Interesting Links for 20-04-2025
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andrewducker- 1. In Gaza, we are seeing the normalisation of evil
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- 2. On language and trans people, some tips
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- 3. Life before the Equalities Act 2010
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- 4. The lead civil servant on drafting the Equality Act says the aim was to include trans people.
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- 5. The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or
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- 6. Settlers of Catan - Globe Edition
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- 7. Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling
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- 8. Musk to Force Pentagon to Build and Then Pay Him to Use Network of Killer Satellites
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- 9. Hungary's Orbán urges Hungarians to vote against Ukraine's membership of EU
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- 10. The UK is going to have to start making choices about Europe and the USA
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- 11. Fusion power plants would require titanic amounts of lithium.
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- 12. "Masking Is Life": Experiences of Masking in Autistic and Nonautistic Adults
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Date: 2025-04-20 01:36 pm (UTC)But yes, strategically it makes the world much riskier.
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Date: 2025-04-20 01:54 pm (UTC)He's the richest man in the world. Even if Tesla continues to tank and he drops to #2 or #10, he would still have more money than he ever needs. He demonstrated he does not care about money by doing what he did with Twitter.
Since he's clearly not motivated by money, accusing him of corruption is not justified.
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Date: 2025-04-20 02:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-04-20 08:30 pm (UTC)Which regulators, the ones who went after SpaceX for pouring fresh water onto the launchpad?
Or the ones that did not see any problems with Tesla for 20 years, but suddenly found all kinds of violations after Musk begun supporting Trump?
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Date: 2025-04-20 08:33 pm (UTC)https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1848250352627294368
There's a very simplified diagram. Link to newspaper story from last year there.
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Date: 2025-04-20 07:07 pm (UTC)No. He demonstrated that money is not the most important thing that he cares about.
IIUC he needs money to colonise a) Mars and b) the stars.
Being paid to put stuff into space gets someone else to pay for some of his R&D too.
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Date: 2025-04-20 07:57 pm (UTC)No amount of corruption could possibly be enough to pay for colonizing Mars, let alone stars.
The R&D necessary to put stuff into low Earth orbit is already done and paid for. Falcon 9 flies every other day. Interplanetary and interstellar travel is way outside the Golden Dome requirements and budget.
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Date: 2025-04-21 05:38 am (UTC)