One of Musk’s companies just launched the biggest rocket ever built. It didn’t make it to space, but it made it a heck of a long ways, and for a first flight it didn’t do half bad. That’s damned impressive.

....<rolleyes>

Mello neither had a role in the experiment, or worked directly for the organization doing it, and had no ethics oversight role.  He simply knew something.  If he did anything wrong, then he might have known a crime was going to be or was being committed in China, under Chinese law.   Not everyone, not Mello, not all…

How could she think that just because she bought it that it was now hers

Normally receiving stolen property is a crime, however, I think it’s fair to assume that when one buys property in an auction from US Marshals that the provenance of that property is going to be disputed. She didn’t buy it out of a pawn shop or some dude’s trunk.

It’s stolen property and the US Marshalls auctioned it off without checking. Judge ruled that since it was stolen from one part of the US government, and another part of the US government sold it, it is legally hers. I don’t agree, but that’s irrelevant. At this point no one is asking her to give back the item, which…

That Ghostbusters reboot was baaaddddd.

But it’s a bummer that the New Horizons team is doubling down on the name, despite already knowing about its nefarious second meaning.

In a related story, Indian religions have refused to stop using the swastika as a holy symbol, and rejected efforts to revise Vedic texts to remove references to “aryans.” It’s almost as though words and practices co-opted by the Nazis didn’t lose all other meanings.

On one hand, fuck Nazi’s. Obviously.

Maybe people should “Wiki” “Ultima Thule” for it’s real origins? Yeah, they should. And it’s not Nazi by a long shot.

Thoughts and prayers for the Megadoodoo family.

Are you one of these pickup owners? Because that’s a really silly comment to make considering it’s the ones blocking the charging stations that are clearly insecure...

You have a potato head.  He has cheek bones.

>(England wasn’t too happy with the fact that she was NOT a Protestant)

But issssssssssss it?

Canceled and cancelled are both correct. Same for loads of other double-l words like traveled/travelled.  The differences are geographic and cultural, like which ocean you live on.

But it has the debilitating side effect of making people on it never fucking shut up about the keto diet.

nothing wrong with representation, but whether its making a person of color white, or making a white character a person of color, a change like that shouldnt happen. representation needs to be done at conception, not after the fact.

Wow, this article completly ducked the issue didn’t it?