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Sea otters exhibit this behavior. They keep their favorite rock in their pouches and use them to crack open shellfish.

Unfortunately, the contingency plan is going to be “Give more money to Boeing and Lockheed Martin,” and we saw how that went with Starliner.

My first thought: if you’re going to spend half the night sawing into a safe, why not rob a bank instead? Cash would be easier to launder than jewels. My second thought: How much cash do banks even keep on hand these days, with cashless payments becoming more and more common?

The problem is SpaceX has the best product around, and it’s not even close. Falcon 9 launches are so much cheaper than anything that ULA has offered that it’s not even funny. They weren’t even looking in to reusable boosters until SpaceX made it a standard practice in their system. For station cargo flights, Cygnus is an option, but it can’t bring anything back the way Cargo Dragon can. For manned missions, the only other option would be Boeing Starliner, and I don’t think anyone else is ready to call that operational.

Yes, SpaceX has a near monopoly at this point, but for once I don’t think it’s from any underhanded business practices, it’s just they were willing to innovate when the legacy space carriers were coasting along on government contracts. Once NASA, the DOD, the intelligence agencies deemed the Falcon as reliable, the only reasons ULA stayed in business was the government’s desire for a second launch provider for contingencies, and the occasion payload that was too big for Falcon.

And, since the Supreme Court has ruled money = speech with the Citizens United ruling, Trump has just set Elon up for a First Amendment case if anything happens. One that the taxpayer will likely foot the bill to defend.

We know what happened.

I’m sorry, I don’t speak Welsh.

Could also be thinking of Integrated Development Environment, the program software developers spend most of their days using. (Combining a text editor, file manager, compiler, and debugger.)

The IDE standard was used to connect hard drives and optical drives in from the late 80’s to the mid 00’s. Also known as ATA, it was renamed Parallel ATA when its successor, Serial ATA (SATA) came onto the scene.

Yeah, unfortunately, there’s no one in the line of succession I particularly like. At least RFK is #12 and Linda McMahon is #16, both pretty far down.

I mean, from a business perspective, yeah. Between crew and cargo flights, NASA’s purchasing over 80% of Dragon flights. You have a product that looses 80% of its customers, it’s hard to keep afloat.

It’d be funny if it weren’t for the stakes involved.

The Justices may be doing their own political calculus. Trump’s gone in four years, their job is for life, so long as they don’t dilute the role of the judiciary to the point they no longer matter.

I’m assuming you already tried to get the work application to run on Linux via Wine or Proton? I know Valve has been putting a lot of R&D effort into Proton for their Steam Deck, trying to improve compatibility.

I was just thinking more could go spectacular wrong with a pressurized cylinder of propane vs a bag of charcoal.

It’s only in the last 150 years that information could travel any faster than a currier ship or rider. Before the telegraph and the radio, information traveled at roughly the same speed as goods or soldiers.

I’m assuming this is a gas grill, and the lawyers made them include this after some drunks blew themselves up or burned the deck down.

Activation fees certainly did.

You can probably add “website” to the list.

Thanks, now I’m actually hoping Pfizer’s lobbying team is able to sway government policy.

“Night, everybody.”