have his baby. She said she was being caught up in Musk’s “harem drama.”

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While she was pregnant, Musk had urged her to deliver the baby via caesarean section and told her he didn’t want the child to be circumcised. (Musk has posted on X that vaginal births limit brain size and that C-sections allow for larger brains.) St. Clair is Jewish and circumcisions are an important ritual in the religion, and she decided against a C-section. He told her she should have 10 babies, and they debated the child’s middle name.


Once she became visibly pregnant, she mostly stayed inside her apartment so the pregnancy wouldn’t become public, she said. During her pregnancy, Musk instructed Birchall to send St. Clair $2 million for expenses, she said, with half of that amount structured as a loan, according to a text message viewed by the Journal. She used the funds in part to pay for security, which came to more than $100,000 a month, she said.

When she was in the hospital being induced for labor in September, Birchall texted her about leaving Musk’s name off the birth certificate, according to texts viewed by the Journal. Shortly before, she had hired an attorney, something Birchall had warned her not to do.

She complied with the request to not name Musk on the birth certificate. Not long after the birth, Birchall pushed St. Clair to sign documents keeping the father of the baby and details regarding her relationship with Musk secret in return for financial support. The offer was a one-time fee of $15 million for a home and living expenses, plus an additional $100,000 a month until the baby turned 21.


Musk told her by text it was dangerous to reveal his relationship to the baby, describing himself as the “#2 after Trump for assassination.” He added that “only the paranoid survive.”
Completely unhinged. Musk sounds like one of those Quiverfull loons.
 

Four of Utah’s largest and most visited national parks and monuments operate from the same office in Moab. This facility is now squarely in the crosshairs of President Trump’s government efficiency cuts. On March 3, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced that it was terminating this office’s lease.

This 35,000-square-foot facility in Utah houses engineers, resource crews, search and rescue, archeological surveyors, and more. Without it, many employees would be displaced, and equipment, vehicles, and archaeological artifacts would have nowhere to be stored.

Also, the operation and maintenance of the Southeast Utah Group, an NPS area that includes Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and regional national monuments, and that sees over 2.5 million visitors annually, would have no headquarters of operation.

The DOGE website lists the annual lease cost for this facility as $805,408, and the total savings for canceling the lease at $8,058,490.
 

Four of Utah’s largest and most visited national parks and monuments operate from the same office in Moab. This facility is now squarely in the crosshairs of President Trump’s government efficiency cuts. On March 3, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced that it was terminating this office’s lease.

This 35,000-square-foot facility in Utah houses engineers, resource crews, search and rescue, archeological surveyors, and more. Without it, many employees would be displaced, and equipment, vehicles, and archaeological artifacts would have nowhere to be stored.

Also, the operation and maintenance of the Southeast Utah Group, an NPS area that includes Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and regional national monuments, and that sees over 2.5 million visitors annually, would have no headquarters of operation.

The DOGE website lists the annual lease cost for this facility as $805,408, and the total savings for canceling the lease at $8,058,490.
Hey, this is the non-DOGE thread.
 

Four of Utah’s largest and most visited national parks and monuments operate from the same office in Moab. This facility is now squarely in the crosshairs of President Trump’s government efficiency cuts. On March 3, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced that it was terminating this office’s lease.

This 35,000-square-foot facility in Utah houses engineers, resource crews, search and rescue, archeological surveyors, and more. Without it, many employees would be displaced, and equipment, vehicles, and archaeological artifacts would have nowhere to be stored.

Also, the operation and maintenance of the Southeast Utah Group, an NPS area that includes Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and regional national monuments, and that sees over 2.5 million visitors annually, would have no headquarters of operation.

The DOGE website lists the annual lease cost for this facility as $805,408, and the total savings for canceling the lease at $8,058,490.

(other than DOGE) ;)

 
Some of the acting in this is so fucking bad, yet, I’ve watched the full run three times.
Got through most of season 1 but my husband just wasn’t into it and I wasn’t involved enough to argue for pressing on. He is much more a straight SciFi guy and didn’t like the crime angle.

