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Musk gets his Texas wish. SpaceX launch site is approved as the new city of Starbase (apnews.com)

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The South Texas home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is now an official city with a galactic name: Starbase.

A vote Saturday to formally organize Starbase as a city was approved by a lopsided margin among the small group of voters who live there and are mostly Musk’s employees at SpaceX. With all the votes in, the tally was 212 in favor to 6 against, according to results published online by the Cameron County Elections Department.

Musk celebrated in a post on his social platform, X, saying it is “now a real city!”

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[–] spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org 4 points 4 weeks ago

Make Living In A Company Town Where Your Children Die From Measles Great Again

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wonder of this will just further fuck over CAH

[–] ninjaphysics@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

I admire CAH so much for their work. I definitely hope they win in court.