Maybe…make sure you understand what somebody is saying before calling them an idiot.

One time, after having my wife’s car detailed, I heard a rattling sound under the hood. I opened it up and found a Maglite flashlight laying against the accessory belt, spinning away. It really could have done a lot of damage that I might not have ever understood. 

And yet here you are.

More evidence that we are just the dumbest nation on earth.

The short answer is that this is exactly who we are. 

Florida used to be where I would buy cars. I’d fly down there, pick one up, and drive it home. Prices were cheaper, and the cars were in nicer shape, not having lived through winters.

I think you’re ignoring a lot of the other very impactful changes he made, and the ones he could make this time. He put in some really, really shit Supreme Court justices, for one. They reversed Roe v Wade, which is having a disastrous effect. He puts loyal lobbyists in charge of federal agencies, not qualified…

Guys, come on. I’ve been reading the site for years, but I literally can’t even read this page because of the ads. Scrolling covers the text.

Whatever you think of the Cybertruck, imagine thinking destroying a $100k rental to stop a package thief is worth it.

Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, Elon Musk. 

And you’re totally right. For some reason this morning I dismissed crashing as actually dangerous.

I’m not actually sure in this case that I think what he did was ‘dangerous’. Petulant and childish, yes. But Max has always cultivated the expectation that ‘I win or we crash.’ He’s done that intentionally. It means he loses out once in a while like yesterday, but if it makes others hesitant to pass him, it’s worth it…

Musk understands very well the same thing that the Republican Party does. It doesn’t matter if the thing you say isn’t true. The fact of it being untrue will get way less attention then the untrue-but-appealing thing you said. 

I know car prices have moved on and inflation is a thing…

‘…not everyone with differing view points are evil.’

I could believe China might eventually launch their own Starlink competitor, but that assumes Starlink ends up making enough sense to begin with.

Are you saying there’s no guarantee they’ll disintegrate on reentry, or that there’s no guarantee they’ll come back down at all?

We are the dumbest nation on earth.

I’ve never gotten into SpaceX’s financials, but it does seem like they would need a lot more customers before they could come close to turning a profit on Starlink. The 4m customers they have so far gets them around $500m a year, and they must be spending many times that each year. Though the hardware isn’t free, so…

I think that Starlink, while having over six thousand satellites in orbit, is really not a big problem in terms of space debris. Yeah, that’s a lot of damned satellites, but they’re also short-lived. Part of the reason Starlink can even come close to competing with terrestrial broadband is that the satellites are low…