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Chamath Palihapitiya just said what Silicon Valley is terrified to say out loud. On Joe Rogan. To millions of people. Without flinching. Chamath: “The only person that we can trust is Elon.” Not whispered at a dinner party. Not buried in a podcast nobody listens to. Said on the record. Full weight behind it. And then he told you why. Chamath: “I feel like he’s the least corruptible. He’s the most independent thinking. And I think he’s the one that has an actual empathy for people.” One of the sharpest capital allocators in Silicon Valley history looked at every founder building AI. Every single one. And chose the one the media spends the most energy telling you to hate. That alone should stop you cold. Chamath: “Then there are folks where there’s just an insane profit motive.” He’s talking about OpenAI. He’s talking about Google. He’s talking about companies that swallowed billions from Wall Street and now answer to shareholders before they answer to humanity. Chamath: “They’re less in control of the businesses that they run.” The people building the most powerful technology in human history do not control their own companies. Their boards do. Their investors do. Their liquidation preferences do. And these are the ones we’re trusting with superintelligence. Chamath: “He’s like, I need to get to Mars.” This is the fracture line nobody wants to touch. Every other AI founder is optimizing for the next earnings call. The next funding round. The next quarterly number that keeps the machine fed. Elon is optimizing for the next planet. One group builds to satisfy investors. The other builds to survive as a species. Those aren’t different strategies. Those are different operating systems running on different hardware. And it changes everything about how you build. When your time horizon is 90 days, you cut corners. You monetize behavior. You trade safety for speed because the board needs a number by Friday. When your time horizon is interplanetary, you can’t afford a single shortcut. Because shortcuts don’t survive launch. Chamath: “Where is this going to end up?” The only question that matters. And nobody in power wants you asking it. Because the answer comes down to who gets there first. If it’s a company owned by Wall Street, superintelligence becomes the most sophisticated extraction engine ever built. Every decision optimized. Every behavior predicted. Every market captured. Not for you. For the balance sheet. If it’s someone who can’t be bought, pressured, or voted out by a board of directors, there’s at least a chance it bends toward something bigger than quarterly revenue. History never remembers who built the most powerful technology. It remembers who controlled it. And what they used it for. The only founder in AI who cannot be fired by a board, leveraged by an investor, or replaced by a shareholder vote is the one they spend the most energy telling you not to trust. Ask yourself why.

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@ExploreCosmos_ Thank you Erika, great explanation!! Don’t worry about the trolls…

When a spacecraft leaves Earth, it doesn’t just fire its engines and head straight to its destination. In many missions, especially those going beyond low Earth orbit, there’s a more subtle and elegant strategy at play, one that uses gravity itself as part of the navigation system. This is often called a gravity assist, or a slingshot maneuver. But in the case of missions like #Artemis II, what’s being used is a closely related idea known as a free-return trajectory. At first glance, it might sound simple: the spacecraft goes to the Moon, loops around it, and comes back. But the physics behind it is anything but simple. Instead of relying on continuous propulsion, the spacecraft follows a carefully calculated path through the gravitational field of the Earth–Moon system. It is launched with just the right speed and direction so that, as it approaches the Moon, the Moon’s gravity bends its trajectory. The spacecraft is effectively flung around the Moon, redirected onto a path that naturally brings it back toward Earth. No major engine burn is needed for the return. Small trajectory corrections may still be required, but gravity does the heavy lifting. That’s the key. This kind of trajectory is not just efficient, it’s also safe. If something goes wrong with the spacecraft’s engines or onboard systems, gravity itself ensures the return. It’s an inherent backup plan, built into the trajectory from the very beginning. The same fundamental idea appears in gravity assists used across the Solar System. When a spacecraft flies past a planet, it can gain or lose speed by exchanging momentum with that planet. From the spacecraft’s point of view, it’s as if it has been accelerated without using fuel. In reality, it has borrowed a tiny amount of orbital energy from the planet itself. That’s how missions like Voyager reached the outer planets, and how probes continue to explore regions far beyond what their onboard fuel alone would allow. But there’s an important distinction. An interplanetary gravity assist is typically used to change speed and direction, often increasing the spacecraft’s energy. A free-return trajectory, like the one used in Artemis II, is designed for something more specific: a path that naturally loops back to Earth without requiring additional propulsion. It’s less about gaining energy, and more about shaping a trajectory that guarantees a return. To understand why this works, it helps to stop thinking in straight lines. In space, motion follows curves defined by gravity. The spacecraft is constantly falling, first toward Earth, then toward the Moon, and then back toward Earth again. What looks like a loop is really a continuous free fall through a changing gravitational landscape. This way of navigating space reveals something deeper. We tend to think of engines as the drivers of motion, but once a spacecraft is on its way, gravity does most of the work. The art of spaceflight is not just about thrust. It’s about knowing when not to use it. #GoodLuck #Artemis @NASAArtemis

