Tripadvisor, under media executive Greg Maffei, wants to reincorporate in Nevada, over the objection of minority shareholders. Billionaire Barry Diller is awaiting a ruling that could relax Delaware’s scrutiny of transactions like the 2020 split of some of his online businesses. And Elon Musk, who reincorporated Twitter as X in Nevada last year, has said he would ask shareholders about reincorporating Tesla TSLA 2.12%increase; green up pointing triangle in Texas.
“I recommend incorporating in Nevada or Texas if you prefer shareholders to decide matters,” Musk posted on X on Jan. 30, the day a Delaware court threw out his $55.8 billion Tesla pay package. On Thursday, Neuralink, Musk’s closely held brain-implant company, incorporated in Nevada, state records show.
Delaware, of course, has long held primacy in the world of U.S. corporate law, including the scrutiny devoted to transactions between a public company and any shareholder who effectively controls it. Nevada and Texas are among the states that want a piece of that business and are hoping to appeal to at least some companies by setting up an alternative legal environment.
Companies most commonly register in their home state or Delaware. Still, states are doing more to compete.
Delaware played politics with Musk over a business decision and it will cost them.
BILL ACKMAN DISCOVERS THE GELL-MANN AMNESIA EFFECT:
I am sure all of us have had the experience of reading a story about a subject you know well and finding it replete with inaccuracies and falsehoods. One then turns the page and reads an article about a subject one knows less well and makes the mistake of believing that this…
Privately, Biden was also furious about the report’s comments on his memory. During a private meeting with House Democrats at their policy retreat in Virginia earlier Thursday, Biden grew especially animated when asked how he was doing,
“How the f— could I forget the day my son died? Of course I remember everything,” he said, according two people with knowledge of his remarks who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a closed-door conversation.
At his White House remarks, Biden began by stressing that the report concluded that charges were not merited, even citing specific page numbers to bolster his case.
“I was pleased to see he reached the firm conclusion that no charges should be brought against me in this case,” the president said. “This was an exhaustive investigation.”
He also highlighted a separate investigation into former president Donald Trump’s own handling of classified documents, and the differences between them — notably that Trump allegedly sought to keep the documents even when authorities asked for them back and that he, unlike Biden, now faces criminal charges.
There is no doubt that this report is going to hurt Joe Biden’s 2024 presidential campaign. Not only does it reinforce the public’s concerns about his advanced age and mental decline, but it also supports the narrative of a two-tiered justice system that throws the book at Republicans, while Democrats face no consequences for their actions.
I'm pretty sure Airbus products will also suffer from the same problem, but… man, Boeing is just having a bad run of publicity these days, huh? pic.twitter.com/ZDTtD6Tb8P
I'm still trying to visit every Shake Shack location in my metropolitan geographical area, and this lady is lapping me by several hundred thousand miles:
I’ve been Jewish all my life, I’ve visited Israel a couple of times, I lost family in the Holocaust (like most Ashkenaz Jews), I’m nearly seventy years old, and yet there are a lot of things I’ve learned in recent years, some of them here on Quora. If there are a lot of things I don’t know, how are pro-Palestinian protestors going to know them, particularly with a lot of our media not inclined to report them?
I kept hearing about the Arabs and East Jerusalem until, one day, I decided to look up where the Jewish Quarter was, then I learned how the Jewish Quarter was destroyed, and now I view East Jerusalem very differently.
I wasn’t aware that Jews bought all their land until attacked.
I wasn’t aware that Israel had a Mizrahi/Sephardi majority. [NB: it definitely was a majority until the mass Russian immigration. Nowadays, there is so much intermarriage between Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi Jews that the lines
I wasn’t aware that Jews have no apparent connection with Khazars.
I wasn’t aware of how and when Jews were driven out of Arab lands, nor how many were.
I wasn’t aware that Israel has two million Palestinian citizens while the entire Arab world combined has fewer than four thousand Jewish citizens.
I wasn’t aware that Palestinian Arabs before Israeli independence rarely thought of themselves as Palestinians but instead as Syrian Arabs.
I wasn’t aware that most Palestinian identity came as a result of a suggestion by the KGB at a pan-Arab meeting in Cairo in 1964 to form the Palestine Liberation Organization in order to switch the narrative from Israeli David/Arab Goliath to Palestinian David/Israeli Goliath.
I knew that the UN had it in for Israel, but I had no idea about UNWRA/Hamas overlap, that UN employees were engaged in active terrorism.
I wasn’t aware that, prior to October 7, in recent years the Syrian army killed far more Palestinians than the IDF did.
