The general sentiment, sure.

“The last six months have been challenging for our industry given the combined writers and actors strikes in the U.S. ... that we caused by being greedy assclowns with our heads up our collective asses, fucking over the people upon whom literally all of our profits are completely dependent. But since we’re stupid…

I keep hoping one of these days, researchers will identify the specific biochemical pathways that trigger fat production and retention, and how we can switch them the f*** off. It’s an evolutionary adaptation that is *SO* unproductive (even dangerous) in the food-plentiful, modern world...and a great example of how…

Flood insurance isn’t a commercially viable service anyway, and never has been. It’s been federally funded pretty much from the beginning. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the insurance industry doesn’t want anything to change — especially regarding the impacts of floods — because they get to charge for a service they…

Yup. Although the Pinkertons have a special place in this story since the whole reason they exist is *SPECIFICALLY* in response to unions, namely to attack and crush unions.

Never forget: Unions Made America Great. Not capitalism. Not corporations. And certainly not conservatives or religion. Not even democracy. Unions, and unions alone, standing up for the good of its members against assaults from conservatives, capitalists, and corporations built the middle class and transformed America…

Imagine getting to within spitting distance of one the greatest possible achievements in life only to fall short while everyone is watching. What a disappointment and an embarrassment. Those poor stairs are probably scarred for life and in need of serious therapy.

Given the feedback from the people who work on Marvel movies, the “Marvel Movie Method” doesn’t really work so well there either....unless you call massive amounts of crunch, burnout, high turnover rates, and frequent loss of institutional knowledge ‘working.’

Did you even bother to look at the relevant numbers? Population growth (1.1%) is roughly a third of average inflation rates (~3%).

And the extraction involve complex chemical processes that also use other toxic or hazardous chemicals. It’s not environmentally sustainable. But it doesn’t need to be. Rare earth minerals are also recyclable... *IF* the proper regulatory framework and enforcement is in place to ‘nudge’ industry in that direction (whic…

Pirating will never be an issue. Rare earth minerals aren’t ‘rare’ because there isn’t a lot of them. On the contrary, they’re extremely abundant. They’re ‘rare’ because they don’t exist anywhere in large deposits like those typically associated with mining. They exist in very tiny quantities everywhere (even right…

The more unions we have, and the more people there are who are part of them, the better off people are ultimately going to be, wherever they happen to be. FFS, *UNIONS* are what made America great. Not capitalism. Unions. They literally built the middle class that American capitalists have spent over half a century…

That’s...not really much of milestone. BE-4s have seen extensive testing too. Years ago. They’re still not launching any rockets. And there was a significant time gap between Merlin engine testing and Falcon 9 launching successfully. More to the point, Raptor engines have seen significant testing in multiple launches…

I am forced to agree. In a more ‘tangible’ comparison, even if someone leaves the doors to their home unlocked or if you are ‘given a key’ by someone other than the home owner, entering the building without permission is still trespassing and removing items is still theft. These laws, while crudely formed, do apply…

The costume work and the rather rushed and uneven start for S1 left me a little cold. But S2 came together near flawlessly, and the production values definitely raised to meet the ambitions of the source material. Here’s hoping S3 continues that trend.

That’s because they’ve got hundreds of billions of dollars invested in fossil fuel infrastructure assets — refineries, rigs, derricks, tankers, etc, etc. All those assets will become stranded assets (ie worthless) if humanity gets over its ‘Drill, baby, drill’ obsession. The people with huge sums invested in oil…

It’s not the first fully reusable *ANYTHING* if it doesn’t actually exist yet, and still won’t until it actually, you know, demonstrates that it f***ing works. Because if your ‘measuring stick’ of something existing starts at “Someone has an idea!” then Starship is the industry workhorse darling that’s been doing…

Yeah, but that whole ‘pivot back to’ thing would imply they stopped focusing on gasoline at some point. That never happened. The most they did was spend a tiny amount on examining how they could capture and control renewables the same way they currently do with fossil fuel. The answer was clearly, “No.” So they’re…

Which only needed ‘saving’ because the people at the top only think about money and made some truly stupid decisions blindly pursuing of it. Decisions, I might add, that they were told, in no uncertain terms, would blow up in their faces if made. But they made them anyway. Because money.

Second tyranny verse, same as the first — lies, disinformation, manipulation, oppression, and violence.