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They are not that far behind the aspirational goals Elon laid out at IAC in 2016.
Then it was called ITS not the starship and steel was not yet thought about. https://youtu.be/WVacRKN1tAo?si=s0MBP8ejQt3zv-sF&t=3309
As you can see from the chart Mars flights from late 2022. But there was a pandemic amongst other things that came along etc.
Also even the illegal immigrants that come to the US is easier to integrate than the immigrants from MENA in Europe. Culturally they are much closer, even though there has been a influx of illegal immigrants from other places than Americas last couple of years.
This is a very deep difference in immigration in EU vs US that is quite foreign to many Americans.
The EU consists of welfare states. Thus the incentive structure for an immigrant is totally different than in the US. Further more MENA immigration which is what Europe has most of is not the same kind of immigration that the US enjoys. The amount of state expenditure on facilitating and integrating immigrants in western Europe is insane.
Western Europe has bendt over backwards the last 50 years to accommodate people of cultures that have pretty much nothing in common with European culture, values and historically has been the enemy both culturally and religiously - the world did not start in 1945 as many on the left in Europe thinks.
GDPR is basically exactly what Bill Gurley talks about here ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM
Regulatory capture.
There's a morbid path from the grainy Iraq war and earlier shaky footage, through IS propaganda which at the time had basically the most intense combat footage ever released to the Ukraine war. Which took it to the morbid end conclusion of endless drone video deaths and edited clips 30+ mins long with day long engagements and defending.
And yes, to answer your belief that there is none - there is loads of "cinematic body cam footage out there now".
Loads of people take the 'high road' and say it doesn't matter but having hair is such an level up that its ridiculous. Maybe more now in a digital age with Snapchat, tiktok, youtube, tinder than before - looks have become way more important.
Here's an example of balding vs hair and there are loads of such examples on the web; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72wf4NLglOY
God damn you US ppl dont know how good you got it.
If you work a lot like this lady does you do not really have much time to reason about how you spend your life and whats important. It just happens to you. But it becomes all encompassing and consumes the person. For some thats the right way to live their life, for most not so much.
FANG has a problem in that they have a lot of highly paid individuals doing nothing or very little, so they have a lot of time to sit around and get depressed about it.
I have no effin need for a second store, or a third or a fifth.
A British tv series about the police and here they come across a criminal organization which uses Encro to smuggle drugs into the country.
Well worth a watch ; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13433048/
It introduces a lot of concepts, views and rules that most people have never encountered before. And packages this into a story which makes it easy to understand.
Judging from the comments in this thread nobody have either read the book or knows very little about investing/finance in general but of course they have strong opinions.
Nothing wrong with the book at all, and honestly I dont understand this endless bashing of the author.
Just checked Amazon it has a 4.7 star average with 94,163 ratings for a book that was self published in 1997.
Pretty Good I would say.
The Chinese did much of the same with their tech sector especially Huawei if I remember correctly with gigantic tax breaks and cheap financing.
F the entire thing.
He also talks about a supersonic electrical passenger jet from time to time, but he says he don't have the time to do that either.
I haven't but from what I have gathered the U.S is in many ways more preferable than Europe.
However, if we really were to do this comparison. The Israelis have have been way to nice. The Palestinians have been on the loosing side of 4-5 wars - its unprecedented. To the victor goes the spoils, thats how it is in the real world.
If there is cause for a Palestinian state, then there is also cause for a Jewish state. Problem is the Palestinians rejects this notion and want the Jewish state gone.