@esjesjesj counterpoint: fire the top 1% - would have the same effect

@NicholasTyrone Absolutely true. But see also Bishops in the Lords. Welby. Royal Family in fancy dress. Judges and Legal in wigs and cloaks. Its all mad.

@zanehengsperger I would really like one of them! Whats the machine called?

@SaeedDiCaprio If we are going to Mars I don't want it to be him

@dieworkwear Caw caw!

Elon Musk is Dominic Cummings. Its the same playbook. Farcical populist leader with messy hair and genius boffin who is assigned unlimited power. How will it end this time?

@InternetH0F Bet he thinks about her every day since.

@Lomquiche @PulpLibrarian There used to be (1970-80??) a lot of 2ndhand exchange bookstores for paperbacks - romance, SF, crime etc. When I was 12-14 it was the only way I could afford the sheer number of SF books needed

@cursedconnector Thought it was land of the giants SCART connector

@kaeladair Can you explain what I am looking at here??

@levelsio @mgrisoli I believe great UI design needs a consistent single designer/rationale. If there is a clarity of purpose then I can work with it - I might not 'like' the design but I know where the designer will put things so I can use it. eg. Excel 3

@PulpLibrarian The days of dog shit on the beach

@HowThingsWork_ Many months after the fire and when everyone had given up searching, the demolition guys found the bodies huddled together with the water, tinned food and the gold untouched.

@NoContextBrits This is why you should always have two dogs

@TheFigen_ You will be learning as much as the baby...

@ATabarrok @elonmusk When you carry out a coup the things you have to seize are the media and the treasury (not the army necessarily because if you control the treasury you can decide if they get paid or not....)

@bscholl Couple of EO's and the problem of safety-critical engineering slowing anything down is going to go away.

@NickADobos imagine this without the fleshy bony meaty bits which are holdng it back

@McMasterDaily No. This is why you have 3 or more (cheap) identical drill/drivers.

@DrMatthewSweet Guessing hair and makeup and perhaps wardrobe and probably the director might all have had a hand???