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2 years

@GeorgeTakei Why would the Ukrainians need them? They have an army... Maybe so armed citizens could defend the country, something like a militia? But that's just crazy talk.

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@TheFungi669 Because he was in DC instead? 🤣

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@ScottAdamsSays It's already illegal. You know that. This bill is simply voter suppression.

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@WholeMarsBlog Car should've automatically pulled over and stopped when the driver stopped responding

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@ScottAdamsSays So the only thing that's not a hoax is whatever you think?

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2 years

@garrettsite @WholeMarsBlog @Tesla Just cost me $36.12 to fill my Prius that was purchased used for $14k 8 years ago. Now has 200k miles. How many years/miles would it take me to pay for a $66k Model Y? I like EV, but it's not feasible for the vast majority of normal income people yet.

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@laurenboebert You really are "special" aren't you? How's your underage rapist son doing as a daddy?

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3 years

@RepAOC @AOC @RepRaskin @usantidoping @wada_ama @iocmedia Sorry, it's not systemic racism to require athletes to be drug free. Like steroids in baseball, football, or swimming, cheating knows no race. And I agree that pot has no performance enhancing effects - but the rule is the same for everyone - race is not an issue in this case.

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@SciGuySpace In general, I've found that people who are hung up on a title or how someone addresses them to be self centered egotistical jerks. Not saying that's the case here, but not a good start IMO.

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3 years

@vincent13031925 The only good thing I can say about Biden is that he isn't Trump.

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3 years

@kimpaquette @elonmusk @SawyerMerritt It's not even about keeping employees happy, it's being authentic, and daily showing them what the purpose of company is. Show them how their individual job contributes to achieving that purpose. It's called inspiration, and @elonmusk is one of the best I've seen at it.

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2 years

@s_sedwards @DJSnM Shuttle didn't have a launch escape system either.

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3 years

@RSanfordSmith @elonmusk @SirineAti About 11% of the US workforce is union. And it's the least productive 11% of the workforce. Mostly public employees and others living off taxpayers - like GM.

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@pathfinder_tua @Rainmaker1973 It's called breeding. Not chemicals.

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3 years

@BadNewsBeau @NickLooney901 He wasn't involved in the games he bet on according to what I've seen.

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4 years

@SciGuySpace Oh goody, government bureaucrats are gonna investigate and tell Musk what went wrong with SN9. Gonna be a 3 month wait before they let S10 try again - perfectly safely BTW.

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4 years

@NateSilver538 And yet my wife who is going through chemo, still can't get it here in Louisiana. On a neutropenic diet, can't eat a damn banana, but no vaccine for her yet. I don't get it - where are these millions of doses going?

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@Talyn777 We have no official religion here. People who think we do are the problem.

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4 years

@scottgriz @davidgokhshtein @elonmusk When I saw the live video of the twin boosters landing after the 1st Falcon Heavy launch (the one that captivated everyone with Starman in a Roadster) it was so good it looked fake. This is SpaceX. You get used to excellence. Routinely Epic.

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3 years

@SawyerMerritt @elonmusk Can you even buy an EV from GM today? Are any for sale?

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3 years

@DJSnM They're not recycled or used, they are flight proven. ;-) Reusing boosters is still (to me) the most amazing part of what SpaceX is doing. Dramatically lowering the cost of getting to space.

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3 years

When I get something stuck in my throat, I dislodge it by drinking a beer. It's called the Heineken Maneuver.

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@DocAtCDI This made me LOL... Help!

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@TheFungi669 They did a 69.

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@TheFungi669 Because the major population centers would outvote rural America every time. It's set up that way in the Constitution to ensure all areas of the country have a say. It may be time to change it, but I understand why the founders set it up.

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3 years

@FreezingFinTake @SenWarren Corporations (and small businesses) exist to make money. If they charge too much they lose business and go broke. Charge too little and the go broke. This isn't a complicated concept, but it seems to exceed your mental capacity.

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@PhantomXMusic69 @SethAbramson There is a thing called truth. It exists. And what Elon has been posting is a long way from the truth. 100% made up MAGA BS.

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2 years

@a_meta4 @SawyerMerritt @Tesla It's the other way around. Poor performers want a union to protect them from being fired. In my 40+ years or being in the workforce (both labor and management) no high performer wants a union. Unions simply enable poor performers and keep them from being fired.

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2 years

@GeorgeTakei Millions of people could have received debt forgiveness (aka free shit) in exchange for their votes. This is the same as Trump did for the farmers. No one forced these people to take out loans. They can pay them back rather than me paying it back for them.

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@GerberKawasaki He did offer. But the $6 billion to "solve world hunger" is BS, and everyone knows it.

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@mehrensp7 @SawyerMerritt Time to get those old oil rigs ready to be launch platforms. Put it in international waters and fire away.

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4 years

@elosy1 @waEMD @SpaceX Starlink doesn't have adequate coverage in southern latitudes yet because of the limited number of satellites and the orbits. I keep watching the launches hoping it'll get here soon.

