I think you’re conflating knowing how to do something and the utility of making a concrete plan for a future time in which conditions are likely to have significantly changed. What are you proposing - that they had designed something back in the 90s, and then just like .. stuck it in a closet until today?…

The infrastructure is just severely outdated. On top of that. After being up there for 32 years when it retires, the outside of the hull has been worn down because of micrometeorites and just space dust in general. So structurally it isn’t 100% anymore either.

The point of retiring/deorbiting the ISS is that it will be getting too old for safety by 2030 -- in fact, the original plan was to abandon the station earlier (this year, IIRC, or 2025) and continuing operations until 2030 is stretching the station much the way Mir was stretched (and Mir was getting pretty ugly and…

cry more, snowflake.

IMO, it’s weird that national anthems exist in the first place, tbh. 

I don’t hate America, and I’m not leaving. But if I invite you over to my house for dinner, I’m also not going to sing a song about how my ancestors were successful in their bid to shoot your ancestors in the face.

I didn’t say it was offensive or spiteful, or that the Revolutionary War was anti-woke or whatever you…

You should take this more seriously. The account tracking Musk’s jet doesn’t really matter. Elon going full anti-Semite does. Claiming George Soros “hates humanity.” Then lying (zero evidence given, so lying) that the Anti-Defamation League was pressuring away advertisers.

Someday he’ll become a real boy

I have a lot of negative opinions about today’s G/O Media writers, but in fairness to them, I don’t think that it should be their responsibility to police their own comment sections. To be clear, SOMEBODY should be moderating them, but I have a feeling that wasn’t part of their job description when they get hired.

Yikes. I know Marvel likes twists, but this whole ‘the-worst-Kang-variant-is-the-actor-who-plays-him’ concept is going a little too far.

I mean , the bank staff as well ...not the C suite obviously , but the IT people , customer service, day to day workers are even more likely to be outsourced to somewhere cheaper , (or more likely , yet another wave of staff who were working , will be outsourced )

Per Merriam Webster:

Sorry, the rest of us never signed it.

Yes. Empire of Pain and Dopesick (the book and the series) make it very clear that certain regions were targeted because they were ripe for exploitation.

Spreading billionaire debt to taxpayers. The true goal of trickle down economics. 

Google says otherwise, because words can have multiple meanings, so...

“Pour One Out for the Customer of the Banks That Invested in Musk’s Twitter”

I recently finished a novel that includes elements of the origins of the opioid crisis (Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver) that talks about how salespeople were able to flood the market by essentially bribing small-town doctors who weren’t making very much money providing ordinary medical care. I’ve always known…

We already heavily subsidized his success so why stop now?!

I haven’t read The Hard Sell, but it seems like Evans’ and Blunt’s characters are based on Alec Burlakoff and Sunrise Lee, who also figure prominently in HBO’s documentary Crime of the Century. If so, then I admire the balls of whoever decided to go ahead with Pain Hustlers as a satirical/funny take on the opioid…