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SpaceX builds rockets. Rockets run on chemical propulsion. Chemical propulsion has a ceiling. It can reach Mars. Maybe deeper into the solar system. But interstellar travel requires physics that doesn’t exist yet. Weinstein: “You can’t get to the stars using SpaceX because it’s a chemical rocket company.” The ceiling isn’t the universe’s. It’s ours. Weinstein: “One of his slogans is ad astra, to the stars.” To the stars. From a man who knows better than anyone that his rockets can’t reach them. You don’t declare a destination your vehicle can’t reach unless you already know what replaces it. The rockets were never the endgame. Weinstein: “I think he’s given up on the corruption of science. He keeps talking about the fact that he doesn’t like the term researcher, he believes only in engineers.” The breakthroughs that would get humanity past chemical propulsion should have happened decades ago. They didn’t. Not because the physics is impossible. Because the institutions responsible for discovering it optimized for everything except discovery. Grant cycles. Tenure politics. Citation metrics. The entire incentive structure of modern science rewards safe, incremental work and punishes the kind of risk that produces breakthroughs. The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed. It was just never designed for discovery. Weinstein: “I think what he’s doing is he’s building Grok to do science in a time when humans are too corrupt to be truthful and real.” Musk looked at the entire global scientific establishment and decided it was faster to build a mind that could do the physics than to fix the institutions that wouldn’t. That calculation alone tells you everything about the state of modern science. Everyone sees xAI competing with OpenAI and Anthropic in the chatbot race. Weinstein is saying it was never in the chatbot race. It’s in the physics race. The one nobody else is running. Weinstein: “Look at the logo for Grok, I think it’s like a black hole profile. Look at its slogan, to understand the universe.” Not to assist. Not to optimize. To understand the universe. SpaceX is the vehicle. xAI is the destination. One builds the ship. The other discovers how far it can go. The distance to the stars was never measured in light years. It was measured in the limits of the mind reaching for them. The most ambitious project on Earth right now isn’t a rocket program. It’s an AI being built to find the physics that makes rockets obsolete.

🚨 SAD SEING PEOPLE BEING USED BECAUSE THEY'RE POOR AND UNEMPLOYED! 💔 It's easy to be impressed by big crowds, but don't always confuse numbers with conviction. The sad reality is that poverty makes people available. When unemployment is high and people are struggling to put food on the table, it becomes much easier for politicians and activists to mobilise crowds with promises, transport, food or the hope that tomorrow will be better. I don't blame the ordinary South African trying to survive. I pity them. Many are not marching because life is perfect they're marching because poverty has left them with very few options. Instead of celebrating the size of the crowd, maybe we should be asking why so many people are desperate enough to follow anyone offering false hope. Don't be fooled by numbers. Sometimes the biggest crowd is simply a reflection of the biggest crisis 💔🇿🇦

The ANC built nothing Just changed the names... They call it decolonization

Welcome to Limpopo July

Whites moving their plant equipment to Mozambique 🇲🇿. Talking of unintended consequences!

Too bad. Foreigners must leave South Africa enmasse

Farmer's Weekly @FarmersWeeklySA

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Sugar cane growers along the KZN North Coast are battling an unexpected labour shortage during peak harvesting season, as many foreign workers have left farming communities following the March & March movement’s recent mobilisations in the province and government’s crackdown on

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Dear South Africans, This approach will kill business and deter investment. As someone from a country that once tried this failed strategy, I urge you to prepare for disaster. Instead of these restrictions, you must encourage your government to implement laws that incentivize business owners to choose local people over foreigners.

This is exactly what we watched unfold in Zimbabwe right before Mugabe seized the farms. History is repeating itself in South Africa and the warning signs are impossible to ignore. Wake up before it’s too late 🇬🇷🇿🇦. ..

South Africa is watching itself eat itself alive. In this video, vigilante groups confront a business owner and order him to shut down - his crime being that he employs foreign nationals. No court order. No due process. Just a mob deciding who gets to work and who doesn't. This is no longer about foreigners. It's now just a matter of time before BLACK South Africans start turning on each other, because once vigilantism becomes an accepted tool of economic policy, it doesn't stop at the border. Today it's the Zimbabwean employee or shop owner. Tomorrow it's the local businessman who hired the "wrong" tribe, the "wrong" province, the "wrong" political affiliation. This kind of forced closure sends shockwaves through the economy: Job losses - both foreign and South African employees lose income when businesses shut down Investor flight - foreign and domestic investors see mob rule as a sovereign risk signal, chilling new investment Informal economy collapse - spaza shops and small enterprises, a major source of township employment, are hit hardest Supply chain disruption - wholesalers and distributors who supply these businesses lose customers Tax revenue loss - SARS loses VAT and PAYE contributions from closed operations Reputational damage - international headlines link South Africa to lawlessness, hurting tourism and trade relationships Rand pressure - sustained instability narratives contribute to currency weakness Precedent for lawlessness - normalises extrajudicial enforcement as a substitute for functioning institutions A country cannot vigilante its way to prosperity.

@chinazaa14 @grok what movie is this?

A South African reacts to a circulating video making rounds online. 🎥 @ kaapieinkorea 🇿🇦 #SouthAfricaupdates

China has put a new mega high-speed train station, Xi'an East, into operation yesterday. The station is just as beautifully and modernly designed as Chongqing East.

🚨 ECONOMICS HAS LEFT THE GROUP CHAT! 😂💸 Phakelumthakathi says the government can pay every South African R1 million a year for the rest of their lives... and we won't even have to work. 😭🤣 Unemployment has officially been solved, by making employment optional. Someone please tell SARS to sit down... apparently money now grows on government trees 💰😂 If this is the new economic policy, then even billionaires are about to apply for SASSA

For 20, 40, 60 years they preached free trade and globalisation because they wanted to penetrate poor countries. Now that it’s their turn to be penetrated, they suddenly “realise” it’s probably not the best way of doing things.

Most Western economist simply don't understand this one thing about China.🇨🇳 And, this is why random cities in China outcompete entire countries. This. 👇

@MokoneWaMokone @UdensonCaldbeck @gaba_ye There were many foreigners when some did not want to work in the dangerous.

She’s not wrong! Anyone with half a brain could see where this was all going. From Elon Musk’s rhetoric to Trump’s imposition of sanctions against South Africa, the pushback by “certain groups” against the SA government over its submission to the ICJ over the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. You don’t need tea leaves or cowrie shell divination to see the patterns and what is coming. It’s just sad that the South Africans hating foreigners and meting out street justice don’t see how they’re being manipulated. They will rue the day and the rest of Africa will watch from a distance and hopefully learn the lesson.

WATCH | A group identifying as Vatsonga Machangani is marching to the SA Human Rights Commission this morning, demanding protection against what they describe as injustices inflicted upon them.

When we speak of men 🤞

China plans to repeat its electric car success story — this time with trucks. In May, China’s Ministry of Transport called for new energy heavy trucks to account for 40% of new truck sales by 2030. More than 80% of trucks used on shorter routes around Beijing should be electric, the policy added. The targets echo China’s push more than a decade ago to develop new energy passenger cars, a category that includes battery-powered and hybrid models. The goal was for NEVs to account for 20% of new passenger car sales by 2025. Click here to read more: cnb.cx/4w9yLFU