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A Soyuz rocket launch has a pricetag of about $80 million US. The Space Shuttle had a pricetag of "Yes."

The greatest skill people like Elon Musk have isn't "I can do this". It's "I know how to find someone who can."

The US also bought a bit of Mexico in the 1850s. That Mississippi River to the California Coast railroad line was completed in the 1880s.

He has college degrees in both Physics and Economics. You aren't getting either without passing both Differential Equations and Linear Algebra.

Sir Issac Newton and Albert Einstein are examples of this. Newton was a tax collecter and Einstein was an office clerk before they became famous.

Snake oil salesmen don't deliver on their promises. He does.

All of the torches-and-pitchforks screaming in that would give someone who has never heard of Elon Musk the impression that he's up there with the likes of <<insert genocidal war criminal if your choice here>> in terms of being evil.

How is that different from any other day ending in "-y"?

Florida's pension fund owns about 0.13% of twitter (~$45mn). DeSantis speaking up carries weight in different ways than what Musk says or does.

Not interfering would mean they don't vote their shares. Index fund means "here's what we buy". It does not mean "we don't vote our shares".

Well, that's one way to get everyone's attention.

Some shareholder is suing him for failing to disclose his purchase quickly enough. Grasping at straws would be my guess.

There's a level of wealth I like to think of as "I could buy you and break you ... if you irritate me and I want to". For him, "you" is Twitter.

Gotta love his ability to put his money where his mouth is.