But not sure what this has to do with this thread? 🤔
 
My problem is that they keep calling it a truck. I've been around trucks, especially work trucks for over 70 years. Every time I look at it and imagine trying to put something into or take something out of the bed from behind the cab, I shake my fucking head. That ought to have a Tonka name plate because it's a toy.
That design just screams of someone who has never done physical labor in his life.

Maybe he didn’t intend it to be used for real work purposes but 1) why would you design it to exclude so many customers and 2) the lack of utility really destroys its street cred which is kind of important in a truck even for people who rarely use the truck for what it was made for.
 
Got through most of season 1 but my husband just wasn’t into it and I wasn’t involved enough to argue for pressing on. He is much more a straight SciFi guy and didn’t like the crime angle.

But not sure what this has to do with this thread? 🤔
Nothing. Super mad a comment about mining asteroids and it reminded me of the belters in the expance.

Now back to our regularly scheduled thread.
 

China is introducing new regulatory standards for electric car batteries that will represent some of the strictest safety and testing requirements in the world. Set to take effect on July 1, 2026, the “Safety Requirements for Power Batteries of Electric Vehicles” will essentially prohibit fires and explosions even after thermal propagation, or the spread of an uncontrolled temperature increase from one battery cell to another.


Electric car fires are already rare, and some critics contend that China’s new rules demanding no fires or explosions are unrealistic. Whereas in the past, China had mandated that vehicles warn passengers five minutes before a potential fire or explosion event, they simply cannot happen under the new rules. That could raise the cost of vehicles from smaller brands if they struggle to develop battery technology that can meet the standard.
 

As several sources confirmed, Tesla Cybertruck demand has fallen off a cliff in the first quarter of the year. A new report confirms that Tesla is scaling back production at Giga Texas and moving Cybertruck workers to the Model Y lines.
Tesla started deliveries of the Cybertruck two years later than planned, citing difficulties during the pandemic lockdown and the following supply chain bottlenecks. However, when the series production began, reservation holders learned that the truck would be much more expensive and provide significantly less range than announced in 2019. This essentially poured cold water on Tesla's plans to sell millions, as many canceled their reservations or simply did not follow through with the purchase.

While Tesla has tried to conceal this fiasco by bundling Cybertruck delivery numbers with the Model S and Model X in the "Other Models" category, it soon became clear that the demand for the weirdly-shaped pickup truck was waning. Whereas Elon Musk was confident production should reach 250,000 units a year in 2025, a recall showed that Tesla delivered less than 50,000 units by the end of 2024.

A Cox Automotive report estimated the Cybertruck deliveries at 6,400 units in the first quarter, which means the 2025 production rate might be closer to 25,000 units, one-tenth of what Musk predicted. The second quarter began with a swelling inventory estimated at over 2,000 trucks. Unsurprisingly, Tesla now offers up to $10,000 discounts on trucks in its inventory. Even more telling, you can still find Foundation Series models if you want one, despite Tesla phasing it out last October.
 
That design just screams of someone who has never done physical labor in his life.

Maybe he didn’t intend it to be used for real work purposes but 1) why would you design it to exclude so many customers and 2) the lack of utility really destroys its street cred which is kind of important in a truck even for people who rarely use the truck for what it was made for.
If you're referring to Elon, you are off according to Isaacson's biography. The story is he left South Africa as a 17 year old to avoid military service and get away from his Dad. He moved to Canada and was broke and crashing with relatives. He worked at a lumber mill, shoveled grain, and cleaned boilers. During college in Canada and the US he worked odd student jobs. Dude definitely did physical labor.
 
If you're referring to Elon, you are off according to Isaacson's biography. The story is he left South Africa as a 17 year old to avoid military service and get away from his Dad. He moved to Canada and was broke and crashing with relatives. He worked at a lumber mill, shoveled grain, and cleaned boilers. During college in Canada and the US he worked odd student jobs. Dude definitely did physical labor.
I heard he also walked uphill through the snow both ways to attend his classes at Wharton.
 
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