volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@julie now another person posts a well reasoned and articulate argument to social media.

Oh wait, no, they just throw some mud about something they probably don't know anything about.

Carry on.

@RainofTerra

@ScottLucas you asked about the administration's record. Well, the record is really pretty awful, an administration that is failing to accomplish the goals of the departments under its perview as it is, much less as it might be if we gave the president even more power.

So specifically, I was pointing out that the national labs have suffered tremendous degradation under this administration, with new rules coming down that interfere with the scientific missions.

And they want more power? After they're screwing up what they already have to do?

This is a pretty big deal.

We need to call out Biden for being a disaster and not give him the more power that he is requesting in his ridiculous State of the Union address.

That the address provoked chants of four more years just highlighted what a ridiculous campaign speech it was instead of a speech that could actually lead to consensus to drive his policies forward.

@SteveThompson perhaps so.

But I fear that a lot of the misleading stuff is also symptomatic of intentional editorial decision. It seems that reporters have flat out said they would put their fingers on the scales for the sake of promoting their causes.

But either way, it doesn't really matter why, whether they are lazy or intentionally wrong, it has the same effect of misleading the public and needing to be called out.

Hanlon's Razor doesn't really matter when it has the same effect.

@ScottLucas I'm not talking about the administration's record, even though I have enormous issues with it and the harm that the administration has done particularly to things like science and the national labs.

The national labs are having tremendous problems operating under this administration because of their dictates. And I really want to bring more attention to that because this administration has been terrible for science.

But what I'm trying to highlight is how the SOTU stood up as a stump speech that failed to address the larger country as it must if Biden wants to actually implement any of his proposals.

You might love what the guy is pushing for, but that's even more reason to bash him for a speech that will make it even harder for him to gain support for his proposals.

Everything is falling apart under this guy. We need to highlight that and get a different nominee.

@PeterSoukup they aren't coming though. They are absolutely not literally trying to do the same thing.

There are different goals, different technologies, different processes, it's just all together extremely different on all levels.

@ScottLucas but they weren't approached with substance.

Which was a shame, a missed opportunity, which is exactly what I am faulting Biden for

@BohemianPeasant true, and unfortunately the vast majority of people will never actually read those opinions and will instead make assumptions about this question based on whether or not the court confirms their biases or not.

I fully believe that the opinions will reflect once again that politics have not infected the court.

I also fully believe that politics will have the vast majority of people ignore what the opinions actually say.

Same thing over and over.

@mhjohnson I just always want to emphasize that presidents and vice presidents run separately even if it has become the norm that we vote for them on the same slate.

Presidents technically do not choose their vice presidents. The process chooses each independently.

I think it's a shame that people never consider voting for split tickets.

@PeterSoukup but this is not analogous to Saturn v/ Apollo.

This is analogous to the research programs that proceeded those, where there were plenty of failures.

This is not the final product. SpaceX does not claim this is the final product.

@65dBnoise I wouldn't say this was little progress. It was quite a feat.

And in larger context, I would emphasize that government regulations are slowing them down.

If NASA wants to go faster I'm sure SpaceX would be for that, but the agencies and the executive branch need to work together to allow it.

@osma on these test flights there was never any intention of recovering the wreckage. It was intentionally missions set out to collect data so that future launches could be made more efficient and sustainable.

Also, lack of harm to whales is part of the design considerations as they design these missions and present them to regulators for approvals!

@RealJournalism What in the world are you talking about?

@ScottLucas I have no idea what any of those outlets are saying.

However I do know what even left leaning discussions have been coming out on, and if you're telling me that Breitbart and Fox News and my left is friends are all in the same page that Biden was so unpresidential here, that really says something.

If Biden is able to unite people against himself from those far-flung corners of the population, well...

@SteveThompson

I don't have any way of taking it up with Time.

The best I can do is point out that they are not a reliable source, so hopefully people stop believing them when they put up stories that aren't quite accurate.

Yes, I hope journalism gets better someday. In the meantime, we need to point out to each other when reporters are getting the story wrong.

@Aethelstan personally, I think it is their fatal weakness. Just me personally, I hope they fail spectacularly and finally come to their senses and start facing reality.

That's just my personal opinion though. I think it's bad for even Democrats that Republicans have gone so far off track.

But also personally I'm afraid they might win anyway.

We'll see what happens.

@ScottLucas really? No the huge reaction to the state of the Union address was so negative because Biden focused so much on insults and spectacle.

The guy couldn't stop hurling insults at political detractors and talking about Trump over and over instead of talking about the issues.

That's the whole problem with the guy.

@drrjv it's so funny how you trumpet this centralized governmental approach while saying stop fascism.

These authoritarian moves are echoes of fascism.

@Kozmo That's not how his proposals would work out, though, as raising the cost of serving customers end up with the most vulnerable having to pay more for basic goods and services.

And those supposed cuts from the deficit are based on really funky accounting. They are not going to happen.