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# ![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) @BellikOzan Ozan Bellik

Ozan Bellik posts on X about money, norway, dubai, billions the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and 2300 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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**Social topic influence**
[money](/topic/money), [norway](/topic/norway), [dubai](/topic/dubai) #1502, [billions](/topic/billions), [mars](/topic/mars), [eu](/topic/eu), [lego](/topic/lego), [happened](/topic/happened), [promising](/topic/promising), [turkey](/topic/turkey)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1240075098133909506/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"I wonder what % of Europeans understand how self-destructive this level of economic illiteracy combined with heavy handed policymaking is in their bureaucrats. I mean I'm not saying ours are much better but"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949508110609191272) 2025-07-27 16:32:08 UTC 6382 followers, 1727 engagements


"@HipernovaStar @tenshi_1997 Yep. That SLS is a prime example of a LEGO frankenrocket just adds irony"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950035890434162890) 2025-07-29 03:29:20 UTC 6384 followers, XX engagements


"Let's say the estimates of direct impact are accurate and so many people really did start dying and the only way to prevent it was to keep that particular aid stream going. And let's say there were no extenuating circumstances that may have introduced some moral dilemma (e.g. perhaps a good chunk of the money being funneled to tyrants/bandits/drug dealers/human traffickers/terrorists etc.). Here's the part of the narrative that I can't wrap my head around: how is it that the guy who said "you're fired" is evil incarnate but the firefighters who walked off the job in the middle of a fire and"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950424577169117439) 2025-07-30 05:13:50 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements


"Please engage with the actual question. It's not rhetorical. This isn't fundamentally about Luke's culpability. I'm trying to understand what really happened vs the narrative. It's bugged me from the start. If the people doing the work knew/believed that any disruption on the distribution was going to immediately result in thousands of deaths a week why did they stop doing the work just because the money stopped flowing Aiui the medicines were still there and it was just a distribution network disruption right"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950417395136549284) 2025-07-30 04:45:18 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements


"To bring it home how is that we live in a world where multinational companies can respond to natural disasters in the wink of an eye and fix disruptions to their supply chains in a matter of hours but weeks and and months is not enough to figure out how to ship supplies sitting in Dubai to their destinations in Africa Or rather how is it that no one from the coast of Norway to Cape Horn cares enough to make the call There are literally three multi-hundred billion dollar sovereign wealth funds in the UAE alone where that rotting aid is sitting"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950427483372998806) 2025-07-30 05:25:23 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements


"It is ofc theoretically possible to improve performance by adding sensors if you do sensor fusion better but nothing comes for free. The more you invest in working with one kind of data the less you have to work with the other. Time will tell ofc but camera-only so far at least seems competitive & promising"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949838810759786699) 2025-07-28 14:26:13 UTC 6386 followers, 1281 engagements


"When I was a kid I had claustrophobic panic experiences getting not-quite-stuck under furniture for a few seconds. I used to think I would be freaking out non-stop if I ever went caving. One day my wife's cousin invited me to go caving in a nearby cave called Hell Hole. Not like what this guy is doing but still full of tight squeezes that make you wonder if you'll really make it through (wouldn't have done it if plenty of other people hadn't done it before us). It was going to be his first time caving too but he'd done his research had a map and he's a rock climber so he had some crossover"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949672375219548506) 2025-07-28 03:24:52 UTC 6387 followers, 1580 engagements


"Thank you again and I appreciate the civil dialogue. I absolutely agree that we've fallen to record lows in presidential quality. That said playing chicken with Russian nuclear subs was a *very* risky move -- Kennedy ordered US attack submarines to surface them iirc after the USSR put nukes in Cuba to match US nukes in Turkey. I honestly doubt even Trump would have topped that. Yes we're having a setback in (many but not all) areas of public health policy. That said we've been gradually shifting away from individual agency (slow boil) for decades and I'm going to wait for more data before"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949879224862724467) 2025-07-28 17:06:48 UTC 6385 followers, XX engagements