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3 years

@Beniko26020660 I simply can't imagine paying $60K for a car. Paid $14K for a used 2010 Prius in 2014 (still driving it with 194K miles) and my last 2 trucks (Chevy S10's) were $1500 each. With all gas, maint, depreciation, etc, I haven't spent $60K on vehicles in total in the last 30 years.

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@ScottAdamsSays Try reading instead of fear mongering. "Overall, we may conclude that the risk of myocarditis is significantly higher after the second dose of an mRNA vaccine, higher in males, and higher after COVID‐19 infection compared to COVID mRNA immunization."

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@Out5p0ken The cult is weird.

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4 years

@WholeMarsBlog Texans got their electric bills.

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11 months

@StephenClark1 The comments here show why requiring someone to open the linked story before commenting would be a good thing. "This test would involve transferring super-cold propellant from one tank to another inside a Starship spacecraft."

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4 years

@FFToday Herbert as of right now. Hopefully garbage time is good though.

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4 years

@rocketmads Miles from the nearest person. It's a test of a prototype. Nothing unsafe about it.

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2 years

@BobGolen This is one of those times I wish Twitter had a thumbs down. So sad that there are people who sincerely believe this crap, but thanks for sharing it to expose them.

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@Karrii001 @BleacherReport It's against IOC rules. Doesn't matter how many people sign. The active ingredient in marijuana, THC, remains on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s in-competition banned substance list. “all natural and synthetic cannabinoids are prohibited" by the World Anti-Doping Code.

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@vincent13031925 When you're just a year from retirement, it sucks watching 30 - 40% of your funds disappear. Hopefully I won't need it soon, so it'll have time to rebound.

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@Marmel @mariana057 "MAGA treason weasels" may be the best description I've heard yet. They don't even understand that they are the modern day equivalent of the Confederacy, actively trying to overthrow our Constitution. Fire them all.

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@ChuckCallesto Trump orchestrated Jan 6. He's a traitor who should be in jail.

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@DJSnM That's what happens when they aren't bright enough to downshift and have to use the brakes. Trailer brakes lock up and slide, so the sliding tires have less grip than the rolling tractor wheels, so the trailer tries to pass the tractor. Classic jackknife. Totally preventable.

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@WholeMarsBlog You do know this was back when it was almost impossible to get masks, right? I sure hope you aren't discouraging people from protecting themselves. My wife is immunocompromised, and we wear masks whenever we're around others to stay alive.

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@teslafsdbeta @DirtyTesla Sadly, I know several people who have personally said very close to this exact thing to me. So I'm guessing it's not satire.

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@WholeMarsBlog @elonmusk Let's see it doing a simple task like laundry or making breakfast first. Then migrate to complex stuff like gardening or construction. Not tending the garden or painting, actually doing it start to finish. We're many years from even simple things like that.

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@downix @Vy78604158 @AJ_FI Doesn't matter to me so much what they use - dropping it purposefully on populated areas is really dumb. It displays the contempt authoritarian governments have for individual citizens.

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3 years

@1970bulldogz @DrTomFrieden Wow. Not the craziest claim I've heard, but still about conspiracy theorist level 5.

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2 years

@TroyTeslike I'd really like to see these numbers ramp quicker now that Austin and Berlin are open. Does it really take that long to ramp production at the new factories with the lessons already learned from Shanghai? I'd think they'd be at full capacity within 9 or 10 months. Maybe not.

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@ICannot_Enough @Kristennetten To be fair, he wasn't very far off - those were tough times for Tesla.

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@EndTesla @Gfilche You do realize that this IS a show, right? They were showing off the facility and their tech. If they'd have simply displayed a fully enclosed pack like it will be in production, you'd be complaining that it could just be an empty box.

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3 years

@FradetRon @SawyerMerritt @bentv_sh Here's what the Volkswagen CEO said earlier this month. (From )

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2 years

@ProFootballDoc And no flag for the hit to the head after he was down either. That's got to stop. Football is a contact sport, but damn, head shots aren't part of legal play.

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@SciGuySpace LOL! I'm convinced Musk only cares about money in regards to being able to fund his dream of making us a multiplanetary species. And his money is from Tesla, trying to save this planet.

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2 years

@austinbarnard45 @elonmusk I'm in the area this week and want to do a day trip to see Starbase. Is there any particular day that may be more interesting viewing than others this week? (I've never been to the Brownsville area before, so I'm clueless.) Emotionally invested in Starship and want to see it!

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3 years

@SSA_Mark @AdrianoinJapan @ThePlanetaryGuy Says a guy with Internet access.

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1 year

@DocAtCDI Restarting the PC fixes 95% of the problems.

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@SawyerMerritt It's all about attitude and productivity. If you have a good attitude and you're producing, you'll likely be fine. People who are there just because it's a job will be gone. @elonmusk likes people who give a shit.

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@SawyerMerritt This is getting silly. This is no longer a review, this is established companies delaying a competitor who will put them out of business.

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@ScottAdamsSays Man, I'm glad you are in charge of the world and know better than everyone else.

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@DavidShafer @ScottAdamsSays Have those traitor cops been arrested?

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@elonmusk One of my earliest memories is mom waking me up to watch the first step on the moon. I was briefly excited by the shuttle, but SpaceX has me giddy like a kid watching the first lunar missions. Thank you @elonmusk !

