“...recorded on the Model 3, Y, S, and X.”

This.

The old “We’re not evil, just totally incompetent” defense. Exactly what you want to hear coming from the people who are legally authorized to arrest and kill citizens. 

It means one of the good ol’ boys in blue thought that running over cyclists wasn’t no crime, and decided to do as much as they could to deep six the whole thing right from the start.

I find the police chief’s inconsistency a bit puzzling. Because if he’s really all for accountability, then the notion that hey, they “counseled” the sergeant who couldn’t be bothered to leave a message with the on-call DA and that this would be dealt with “internally” doesn’t really cut it, no?

ICE manufacturers rely on suppliers for many of their electrical parts including HVAC, ECUs, etc... So each part requires different chips and different software.  So when specific chips are not available, then those parts are not available.  Tesla not only uses more modern chips that are produced in larger numbers,…

Interesting point until you bagged on Democrats. This isn’t a black and white political issue like some seem to think. As for China, I thought that their 1 child policy would eventually find a way to fuck them over. I mean, I know people who believe that they will run out of working-age people after a certain point.

The problem is that economics drives the boat, as it were. If the US decided to entirely cut imports from China by building all local supplies, then competitors in other countries would undercut US prices by continuing to buy from China. To succeed all one needs is a planet-wide embargo of all trade with China. And…

I’ve lived in TX for more than a decade now and my experience is that its conservatism is more of the libertarian than busybody variety. People mostly just want to do their own thing. It’s honestly why the abortion bill is so perplexing, it’s basically Abbot pandering to a small but vocal crowd.

As someone who grew up in Texas and has lived in California for 35 years, I can tell you there is more nuance to this issue than either the post or many of the commenters are suggesting.

Exactly.  All the people moving from California to Texas are going to want their Texas exactly like their California. 

Honestly I’m fine with all these tech companies moving to Texas, it’s what has been shifting the state blue over the last 20 years. If enough blue gets injected to flip it then there is literally no path to the presidency for conservatives which is a win in my book.

Incorporated in Deleware and still having a massive operation in California,... they’re not avoiding many taxes. And Musk doesn’t pay a significant amount of taxes. Property taxes are high in Texas though, so he’s got that going for him.

That’s fair to go with the GAO’s reported numbers, but it has to be with the understanding that 16 is basically the worst case scenario for a number of factors. It assumes Starship tankers will only be able to lift the low-end of the 100-150 ton range that Starship is expected to be able to lift to LEO, and while that…

Nothing you said is wrong.  Write your congressman. 

GAO here - we need to go by technical specifications and information that can be verified. The team that performed this audit likely used NASA documents themselves as supporting evidence, and that supporting evidence is dated to well before April of this year, probably late-2020. It’s important to understand that NASA…

The cynic in me believes NASA picked SpaceX because NASA would rather partner with SpaceX than get beat by them.

One of the most important points nobody seems to mention (specially Besos or Dynetics) is that:

Orion can only be launched by SLS. Thus SLS still has a purpose. That’s a necessary justification NASA needs to get this plan through Congress.

SpaceX doesn’t mind because they get NASA dollars to fund what they were going to do anyway.  (Plus if lunar Starship is carrying crew, then NASA has to give their seal of…

The problem is that this kind of capability is very “use it or lose it”, and we’ve lost most of the expertise involved in building Moon rockets (the tooling for building them is long destroyed, the people involved either retired or died). They almost kind of have to reinvent the wheel, except do it better and cheaper…