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Is "Big Balls" out yet?

Best launch ad I’ve ever seen.

Looks like the market doesn’t like all this uncertainty and tariffs. 🤷🏼‍♂️

It won’t.

Another nail in the coffin for Tesla.

Still exhausting

Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat. People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.

Yesterday’s special: #TACO Tuesday Today’s special: buck-a-cuck

Reporter: Wall Street analysts have a new term called the TACO trade.. Saying Trump always chickens out on tariffs…   Trump: I kick out? Reporter: Chicken out.

There is this rumor floating around that the reason for the dotard’s hatred for Harvard is that his kid didn’t get in. 🤔

a regulatory failure of once-unthinkable proportions

Stephen King in a nutshell

Germany to help Ukraine produce long-range missiles https://www.ft.com/content/83947df3-3233-481e-8178-5e8739415434

Ukrainian (former) POW shared some of the torture methods used by Russia. Subtitles are in English. It is not graphic, yet it is a tough read.

“TACO,” which is code for “Trump Always Chickens Out,” refers to the president’s tendency to announce massive tariffs, causing the markets to plunge, only to back off days later, causing them to rise again.

In the absence of information, people make shit up.

It’s short for Space XPlode

Free drinks for the first intrepid reporter who asks Trump about the TACO trade

Whatever happened to using computer simulations to test rocket designs? Is it because they have to use all the world’s GPUs to make software that lies to us that they must constantly blow up rockets now?

Destroyed by lies and DOGE…

The man on the left wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine *last week* that pregnancy is a one of the medical conditions that increases the risk of severe covid and thereby warrants vaccination. Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...

Oh, Vlad knows.

Great story on the simples reason Elon Musk shouldn't be in business or politics: he's a shameless liar, and nobody should believe a single thing he says. Someone with this record of blatant lying to investors shouldn't be able to get a credit card. www.wired.com/story/theres...

“.. European airlines are freezing their transatlantic growth and pulling back from major U.S. cities like New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago as they redirect flights to Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Caribbean.” $JETS $XAL www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

$34 Trillion is 120% of U.S. GDP. Someone needs to stop these dingdongs.

Oh my goodness. Breathtaking stupidity coming in hot! $34T!!!

Chinese EV Stocks Tumble After BYD Slashes Prices as Much as 34% www.bloomberg.com/news/article...