I think it's like half his wealth, with the other half SpaceX, but that's privately held, less liquid. He also allegedly has a lot of debt, likely with Tesla stock as collateral. So if Tesla really crashes he could be put in a position where he's under pressure to repay, has to sell some SpaceX.
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touch the stove for the pleasure of withdrawing your finger. it’s a kink!
teslas are threatened and need habitat.
if you set wealth and income taxes too low, a kind of very powerful but misaligned AGI emerges.
there are two sides of that question. persecution by a vindictive state may not be great for shareholder value.
"committed to marrying" (nice ironic phrasing!)
(thanks!)
what bank would have the balls to make a collateral call to Musk as the value of the Tesla shares he pledged falls?
the bribes collected to fund the Presidential library should be used to fund the Presidential jail.
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thank you John Roberts and the US Supreme Court for having narrowed the definition of bribery to a nullity.
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from #BethMole arstechnica.com/health/2025/... ht Doug Bostrom
Text: On Monday, Kennedy published the new policy in the Federal Register, which specifically revoked a transparency rule adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1971. The rule—called the Richardson Waiver, after then-Health Secretary Elliot Richardson—required HHS to have public notice-and-comment periods for proposed rules and policies regarding certain matters, namely public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts. These five categories would otherwise have been exempt from public notice-and-comment requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The APA also says that public notice-and-comment periods can be waived for "good cause."
it’s criminal to remove life-critical support with no notice under terms of no actual urgency.
even if so, forcing them into ridiculous u-turns and curlicues is better than not doing so. of course a democratic congress should immediately reform the present configuration of this court out of existence.
(but that would take a law, and so a veto proof majority.)
I don’t think so. A resolution is not a law, and this role, per the Supreme Court, is Congress’, not the President’s.
Suppose that Congress resolved, by a simple majority, that Trump engaged in insurrection and is therefore ineligible for any office of the United States? Such a resolution shouldn’t be necessary, under the Constitution’s plain language, but after Trump v Anderson, that would do it, right?
the choice has always been social democracy or catastrophe. we've been dilatory.
at some level i think this whole thing is just a well-executed plan to make members of the United States’ leadership class have to work as taxi drivers like Vladimir Putin did.
a bit of good news ht @ProjectFearlessness.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy breakingthenews.net/Article/Tesl...
Tesla's China sales plunge nearly 50% in February
Link Preview: Tesla's China sales plunge nearly 50% in February: Tesla's sales of China-made electric vehicles dropped 49.2% in February compared to the same month last year, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).The company sold 30,688 ...
“One million children will not be treated for severe acute malnutrition. Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria. New cases of tuberculosis will go up by 30%. Two hundred thousand more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
