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What about Substack?

I voted 3rd party in 2016. I regret it all the time.

On the issue of genocide, the vote is between more or less. Voting 3rd party, Republican, or abstaining is a vote for more genocide.

The moral high ground and smugness is worthless compared to less genocide, abortion, education, trans lives, healthcare, etc.

In 2018, right? When's the 2nd launch supposed to be?

I hope so, but if they launch on the suborbital trajectory again because they aren't certain about the Raptor relight for a deorbit burn, then I'm guessing a Starlink won't be able to deploy and raise its orbit in time to not also reenter.

SpaceX, in a perfect world, just wants to be the railroad to facilitate others who want to build stations, bases, mining, recycling, etc.

As far as the greenness of rockets, recycling would be 5th in the 5 R's:

• Refuse: refuse to use wasteful rockets? I don't really know how to apply this one.
• Reduce: I suppose rideshares and vehicles with multiple hosted payloads are good
• Reuse: See: SpaceX
• Repurpose: Wet workshops?
• Recycle: energy intensive and would need tons of infrastructure to process and use on orbit

I'm hoping this is successful enough to put Starlinks on the next one to actually get operational, but the loss of attitude control and lack of Raptor relight don't make me super optimistic.

For the rest of us who aren't in states with the trial this year, I've been using Freetaxusa for a few years. Free federal, $15 state.

Front Range Rail would be pretty great

Wirecutter and RTINGS both do a lot of testing and reviews, including for headphones.

The mass application boom is so annoying. Seeing a sankey diagram of someone who applied to hundreds of jobs always bothers me.

They also elected Ron Johnson

You would carry a gas can

I set my phone to auto download playlists and podcasts on WiFi, so it isn't really a problem. I think there was one month when I had to buy extra data so far, and that still ends up being cheaper than being on a plan with more data.

It kinda just looks like ground pork

Getting paid for on-call hours would be cool. If only.

I got mine a little over 4 years ago and am still on the original toner. It gives low toner warnings but just keeps on printing.

Have you heard of Dragonfly? It's a thousand pound, nuclear powered drone that'll fly around Titan. Ingenuity has been a great first step (hop?) with these rotorcraft, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what else comes next.

I can echo almost all of this, to the point that I was wondering if we used to work at the same company.

(I fully believe on purpose, to milk more money out of NASA)

I remember a pretty absurd situation along these lines. We ended up delivering faulty hardware to the prime contractor, who said there wasn't a specific requirement for this failure mode, so they wanted to ship it, get paid, then have NASA fail it, write a new requirement, and buy another. The world of contract modifications and requirement lawyering always left a bad taste in my mouth. There are a handful of companies that I really want to see get banned from NASA contracting.

I'm surprised to learn that he had a heart

Twitch having 1400ish employees before the layoffs doesn't seem too crazy, right? Cutting 35% is insane, though.