Elon Musk's Starbase in Texas will officially become a city
Elon Musk's Starbase in Texas will officially become a city
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Elon Musk's Starbase in Texas will officially become a city
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We're bringing back company towns, baybeeee
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I load 16 tons and what do I get?
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Looks like we'll also be bringing back labor battles. With actual guns and shit. Except this time, instead of the Battle of Blair Mountain, it will be the Skeet n' Yeet of Maymay Street.
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A bill currently winding through the Texas state legislature could give the new city's officials the ability to close a local highway and limit access to nearby Boca Chica Beach and Boca Chica State Park during rocket launches and other company activity.
The result of the vote could set up tussles between county officials and Starbase over access to Boca Chica Beach as SpaceX looks to increase the number of launches at its Texas site from five to 25 per year.
Very cool + good that there's a medieval fiefdom ruled by a Nazi, his eugenicist harem, and his court eunuchs which is going to be exploding 25 rockets over the Caribbean per year.
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I was just thinking about how we don't have enough SpaceX related debris in space and also how we're way to safe from debris falling on earth.
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Oh joy corproate towns are back. Surely the employees won't be paid only in
Xbucks and Xlodging and Xstores where they only accept Xbucks.Country never had horrible problems with that in the past.
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This will be the first "Freedom Zone," where Sociopathic Oligarchs will set up their corporations in walled off compounds, with their own laws and regulations. Its a big desire of the Jackal Class, and MAGA is going to give it to them.
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It's not the first time they've done this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
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A city is not 500 or less people. That’s not even a village that’s like a Hamlet.
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It's a small suburban neighborhood.
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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I can imagibe muskrat whining Disney gets a city, I want a city!
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Celebration, FL is the public facing front. the real crazy story is the history of the Reedy Creek Improvement District.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District managed by the Disney Company had the authority of a governmental body, but was not subject to the constraints of a governmental body.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Florida_Tourism_Oversight_District and the history section tells much of the story, but does not talk about the stories of the very zealous (even by Florida standards) police department and the various incidents where it's actions resulted in the deaths of alleged thieves. nor does it talk about how, being a municipality, allowed Disney to access public bond funds for investment capital at sub-market interest rates.
the company town phenomenon never left the US. It has been running absolutely wild in Florida for a hundred years.
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