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@arctechinc There's no such thing as "free information." The creator has to get paid somehow or they will not be able to provide the information.

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@BillyM2k @JoeBiden But at least he hasn't tried to overthrow the government.

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5 years

@MyManHussain @StriderNotavi @The_Stargazer @GunOfBavaria @LeoLabs_Space Tiny bits won't deorbit/burn up quicker than a big satellite. All objects regardless of mass fall at the same rate. And these objects are in free fall at 600km. And thousands of tiny bits in orbit is exactly what we do not want.

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@SciGuySpace I now assume that the launch was successful, but I ALWAYS look to see if the booster was recovered. So much of a game changer - and I didn't think it was possible 10 years ago. Now it's routine.

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@PowellAnalytics Saints vs Rams in the playoffs. Terrible call.

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@mgp2388 @CalzoneFrankie @ThomasKirven1 @rockettmann2 @DavidNagySFgang Do you have access to Google?

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@kelly__le My favorite: "If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy."

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@dikshyapaudel_ @ErcXspace @elonmusk Musk earlier said that it was to save the weight of the legs/actuators/structural reinforcement needed for legs. Every oz less the booster weighs is >oz in mass to orbit.

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@simonkalouche @WholeMarsBlog @agilityrobotics @JonathanWHurst Why though? I stationary robot arm mounted between the two staging areas could do the same thing - and MUCH faster. There's no advantage to having a humanoid robot in this use case. There are many, but this isn't one.

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@WholeMarsBlog Can you operate the controls with work gloves on?

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@intrepidpursuit @StephenClark1 Obviously you did not read the article. "This test would involve transferring super-cold propellant from one tank to another inside a Starship spacecraft. It's a precursor to future, more complex demonstrations involving two giant Starships docked together in Earth orbit."

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@Erdayastronaut @SciGuySpace But Starship to Starship transfer HAS to happen in order for SpaceX to execute on HLS.

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@ProFootballDoc @WWE Should be ejected and fined. Totally unnecessary.

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@SciGuySpace 1 is personnel, 2 is intel, 3 is operations, and 4 is supply. So basically they are telling operations to be quiet for a bit so they can call roll.

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@teardowntitan It looks like Ford threw in the towel and just admitted Tesla is better. To me, this helps Tesla, but tells everyone that Ford is second rate.

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3 years

@SciGuySpace @ashleevance Liftoff is a great book! I bought the ebook version, and had to stay up late to read it all. You almost made me feel like I was there during those early days.

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@SawyerMerritt @Tesla To me, this is the biggest thing most people miss. Tesla Insurance could be as big of cash cow as anything else they do.

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@SparkPluggUwU @TylerG1998 @NASASpaceflight That's what I was thinking. SpaceX will go there and come back before this even gets there.

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@teslavangelist @WholeMarsBlog @elonmusk I know I'm outside the norm, but $280/month is more than my electric, water, and trash bill combined.

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@GovPritzker @janemarielynch I don't live there, but went there for business many times a year for many years. Sorry, ain't no F'ing way Chicago is the best anything. Most corrupt, dirty, congested, nasty, expensive, and many others, but nothing about it is best. Re: IL. Is any ex-governor not in prison?

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@WholeMarsBlog @jimfarley98 @elonmusk Might be ok, but new trucks are just too fucking big. Make one the size of a 1980's 1/2 ton or a new Colorado or Ranger and I'm in.

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@elonmusk @FutureJurvetson I thought you were crazy for trying to reuse boosters. I thought you were crazy for trying to catch and reuse fairings. Now I'm eagerly watching Starship, because I no longer think you're crazy. And I've signed up for Starlink beta, because damn, I want to live in Elon's world!

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@WholeMarsBlog LOL! You don't cut prices when demand is up. This is the first actual worrying news I've heard about Tesla in quite a while.

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@Rainmaker1973 Tanker, not a container ship.

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@Erdayastronaut @blueorigin It would be cooler if the rocket it's going to be attached to actually existed.

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@NASASpaceflight Crap. Another large piece of space debris.

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@BobGolen That's bad Bob. Really bad. I'm gonna steal it.

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@imjdsharp @krassenstein @CommunityNotes Illegal immigrants cannot vote.

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@WholeMarsBlog My God, change your own tire. Unless you're disabled.

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@BillyM2k @JoeBiden Agreed. It doesn't take much to be better than an insurrectionist. Anybody but Trump in 2024.

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@SciGuySpace SpaceX pulling up to Orbital Reef in a Starship like a tour bus at Cracker Barrel.

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4 years

@GerberKawasaki @Kristennetten @elonmusk Amazing how many people can't change a tire. Or even their wiper blades.

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@SpacePadreIsle Google Drive. Flickr would be good as well, but you'd need a Pro account (I think it's $50/year) to do more than 1000 pics.

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@28delayslater No other CEO is publicly pissing off over half of their potential customer base. Multiple times per day. This is just the most recent one this morning.

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@POTUS Can you just patch the damn potholes on I20 in Bossier City? I've been here 5 years and it hasn't happened yet.

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