ok…
now they’re pissing me off!
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In a statement delivered to SpaceNews, NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens said that “This streamlining effort ensures that taxpayer dollars are directed toward the highest-impact projects while maintaining NASA’s essential functions at the highest level of execution.”
Stevens joined NASA as its press secretary this month, after serving as press secretary to Texas’ Republican Senator Ted Cruz.
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The absolutely dumb idea aside, how does getting funding from X instead of Y fix anything? The issue isn’t the money, as much as the strategy for fixing things… something he offers nothing on.
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This is what I would like to see more reporting on. What is happening when they physically intimidate government employees and contractors to give them access to systems?
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I think because they’re getting “points and loyalty miles” so turning this from tax money/government spend to charity.
And then saying said charity has a $25 billion cap is pretty wishful. Looks like Bono is a failed candidate in CA and also someone who’s done quite a few different charities over the years.
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Presumably, this way, it fixes Z, who skims from the top
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Why stay in the building after you have set it ablaze and fully looted it? Besides, he knows his noble lieutenant Big Balls will carry on the dignified work he’s begun. 
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He also said that we’d have a gazillion of robotaxis by now and that Starship’s first mission to Mars would be in 2024.
However, I do think he’s both under pressure from people who would like to see Tesla continue being grotesquely overvalued and has started to realise that he needs this overvaluation himself to keep his empire going.
On the other hand, the timing and the narrative of stepping needs to be just so, otherwise he’s setting himself up to be the scapegoat for the rest of the “administration”; the old guy who everybody can blame for everything retroactively.
We’ll see. But what am I worrying myself about, he’s an accomplished bullshit artist.
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