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don’t think that’s healthy. A bit like how the worst of the roman emperors were brought up. But again, I’m rooting for them. Best of luck to those folks.

treats everyone including your own mother like crap, is not a promising origin story. And the one who is being used as a human shield and has been taught that his father is the most important man on earth and that it’s cool to shoo the POTUS out of his own office–I’m not a child psychologist, but I

Ok, to be clear, I don’t want to imply that I’m including his progeny in that statement. They are independent human beings with the right to decide who they will become. But they do have an uphill battle. Being sired by an aloof billionaire who thinks you are a step in the new master race, and who

wiped out his own legacy.

What I’m getting at is that Musk has transitioned from being a bad person on average, to being someone that the world would have been better off without by every different measure, independently. No redeeming angles, anywhere. Just think about that–in a short period of time, the man has completely

And Musk’s actions at Twitter…I’ve got nothing here. Do any of you know of an upside? I guess it was funny at first when they had to sue him to enforce a deal he made while he was high. Eh.

and becoming a toady to Putin. So yeah, net-net, very bad.

I had objections to Starlink early on. Musk’s indifference to the concerns of astronomers was disturbing. But when it became vital to Ukraine’s defense, I begrudgingly decided it was a net good. But now we’re abandoning the Ukrainian troops, insulting Zelenski (by any measure, a hero) on live TV,

Porsche was a stunt.)

to trust SpaceX for accurate scientific data the way we could NASA, and at the end of the day, the only fundamentally new thing they did was being a private space company with that much funding. (We already had ways to resupply the ISS. They were an incremental step in commercial space flight. The

SpaceX was a really exciting development (same caveat as before, we can debate what he did, but he was involved). I love the rockets that land again. It’s cool that private industry can do that. But this is completely offset by the current cuts in personnel and grants at NASA. We will never be able

agency.

the Paris Agreement, DOGE’s cuts at the EPA, and the new drilling permits. Musk doesn’t get 100% credit for Tump’s EOs, but he donated $100 million to the campaign, replatformed him on Twitter/X, and campaigned for him. Musk certainly wants that credit. And of course, he’s the dogebag leading the

well-to-do people think they were cool. Electric vehicles have been gaining market share ever since, and some of the changes under the Biden administration could have really capitalized on this to fight greenhouse emissions. But…I doubt this compares to the damage done by Trump withdrawing us from

For one, he helped bring Tesla to market. Yes, it’s debatable what his true role was, but he was involved, and I think his personality helped in some ways. This really did force a change in the auto industry, making other manufacturers take the idea of a market for electrics seriously, and making

I’ve always tried to keep in mind the serious good things that he had done.

Something that I’ve been mulling over lately. It’s been obvious for ages that Musk in his current form is a terrible human being, even if his transformation to bond villain was not yet complete. But people are complicated, and I like to think of myself as intellectually honest, and so in my head

The secret, nameless, hidden tiki bar inside Clifton’s Republic.

The most taxidermy that I’ve ever seen in a night club.

Rooftop bar with Søren and Alexa.

More fun in LA. This is a great Oaxacan restaurant. Had a good meal with my brother and sister in law.

In LA with my brother and sister-in-law. First tiki bar of the trip. Loved the place. The pumpkin rum smoothie was dangerously tasty. Other one is a navy grog.

Fun at the SF Terror Vault this year, just before Holloween.

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