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Correct.

Two things can be true at once. Musk is terrible. Starship is mainly being developed with private funds.

I encourage you to find funding that is specifically earmarked for Starship. I do not think it's as much as you are letting on here.

The unfortunate fact is that nobody on earth is close to matching Spacex on cost, capability, and reliability. They are a decade ahead, at least.

That is for launch services on Falcon 9, not development of Starship.

Falcon 9 is the cheapest, most frequently flying, and safest rocket in history. It is also arguably the most environmentally friendly since it is 2/3 reusable.

It's fine to criticize SpaceX. They aren't meeting their own development schedule and they're led by a dangerous egomaniac.

But they aren't shooting for a Saturn V. This rocket has about twice the thrust at liftoff and must be recovered.

One of the best rides ever

Not that I'm sympathetic to their methods. I just feel like it's weird to show up and burn out before the ideology you named yourself after even got going.

I keep wondering, what happened to antifa? Like, now that we have a race based immigration crackdown, now that academic freedom is under direct attack, now that the President freaking took over the most prominent national arts institution... they just gave up

This has been quite a week. The most honest assessment yet of Biden's unfitness while in office and also Trump continuing to give example after example of why one might make that devil's bargain.

He's so scared of everything.

She's not wrong.

Well they might also be witches.

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Maybe we need to let old things die, Ben

Oh, this was back c. 2006. I regret I don't have it now, but I wasn't in a place to accept it then.

Ah. I had a coworker who was an Amiga fanatic that offered me his backup rig because (I suspect) his wife wanted him to downsize. I wish I had the time and space for that now.

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Do you really have an Apple ][ in your basement?

Someone who simultaneously claims to be persecuted and winning right and left

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We're not stupid, you know

I was prepared before the foundations of the world.

Surely, this is the Andy Kaufman gif?

I aaaaalmost brought this up, even though I've never played it. My son has and loves the OST.

And that means there will be no other clients if this one goes down.

Marco Rubio's statements that completely contradict his prior statements make a lot more sense if you view him as, essentially, a mob lawyer.

Ostensibly, that's why two days' worth of requests were lost. They restored from the most recent complete backup.

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"meet the New Boss, who threatened 'The Boss'"

Everybody Knew His Name: ‘Norm!’

As we mourn the passing of George Wendt, I'd like to, once again, bemoan NJ liquor licensing, which means my little town currently has no Third Place to raise a glass in his memory.

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It's a bold strategy

I have a feeling those are two words that his brain knows go together, but his brain doesn't quite know why, and he took a big swing anyway.

I say court-appointed because I just don't think this is what he thought he was signing up for. Bad as he is.

It's like he's a court appointed attorney trying to give the best defense for his indefensible client. Probably why he quit law and got into politics.

This man doesn't believe any of what he is saying.