To be fair politicians are still entitled to vacations and if you’ve expressly planned one to take you out of touch then that’s tough luck, he could also be hospitalised or any number of really valid reasons to be unreachable. It doesn’t really matter though because an office holder is only relevent if the office is…

Why is there this constant hit parade on anything Tesla, this is an interesting statistic and oppertunity to talk about self driving on a tech blog and how you build the evidence base and the challenges behind it and its gone full anti-Tesla.

What good would that money do? Seriously pick some projects that money would contribute to better than better access to LEO and MEO where we can offload environmentally damaging industry into orbit? Do you have any idea how impactful communications industries are on the planet, how much energy and damage it costs to…

Yep I have a great idea of the requirements, better than you do clearly as your conclusions utterly ridiculous. Mars is so far from a capitilist ideal its not funny, Mars is a money sink. If Musk wanted to make money he would be doing nothing but focussing on LEO and MEO infrastructure and asteroid mining.

Criticism wasn’t all valid, and I’m genuinely tired of hearing about Elon Musk good or bad. I’m more than happy to debate the science and the engineering and we should, but childishness and attacks aren’t useful. If Musk wants to waste his time on that fine, but lets not engage with it on either side.

If they’re volunteers whats the issue? We effectively kill millions of people worth of lifespan everyday just through unsustainable industries and transport.

If you don’t try you will never achieve it, there’s literally zero penalty for setting ambitious goals, particularly in private companies that will be profitable regardless.

That’s not quite true, its often procedure, its not a legal requirement in all but a few rare exceptions.

Well this guy was wearing body armour, so I’m guessing he took a few to the chest and was laying there feeling like he got hit by a semi and they cuffed him.

Many outlets are, its just that the Ukranians are actually being incredibly strict about what the press can and can’t do in the country as all states are during conflicts.

Stamina is critical in a subamarine where endurance is a key performance metric, and they operate independently. For a carrier in a battle group with a logistics chain backing it that just isn’t relevent. In normal operations the limiting factor isn’t the fuel endurance or even top speed of the carrier as those are…

It’s not so straightforward to balance out in terms of funding and what is actually going over and the impacts. For example Estonia has “spent” a lot, but a lot of it could be genuinely considered surplus and they’ll be getting additional support out of the US and wider NATO budgets for replacing equipment.

When it comes to conventional munitions they have a lot of stockpiles, there is a reason that many of the former bloc countries have so much material to send to Ukraine and they have only a fraction of what Russia had stockpiled. Russia also sold a lot of it and continued to make more and while the reserves aren’t…

Why geostationary? You don’t really need to use geostationary satellites for communications applications anymore, it would be relatively straightforward to put in place constellations into whatever orbit was desired.

To be fair the veterans they brough in weren’t huge names and tended to be older actors, Marvel just doesn’t cast that many older actors and when they do they also lean on real veterans. I would say WB actually does a better job in casting of those kinds of people and actually has more of them which is a good thing.…

To be fair a super hero having the physique of athletes and special forces soldiers isn’t exactly unreasonable, if your body is the thing you do your job with it tends to reflect that. It’s good to have a broader range of people and physiques as appropriate, Suicide Squad and Peacemaker etc. do this really well, but…

To be fair we are seeing some more pop up boutique publishers with very specific remits picking up and making a real go at their niches, headstamp publishing for example which is driven largely by a single youtube creators fans.

DS9 did that best, and its a real shame that it was shot on early digital so the remastering will need to wait a long time to be done cheaply and likely never as good as the TNG and TOS remasters.

I’m fairly sure its been attributed to a Colonel that was shot down in the last  48 hours, but its pretty tough to get clear info beyond the note a pilot passed and he supposedly had 6 kills and was famous pre-war.

Thing is it isn’t really the cops fault either, if you’ve ever done any kind of training with live firearms in high pressure situations you get incredibly twitchy and there is only so much training can do. And nowhere in the world appropriately funds police, if they had better equipment they could afford to be more…