> Strip mining moon is the easy part.

Is it easy though?

The moon surface is full of nasty regolith that can jam up machines pretty quickly. Plus the lack of atmosphere means that any small particle you accelerate fast enough goes into a partial orbit around the moon and hits you on its way back.

Relatively to refining that stuff to anything useful on moon or in space. You have same trouble and then lot more.

Which stock is being manipulated? Both xAI and SpaceX are private, no?

Also... is he involved with any other publicly traded companies? Any that have some weird deals that will give him a big fat payday if he can massage certain metrics?

And yet this relevant information for some reason: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPAX.PVT/

At that point, country could just sanction the company, so that it's illegal for its citizens to pay them any money. Seems like a standard thing to do to a company that breaks laws and that you cannot otherwise reach.

They don't. It's a con / financial engineering, to hide the losses from Twitter.

Another aspect: GPUs depreciate very fast. There's not much use case for building GPU satellites and expect them to last for 10-20 years.

So let's say you expect them to do useful work for you for maybe 2 or 3 years? You have to amortize the launch cost and the build-it-for-space premium in a relatively short time frame. And then what? Reentry? With all the pollution that comes with it?

Also, what orbit do you use? Low-earth orbit is already getting pretty full, with starlink and similar constellations taking up quite some space and increasing collision risk. The higher you go, the more your launch costs go up, and the higher your latency. In higher orbits, atmospheric drag doesn't de-orbit failed satellites quickly, increasing risk of Kessler syndrome.

All in all, I don't buy it.

> They should probably fund their military first.

They should do both. Resilience must be achieved in depth.

> It’s petulant the way the EU is throwing a hissy fit after we’ve had lop-sided trade deals for years and funding the entire NATO alliance ourselves.

Most of the outrage in the EU right now is about Trump's threats against another NATO country (Denmark / Greenland). The funding of the NATO has been slowly shifting for a few years already.

The switching cost keeps decreasing, because more and more stuff is being migrated to the browser and/or cloud.

Combined with some digital independence movements outside the US, I have some hopes that Windows monopoly starts to crumble.

There are three main sources of air pollution from cars:

1) Byproducts from combustion (like soot and nitrogen oxides). Only ICE produce these, EVs don't

2) Break abrasion. EVs tend to do better, because they can do most of their breaking through the motor and recuperate a part of the energy

2) Tire abrasion. EVs tend to do worse here, because they tend to be heavier.

So yes, EVs aren't a panacea, but overall on the topic of air pollution, they score much better than ICEs.

Try to be innovative without staff though...

Here comes the AI buzzwords.

I wish I was kidding. Their search result brings up

>Vimeo AI-Powered Video Platform

anyone who knew Vimeo pre-pandemic knows how eye-rolling this is.

I'd like to add a very simple one: Uno.

With the rules variant that you can play out-of-order if you add an identical card to the one that's on top of the stack, it disrupts the otherwise pretty linear play, and easily scales up to 10ish persons and still be fun.