As far as I can tell from the reporting:

* They exchanged various emails between 2012 and 2014 about Elon visiting the island

* They made plans for Elon to visit the island

* We don't know if Elon actually followed through on those plans and he denies it

I think it's premature to say he didn't go, and the latest batches of emails directly contradict the claim he wasn't ever invited.

See https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/epstein-files-show-elon-musk...

Unless I'm mistaken reading this, it looks like they never set a date and this this is the prior conversation to him trying to invite himself over and being told no. I don't see any plans in this article, just Epstein saying he'll send a heli and then never setting a date or making actual plans. I feel like if there's no evidence he went, Elon denies it, and Elon was a big supporter of releasing the files then it would probably be premature to suggest he went.

The speed limit is not a law the same way "don't murder" is a law. And "don't destroy evidence of a crime" is a lot closer to "don't murder", legally speaking.

I think in this hypothetical, France would want to force Musk's plane to land in French jurisdiction so they could arrest him.

"less than 50%" being 49.8%. Kind of winning on a technicality there.

Voting is always a compromise. No candidate ever perfectly represents one's own views on every issue. So IMO reasons for voting "for" a candidate or "against" another don't really matter.

Which is why it isn't really fair to say "this is what people voted for." Just because people voted for a candidate doesn't mean they agree with everything that candidate does.

I feel like this is an incredibly fantastic goal-post-moving from the original announcement.

SpaceX: "we're going to put datacenters in space"

HN comments: "obviously we'll need to move human civilization into space first for this to make sense. checks out."

I wasn’t responding to the original announcement, I was responding to someone who presumed that these data centers need to send data back to earth.

I was making a snide comment that certain ultra wealthy people don’t need these data centers to send data to earth, because they don’t plan on being here.

Ah. Apologies, that went right over my head!

All good haha I didn’t do a good enough job with it :)

Goodness gracious, great balls of fire! (are raining down on my house)

Preferibly directly onto indian electronics salvagers

It really seems like the market has locked in on one of those two things being a guaranteed outcome at this point.

Maybe the idea is that SpaceX has access to effectively unlimited money through the US Government, either via ongoing lucrative contracts, or likely bailouts if needed. The US Govt wouldn't bail out xAI but they would bail out SpaceX if they are in financial trouble.

Bingo! Elon's main life mission now is to roll back social progress via the anti-woke combination of xAI and Twitter. That's why he's tying them to the now rather-essential SpaceX, despite possibly hurting its IPO. He can now keep pumping money into them without a worry.