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Starship's Tenth Flight Test

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364 points metalman | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 23:22 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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apical_dendrite ◴[27 Aug 25 01:34 UTC] No.45034459[source]▶
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gibolt ◴[27 Aug 25 01:38 UTC] No.45034494[source]▶
Pretty sure the DOGE intent was good, but real efforts were mostly sidelined for the Trump pony show. Thus the 'fighting' words that followed when the BBB tax cut showed up.
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apical_dendrite[dead post] ◴[27 Aug 25 01:46 UTC] No.45034553[source]▶
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gibolt ◴[27 Aug 25 02:00 UTC] No.45034648[source]▶
Consider what would have happened if Elon wasn't there. Likely the same. The people wanting those things cut are still present.

I wish he hadn't gone along with them, but there likely had to be concessions before attempting to make progress. When it became clear cost savings and efficiency wasn't the actual goal in the White House, Elon left.

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1. Qworg ◴[27 Aug 25 02:12 UTC] No.45034715[source]▶
Come now - you really believe that Elon saw DOGE as a good faith effort to cut costs in the government?

For someone with such a vaunted intelligence, he was either dumb or complicit. "Working things out from first principles" would have had him leave after the very first step.