This being Xi’s thing, not the CCP’s would have been a much more valid argument 10 years ago. We’ve now been through 12 years of CCP purges, some of which really did serve to fight corruption, but that also replaced more moderate members of the leadership with those who have promoted more aggressive use of Chinese…

The rest of the CCP have no ideology aside from staying in power and getting their hands in every cookie jar. Even Li Qiang is far more liberal than Xi. Xi couldn’t even find a mini-me for his number two. China’s industries will outlive Xi Jinping.

Whether a private corporation in China is owned by the CCP isn’t really the issue anymore. Your example of Jack Ma kind of proves the rule too. He, despite all his wealth and power, had no ability to protect himself or his company when he ran afoul of Xi. The party decided what was going to happen to them, and that’s…

That sounds both intriguing AND frightening at the same time...

So THAT’S how it happened!

Just hide in a car wash.

There is not enough bumper for the Cybertruck to do a PIT maneuver.

Given the difficulties that the Cybertruck has been experiencing as a vehicle, I strongly doubt there are going to be many agencies that are interested in having them as patrol vehicles. They’d look fucking cool, but that’s about it.

It is probably not a coincidence that the legal fights between Disney and Florida faded away and got resolved very soon after deSantis gave up on his Presidential run and no longer had to appear to be Trumpier than Trump.  He’s just another Republican that doesn’t stand for anything and everything he does is just to…

OK, it looks like Starship also touched down in the ocean, although it took a hell of a beating on the way down. :D

“Bluntly, that’s part of why I’m supporting him. I believe our justice system is being weaponized against him.”

i know any cynicism about star wars gets shouted down by everyone except the right wing anti woke chuds around here but just for once id like star wars to quit dicking around with “potential”

It’s no rowboat, that’s for damn sure.

My bet would be that the crew had no clue anything out the ordinary had happened until somebody told them about it afterwards. 

Well they all use parachutes, that’s true, but not the same ones.

No one was hurt; with three parachutes, there was sufficient redundancy. Note: the article took pains to point out that Starliner uses similar technology, but didn’t mention that Dragon does as well, and so does Orion. And so do the various Mars landers. Hypersonic parachutes are a difficult technology.

Only one parachute is necessary to achieve an acceptable landing, so no.

Counterpoint: You’re providing them with content for free, without which they’d have nothing to sell advertising off the back of.

I think that’s more of a problem if they simply can’t spend anytime on land at all. If they can move up temporarily onto beaches and so forth, then they’ve got access to dry land stuff even if they have to do things like take extra steps to make sure their gills don’t dry out while they’re doing it.

They should have just said that the Q were the original bipedal humanoids, and all the humanoid aliens were their pet projects.