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Point of fact. Musk didn't do anything. His employees did all the work. So the headline does noed amending to avoid a false impression about the true distribution of efforts and talents.

Probably because the State of Israel was founded by socialists. Many of the Kibbutz movements were socialist in nature; a couple were even Stalinist. https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/course/Abramitzky_book_presentation.pdf https://rlo.acton.org/archives/110460-a-victory-for-socialism-the-israeli-kibbutz.html https://fee.org/articles/the-jewish-experiments-in-voluntary-communism/ https://reason.com/volokh/2021/04/03/how-living-on-a-socialist-kibbutz-reveals-the-value-of-private-property/

I've lived in a company town before. Generally <deleted>ty places. What outsiders think of it will be irrelevant as it will be offlimits to them. American definitions of "cities" are strange. This place is barely a hamlet, and nearly everyone is an employee of Musk. https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/spacex-s-starbase-gets-the-green-light-from-voters-elon-musk-s-texas-dream-city-becomes-reality/ar-AA1E7MFg Someone didn't like the statue of Musk Starbase company house. Yeah, predictable design. Think 1950s not 2050s. Seahaven comes to mind. Everyone in identical houses, with Tesla roofs, company grass, company blue chippings, all the same Tesla cars. Look like they are built on the cheap looking at the cheap poured concrete drives.

Problem this., this half Russian bloke calling himself "Frank" is one of that mob.

No its not. Its not about Trump at all, Its about people who post about Trump.

You forgot Gaza.

https://youtu.be/unfpnIF0OMo?si=FSW7C6LXMe7Pkoka

This is why you NEVER drink the dregs of a jug of illicit scrumpy. It can temporarily blind yer. https://globalnews.ca/video/4679363/calgary-woman-suffers-cyanide-poisoning-from-homemade-crabapple-cider

Fair points raised

Lift the mood

What's also puzzling, in a thread where the only invited responses are supposed to be from people justifying their dislike of the man, is the rush of unpaid fans and supporters rushing to his defence, in much the same way as a Pavlovian dog, though without the endearing drool. Of course, someone could start a similar thread about Harris/Biden/Obama etc and get a similar series of responses.

Medvedev must be off his game. And I'm not talking tennis.

The 21st President being Chester A Arthur, most known for those immortal lies in Diehard 3 and a former Collector of the Port of New York. So America has been on the wrong track since 1881. Ok.

You've logged onto a politcal forum and asking why people are posting about the American Presidet? As far as I can see there are those posting topics supportive of his actions. And others with are not supportive. Plus lots of posts about lots of other subjects. Posts suggesting people are picking on him seem a bit paranoid. Plus he's a big boy, on the proverbial big bucks.

Longer clips have been shared in the thread.

No, we are a long way from that. We've been through the 5D chess mode. After 6D Chess, its a game of Pick Up Sticks. Is there a link to the original article, as I assume this was abridged.

Something Japan has been working on for a long time. Honda and Toyota are big sponsors of this type of technology. The reality is more complex, because we live in complex and very different homes. Whatt's more likely is the equip homes with suites of sensors to enable people to live independantly for longer. There will always be a place for care homes, for end of life. Not everyone gets to die at home. This is also where self driving cars come in, to help people live longer in their own homes and be more active. Half of us will get cancer, half will develop dementia. Both of those offier different challenges. For cancer patients, there is now more technology available to reduce hospital visits during chemotherapy. For those with Alzheimers, wearables and other sensors are being developed to detect falls.

I've been speaking to a US supplier of hospital needles and syringes. They are an American company, but they are now pulling out of that segment of the US market. They make speciality needles and syringes in China. They supply hospitals on a Call Off basis. Contractural details mean they cannot cite tariffs as a force majeure, and will have to swallow the price increase. They cannot simply switch manufacture to the US, at least not in short order. The needles require specialist tooling, that typically they get from Germany. Moving production to the US would require them to notify the FDA of a change to the technical package. The FDA requires approvals of changes in manufacturing sites, changes to manufacturing processes. For Class II devices like these, it used to be that the FDA would make a decision in 6 months, but they feel now that recent changes in FDA headcount will extend this. They face either 6-12 months of losses, or losing market share entirely. They think the effect is going to ripple throughout healthcare. At the next round of contract negotiations, hospitals will see prices increase 100-150%. This is going to further increase because at the same time, the FDA has seen serious headcount reductions, which is already causing bottlenecks in medical device approvals. They expect the government's reaction will be to deregulate; to simplfy the approvals process and lower the bar. This won't necessarily lead to more medical injuries, but it will increase the pressure to move the cost of device assessment to the insurance industry. The Insurance industry look largely to the CMS to determine if they will pay for a device or therapy, and that will be based on expert assessment of technical documentation. If the insurance industry is now conducting those assessments, access to quality healthcare will be further restricted, and the increased costs will be passed on to the customer (the public). When physicians choose a medical device or a drug to treat their patient, its not done on the basis of where it is made. its done on the basis of what is best for their patient. Putin found this out. When his war started, he ordered his people to come up with Russian made medtech. The Doctors told him to do one. This is no surprise. It happened during COVID, with ventilators. All around the world, politicians went and got industry together to make ventilators. The UK pulled in the military and Formula 1. The US turned to General Motors and Ford. James Dyson thought he would go ahead and redesign the ventilator. Healthcare professionals were genuinely fearful that idiot politicians were going to tell them how to treat patients. Russia did that, telling hospitals to daisy chain systems. A resulting fire incinerated an entire ward. In America, the American President wanted hospitals to use Russian made equipment. These went quietly to the skip. In the UK, doctors did their level best to stop patients going to the Nightingale Hospitals to be looked after by British Airways stewardesses (a Boris idea).

