Find an appropriate asteroid. Get there. In one piece. Extract the minerals you’re looking for. Leave the asteroid. In one piece. Rendezvous with a return vehicle. Offload your cargo. Repeat enough times to recoup the cost of this venture. And all of this has to be done in the full blaze of the Sun’s cosmic fury of…

Well, it’s a good thing that so few mass shootings happen in the US. It’s not like they’re a near-daily occurrence or anything. [/s]

God I hope she manages to pin him in a corner and force him to admit, under oath, publicly and on record, that he rightly and fairly lost the 2020 election. But I also hope he tries to lie about it again and perjures himself...

Wee! Also, double wee for more Warwick Davis. He’s always a delight to watch.

So Starliner is almost twice the cost, years behind schedule, already has a record of multiple significant system problems, and is still having issues that could easily result in a catastrophic mission failure for future launches.

Hello? Masks and vaccines were too burdensome to many of these same people. They were willing to let over a millions Americans die just to maintain the illusion that is America’s house-of-cards economy.

...but Spot also can’t crawl inside a tiny crack in a wall, or into someone’s ear. (A truly nightmarish potential use of this tech.)

“These decisions are not made by an uncaring machine.”

Counterpoint: many longstanding observations and studies of human behavior disagree with your assertion. See the Stanford Prison Experiment for a quick example just how quickly and easily the average person devolves into a brutal, uncaring sadist. Spoiler: it’s fast and requires no incentives.

Every single politician who stands in the way of firearm legislation is in gross dereliction of the duty they swore an oath to perform: to serve the public. One could even say they *perjured* themselves in doing so, because they clearly and knowingly lied about their intention to serve the public. Because the public…

You can’t have a real conversation about *ANYTHING* with people who have created their own alternate reality in which to live. That’s the danger of ‘belief.’

And Republican-stonewall Senators all looked at each other and laughed. “Ha. Racial Justice? Not on our watch.”

The first step is go get rid the state’s asinine ‘use it or lose it’ water allocation rules. All this does in incentivize *WASTING* water so that if you actually need it at some point in the future, you’ll have it.

It is interesting how there’s such a strong correlation between being awful places to live — unless you’re wealthy — and the amount of control Republicans have over the local and/or state government. Why, it’s almost as if the two are related, dare I say, even connected?

It’s not an admission of guilt. It’s that the discovery during an actual trial is a headache for large companies working on proprietary systems, technologies, or information (which SpaceX deals with all three). It’s often cheaper to just settle and make the case go away than the potential costs and damages of…

“You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it’s all “part of the plan”. But when I say that one little old…

When the company is posting record profits and CEOs and other exces are pulling in record bonuses while the employees actually doing the work are overworked and underpaid, the only solution *IS* to unionize. How many times will this lesson have be learned before it finally sticks??

In related news, DeSatanis is debating banning the teaching of history in history class, believing it would make good, honest, righteous Christians ‘feel bad.’

If FTC and DOJ were remotely serious about doing their jobs, most of the mergers in the news over the last couple decades would have never been permitted. Market consolidation, despite being spun as ‘good’ for consumers, has, in fact, *NEVER* been good for consumers. That’s why anti-trust laws were enacted in the…

It’s a worthy cause, but I have no data relating to what he was like before his football career. He might have been like this all along.