"Why It's not money he's using on luxuries. It's the valuation of his share of his companies. What we've done is given him power to allocate a lot of capital and he has been allocating it very effectively for causes that are at least intended for the betterment of humanity. He spends his billions on data centers and factories not yachts and mansions. It's not even a question of whether he's earned it as a reward. It's just a question of who do we want deciding what happens with those resources. And I trust him (who was given those resources freely by others and who has been very efficient with"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949708803651567711) 2025-07-28 05:49:37 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements


"Going to disagree there on point X. Housing costs are fueled mainly by constrained supply. And it's homeowners who most strongly promote policies constraining supply. I say this as a homeowner who'd like my fellow homeowners to chill out on the nimbyism. Also home loans are enabling of high purchase costs but they're not predatory in the way college loans are. (They've gotten costlier now but it was practically free money just a few years ago at the height of the bubble with sub-inflation rates before even factoring in the mortgage interest tax deduction.) And they're not doing much to enable"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949874348132839441) 2025-07-28 16:47:26 UTC 6382 followers, XX engagements


"I don't know if this controversial but I genuinely believe people shouldn't be allowed to graduate from high school without understanding how compound interest and how minimum payments work. Let alone college. This is more important information to have to function safely as an adult in this society than at least XX% of the typical high school curriculum. If someone is mentally incapable of understanding it (this person clearly does not have that problem and I doubt any accredited university would admit someone who did) it ought to be drilled into their head to never take out a loan"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949822875940344209) 2025-07-28 13:22:54 UTC 6387 followers, 1506 engagements


"Does it I'm disinclined to believe Luke here would have intentionally tried to cut aid without which people were going to start dying. That he was ignorant of it I find more plausible (assuming that really was the direct impact). So is he really on lower moral ground than the people who had been doing the work and knew its impact when they decided they were going to stop if they couldn't collect a paycheck Some of them iirc were screaming this would be the consequence right out the gate. If they knew if they were right about that why did they stop"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950436987623620722) 2025-07-30 06:03:09 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements


"So in terms of prop payload to LEO iirc they're aiming for $3M marginal for 200t long term. And about X tanker flights per ship to Mars. So let's call that $15M in prop optimistically. Now you have two options for the ship. 1) Send it expendable in which case you have the full cost of an outfitted reentry capable ship + one time booster use + payload integration + support for a multi-month mission. I don't think you're getting this cheaper than $15M. 2) You try to get it cheaper with ship reuse. Making it cheaper requires ISRU (so you have to amortize that and it ain't going to be cheap for a"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949559209965859232) 2025-07-27 19:55:11 UTC 6382 followers, XXX engagements


"@tenshi_1997 I appreciate that's the original intent but XX% of the time I've seen it used it's been cases where the proposal was perfectly reasonable and would have been almost certainly substantially easier than a new rocket"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949990300476477694) 2025-07-29 00:28:11 UTC 6383 followers, XXX engagements


"Hold on a minute. We're not asking them to replace billions of dollars in aid. We're asking them to replace their $200/wk salaries. Does no one in those countries care enough to make sure that work gets done and the people who do it get fed Isn't food part of what they're distributing Surely taking some for themselves while doling out the rest would be better than finding other employment Heck even selling it for a reasonable fee would be better"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950429095231443242) 2025-07-30 05:31:48 UTC 6385 followers, XX engagements


"It certainly could have. Iirc it was cost competitive at the time on a per kg basis. There just wasn't demand for a 20t launch (1B) at $400M a pop. But there's no reason it would have to be a standard upper for most launches. Could have had a kerolox upper with a swapped H-1 and a nozzle extension. Or an even cheaper smaller stage pulled from existing LVs or ICBMs for more modest payloads"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950011818065490130) 2025-07-29 01:53:41 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements


"The rockets-aren't-legos people are generally speaking either ignorant of aerospace history or overly literal-minded and deeply confused about what someone is proposing when they suggest an integration"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949983632908513324) 2025-07-29 00:01:41 UTC 6386 followers, 2981 engagements


"@guysflavortown @Robotbeat I expect a lot of people chose to obey stop work orders"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950445467281871252) 2025-07-30 06:36:51 UTC 6386 followers, XX engagements


