ELON: IRRATIONAL REGULATIONS ARE AN INVISIBLE TAX ON HUMANITY “You really can think of the United States and many countries – it’s arguably worse in the EU – as being like Gulliver, tied down by a million little strings. Any one given regulation is not that bad, but you’ve got millions of them. Eventually, you just can’t get anything done. This is a massive tax on the consumer, on the people. It’s just that they don’t realize that there’s this massive tax in the form of irrational regulations. I’ll give you a recent example that is just insane. SpaceX was fined by the EPA [U.S. Environmental Protection Agency] $140,000 for, they claimed, dumping potable water on the ground, drinking water. This is at Starbase, and we’re like, we’re in a tropical thunderstorm region. That stuff comes from the sky all the time. You know, it was just water to cool the launch pad during liftoff. And there’s zero harm done. And they agree: Yes, there’s zero harm done. We’re like, okay, so there’s no harm done, and you want us to pay a $140,000 fine? Yes, because you didn’t have a permit. We didn’t know there was a permit needed for zero-harm, fresh water being on the ground in a place where fresh water falls from the sky all the time. I mean, sometimes it rains so much the roads are flooded. So we’re like, how does this make any sense? And they were like, we’re not going to process any more of your applications for Starship launch unless you pay this $140,000. They just ransomed us. And we’re like, okay, so we paid $140,000. At this rate, we’re never going to get to Mars.” Source: The All-In Podcast, September 2024
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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