In watching what happened in Israel and why, I concluded that American minorities who support Hamas have got some roles reversed. Palestinians are not a traditional persecuted minority – they’re a disaffected former majority. They are more analogous to the KKK than to American Blacks. Traditional minorities aren’t nearly as violent as disaffected majorities because disaffected majorities feel entitled in ways that minorities don’t. Why does anyone think that those who sympathize with the Palestinians as participants in a cause would ever get a shred of solidarity in return? Only if people like Hamas think they can use that population.
I support Israel and I didn’t know these things. What can I expect pro-Palestinian protestors to know?
I know their knowledge of the Holocaust is tiny, but I’m kind of used to that. As Jews, we grow up being taught about these things, but that’s not true of most people.
The most frightening ones are college kids. How could Harvard kids not understand these things?
As a very religious man (a Christian-born convert to fervently-Orthodox Judaism) once told me: “‘Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing’ may be a quote from Christian scripture [Luke 23:34], but it is a very Jewish thought.”
But — just like for an advocate/barrister in court — if one declares oneself an advocate for a cause, the first rule ought to be that one learns one’s brief.
Related: We were all lied to: Gaza was a modern developed city before October 7.
Related in a very different way:
WATCH: Joe Biden says he recently met with “Mitterand from Germany.”
Mitterand was the FRENCH President between 1981 and 1995.
NEWS FROM THE NCLA: NCLA Asks Supreme Court to Uphold Injunction Against Government Social Media Censorship. “The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a brief for the respondents in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Murthy v. Missouri, urging the Justices to uphold a historic preliminary injunction granted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The injunction would bar officials from the White House, CDC, FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Surgeon General’s office from coercing or significantly encouraging social media platforms to censor constitutionally protected speech. Representing individual plaintiffs Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Aaron Kheriaty, and Ms. Jill Hines, NCLA eagerly anticipates presenting oral arguments to the Supreme Court on March 18, joining the Attorneys General of Louisiana and Missouri in defense of Americans’ First Amendment rights.”
Reminder/disclosure: I’m on the advisory board of the NCLA.
I was mystified many years ago to discover that some wealthy educated young folk in the SF bay area, didn’t even know that the USSR was an environmental catastrophe, as well. That argument was persuasive to them in a way that “they were also mass murderers” was not. https://t.co/QYGVeyDH35
Amazon yielded to pressure from President Joe Biden’s White House to suppress books that opposed COVID-19 vaccines, according to documents reviewed by The Daily Signal.
The House Judiciary Committee obtained the emails, which demonstrate the White House’s pressure on Amazon to suppress “anti-vax books” and the company’s decision to take action against the books.
Amazon employees strategized for a meeting with the White House on March 9, 2021, openly asking whether the administration wanted the retailer to remove books from its catalog.
“Is the [a]dmin asking us to remove books, or are they more concerned about search results/order (or both)?” one employee wrote.
A Net Zero military will lose, says Guy de la Bédoyère. "At no time in history has a state consciously chosen to compromise its capability by seeking to introduce unreliable equipment." But we are now.
MARTYR? HE DIED OF OLD AGE, THE DICTATOR OF A SLAVE STATE. High School Holds Candlelight Vigil for ‘Martyr’ Fidel Castro. “Cuba is a mess from which people flee on cobbled-together floating deathtraps, and if these kids had gotten a decent education, they would know that.”
What are “anti-racist” courses like? One academic who has written about his approach is Professor Asao Inoue, who claims that individualism is an undesirable aspect of “whiteness.” In his courses, students are not graded down for failing to write in standard English. Instead, he has implemented a “labor based” grading system in which students are graded on the basis of the amount of effort they claim to have put in on an assignment.
HMM: Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer’s? “You might think age-related dementia has been with us all along, stretching back to the ancient world. But a new analysis of classical Greek and Roman medical texts suggests that severe memory loss—occurring at epidemic levels today—was extremely rare 2,000 to 2,500 years ago, in the time of Aristotle, Galen and Pliny the Elder.”
For now, the drug from Vertex Pharmaceuticals is called VX-548. But in trials of patients undergoing abdominoplasties (tummy tucks) and foot bunion surgeries, VX-548 performed better than placebo at easing post-op pain, with no major safety issues seen.
It didn’t bring superior pain relief compared with the opioid Vicodin (hydrocodone bitartrate/acetaminophen), the trial found, but it scored similarly to Vicodin on a standard measure called the Numeric Pain Rating Scale.
Non-addictive but as effective as Vicodin could be a game-changer — unless and until the FDA finds an excuse to slap as many controls on it as they have opioids.