"@C_3C_3 How does someone in marketing get this out of touch How does that happen Does she even know people in her own life who are beer drinkers And who in their right mind gives the keys to someone like this"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950373908831752507) 2025-07-30 01:52:30 UTC 6386 followers, 6955 engagements


"@Tyler_The_Wise @guysflavortown @Robotbeat Okay cool how about Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Them too right How about Norway They're sitting on the biggest sovereign wealth fund of all -- $XXX *trillion* dollars. And the Norwegians have got a massive shipping fleet too. Are they demons"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950429647369622011) 2025-07-30 05:33:59 UTC 6386 followers, XXX engagements


"@Patryn23 @CKalitin The stripping down is for the tanker not the ship. And technically you don't need the heatshield for landing on Mars"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949808259172347905) 2025-07-28 12:24:49 UTC 6388 followers, XX engagements


"Lemme rephrase: why has that food been sitting in Dubai all this time and no one has lifted a finger to move it simply because the contracted distributers stopped getting paid Have people stopped dying Why does no else in the distribution chain care enough to keep it moving until this stuff gets sorted out"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950420534145274195) 2025-07-30 04:57:47 UTC 6386 followers, XXX engagements


"Moreover a few evil and/or hapless guys at the top is nothing new. But why are we not horrified that all these people providing life-saving aid without which thousands start dying immediately just walk away the moment they're told to stop and they won't be getting paid. That's a full blown epidemic of moral failure among aid workers if true. That's disturbing stuff. And no one is talking about it"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950437899834732909) 2025-07-30 06:06:47 UTC 6386 followers, XX engagements


"I just had an XX hour flight a month ago with a toddler in my lap for almost all of it. Wasn't great but it was okay. Someone large enough to have to pay for two seats needs that extra space more than the vast majority of parents with a toddler. On top of the fact that she paid for the extra seat while the parent did not. (but will likely have to soon anyway because toddlers don't stay under X for long)"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1949563072961765378) 2025-07-27 20:10:32 UTC 6383 followers, XXX engagements


"Thank you. I think that given current general market exuberance it's an IPO valuation that's within the range of reasonable. That exuberance also makes it a good time for them to IPO. That valuation is only justified if you look beyond launch and find it credible that they can become a significant vertically integrated player in the broader aerospace industry which afaik is what they're trying to do now and it's a good approach. In fact I'd say it's almost necessary now for a launch company to branch out. A) it's very hard to compete without captive demand and B) there's a lot more money to"  
![@BellikOzan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::1240075098133909506.png) [@BellikOzan](/creator/x/BellikOzan) on [X](/post/tweet/1950009348555755775) 2025-07-29 01:43:52 UTC 6384 followers, XXX engagements

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@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan Ozan Bellik

Ozan Bellik posts on X about money, norway, dubai, billions the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and 2300 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"I wonder what % of Europeans understand how self-destructive this level of economic illiteracy combined with heavy handed policymaking is in their bureaucrats. I mean I'm not saying ours are much better but"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-27 16:32:08 UTC 6382 followers, 1727 engagements

"@HipernovaStar @tenshi_1997 Yep. That SLS is a prime example of a LEGO frankenrocket just adds irony"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-29 03:29:20 UTC 6384 followers, XX engagements

"Let's say the estimates of direct impact are accurate and so many people really did start dying and the only way to prevent it was to keep that particular aid stream going. And let's say there were no extenuating circumstances that may have introduced some moral dilemma (e.g. perhaps a good chunk of the money being funneled to tyrants/bandits/drug dealers/human traffickers/terrorists etc.). Here's the part of the narrative that I can't wrap my head around: how is it that the guy who said "you're fired" is evil incarnate but the firefighters who walked off the job in the middle of a fire and"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-30 05:13:50 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements

"Please engage with the actual question. It's not rhetorical. This isn't fundamentally about Luke's culpability. I'm trying to understand what really happened vs the narrative. It's bugged me from the start. If the people doing the work knew/believed that any disruption on the distribution was going to immediately result in thousands of deaths a week why did they stop doing the work just because the money stopped flowing Aiui the medicines were still there and it was just a distribution network disruption right"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-30 04:45:18 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements

