volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@robcinos taken?

No.

Accepted payment in return for providing services the government found really valuable and worth buying.

It's a pretty important part of the story.

@MikeDunnAuthor I think more importantly, as I recall he used the same sort of language that Biden used and that conservatives held against him.

So, it's the kind of thing where we should have been emphasizing to Trump supporters that their guy had done the things that they said they were against, had really betrayed them and failed them in the first term, so they should regard him as the loser that he was.

Unfortunately that's not the strategy people used so he got let off the hook.

@MikeDunnAuthor replace the services because the US government has on a remarkably bipartisan and democratic basis determined that these are services that make the country better.

Feel free to try to change minds about that, but for now the US government wants these services, and it will cost more to provide them without these companies.

@MikeDunnAuthor The problem is, replacing their services would be even more costly.

@MikeDunnAuthor it would be funny to respond to those conservatives by pointing out that if she was DEI hire then it would have been Trump promoting that DEI program

@SenatorMoobs Well that's not true.

If it was true that the court claims to be exclusive decider of constitutional meaning then we wouldn't see the court actively and explicitly citing the constitutional meanings decided by others, both other courts and even conclusions by non-governmental speakers.

No, the court said that it CAN issue opinions. But it can't exactly force anyone to care or abide by them.

@servelan being able to fire your own employees is hardly reaching to royalty.

@rolle honestly I think you are taking a step backwards by personalizing it like that.

That kind of personalizing of things often ends up driving the centralization that takes systems down.

Heck I think it means BlueSky is LESS susceptible to those issues that it's not tied to a particular identity like the way you describe.

@BeAware @thomasjwebb

@JohnBarentine Well no. These explosions happened with different ships, a different generation of design.

The company showed that it could launch the previous design, and this is a new design that has promise even though it is a stretch.

It's not a step backwards. Just to emphasize it again, this is a new design.

@elon

Well that sounds both corrupt and counter to government needs.

@usterror

@realcaseyrollins or, he's just a moron who doesn't really have a plan, doesn't know what's going on in the world, and doesn't really care so long as people pay attention to him.

It's really the simpler explanation given what we see from him.

He could have already settled this stuff, but he botched it over and over again.

@HorreC

@Beachbum he hasn't destroyed three rockets recently.

This is like one of those things where people give presidents far more credit for both economic growth and recession.

Musk isn't launching those rockets, neither when they fail nor succeed. Folks need to stop playing up that myth.

@AkaSci

@realTuckFrumper this isn't messy.

This is just pointing out the organization of the US government. It's pretty simple.

@breedlov keep in mind, Social Security is not your money.

It's a program that the government has set up where if they feel like it they might send you some of theirs.

We really need to emphasize this because a lot of people are being lied to about how this works, and they're surprised when reality pops up.

@glnews_mirror

Oh it was a successful launch.

Just not a successful arrival to landing 🙂

@emily It's a critical mass problem, like setting up a new social media platform. Very similar.

Without the users there's no reason for users to use it.

We have the technology for nearly instant payments without involving banks, but it's the social problem that's to hold up.

@mossyfoot