Staffed with and run by all the same people with the same mentality and attitudes. And a rose by any other name...

If Senator Cantwell from Amazon/Blue Origin gets her way, you can be assured that this plan for putting boots on the moon will be another bridge-to-nowhere pork project. On the other hand, if the contract, as awarded by NASA to SpaceX but blocked by Blue Origin, goes forward,the chances of putting boots on the lunar…

As demonstrated by the number of them who are current or former military, they’ll *BE* the ones piloting the apaches and/or the ones giving the orders to said pilots.

Until the company actually changes directions in any capacity other than PR-spin, this is still just performative damage control. As the saying goes, talk is cheap. When they walk the walk, then I’ll give a crap. After all, they had decades to position themselves as something other than craven oil-pushing psychopaths.

Well, therein lies the problem — these installations are beyond the horizon, which means the only way to get the energy over the horizon is to bounce it into space and back down to a receiving station on Earth. Take a wild guess just how precisely you have to focus a laser to do that, and just how dangerous it would…

There’s been discussion of this method (such as beaming the power into space and back down to collector sites) but it always runs into a very particular stumbling block — beaming photons in this manner is essentially a laser weapon with serious security concerns, potential for abuse, and destruction. So if you thought…

To be honest, given how horrible a job humanity is already doing with governing itself (running headlong into our own extinction with open arms and a smile), the odds of a super-intelligence being *WORSE* at the job is pretty marginal.

Before the Insurrection, I wondered why conservatives had a stick up their ass about firearms limitations and regulations to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally unstable. After the Insurrection, I fully understand — they ARE the mentally unstable in whose hands firearms do not belong. The whole point is to put…

Another fine example of “I support my tribe, no matter how horrible they are, over yours.”

Also valid. A blanket presumption of truthful police-incident reports isn’t acceptable, and maybe it never was. Too many of them been caught in brazen lies.

It didn’t ‘become’ that. It has always been that way. FFS, the original colonists were the people so uptight (unhinged and delusional) that the government paid for them to get the fuck out so the rest of the population could be rid of them. Which I’d be all for now if there was anywhere else on Earth left to send…

This is why, whenever I hear about a black person ‘fleeing’ the cops, my first response is “How is that *NOT* a perfectly reasonable and justifiable response for any person of color in *THIS* country??”

By no small coincidence A LOT of the laws passed by conservatives aren’t legal or constitutional. But they do it anyway. And face absolutely no repercussions for it either. Which is why they keep doing it. Conservatives have been killing democracy ‘death by a thousand cuts’ style for a while now, after all, elevating…

Because Conservatives have spent so much time, lied to themselves and others so profoundly, and invested so much energy into fabricating their ‘alternative reality’ that they cannot function without it and cannot exist anywhere else.

They’re not mutually exclusive.

But, you know, *SHE* is the ‘terrorist’ ...not the persons who were so ‘terrified’ of her use of words and non-violent actions that they were compelled to shoot her in the head. No, that ‘good and wholesome’ individual was just looking out for for ‘society.’

But America still isn’t a police state. Nope. No, sir. Freedumb-lovin’ ‘Mericans don’t do no police state.

Yes, they were monitored. Crudely. Which is why monitoring them rarely produced useful early-warning data.

Those also rely on precise instruments. That is assuming you want usable, useful data for the purpose of detecting the kinds of precursor events that signal impending volcanic activity.

That’s the kind of intellectual dishonesty to expect from conservatives. They were ‘brought’ here. They did ‘work.’ That makes them workers. So in their minds, nothing about that statement is incorrect. And strictly on a technicality, that’s true. But it’s also completely and intentionally glossing over the fact that…