MUSK PIVOTS FROM MARS TO THE MOON:“The priority shift is because I’m worried that a natural or manmade catastrophe stops the resupply ships coming from Earth, causing the colony to die out,” he wrote. “We can make the moon city self-growing in less than 10 years, but Mars will take 20+ years due to the 26-month iteration cycle. That is what matters most.”
TRUMP EPA DOES HUUUGE ROLLBACK OF GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATIONS: “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history, and it will save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations. The bulk of the savings will stem from reduced costs for new vehicles, with the EPA projecting average per vehicle savings of more than $2,400 for popular light-duty cars, SUVs, and trucks…” We all know how this will play out. A Dem-appointed federal district judge will issue an order stopping this, until he/she is eventually overruled by the Court of Appeals or SCOTUS.
JACKSONVILLE TEACHERS UNION BOSSES SENTENCED FOR $2.6 MILLION FRAUD: The women who ran Jacksonville’s teachers union for nearly a quarter-century are both headed to prison for cheating the union out of $2.6 million… The fraudsters are both old, and their sentences light (27 months, and a year plus a day), but the judge seems ashamed of even having imposed that. “It does not erase all the other good things that Ms. Brady and Ms. George did,” the judge said. “But there does have to be accountability for a decade of stealing.” Barf.
PUT A STOP TO IMMIGRATION FROM STONE AGE CULTURES: Europeans are starting to talk about the real problem. “We have to put a stop to immigration from Stone Age cultures that have a completely different relationship with women and don’t know the concept of equality…” But, of course, their leftists attempt to do exactly what they claim their opponents are doing: “The SVP is once again shifting responsibility onto a group instead of rethinking its own role models and seeking solutions for society as a whole…” And, of course, demand more free francs for foreigners. “Financial problems due to low wages or cramped living conditions, which disproportionately affect foreigners, are more likely to lead to conflict situations…”
FBI WARGAMED FOR ELECTION RELATED VIOLENCE IN 2020: The FBI conducted a tabletop exercise in summer 2020 that imagined what sort of violence might ensue in a contested presidential election that year, devising strategies like undercover informants and mass prosecutions for minor crimes that it would later use with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, documents obtained by Just the News show.
NOW SUES TO KEEP BOYS IN GIRLS SPORTS: Allegedly pro-women group NOW sues to stop Nevada school sports ballot initiative. Much pro-democracy there, NOW. If passed the measure would… largely prevent K-12 and college transgender female student athletes from playing in a sport that best aligns with their gender identity. Uh-huh. And yet NOW claims the initiative “is deceptive, misleading, and fails to explain the ramifications of the proposed amendment to allow voters to make an informed decision, and is therefore invalid.” GFY
CALIFORNIA SUES DISTRIBUTORS OF FILES FOR 3D GUN AND PARTS PRINTING: Link. No, I don’t know what happened to our 3D blueprint file; I think it got lost in the big redesign shuffle.
SQUIRREL NEWS: A former Labour MP has infuriated environmental campaigners by wearing a Dolce & Gabbana dress decorated with grey squirrels to an event promoting the protection of the endangered reds. She was just celebrating immigrants, you racists.
I’m sure things on the moon colony will be peachy keen while earth is collapsing.
Also, hasn’t it been about 15 years since Musk got obsessed with Mars colonization? Are we 20+ years out from then, or from today? Or is this like global climate apocalypticism where the time horizon is perpetual?
Look, everyone knows that when WWIII breaks out all the colonists will head back to Earth — and only once the war wipes out humanity will one lone family escape to Mars to become actual Martians as they look at themselves in the canals.
Oh baby, it’s not Europe.
Better a Jamestown Starving Time on the Moon, than all of humanity going under on Earth. They say that the Moon is a harsh mistress, after all.
The years-out is based on the first crewed flight to whichever destination.
I was unaware the intent was to skip the moon for Mars – I don’t really follow this stuff.
The pivot makes perfect sense to me. It will be easier to work out some of the kinks on the moon first.
Among other things the moon doesn’t experience the monstrous dust storms that have smothered rover after rover by coating their solar panels.
Lots of plusses to go to the moon first, very few minuses, lack of H2O being one of those.
