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That's because he was in a manic moment, and all his emotions and physical movements were exaggerated... This wasn't a calm investor presentation.

I suppose the mania caused his twitter posts and white house politics as well? No, he meant it all.

None of his twitter posts or white house politics show him pushing nazi ideology.

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"Doesn't look like anything to me." Congrats, you baited me into watching the video again. Definitely a nazi salute. Twice. Crisp enough to identify as a nazi salute even if the context hadn't been a far-right industrialist celebrating a far-right victory. But that was the context, giving us two layers of unambiguity.

That's entirely because you have a bias that's set in your head that doesn't let you see anything else. You think he's a white supremacist so you see white supremacy.

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He's only dangerous if you operate a legal system that allows people to be dangerous. Elon Musk has never been the problem. As long as he's not breaking the law it's all good.

> As long as he's not breaking the law it's all good. What makes you think he hasn't? Does he demonstrate that he believes that nobody is above the law? I think you know the answer to that.

Because if someone breaks the law they get arrested.

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It is still about space. AI and space computers are just the vehicle to fund it all.

Billions of AI capex for a model that’s consistently forgettable and space computers, presumably data centers in space, are funding SpaceX? Isn’t the opposite? SpaceX has an extremely profitable launch program and a profitable Starlink. It’s a straightforward would be better off financially without X and X.ai.

You are correct. If the company wanted, it could probably be profitable in the next couple of years. But that would require aggressively shedding stuff like X, xAI, and Starship. If they did that, they'd lose a lot of stock market value.

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In "V2" page 179 Dornberger writes: "Do you know that your closest colleagues (including von Braun) have stated in company at Zinnowitz that it had never been their intention to make a weapon of war out of he rocket? That they had worked, under pressure from yourself (Dornberger) at the whole business of development and only in order to obtain money for their experiments and the confirmation of their theories? That t…

Another interesting factoid about the V2 program is it accelerated the collapse of the Reich. How can that be, you might ask? The V2 program was an incredibly expensive program, and sucked up enormous resources. But the V2 proved to be an inconsequential weapon, and did very little damage, because its guidance system was primitive. The V1, ironically, was effective. Not because it wreaked critical damage on Britain,…

I sometimes wonder about the V2, atomic bomb, bomb sight, and other massively expensive WWII research programs. It seems like they all could have been replaced with much more boring uses of the same money for much greater effect.
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