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@astro_greek I’m very grateful his family is there for him. I know a lot of his fans are there for him as well . We are all standing by , cheering him on , and sending hugs through the air to him. 🥺🥹♥️
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If it’s true that money cannot buy happiness, one confirming data point was Musk’s mood when he became the person with the most of it.
He was not happy in the fall of 2021.
When he flew to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico for a birthday party Kimbal had organized for his wife Christiana in October, where Grimes performed as DJ, he shut himself in his room and played Polytopia much of the time.
“We were underneath this art piece with interactive lights dancing to beautiful music from Grimes,” Christiana says.
“I thought about how our good fortune was thanks to Elon, but he just couldn’t let himself enjoy the moment.”
As often happened, his mood swings and depression were manifest as stomach pains.
He was throwing up and had intense heartburn. “Any great docs you’d recommend?” he texted when he cut short his visit to Cabo. “They don’t need to be famous or fancy offices.” I asked if he was all right. “I’m not super OK, tbh,” he responded. “I’ve been burning the candle at both ends with a flamethrower for a very long time. It has taken its toll. I was very ill this weekend.”
A few weeks later, he opened up more. We spoke for more than two hours, much of it about the mental and physical scars he still had in 2021:
From 2007 onwards, until maybe last year, it’s been nonstop pain. There’s a gun to your head, make Tesla work, pull a rabbit out of your hat, then pull another rabbit out of the hat. A stream of rabbits flying through the air. If the next rabbit does not come out, you’re dead. It takes a toll. You can’t be in a constant fight for survival, always in adrenaline mode, and not have it hurt you. But there’s something else I’ve found this year. It’s that fighting to survive keeps you going for quite a while. When you are no longer in survive-or-die mode, it’s not that easy to get motivated every day.
This was an essential insight that Musk had about himself. When things were most dire, he got energized. It was the siege mentality from his South African childhood. But when he was not in survival-or-die mode, he felt unsettled. What should have been the good times were unnerving for him. It prompted him to launch surges, stir up dramas, throw himself into battles he could have bypassed, and bite off new endeavors.
That Thanksgiving, his mother and sister flew to Austin to celebrate with him, his four older sons, X, and Grimes. Two of his cousins and his two half-sisters from his father’s second marriage were also there.
“We needed to be with him because he gets lonely,” Maye says. “He loves to have family around and we have to do that for him, you know, because he’s under so much stress.”
Source: Walter Isaacson's 'Elon Musk' (2023), chapter 67
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LIVE: They are coming home.
Watch as the Artemis II crew returns to Earth, splashing down at around 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11). twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@PlanetOfMemes @nickshirleyy Just choose any other blue state, l’m sure you will see a pattern forming!
It will probably lead to the Manchurian architect, hiding behind the curtain of a hideous library in Chicago.
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💯 Nick, thank you for exposing the incompetence of @GavinNewsom the fucturd governor of CA.
Billions in fraud from almost any agency. You’ve probably just scratched the surface of it all.
Whatever this returd touches turns to shit for the people of CA and he wants to be President! GFY Newscum!
Nick shirley@nickshirleyy
You tried to paint me as a pervert for exposing fraud, and as a result radical leftists started trying to dox me and send death threats, wanting to kill me. Now you are taking credit for “leading the charge” on the fraud. Are you serious? You are the fraud.
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The guy just landed a spacecraft on a comet — one of the most impressive scientific achievements in years.
His reward? A public struggle session because his bowling shirt had scantily clad women on it.
Helen Andrews points out the quiet cost of institutional feminization: HR departments now hunt down any maverick personality and stamp it out.
We’re losing innovators we’ll never even know about, all because someone focused on the shirt instead of the comet.
This is how wokeness actually works.
Have you seen real excellence get punished for something trivial like this?
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One flew humans around the moon!
The other showed Californians the moon!! #fuknewscum
Patrick Bet-David@patrickbetdavid
This is embarrassing, however… NASA’s Artemis launch: $4B California bullet train: $126B Meanwhile, Musk launches SpaceX rockets for roughly $70M. Government builds cost billions. Entrepreneurs figure out how to do it for millions.
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The Left never got over Elon buying X.
That wasn’t supposed to happen.
The Left’s ideas are so bad and damaging they need total control of information.
When Elon bought X they lost that control.
People started seeing truth.
This is catastrophic for the Left.
Simple.
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@lexfridman IGNORE THE HATERS BRO YOU'RE DOING NOTHING WRONG JUST KEEP BEING YOU LITERALLY FUCK EVERYONE ELSE LMAO
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This life is fucking amazing. I'm so grateful to be alive, with all of you on this miracle of a planet.
Oh and I'm sorry if I fuck things up sometimes. I'm a flawed human. But I promise to do whatever I can to try to add some more understanding and love to this world.
After the world leader convos I get attacked intensely by all sides, and many disparate online communities. It has led to some really low points for me mentally. But I don't matter. I'm listening. I'll do better. And I'll try to find the strength to do more of them, always with rigor and backbone, seeking to truly understand. And despite accusations, I do extremely high amounts of research, sometimes 100+ hours for a conversation. Ask many of my previous guests. But when I come to the table, I put all that aside, and make it all about the other person. I don't ever try to sound smart. I know the vastness of my ignorance. But I'm trying. Sometimes I do fuck up and sound like a douche, or do something incredibly cringe. And I hate myself right after. But I'd rather fail and embarrass myself a million times, than not do what my heart says is right.
And besides world leaders, historians, CEOs, engineers, etc, this year I want to travel the world and talk to a lot more everyday people on and off the mic. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time.
Anyway this is written while on I'm on a 10 mile run, probably procrastinating, since to type I have to walk and not run 🤣
But I did just get stopped by a super smart and kind girl who works at a humanoid robotics company here. And she asked if she can give me a hug to thank me for being me. Sometimes the universe sends you a message that even a dumb dude like me can almost hear. I really needed that today. Thank you for the hug and the kindness 🙏 I'm just hoping she was real and I didn't just imagine that 🤣 Then again if I went full crazy might as well enjoy it!
Back to the run. I love you all! ❤️
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Happy Birthday to one of Americas most important Journalists, Nick Shirley ❤️
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Be 100% honest: would you still have voted for President Trump if you knew he'd attack Iran?
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Put that effin judge in jail for failing Logan Federico!
QUANTUM GUARD ™️@QuantumGuard17
🚨#BREAKING: Father of 22-year-old Logan Federico is screaming at Democrats in Congress after his daughter was dragged from bed, forced on her knees, and executed... ...by a man arrested 39 TIMES with 25 FELONIES!!! We need to hold judges & DAs responsible for releasing vicious murderers on innocent victims. Everyone who let this demon walk freely, should be in prison.
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