Probably have contracts worked out now that its a global hit.  But yeah that wait felt never ending!

Amazon prime was at least an actual fucking service, with costs that would scale based on how many people were using it, and for how long. That’s where it makes SENSE to have a subscription fee.

Another class action suit where the plaintiffs get next to nothing (if 3 of you group together, you can buy a single one day park ticket with enough left over for a Mickey ice cream bar), the corporation accepts a slap on the wrist ($9.5M is about an hour’s revenue for Disney), and the lawyers get millions. Yay?

Sam fell for the oldest trick in the book. They’re getting paid in EXPOSURE!

Well, it is actually functional given they launched and docked.

In general, AI detectors work by spotting the hallmarks of AI penmanship, such as perfect grammar and punctuation.

AI trains on millions of human written articles. AI gets really good at imitating human writing. AI thinks everything is AI.

Seeing that “urchin” is an old English word for hedgehog, that’s appropriate.

Now, she’s all bent out of shape because the 13th amendment allows slave labor, and she seems to expect all of us to be outraged, as well. It only applies to convicted criminals, Amber, i.e., prison inmates. It’s not like they’re plucking people off the streets and forcing them to pick beans somewhere. These are…

You are correct but the common name for the larvae of Cochliomyia hominivorax is screwworm.  As the scientific name does not exactly roll off the tongue, I think that we are stuck with the established misnomer.  By the way, as a large animal veterinarian, I often work with and depend on state and federal officials who…

And yet so many of them have worm in their common name:

CATL is the biggest name in EV batteries, supplying everyone from Tesla to BMW to Mercedes with cells to run their electric cars. American lawmakers, however, see Chinese manufacturing and appear to enter some sort of bloodlust state — tripping over each other to ban the company from bringing goods into the …

This is one of those instances where the government is truly the best option and it is fun to advertise how successful it has been. It would be a nightmare for any company to take on an international ecological issue and not have it screw over the masses.

well this didn’t age well

OK, it looks like Starship also touched down in the ocean, although it took a hell of a beating on the way down. :D

Sorry to partially disappoint; the Booster successfully landed in the ocean only a short while ago. (WHEEEEEE!!! What an amazing sight. :D)

The explosion pressure can be as low as 10 - 20 psi. 15 psi over-pressure is the equivalent of a dive 33 feet deep in water.

Hard to reconcile the complete destruction of the vehicle with ‘man was treated for minor injuries’. That aside, dude is an automatic nominee for Darwin Award.

This seems deliberately worded to shift blame away from Republicans who are the obvious source of most causes like this

It was a dumb comment - there is “an electoral process.” It’s that thing that happens in November, and it leads to the Defense Appropriations bill (when the Congress actually gets around to passing it, what with their busy schedules - and the group of them who actively try to prove that government doesn’t work).