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At 12, Elon Musk was sent to a South African “veldskool” — a paramilitary survival camp he later called “a paramilitary Lord of the Flies.”
Kids got tiny rations of food and wate and were actively encouraged to fight over them. The bigger boys punched the smaller ones and took everything. There, Elon was beaten twice and lost ten pounds.
Four years later he returned almost six feet tall, built like a bear, and armed with some judo skills. “I realized if someone bullied me, I could punch them very hard in the nose. They might still beat the shit out of me — but they wouldn’t come after me again.”
Despite a difficult childhood, Elon didn't break down, he didn't get angry at the world, he just learned to stand up for himself. And now this same boy is building rockets to Mars, electric cars, and neural interfaces so that humanity can survive and go beyond Earth.
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THIS IS HUGE.
The Trump Education Department just recommended stripping the American Bar Association of its power to accredit law schools.
A 500-page report concludes the ABA’s accreditation arm is not independent, it operates like a cartel that injects its own political ideology into the process.
For decades the ABA has held a near-monopoly over who gets to become a lawyer in America. That monopoly is now under direct attack.
No more forced ideology.
No more one organization controlling the pipeline.
This is how you break the stranglehold!
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Chandrasekhar died exactly 31 years ago today. At 19, on the boat from India to Cambridge in 1930, he worked out that a white dwarf above ~1.4 solar masses could not remain stable. Eddington publicly rejected the result. 53 years later, Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize for his work on stellar evolution.