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Why do people believe that taxing billionaires more is suddenly going to fix all of our problems? In 2025, the federal government spent $1.8 TRILLION more than they made in tax revenue. If we instituted a 100% wealth tax and confiscated all the stock holdings of Elon Musk, Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, and Mark Zuckerberg you would be able to balance the budget… for one year. What are you going to do the year after that? Assuming a 5% wealth tax per year, taxing those 6 billionaires would raise $94 billion. That means the deficit would be $1.7 trillion instead of $1.8 trillion. Meanwhile all those guys lose control of their companies. What exactly does that solve? We can’t tax our way out of this situation. Cracking down on waste, fraud, and abuse is essential.

@mehdirhasan He saved our asses by being the only American option to get to space — and they did it for 90% less If SpaceX didn’t exist, we would be begging Putin and Xi to get to space, which is exactly what I think the new socialists/communists here in America want!

SpaceX developed Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Dragon for roughly $2.7 billion. The California high-speed rail has spent $15.7 billion and produced zero miles of operational track. The difference is incentive structure. Government contracting pays cost-plus. Contractors bill for time and materials with guaranteed margins. Every delay generates more billable hours. Every change order adds revenue. The consulting firms that planned California’s rail funded much of the 2008 bond campaign. They’ve collected fees for 17 years of planning, management, and oversight on a project with no completion date. SpaceX operates fixed-price. Miss your timeline, eat the cost. Blow your budget, lose money. Deliver early, keep the margin. Musk’s engineers have skin in the game. California’s contractors have billable hours in the game. The rail authority has issued more than 1,000 change orders. SpaceX iterates on hardware, not paperwork. China builds high-speed rail at $17-21 million per kilometer through state-owned enterprises with execution authority. They standardized designs across 48,000 kilometers of track. California reinvents specifications for every segment, litigates every environmental review, and negotiates every utility relocation individually. The fix is obvious: public-private partnership with fixed-price contracts and milestone payments. Government sets the route, secures right-of-way, handles eminent domain. Private operators bid fixed prices for construction and operation. Pay on delivery. Performance bonds for delays. Contractors who miss timelines lose future bids. Brightline built functional passenger rail in Florida. Private capital. Operational trains. Actual passengers. They’re expanding to Las Vegas. California could have contracted Brightline or a similar operator in 2008. Hand them the route, the permits, and a fixed budget. Pay when passengers board. Instead, the state created an authority that’s spent 17 years managing consultants who manage contractors who submit change orders. Musk would have had trains running by 2015. The rail authority’s own business plan now seeks private investors. After burning $15.7 billion in public money, they’re admitting the model failed. Private capital won’t touch it because the project has no credible path to completion or profitability. Corruption indistinguishable from sabotage. And the cure is competition, fixed pricing, and operators who lose money when they fail.

