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My buddies in snark pick up the trail. I will repost here the wsj story link posted earlier, which seems to be paywall free.

https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-starlink-elon-musk-trump-dbc49193?st=AKfjoh

You can never feel comfortable that he won't disable your product on a whim or just for spite

source: /ZacksJerryRig/status/2112594101828997573

Pretty sure that with Trump's backing Elon will just blow off any subpoenas though.

Posting a January 2025 comic strip that is (sadly) still relevant today.

We all know this, but it's good to see that the media is picking this up.

Elon’s favorite party in Germany exposed as straight up racist criminal Nazis

Elon is vastly higher than normal strength ketamine might facilitate.

check out this image from the Roadster demo from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex4Qg-gkLNg&t=784s. note how far the ramp is from the viewing area. note also positions of screens that would likely impede, if not block, the audience's view of the actual live action. I've seen plenty of people argue that the stunt was physically possible, and I think I grant this, but I don't see why Musk wouldn't have faked it anyway. if it was real, why do it in a way that leaves heavy ground for suspicion, such as doing it at night time? it's quite conceivable that Musk did the Dynamo method of doing one trick for the live audience to get a genuine reaction, and another one for the television audience that is carefully produced and edited