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thewayneA true feel-good story.
Cards Against Humanity (CAH) is a very fun, and potentially very rude, party card game. A few years ago they decided to tweak President 45's nose and bought an acre of land in Texas in the path of a proposed wall building. And sold 1" parcels of it to fans of their game, making the acre so subdivided that any attempt to purchase it or to seize it through exercising eminent domain over it that it would be insanely complicated.
Well, the site just so happens to be near Boca Chica, the location of a certain space company's launch platform. And said space company moved in a bunch of trucks and dumped gravel, debris, and all sorts of stuff on this acre that they didn't own. CAH had posted no trespassing signs on it, which said space company's trucks ignored and drove over. CAH complained to said space company and was ignored, so they sued.
And got a settlement! Shortly before the suit would have gone to trial before a jury, the space company blinked.
Sadly the terms of the settlement are sealed and CAH can't talk about it, but the space company cleaned up the acre, remediating it back to its original state. And the owners of said acre will be receiving a CAH card pack extolling the many manifold virtues, or lack thereof, of Leon Muskbrat.
I don't know if said card packs will be available to buyers outside of those acre property owners, but I'd love to have one. Had I known about this land purchase, I would have liked to have been a part of it.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/cards-against-humanity-gets-settlement-from-spacex-plans-pack-of-elon-musk-cards/
Cards Against Humanity (CAH) is a very fun, and potentially very rude, party card game. A few years ago they decided to tweak President 45's nose and bought an acre of land in Texas in the path of a proposed wall building. And sold 1" parcels of it to fans of their game, making the acre so subdivided that any attempt to purchase it or to seize it through exercising eminent domain over it that it would be insanely complicated.
Well, the site just so happens to be near Boca Chica, the location of a certain space company's launch platform. And said space company moved in a bunch of trucks and dumped gravel, debris, and all sorts of stuff on this acre that they didn't own. CAH had posted no trespassing signs on it, which said space company's trucks ignored and drove over. CAH complained to said space company and was ignored, so they sued.
And got a settlement! Shortly before the suit would have gone to trial before a jury, the space company blinked.
Sadly the terms of the settlement are sealed and CAH can't talk about it, but the space company cleaned up the acre, remediating it back to its original state. And the owners of said acre will be receiving a CAH card pack extolling the many manifold virtues, or lack thereof, of Leon Muskbrat.
I don't know if said card packs will be available to buyers outside of those acre property owners, but I'd love to have one. Had I known about this land purchase, I would have liked to have been a part of it.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/cards-against-humanity-gets-settlement-from-spacex-plans-pack-of-elon-musk-cards/
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Date: 2025-10-22 09:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-10-22 09:58 pm (UTC)I snickered a lot while initially reading it.
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Date: 2025-10-22 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2025-10-23 01:02 am (UTC)Yeah, I'm kinda curious about that, too.
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Date: 2025-10-23 11:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-10-22 11:55 pm (UTC)I wonder if there is any more acreage left in the path of said wall? :p :p :p
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2025-10-23 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-10-23 03:06 am (UTC)I thought it was quite brilliant when they first bought the land. I remembered that. But to screw over Musk with it? chef's kiss
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Date: 2025-10-23 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-10-23 06:41 pm (UTC)I was amused when I heard the original story years ago, but for them to then be able to screw with Leon is just chef's kiss
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Date: 2025-10-23 02:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-10-23 06:43 pm (UTC)It certainly amused me.
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Date: 2025-10-24 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2025-10-24 09:46 pm (UTC)Isn't that beautiful?!