Anyone who thinks the California government has a revenue problem is mathematically illiterate or part of the fraud. California does not have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem. Politicians and their henchmen stealing tens of billions of dollars PER YEAR from our pockets. Ask yourself why they can’t pass an audit! Ask yourself why they change the reporting rules on your pension! Do you start to see a pattern? Endless reams of money keep falling through the cracks with no accountability into the waiting hands of thieves. When is enough, enough? California will soon start to lose its grip on being the most vibrant state in America. The billionaires will leave. The millionaires and middle class will too. And once they are done taxing us of everything we have, and none of us are left, they will tax you. Now, if you’re frustrated about crime, healthcare and education you should be. I am, too: our approach to these issues is trash. Our results on these issues are also trash. So fix the problem: kick out the people who run the kleptocracy. Elect real leaders who are competent, firm, tough and high agency. But no matter what you do, if you keep asking for politicians to take people’s money, you are firmly part of the fraud not part of the solution…and everyone sees you.

It’s not 1% a year for 5 years. It’s a one time 5% tax on all assets and it will kill entrepreneurship in California. Here is an example: John Doe starts a company. He takes a nominal salary - say $150k for this example - and the rest in equity in the company. Let’s say he owns 20%. He raises VC capital in 2026 from someone that invests $100M into the company and values the company at $6B. This means his 20% is “worth” $1.2B. I put it in quotes because he can’t actually sell. He has a paper value that putatively says he’s a billionaire. But he actually lives on $150k because that is what his income is. Just because someone decides to make a bet on the business does not mean some bank account in your name magically gets created with $1.2B in it. Under the proposed tax, however, John Doe would now owe $60M in cash to California in 2027. How will he pay it? Is there some buyer you know of, that the rest of the market doesn’t, that will do a deal at the max value when there is a distressed seller like John Doe who needs money he doesn’t have to pay taxes on value he also doesn’t have! Now imagine that after the tax is assessed, in early 2027, the company takes a write down to $200M. Now his share is $40M. But he still owes $60M. Again, there are no buyers for his shares per se. He still only makes $150k/yr. What is this person supposed to do? He now has a “worth” of $40M but owes California $60M. Should he declare bankruptcy now because he tried to start a business but was retarded enough to do it in California? So did you really get the billionaires?? No. Because the mega billionaires have already left or are tax structured to minimize the tax or will fight it. You will, however, drag a bunch of young, energetic folks who want to make things and hire people into bankruptcy court. Awesome work, Ro. You should be proud.

Those folks are “rich” because they’ve lived the American dream to its fullest. They started with nothing, built massive enterprises that created tons of jobs (& generated taxes), and propelled the country to the top position in tech worldwide. Whether they’re “rich” or “poor” won’t make the rest of the country richer or poorer. In fact it’s more likely to make others richer. They’re not “taking money away from poor people”; they’ve created incredible value out of thin air. You’re deflecting and selling false virtue to people in despair because you have no real solutions.

This idiotic attack, by an inept California politician, on a productive California resident caused him to leave. It should not be lost on anyone that this has already cost California $10’s of billions in lost taxes from Elon and the plethora of well paid employees that followed him out of the state. That number will exceed $200B+ as SpaceX goes public and Tesla grows even more and whatever amazing new companies he starts from now…in Texas. Said differently, had California embraced its innovators and worked with them to find ways to support them, they could count on hundreds of billions in tax revenue. Without him, they’ve gone from surpluses to massive deficits. The will now ask you for the money. What happens if even more entrepreneurs leave? What jobs will be left in California? Who will pay the taxes? I’m glad Elon left and took his tax revenue with him. It has helped expose how fiscally broken California is. If it is not obvious to you, it should be. Yet these politicians refuse to change. Refuse to do audits and spend less. Instead, they now target others down the list and keep asking for more. There is no amount of “more money” that will fix theft, financial profligacy and mismanagement by incompetent elected officials. We need wholesale reforms in California before the state goes bankrupt. We probably have until 2030 at best.