As much as it’s fun to hate on Musk. The Spaceship program is already cheaper than any other option, even if the second stage never becomes reusable.

If all they do is gut the starship so it’s a little lighter and more reliable, and keep the reusable booster, it’s going to cut the cost of putting large and heavy payloads into orbit.

The James Webb telescope would have been significantly cheaper and easier to build and launch if Starship was available. There was an enormous amount of science that was cut at NASA due to the cost and time overruns from the overly complex build.

It still may never be a real option for lunar missions without the reusability and refueling, but just the ability to send huge things to earth orbit is a giant success.

Starship has nothing to do with the ISS crew. They’re coming back on the extremely reliable Dragon capsule that’s already up there.

The “rescue” mission already launched and docked during the Biden Administration.

Brother is saying they won’t “brick” your printer. Sounds like they’re only denying the most extreme description and not what they’re actually doing.

It’s actually not, because the exit condition is “when you get the joke”

Don’t give her sudo permission then.

Amazon doesn’t make anything. There’s very little on Amazon that can’t be purchased somewhere else.

This is 100% a painter who’s worked with this person/company before. In the contract I’m betting it says “before we paint, remove all utilities and covers from the wall, anything left will be painted”

The first six times they did the work, stuff was left up, and they spent an hour removing everything before they started. This time, they said fuck it. We told you to take it down, this is what you’re getting now.

In field tests, freeze-dried bacteria were applied to the surface of 3-foot by 3-foot (about 1-meter by 1-meter) plots, and urea and calcium chloride were sprayed on top.

So a construction worker with kidney stones peed on it.
Sounds about right.

Customer service reps have almost the same information that a customer would have. The only difference is they have a few more tools available to them.

Asking policy questions or anything at this level would likely get no useful info.

Airplanes fly typical routes, so it’s possible, but not guaranteed.

If the bees die off, you’re going to have a much bigger problem than lack of honey.

Maybe she shouldn’t have voted to make him immune from consequences then.

Gemini is wrong quite often. You shouldn’t rely on it to tell you facts.

If I need to double check it, then it’s worthless to me.

After a month and a bit of changing your habits, a lot of folks will have found other decent options and never go back.

Even if most people return to their old habits, many will not.

40 days of change can have a significant impact on a company, even long after the boycott ends.

The referee assigns points to teams, but doesn’t need to collect those points from another team or earn them to assign them out.

It’s a decent metaphor.

It’s also underselling what they are providing.

You get to skip all the AI garbage, all the sponsored links, and the “what other people are asking” sections and just go straight to the search results.

Privacy is the primary selling point, but the clean “old school” google interface is what I’m really excited about. I’ve set my default search in the browser to Leta for now.

Patient?

He was allowed to run because McConnell stonewalled Obama and let Trump select a bunch of Supreme Court appointees, which then decided that trump can’t be held accountable for anything.

Then everyone decided the rule of law was important, except trump, which means he’s steamrolling every safeguard we had.

Trump has been threatening and posturing for 10 years. The second he was elected the economy started to react to everything he has said and done up to that point.

He’s been indirectly impacting the economy for years, and directly impacting it since November.

I’m sorry I called you a knob, that’s an insult to knobs. You’re actually much, much worse.