"To bring it home how is that we live in a world where multinational companies can respond to natural disasters in the wink of an eye and fix disruptions to their supply chains in a matter of hours but weeks and and months is not enough to figure out how to ship supplies sitting in Dubai to their destinations in Africa Or rather how is it that no one from the coast of Norway to Cape Horn cares enough to make the call There are literally three multi-hundred billion dollar sovereign wealth funds in the UAE alone where that rotting aid is sitting"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-30 05:25:23 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements

"It is ofc theoretically possible to improve performance by adding sensors if you do sensor fusion better but nothing comes for free. The more you invest in working with one kind of data the less you have to work with the other. Time will tell ofc but camera-only so far at least seems competitive & promising"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-28 14:26:13 UTC 6386 followers, 1281 engagements

"When I was a kid I had claustrophobic panic experiences getting not-quite-stuck under furniture for a few seconds. I used to think I would be freaking out non-stop if I ever went caving. One day my wife's cousin invited me to go caving in a nearby cave called Hell Hole. Not like what this guy is doing but still full of tight squeezes that make you wonder if you'll really make it through (wouldn't have done it if plenty of other people hadn't done it before us). It was going to be his first time caving too but he'd done his research had a map and he's a rock climber so he had some crossover"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-28 03:24:52 UTC 6387 followers, 1580 engagements

"Thank you again and I appreciate the civil dialogue. I absolutely agree that we've fallen to record lows in presidential quality. That said playing chicken with Russian nuclear subs was a very risky move -- Kennedy ordered US attack submarines to surface them iirc after the USSR put nukes in Cuba to match US nukes in Turkey. I honestly doubt even Trump would have topped that. Yes we're having a setback in (many but not all) areas of public health policy. That said we've been gradually shifting away from individual agency (slow boil) for decades and I'm going to wait for more data before"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-28 17:06:48 UTC 6385 followers, XX engagements

"Why It's not money he's using on luxuries. It's the valuation of his share of his companies. What we've done is given him power to allocate a lot of capital and he has been allocating it very effectively for causes that are at least intended for the betterment of humanity. He spends his billions on data centers and factories not yachts and mansions. It's not even a question of whether he's earned it as a reward. It's just a question of who do we want deciding what happens with those resources. And I trust him (who was given those resources freely by others and who has been very efficient with"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-28 05:49:37 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements

"Going to disagree there on point X. Housing costs are fueled mainly by constrained supply. And it's homeowners who most strongly promote policies constraining supply. I say this as a homeowner who'd like my fellow homeowners to chill out on the nimbyism. Also home loans are enabling of high purchase costs but they're not predatory in the way college loans are. (They've gotten costlier now but it was practically free money just a few years ago at the height of the bubble with sub-inflation rates before even factoring in the mortgage interest tax deduction.) And they're not doing much to enable"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-28 16:47:26 UTC 6382 followers, XX engagements

"I don't know if this controversial but I genuinely believe people shouldn't be allowed to graduate from high school without understanding how compound interest and how minimum payments work. Let alone college. This is more important information to have to function safely as an adult in this society than at least XX% of the typical high school curriculum. If someone is mentally incapable of understanding it (this person clearly does not have that problem and I doubt any accredited university would admit someone who did) it ought to be drilled into their head to never take out a loan"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-28 13:22:54 UTC 6387 followers, 1506 engagements

"Does it I'm disinclined to believe Luke here would have intentionally tried to cut aid without which people were going to start dying. That he was ignorant of it I find more plausible (assuming that really was the direct impact). So is he really on lower moral ground than the people who had been doing the work and knew its impact when they decided they were going to stop if they couldn't collect a paycheck Some of them iirc were screaming this would be the consequence right out the gate. If they knew if they were right about that why did they stop"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-30 06:03:09 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements

"So in terms of prop payload to LEO iirc they're aiming for $3M marginal for 200t long term. And about X tanker flights per ship to Mars. So let's call that $15M in prop optimistically. Now you have two options for the ship. 1) Send it expendable in which case you have the full cost of an outfitted reentry capable ship + one time booster use + payload integration + support for a multi-month mission. I don't think you're getting this cheaper than $15M. 2) You try to get it cheaper with ship reuse. Making it cheaper requires ISRU (so you have to amortize that and it ain't going to be cheap for a"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-27 19:55:11 UTC 6382 followers, XXX engagements

