HARSH BUT FAIR:

Truth 🤡 pic.twitter.com/G8G2D9aKLu

— TR Smith (@ToddSmith955247) December 24, 2025

THE FUTURE IS NOW:

A Tesla with no safety monitor in the car and me sitting in the passenger seat took me all around Austin on Sunday with perfect driving

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 24, 2025

Do you sit back there thinking about how you and your team have built something that’s going to save countless lives in your lifetime and forever after your lifetime? You should if not.

Fucking legends.

— Mike P (@mikepat711) December 24, 2025

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Oggi, su Il Sole 24 Ore, racconto perché Elon Musk sta creando una ricchezza enorme.
Per comprarsi un’isola? Una mega barca? Un super aereo? No.

Lo fa per realizzare ciò che molti “buoni” dicono di voler fare, ma non fanno: risolvere il problema della povertà sulla Terra pic.twitter.com/sDDxqOpLGS

— Andrea Stroppa 🐺 Claudius Nero's Legion 🐺 (@andst7) December 24, 2025

Translation: “Today, in Il Sole 24 Ore, I explain why Elon Musk is creating enormous wealth. To buy himself an island? A mega yacht? A super plane? No. He does it to achieve what many ‘good’ people say they want to do, but don’t: solve the problem of poverty on Earth.”

OPEN THREAD: Visions of sugarplums.

SEEMS LIKE THERE’S A LOT OF PRIOR ART HERE: Russia patents space station designed to generate artificial gravity: According to the patent, habitable modules would rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity for crew by producing an outward-pushing centrifugal force. I mean, using rotation to generate centrifugal force pseudogravity goes back at least to von Braun, and maybe Tsiolkovsky.

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS.

MERRY CHRISTMAS:

THEY’RE ALWAYS WRONG, IT SEEMS. BUT NEVER IN DOUBT! The Eco-Zealots Were Wrong Again.

DON SURBER: Remembering Peak Trump.

WELL, I’M NEVER GOING TO INDIA THEN: Just One Drink a Day Linked to 50% Higher Mouth Cancer Risk in India.

BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY: FDA approves Wegovy pill for weight loss: What to know.

WELL, IT IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Tesla Comes One Step Closer to Self-Driving With a New Camera Patent: The EV manufacturer has come up with a new means of improving how its cameras work.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: DOJ Sues District of Columbia Over Gun Ban in Move to Fully the Enforce the Heller, McDonald and Bruen Rulings.

WOEING: Safety panel says NASA should have taken Starliner incident more seriously. “This particular anomaly deserves to be right up front and center for quite some time.” Sounds plausible.

LOL, TIM WALZ. Tim Walz suggests JD Vance is racist for saying it’s okay to be white. Please run on that, Democrats.

ROCKETRY ADVANCES CRASH BY CRASH: South Korean commercial rocket crashes shortly after launch in Brazil.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Study finds any amount of regular weed use is bad for teens.

WHY ARE LEFTIST-RUN INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF CENSORSHIP: CU Boulder suspends student journalist for covering protest without permission.

IS ANYONE SURPRISED AT THIS POINT? Georgetown professor says he works with ‘stupid white people’ as undercover video shows. To be fair, given the record of Georgetown students and faculty over the past decade, he may not be lying.

CHANGE: Christmas Day Gasoline Prices Set To Fall To Covid-Era Levels.

IT’S IN THE CONSTITUTION AND EVERYTHING: Impeaching Judges Is Not an Abuse of Political Power.

OF COURSE SHE DOES: 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Mourns Cop-Killer Who Escaped to Cuba.

INTELLECTUAL NEUTRALITY: Surprise! Duke Names Longtime Anti-Gun Advocate to Run Its Center for Firearms Law.

WHY ISN’T IT NUCLEAR? CDR Salamander: So, we have a USS Defiant (BBG-1).

JOHN HINDERAKER EXPLAINS WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON: Supreme Court Rules on Guard Deployment. “As noted above, the administration relied only on 10 U.S.C. §12406(3), and not the Insurrection Act, in justifying its National Guard deployment. The Insurrection Act, 10 U.S.C. §§ 251-255, broadly authorizes the use of federal troops to maintain order. . . . The riots and violence that have taken place in Chicago and elsewhere, specifically targeting the enforcement of federal laws, cry out for relief under the Insurrection Act. Cities like Chicago have seen ‘domestic violence’ that ‘opposes or obstructs the [immigration] laws of the United States.’ The Insurrection Act therefore authorizes the President to use either regular Army forces or the National Guard to maintain order and permit the enforcement of our laws.”

Much more at the link.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Mental health conditions linked to higher risk of unintentional injury.