volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@Syulang how in the world do you associate apartheid with developing rocket engines in Boca Chica?

@armandalb well that's not quite right.

This booster was never designed to be reusable. From the beginning the plan was for this booster to be lost.

I'm positive SpaceX technicians know why the second stage lost contact. This is just shoddy journalism trying to generate some clickbait saying otherwise.

SpaceX set its goals ahead of time and then they met them. They did exactly what they said they were going to do with this mission, so it is a success, by their own metrics.

Yeah, if there were human astronauts involved it would have been a catastrophe, and because SpaceX was just doing a test flight, that's exactly why there weren't human astronauts involved.

This was only the second test of a new system that everybody knows is still in development.

@Gustodon I don't know if you know what trolling is.

Like, when an engineer builds the bridge that you cross to get to the store, you know that's not trolling right?

Well that's what we're looking at now.

@YusufToropov yes, that's the joke.

@Gustodon well they're learning how these brand new technologies operate as they are getting to space in the first place.

At this point they have had two flights that operated within expectations. SpaceX said ahead of the flights that they didn't expect them to get to orbit, so they accomplished their goals of learning how to operate these systems.

@GrrlScientist environmental regulators conducted assessments and found that the test would not impose undo hardship on the habitat.

@marcusjenkins no, the math doesn't really work out that way.

@LiberalEd@mastodon.social I'm sure SpaceX does know. It's just that reporting is really terrible these days so journalists are publishing these really terrible headlines.

Well, the reporters get clicks. We're talking about them.

@ThomasConnor

@ahimsa_pdx analyses like these are silly because they misunderstand the way the Senate was designed. They look at the wrong chamber of Congress.

The House is supposed to be representing people, not the Senate. To say that the Senate is not representing people is, well right, it's not supposed to.

It's like complaining that hammers aren't good screwdrivers.

@lauren fact is there's nothing to stop people from throwing mud either way, so at some point it doesn't even matter.

Haters are going to hate.

@antares Rock and a hard place since he risks losing pro Israel voters if he does otherwise

@folduptoys That's like crediting a milling machine for milling a nice groove in a piece of stainless steel.

No, there was a human involved. The AI was merely a tool that the human used.

It's not the AI creating art. It's the human using the AI to create art.

@aral no, that's not what a war crime is

@grrlscientist@mstdn.social Well, it's because the Senate doesn't have time to waste time on nutty conspiracy theories.

It's part of the checks and balances in the US government.

Those sensationalized clickbait news reports don't get to drive the congress. They have more important things to do.

@junesim63 this is stupid.

I mean, Trump is stupid, but this is stupid too.

Let's be clear that a president is not a dictator, and the president doesn't get to choose whether or not he is a dictator. Our system does not leave that up to the person holding office.

It's really stupid that Trump is saying he is retribution, but it doesn't actually matter that much. No matter what he might want to do, he would be in an office that has checks on his authority specifically to prevent him from being retribution, whatever that means.

The thing is, Trump wants us to react to this kind of BS. That's his whole brand, as he is a troll.

If only we would ignore him he would go away.

@Vincarsi but it's not their rules. A rental agreement represents the rules agreed to by both parties, including the tenants.

The tenant signs up for the conditions under which they might get kicked out.

These are the tenants rules as much as the landlords.

@magitweeter

@bigheadtales The thing is, Supreme Court opinions are public. We can see the justices getting together, checking each other, writing down the reasoning of their rulings.

It's not difficult to imagine that these accusations of bribery are bunk when we can look at the rollings for ourselves and see that there's no bribery involved in the reasoning.

The Supreme Court is not a legislature. Their rulings are not arbitrary. They're not subject to being skewed by money.

2 + 2 = 4 regardless of the personal transactions of the people doing that math.