Next thing you know he’s going to say WordPress isn’t used by anyone.

So there were some military contracts that were just awarded.

54 missions total:

SpaceX: 28 missions, $5.9 B = $210.7 M per launch

ULA: 19 missions, $5.4 B = $284 M per launch

BO: 7 missions, $2.4 B = $342.9 M per launch

SpaceX did get the most money, but they were also the cheapest provider due to their reusable 1st stages.

Just with those 9 extra launches over ULA SpaceX saves the US government and taxpayers 668 million dollars.

If SpaceX didn’t exist, it would have been 8 2 billion more but actually worse since the other providers can’t supply that much and wouldn’t have had as much competitive incentive. Just look at BO the next one which was almost 60m more than ULA. It easily could have ballooned to 4b more adding a 3rd even more expensive option.

Doesn’t seem so self dealing to me, they were able to bid lower and win more, and saved, (I’m assuming you given your rage upset) a shit load of money.

This is what SpaceX has been doing for years, well before he got in bed with Trump.

Shit, I should delete my comment before they get any ideas.

Just a further thought…

It’d be interesting if the tax could automatically increase if these goals that were met, were no longer met.

So to go from 3% to 2% you need to generate an extra billion revenue, but if you lose that revenue it then climbs back to 3%.

It would really complicate the system… you’d essentially need to always be set up to charge income tax, but then have a variable rate that updates the systems maybe quarterly or yearly. But you couldn’t ditch the system entirely since you’d need companies to have a method to suddenly start charging it again if it had to go from 0% to 0.5%

It sounds like it only goes to 0 if certain goals are met, otherwise it’ll go down to, and then stay at 3%.

So if they can’t figure something out like those other states, it won’t go to 0.

Still a bad idea, but it’s not a lets make it 0% right away then FAFO

I feel like it’d be pretty hard to get a job in a freaking airport terminal as an illegal immigrant as well… not the brightest racist person there.

At what point can the Canadian government just start seizing assets of US companies in retaliation of the tarrifs?

Oh this is going to cause the auto factory in Ontario to be shut down and thousands of jobs lost?

That’s a Canadian owned factory now. Sorry GM. We’ll make cars for ourselves.

Ya know … a lot of things get called unprecedented, but I gotta say, I highly doubt a journalist has ever been included on a classified military strike chat anywhere in the modern world, possibly the whole world, ever.

So ya this is definitely unprecedented.

If someone absolutely had to be fired over this, it’s her supervisor for either not telling her to let a higher up know, or being a god dam supervisor and not reporting it up the chain themselves. WTF

He probably threw a roll of toilet paper at the TV and thinks he helped them.

And this is why a family member with a green card got their citizenship ahead of Trump winning the 1st election just in case.

Why does any government invest time or money into new and evolving things. To stay up to date, be ready for change, and see how that new change can be of benefit.

When there’s a disruptive force, you have a few options

1. try to kill it so it can’t disrupt

2. do nothing and be disrupted

3. dip you toes in, so if disruption happens you aren’t blindsided and can hopefully wade through it

4. take a chance and swim in it so you can be on the leading edge of that disruption.

They’ve kinda tried option 1 but failed.

Option 2 could lead to long term consequences

Option 3 leaves them prepared but not overly exposed

Option 4 would be pretty risky

So really, option 3 is probably the best bet given option 1 hasn’t been working.

I’m not going to try and convince you on the merits of crypto, but it can be secured so it isn’t “ridiculously easily stolen”

I just don’t think Trump would do it.

Edit: Just to give an example - you could make it so you can’t use the money without 100% of congress (house and senate) and the president authorizing it. It would be so secure, you’d probably never be able to use it ever again.

They’re bombing the Houthis rebels who are (were?) fucking with the red sea shipping route to protest Israel, but I’m not sure how much they’re still fucking with it today. The Yemen government isn’t fully in control of Yemen.

Hey Putin,

We’ll give you some more gold to get it back, say $0.75 on the dollar so you get a finders fee?

Putin - Sounds great!

two weeks later

Shit we lost them again, Thiel seems to have them this time, maybe he’ll give them back to us for $0.75 on the dollar as well!

So personally, I think the government should have some, but I don’t specifically think selling gold for it is the right idea.

Everyone seems to be on about how this is just about cashing out his buddies, but what I’m worried about is these dumbfucks won’t know how to properly secure it or won’t properly secure it and itll get easily stolen, or they’ll outright steal it themselves.

Like they just used signal to talk about bombing Yemen and included a journalist on it…

So while I think it’s not a bad idea to have some, it’s fucking terrifying that Trump is doing this and can influence it.

They may have used the proper glue… that foot pedal recall, proper glue, but the workers had trouble installing it so they added soap to the pedal without properly vetting it and that fucked up the glue.

Something like that could have happened again

Edit: Just thinking of a made up stupid reason like the soap and thought it was funny…

E.g: We were supposed to use a size 3 glue applicator as per the asssembly spec, but it was causing some excess glue to come out along the edges as we placed the trim down and it was a lot of effort to properly wipe up on each vehicle, so we started using a size 2 applicator with less glue! 🤦

4 states haven’t needed any FEMA money since 2015? Wow.

Edit: Oh wait more in the tiny ones on the east coast as well.

Any bets on when the first flight neither originating in, or ever landing in, the USA gets grounded by jets so they can deport someone on the plane?

I know it makes absolutely no sense, but neither does this timeline.