I’ll trust that he’s run the numbers — I’m less certain without dropping a comet or something for the water (which you can then split with solar electrolysis and recombust for fuel as well). Of course, I’m still hoping someone will get enough off this rock to be free of treaties and build a nuclear pulse rocket to really start being able to move crap….
You’re way more optimistic than I am… I assume it will be blocked and won’t be overturned because Reasons(tm).
If they can get it front of SCOTUS before it returns to the sort of leftist activism that dominated for decades until very recently, any attempt by the lower courts should absolutely be overruled because there was nothing constitutional or lawful about that particular outrageous power-grab.
No, I don’t know what happened to our 3D blueprint file; I think it got lost in the big redesign shuffle.
Is that the digital equivalent of a boating accident?
and it will save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations.
But billions will die from the toxic smog released by the complete elimination of air quality regulations!
Win/win!
You just know the industrial media machines are currently cranking out completely dishonest headlines to that effect. Rachael Maddow is going to be exceptionally breathless this week.
You betcha.
Trump just ended the Green New Deal horseshit. They are NOT gonna let that one go.
Doesn’t the low gravity (and cosmic radiation) make the moon extremely unhealthy long term? Would not be a place where people could reproduce.
Gravity, yes — putting the colony underground would doubtless shield against the radiation. Bonus if you put the water tanks on the outer ceiling since that’s going to shield as well as anything else and you’ll need them.
Won’t that get you into direct conflict with the secret Nazi underground moon base?
Nah, the construction crew will just demolish their base and build over it. After all, they will nazi it coming.
“putting the colony underground”
Not as difficult as you’d think on either Luna or Mars. Lava tubes exist on both worlds.
It’s no place to raise a kid.
Not sure why you think goat ranching is critical to a moon colony.
You ain’t some kinda goat roper is ya?
And then in 2029 president [generic democrat] will make it magnum sized before he shoves it back in. It’s too bad the GOP comprises retards and lying scumfucks, or else they could use their majority to do things like repeal the enabling legislation and getting rid of the EPA as an executive department.
Real solutions can’t be campaigned on in perpetuity, Pat! What are you thinking!?!
The FBI conducted a tabletop exercise in summer 2020 that imagined what sort of violence might ensue in a contested presidential election that year
Did it include working with judges to prevent any challenges from being heard by dismissing the cases out of hand?
We have a winner!
Dangnabbit… just pictures of grey squirrels… I was hoping for a real fashion-forward Live Rodent Regalia design there.
So, you want…
…a…
…beaver show?
Only if she just had it stuffed.
*cue Primus*
Dam!
Seven Squirrel Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxCfxxeGhXA
I’m confused why you would use squirrel fur for a dress.
A jock strap makes much more sense.
Everyone knows squirrel fur offers excellent nut support
Can I get a ruling on whether a squallet is acceptable for formal Glib events? (Like the Honey Harvest)
Greg squirrel pic you wanted
Gray. Not Greg.
Greg and the Red Squirrel?
“Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
…and getting caught.
The part he left off.
I also would have accepted “Was that wrong?”
One of my favorites!
Did the good judge about whom I have nothing but kind words to say bother to elaborate on a single one of these “good things”?
They donated generously to the annual Judges Night Out dinner?
I think everyone who ever engaged in some sort of government tabletop exercise should be chained to the table and dropped into the ocean.
Other table top options for them…
I laugh hysterically every time I see that scene even 25+ years after my first viewing.
If passed, the measure would amend the Equal Rights Amendment, which Nevada voters passed in 2022, to largely prevent K-12 and college transgender female student athletes from playing in a sport that best aligns with their gender identity.
I love the plain and simple wording they use in these stories.
Fewer beat-up girls?
And I was expecting this for the music link…
Surprisingly, I had never seen that. Thanks.
Glendinning said: “I have no idea if she wore it out of ignorance of the problems greys cause, or if it was a conscious decision as Defra [the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs] is against the killing of any wild animal.”
This was a strangely amusing article.
You’re way more optimistic than I am… I assume it will be blocked and won’t be overturned because Reasons(tm).
The Supreme Court justices don’t want to be held responsible for killing millions and destroying the planet!
I saw that in print.