Paul robustly defends the concept of trade and how the President doesn't understand trade.

The other explanation to the whole kerfuffle is that the American President has poor eyesight, but doesn't want to appear wearing glasses, in case someone calls him 4-eyes. ie. he's been passed a photograph that his aides has described to him as showing the tattoos of the deportee. Obviously to most people, the annotation is clearly annotation, and no one thought to tell him the photograph was annotated. Evidence: In 2016 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-of-donald-trump-deposition-could-be-made-public/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/eye-doctors-explain-why-donald-trump-is-always-squinting/ We asked Dr. Fred Bodker, a board-certified ophthalmologist, what could explain Trump’s constant squint. “In general, it could just be because he’s trying to increase his vision,” said Bodker, explaining the pinhole effect of looking through a very small hole to sharpen vision. “He could just be trying to compensate for some blurry vision.” Poor vision can lead to poor depth perception, that some have used to explain his sometime awkward gait descending some stairs and slopes, and which could explain his awkward grasping of Prime Minister May's hand (and she, as a vicar's daughter, was far too polite to say anything): He also routinely has notes prepared for him in all caps and large font. His 2018 medical exam: https://time.com/5105096/donald-trump-physical-exam-transcript/ Notably the reference to physical acuity is completely missing from the 2025 exam, so suggesting an actual medical miracle https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/04/memorandum-from-the-white-house-physician/ Though I hadn't noticed before that he has a history of cataracts, with surgery to both eyes. After cataract surgery, nearly all patients will need to wear reading glasses He might be aware of his poor eyesight https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-eye-doctor-press-conference-today-coronavirus-small-business-a9489116.html When the President met with Prime Minister Starmer, the Prime Minister handed him a written invitation from King Charles. When the President came to read it, he handed it to Starmer to read, prompting speculation that he was either dyslexic, autistic or illiterate, when in fact, he was probably effectively blind. This happens when you look at the sun without protective eyewear He tweets alone, because he doesn't want people seeing him wear glasses https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/trump-tweets-alone-as-he-hates-being-seen-in-glasses-report.html New to the list, provided in an extensive report on Trump’s Twitter use published by the New York Times, is that he prefers to tweet alone because he doesn’t like to wear the reading glasses he needs to see his phone screen. And maybe the reason he doesn't want to be seen wearing glasses was because at school, he was the kid who went around picking on "4 eyes".

Its not really about rare earth minerals, which Ukraine might have loads of, or not much at all. It depends if the Soviet surveys from 30-40 years ago was any good. And nothing is going to get mined until the emergy grid is fixed. Added to the extensive other infrastructure damage in that area, then its another 5-10 years, and by that time, who knows if we even need it, or it turns out we are all sitting on vast amounts, via 200 years worth of slag heaps (mine tailings). The deal is really about Shale Gas https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-donald-trumps-ukraine-minerals-deals-looks-to-be-more-about-oil-and/ The oil-gas market is worth trillions. The rare earth minteral market is worth low billions. The US doesn't import that much. The US needs to make money, to pay national debt yadda yadda Ukraine can provide half of Europe's gas needs. The US provides the other half. Russia provides nothing. This is key. Russia makes nothing. All it is is, as some say, a glorified gas station. Without Europe, Russia has maybe China and India as major markets. There are no pipelines to India. Everything has to go via 40-50 year old rusty tankers. Russia also needs to make money quickly because it doesn't have any. The deal, which is pretty much what Zelensky proposed to the US in the first place, is delicious. Ukraine's financial future is secure. The US makes money. The EU as a new battle trained partner. Russia is diminshed in its strategic reach. https://www.velaw.com/traditional-energy-tracker/resources/ukraine/ https://ukrainetoday.org/the-tables-have-turned-and-putins-russia-is-now-in-dire-trouble/ Contracts are already in place with Shell and Chevron for the shale gas.

Its not even aid, but a purchase

Good job I know you stole that image from someone else. This one isn't even AI. A naked Putin doll. No penis. Butt plug included.

Add the Brexit vote as another case study; Maggie was right. Governments must never run referendums that they think they might lose.

There is a flipside to that. A ruling in the 1970s meant that 6th Formers receive a NI credit. No credit is paid while in full time university education. So someone could go to Uni, progress to an advanced degree, land a job in the Middle East. Work the next 40 years in Kuwait, tax free. At the end of it all, buy a home in the old country and retire there, to live out a very comfortable existance. From day 1; full access to the NHS, despite having practically contributed nothing to it. British expats might continue to pay income and other taxes, but they haven't paid any VAT. A bigger issue is how the state pension is funded, or any of the state pensions, eg MOD pensions. There are also 4 different NHSs, with differing access rules, because of the powers that have been devolved.