I’m of two minds on this. On the one hand, yeah, he should be paying taxes like everyone else, which he will from the stock being sold. *NOBODY* should be permitted use everything that society offers, all its services and amenities, things that society paid to build, and then thumb their nose at paying to maintain and…

I think you essentially nailed the reason why the joint US/Canada project was dropped. In the end, you still need a rocket, so why not just use a rocket in the first place and be able to use far broader range of capabilities in your payload -- including feeble humans.

People are, on average, stupid. That’s why even the most obvious of “Don’t do this!” warning labels exist. Because businesses need to cover their bases in protection against stupid people doing stupid things with their products and suing.

Getting money from the government while poor is ‘socialism’ and that’s ‘bad.’ But getting money from the government while rich is ‘capitalism’ and that’s ‘good.’

The wolves will never vote to ban eating the sheep. The people who are supposed to stop this kind of nonsense are the ones who created this nonsense in the first place, because they’re benefiting from it.

Technically, no. But realistically, yes. You have to actually *HAVE* enough money available to take advantage of these tax-law ‘opportunities’ which is something the vast majority of Americans do not have. In this example, most Americans do not have a million dollars sitting around nor are they likely to be able to…

So, having learned nothing about the power of vertical integration from a certain battery/car/rocket/satellite/launch company, Weta FX sold off the technology that powers their FX house, ensuring that in the very near future, they’re going to have to *LICENSE* that very same technology to keep being a FX house.

So in addition to the intended study of the Sun, we’re also learning that the orbital plane closer to the Sun than Mercury is a lot busier in nature than we originally thought?

Not really.

Because if that was the justification, then the entire case needs to be moved out of state. Nobody in that state won’t know of the case, and there are only two versions of jurors — racists nutjobs who will acquit these two men no matter what evidence is presented, and not-racist-whackjobs who see two men trying to get…

If you don’t want to be called stupid, stop acting stupid. If you don’t want to be called an idiot, don’t act like an idiot. Texas, Florida, Fox News, KKK, and the GOP must all enjoy being called stupid and idiots, because that’s pretty much the only quality they possess...outside of being pathological liars.

That assumes they *WANT* to be part of it, which is a stupid assumption to make. We wouldn’t *BE* in this mess if they *WANTED* to part of the solution. They’re never going to be party to fixing this mess because not only are they responsible for it, they’re still actively and aggressively making it worse and making…

That’s a series (or a series of of films) begging to be made — One ‘part’ of the series focuses on Revan’s initial rise to glory as powerful Jedi, fall from grace, formation of the Sith, and subsequent disappearance, while second ‘part’ of the series would be what followed in KOTOR and beyond, including leading into KO…

It’s a lot easier to make money when you’ve already got it or someone to give it to you. And the more money you’ve got, the easier it gets to make more. Which is why the whole system is so utterly and completely ****ing broken — it encourages selfishness, hoarding, and the intentional deprivation of others for…

...for those who are already best paid...

And do you know what any of that means? Absolutely nothing. Because we’re ~2 years from the Republicans retaking the Senate (almost certainly) and reversing or sabotaging everything Biden does or tries for the remainder of his term. Because if Democrats are doing it, Republicans must oppose it. It’s their…

I would have gone with:

I never said the Republicans were acting in a slow, measured way (that would be the Democrats) — though, I should have put an “Even” at the start of that sentence to make it clear. Of course, the ‘slow, measured approach’ has often also meant doing nothing, too. But *NEITHER* party is acting appropriately for the…

Their ‘rational’ approach is to do nothing, because it won’t effect them, so it’s not their problem.

McConnell mostly is already. So it would be largely a symbolic change. Or did not notice how easily Republicans obstruct anything the Democrats try to do?