They didn’t get where they am today without giving up in dismay.
I want this
Popped up yesterday. Jay Leno restomod ’68 Firebird Sprint; convertible, OHC 6cyl, manual.
Completely unfamiliar with that car until just now. Agree, me likey. Didn’t Pontiac do that engine in a Tempest as well?
Um Gottes willen!
Ok Tonio. More ULA fun!
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/ulas-vulcan-launcher-still-has-a-solid-rocket-booster-problem/
They’re a regular laff riot, they are. Thanks.
The best equipment government cost plus contracting can buy!
Truly the Acme Industries of launch companies.
Is it me, or does the head of the guy in the middle look like a black Kermit the Frog?
All three images in the still are the same guy. And he changes costumes during the vid to play multiple characters. He’s a talented lad, he is.
Would you like some salty tears?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/as-expected-trumps-epa-guts-climate-endangerment-finding/?comments-page=1#comments
Well they’re going to have to flood the coastal cities somehow!
Sure…
Let me know how that goes, limey. You can’t even defend yourselves from the savages you imported.
Yes, it’s the conservatives who are attempting to kill their opponents, the progressives are just killing “fascists”.
Delicious, thank you!
“HUUUUUGE ROLLBACK”
If he doesn’t eliminate CAFE, the elimination of CO2 regulations won’t matter.
He can replace it with the Common Operational Vehicular Federal Emissions, Freeway and Efficiency regulations.
He reduced non compliance penalties to 0,
“Financial problems due to low wages or cramped living conditions, which disproportionately affect foreigners, are more likely to lead to conflict situations…”
So, they moved to a European country for a better life, but it wasn’t quite as enriching as it could be, thus compelling them to kick the crap out of their spouses?
“Things got a little out of hand. It’s just this war and that lying son of a bitch, Johnson!”
Ahead of me and more accurate. I bow to the master.
It’s just, that damn Johnson!
*fist bumps TOK*
More Stoneage romeos.
You’ll note the usual complete lack of any other useful identifying information.
https://abc7ny.com/post/nypd-search-suspect-man-critically-injured-shooting-inside-midtown-7-eleven-manhattan-nyc/18591151/
Sidelined there:
New York leaders re-raise pride flag at Stonewall National Monument
LOL the new flag is even more out-dated than the one Trump took down.
Nice editorializing there, ABC 7 News. Except the flag is missing the B, T, Q, and +. And I oops!
Look what we did.
https://x.com/Sorenthek/status/2021685474750804150
Gold doesnt care who minted it, an oz. is an ounce, around 5k$ atm
But what about the hot chicks on Mars? I thought that was why we were going.
You mean the ones with three boobs?
Not Mars. Phobos.
DEG, for the win. That was also name checked in The Martian, both the novel and the movie.
That was also name checked in The Martian, both the novel and the movie.
I didn’t know that. I never saw that movie or read that book. I poked around on the Intertubes and
From Ars Technica:
Creative accounting
To sell this decision to an American public that is increasingly experiencing the impacts of a warming planet, the EPA has settled on some creative accounting.
That is some seriously ballsy stuff, right there.
The people who have raised conjectural “accounting” to astounding heights and have made careers out of outlandish and outlandishly wrong cost projections are going to poke holes in somebody else’s arithmetic?
*looks at the weather forecast, laughs ass off*
These people cannot be serious, man.
OK Bondi is terrible but the Dems shouting at her in the clip I just saw from yesterday are 1,000x worse.
She is Einstein in comparison to those fucking retards.
At least she got to answer. Go check out the white supremacist Senators badgering poor Brother Keith!
* Seriously. Hawley and Johnson should stop grandstanding and let Ellison have a chance to perjure himself
She’s dumb as shit and shrill. They’re dumb as shit too, granted, but she’s just terrible and needs to go. No one should be sweeping for her incompetent bullshit.
I could excuse the theatrics if she weren’t so bad at her job. She’s constantly saying she’s got piles of evidence for one thing or another, then she does absolutely nothing. I can’t think of a single thing she’s done in the last year besides run her mouth.
Didn’t Pontiac do that engine in a Tempest as well?
Yes. My dad had a ’66 Le Mans with that motor and a manual. That was a good car.