volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@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.

@RealJournalism Well that's not true, because that's not how US law works.

Biden has been very ineffective in promoting workable climate protections, but the decision to stay home doesn't mean all of the existing protections go out the window. The president doesn't have that power.

It's more, let's dump Biden to send a message that we need a president who will be more effective than this guy was.

@thisismissem

I wouldn't say it's the result of living in a capitalist society.

It's the result of wanting things and needing a way to convince other people to give you their things because you want them.

That's not capitalism. That's just human nature.

@anarodrigues

@si_irini I hardly think this is the ideal world.

There's no ideal world to keep intact, because this is not ideal, there is no such thing.

@SteveThompson that wasn't the goal, though.

The goal of this test flight was to test a number of different operations, and it was a rousing success in general.

The ship was always planned to be lost. There was no plan for recovery because that wasn't the goal of this test.

To say the goal was a splashdown in the Indian Ocean is kind of misleading as to what the mission of this flight was.

@Wen obviously do you think that but, notably, you aren't saying why you think that.

I know that you're wrong. I know that the bitcoin protocols don't include anything even approaching the reporting of water usage, which, I mean that's nuts that it would, but that's a connection you're trying to make for some reason.

So I know you're wrong, and I'm inviting you to explain yourself, and if you don't feel like it, great!