Musk on Regulations

Two men are in critical condition after being stabbed in the chest near Pittsburgh’s Mellon Park playground, authorities said.
Police were called at about 12:45 a.m. to the park along Fifth Avenue, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety.
They found three men injured. The third man was stabbed in the wrist. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition, police said.

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Saudi Arabia is preparing to begin construction work on its next giga-project: a cube-shaped skyscraper big enough to fit 20 Empire State Buildings.
The Mukaab will be 400-meters on each side when construction is finished, which would make it the largest built structure in the world. The building will be the centerpiece of New Murabba, a community the country hopes will be a new destination within the capital city of Riyadh.

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if Kamala Harris is as stupid as her critics claim, why does she have the Democratic presidential nomination and a roughly 50–50 shot of being the first female president in U.S. history? Do you know how many ruthlessly ambitious Democratic men and women have desperately yearned to get where she is? How many smart, tough, shrewd, often underhanded and cold-blooded pols have tried to claw their way up the greasy pole and fallen short?
And somehow this supposed dunce managed to do it?-rhetorical question from Geraghty

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Musk on Regulations

According to Musk, he was once asked by marine officials to conduct a survey on whether the rocket could hit a shark during splashdown in the ocean.

"I got a bunch of nutty stories. SpaceX had to do this study to see if Starship would hit a shark. And I'm like... it's a big ocean. There are a lot of sharks! It’s not impossible, but it’s very unlikely. 

So we said, 'Fine, we’ll do the analysis. Can you give us the shark data?' 

They were like, 'No, we can’t give you the shark data.' 

Well, then, okay, we’re in a bit of a quandary. How do we solve this shark probability issue? 

They said, 'Well, we could give it to our western division, but we don’t trust them.' 

I’m like, 'Am I in a comedy sketch here?!' 

Eventually, we got the data and could run the analysis to say, 'Yeah, the sharks are going to be fine.' But they wouldn’t let us proceed with the launch until we did this crazy shark analysis. 

Then we thought, 'Okay, now we’re done.' 

But then they said, 'What about whales?' 

When you look at a picture of the Pacific, what percent of the surface area do you see as whale? If Starship did hit a whale, honestly, it’s like the whale had it coming, cause the odds are... so low. It’s like Final Destination: Whale Edition. 

And then they said, 'What if the rocket goes underwater, then explodes, and the whales have hearing damage?' This is real!"