SpaceX successfully buffaloed federal agencies to permit a launch which failed to use standard technology in place since before Apollo, resulting in giant chunks of concrete being thrown thousands of feet into wetlands.
Now the agencies are sort-of doing their jobs, so SpaceX is really mad and claiming there's a 'red tape' problem.
@maxkennerly It is less a "red tape" problem as a "Stupid, entitled prick" problem.
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That's not how regulatory interactions like this work, though.
The regulator goes through legal processes that don't really care who Musk is.
It does us no good for folks to try to make this into a sensationalized melodrama instead of looking at the actual actions of the agencies legally bound to follow their procedures.
