@hankgreen If it was so bad, why didn’t any other governments or nonprofits step into the funding gap?
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fortwit1
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It’s funny, motocross at the White House is, like, fine with me. But here’s an example of something that is genuinely unforgivable but that a lot of people seem to have moved right past.
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Dream. Team.
After years of planning, the World Cup is finally here.
What a day.
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at least slide this classic ad in
Trung Phan@TrungTPhan
Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and 1998 Brazil team probably did the best Nike soccer ad ever
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The World Cup’s mandatory 3-minute “hydration break” is most devious ad unit inevntion since YouTube’s triple pre-roll back-to-back unskippable ad.
Across 104 matches, FIFA now has 624 minutes (10 hours) of new ad inventory.
That’s total of $500m potential new ad revenue that didn’t exist before (~$400k per 30-second slot).
Hydration breaks in previous year were called if heat/humidity crossed a threshold.
An estimated 200-250 million people watched Brazil vs. Morocco (Super Bowl is 130 million-ish, but still juiciest ad rates at $8m per 30 second spot).
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WSJ says ad range start at $250k (early games) to $750k or more for top-attraction matches (eg US games) for 30-second slot: wsj.com/sports/soccer/…
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This the basic difference.
Republicans believe that that if you let the wealthy spend capital it will make Americans prosperous.
Democrats believe that the federal government investing in the healthcare & education of our people will make America prosperous & productive.
Don Wilson@drwconvexity
@RoKhanna I am highly confident society will derive greater benefit if that capital is in Elon’s hands than in the hands of the government.
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@sillymechanix @ErikVoorhees Correction - any car company could make electric cars and capitalize on the incentives. Tesla was the only company to successfully do it
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@ErikVoorhees you realize the government propped up Tesla with all the incentives they kicked back correct.
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If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.
The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.
And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.
Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.
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@nicochristie I know you’re trying to dunk on California, but you know Musk is largely responsible for the delays and runaway costs, right?
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@coolguyzune @freedomfromlib @Rothmus Boeing, Lockheed had multi-decade head starts and got their lunch eaten by space-x
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@fortwitno @freedomfromlib @Rothmus sure any son of apartheid with a family emerald mine could set right up
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He did. That’s how he got the trillion.
Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈🇺🇸@Amy_Siskind
Imagine if Elon Musk did something to benefit others with his trillion.
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@freedomfromlib @Rothmus Every other car company had access to the electric vehicle subsidies that made Tesla rich.
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@fortwitno @Rothmus How many people do you know that have enough money to lobby the gov for that or even take advantage of NASA’s incredibly underfunded budget?
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@freedomfromlib @Rothmus Gov subsidies that anyone else could have also taken advantage of.
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@Rothmus Gov subsidies and a Dem gov gave him his wealth.
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@BenGunnEx @cafreiman Helping paralyzed people use computers with their brains
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Elon Musk became a trillionaire precisely because he solved important problems.
John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀@bourscheid
I really don’t understand true greed. If I was worth $1 trillion, you’d have to physically stop me from solving as many of the world’s problems as possible. Everyone would have a home, food on the table, proper healthcare, happiness. I just don’t get it.
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What happens with SpaceX - it's $165 a share right now, does it go to $400? or drop to $75?
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@fortwitno @koreanjewcrypto Yeah, that’s all he was doing. Your point?
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If someone killed my son and I went to their family to pray together and was turned away then ppl of that race showed up to the court case threatening my family and saying my son deserved to die I think I would become very racist against those ppl because they clearly hate me and mine
The Angryman@AngrymanChannel
The victim's own father went public calling Karmelo Anthony a racist, vile name, and let me tell you something. That right there complicates the whole picture. A man lost his son, which is a pain I wouldn't wish on anybody, but that grief does not give you a pass to show the world that kind of hatred. Real talk, when you talk like that, you make people question everything else you've said. The Standard applies to him too. You feel me?
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I need youngins to know there was a period of like 3 years where Austin Powers quotes were just everywhere.
It was bigger than you could have imagined for a fuckin James Bond parody. And it actually killed James Bond for a decade.
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So you understand, the reasoning Black people have behind this case which is influenced by historical precedent? Did you cheer when Daniel Penny got off for choking a homeless man out on the subway for yelling? How about when the Asian store owner walked last week for shooting a kid in the back? This case doesn’t exist in a vacuum
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@LukeBrogan14 @litcapital Why? Anyone with these shares could set up a hedge today and lock in millionaire status
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@litcapital I would be extremely skeptical of these numbers. SpaceX seems massively overvalued, since they rely heavily on government, subsidies. Fun fact, musk is very cash poor and would be worth around $250 billion if he tried to liquidate.
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SpaceX alone just created over 5,000 millionaires while you have lifted zero people out of poverty or created zero millionaires (besides yourself)
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth. We need a wealth tax.
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@ReadFuturist @shivon @globeandmail Not at all irresponsible for a pension to invest in venture if it is properly sized in a diversified portfolio. This is like pension investing 101.
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@shivon @globeandmail It's highly irresponsible that it invested in the usual mene Ponzi scheme of a technologist like Musk, whose reputation and capabilities are declining by the year. Whose actions have damaged civilization more than they have uplifted it.
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Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…
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@MAalcofribas One difference that might explain some of this - many Europeans know enough English to get by, few Americans know another language so stick to the more touristy spots where they know at least some folks will know English.
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One huge gap I see between Euro and American tourists is that the Euro seems genuinely interested in seeing ordinary life in small town America whereas the American bürger really only ever stays within a capitol or around the main sites.
Not many Americans itching to pass through Besançon, Łódź, Kiel, or Ipswich, but Euros are completely gobsmacked by Fairhope, Chattanooga, Middlefield, Bowling Green, and Ocean City.
Freddy🇩🇪@FreddyLA7
I could live here
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