"@tenshi_1997 I appreciate that's the original intent but XX% of the time I've seen it used it's been cases where the proposal was perfectly reasonable and would have been almost certainly substantially easier than a new rocket"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-29 00:28:11 UTC 6383 followers, XXX engagements

"Hold on a minute. We're not asking them to replace billions of dollars in aid. We're asking them to replace their $200/wk salaries. Does no one in those countries care enough to make sure that work gets done and the people who do it get fed Isn't food part of what they're distributing Surely taking some for themselves while doling out the rest would be better than finding other employment Heck even selling it for a reasonable fee would be better"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-30 05:31:48 UTC 6385 followers, XX engagements

"It certainly could have. Iirc it was cost competitive at the time on a per kg basis. There just wasn't demand for a 20t launch (1B) at $400M a pop. But there's no reason it would have to be a standard upper for most launches. Could have had a kerolox upper with a swapped H-1 and a nozzle extension. Or an even cheaper smaller stage pulled from existing LVs or ICBMs for more modest payloads"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-29 01:53:41 UTC 6385 followers, XXX engagements

"The rockets-aren't-legos people are generally speaking either ignorant of aerospace history or overly literal-minded and deeply confused about what someone is proposing when they suggest an integration"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-29 00:01:41 UTC 6386 followers, 2981 engagements

"@guysflavortown @Robotbeat I expect a lot of people chose to obey stop work orders"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-30 06:36:51 UTC 6386 followers, XX engagements

"@C_3C_3 How does someone in marketing get this out of touch How does that happen Does she even know people in her own life who are beer drinkers And who in their right mind gives the keys to someone like this"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-30 01:52:30 UTC 6386 followers, 6955 engagements

"@Tyler_The_Wise @guysflavortown @Robotbeat Okay cool how about Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Them too right How about Norway They're sitting on the biggest sovereign wealth fund of all -- $XXX trillion dollars. And the Norwegians have got a massive shipping fleet too. Are they demons"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-30 05:33:59 UTC 6386 followers, XXX engagements

"@Patryn23 @CKalitin The stripping down is for the tanker not the ship. And technically you don't need the heatshield for landing on Mars"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-28 12:24:49 UTC 6388 followers, XX engagements

"Lemme rephrase: why has that food been sitting in Dubai all this time and no one has lifted a finger to move it simply because the contracted distributers stopped getting paid Have people stopped dying Why does no else in the distribution chain care enough to keep it moving until this stuff gets sorted out"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-30 04:57:47 UTC 6386 followers, XXX engagements

"Moreover a few evil and/or hapless guys at the top is nothing new. But why are we not horrified that all these people providing life-saving aid without which thousands start dying immediately just walk away the moment they're told to stop and they won't be getting paid. That's a full blown epidemic of moral failure among aid workers if true. That's disturbing stuff. And no one is talking about it"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-30 06:06:47 UTC 6386 followers, XX engagements

"I just had an XX hour flight a month ago with a toddler in my lap for almost all of it. Wasn't great but it was okay. Someone large enough to have to pay for two seats needs that extra space more than the vast majority of parents with a toddler. On top of the fact that she paid for the extra seat while the parent did not. (but will likely have to soon anyway because toddlers don't stay under X for long)"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-27 20:10:32 UTC 6383 followers, XXX engagements

"Thank you. I think that given current general market exuberance it's an IPO valuation that's within the range of reasonable. That exuberance also makes it a good time for them to IPO. That valuation is only justified if you look beyond launch and find it credible that they can become a significant vertically integrated player in the broader aerospace industry which afaik is what they're trying to do now and it's a good approach. In fact I'd say it's almost necessary now for a launch company to branch out. A) it's very hard to compete without captive demand and B) there's a lot more money to"
@BellikOzan Avatar @BellikOzan on X 2025-07-29 01:43:52 UTC 6384 followers, XXX engagements

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