I would love to see whatever you found showing that democrat politicians are supporting voter id and voter citizenship requirements.

I did the search for you.

The states with the largest increases in migrant population over the past years are North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho, Nebraska, Utah, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Florida. All of these states have a larger increase in migrant population than California, Texas, and Arizona.

Do you think Florida and Texas are flying their migrants to other red states? No, they famously send them to New York and DC, because it's a show. The administration is transporting migrants to red states.

And then, yes, democrats are letting them vote.

The democrats are letting them vote, when voting should be a right for citizens. Itâ(TM)s⦠one of the rights you become a citizen to get; itâ(TM)s one of the rights you lose if you are a convicted felon.

DeSantis and Abbot are doing transports, but not on a massive scale. Those transports are just for show. The administration is doing large scale transporting. Do a search.

Elections are nearly always decided on a less than 10% spread- and the migrants are being intentionally transported to many locations throughout the country, not just the border.

Steve's original intent for the iPhone was no App Store - it was web apps instead. That is still available - you can still add a web page to your iPhone's Home Screen, and it will work and feel a lot like a native app. Apple added a ton of functionality to the mobile browser to get to phone functionality and sensors.

Unfortunately(?) that vision didn't take off, developers wanted to make native apps for the iPhone, so Apple figured out a way to allow it and charged a ridiculous fee. People jumped on-board anyway.

It's really sad to me, because Apple had a thing called "Dashcode" for writing dashboard widgets and iPhone web apps that was really good - but when the app store came along, they killed off Dashcode immediately. I liked that tool.

Local Plex server with all my optical media ripped to it.

The Atari VCS is the best failed console ever. I really like it.

I mean lobbyists are more of a problem over in congress than the executive branch... but yes this is directionally accurate.

I'm super-ultra-extreme MAGA. I wear my MAGA hat backwards while I do deadlifts at the gym, I have 14 children, I watch NASCAR, I think guns are fun to own, and I don't drink Bud Light.

But holy crap are the republicans wrong on this whole "allow the mergers to happen; it's a good thing" mentality.

Big Tech needs to be broken up into a billion small companies all competing and open-sourcing their stuff and making it interoperable. Big Pharma shouldn't exist. Big Food shouldn't exist. Farmers should be able to own their seeds. Blackrock is insane and needs to be blown apart. The military industrial complex would be much better as much smaller companies. Disney is too big and owns too much.

I whole-heartedly believe in capitalism. We don't have capitalism when we have the market burdens of monopolies from all angles, all of which have control over pieces of the government.

My base assumption is this effort is probably compromised and will be ineffective. We need anti-trust to actively do anti-trust things.

I think the App Store is intentionally expensive. It was supposed to be a premium store for things that couldnâ(TM)t be done as web apps and require Appleâ(TM)s support and special blessing. Instead everyone just decided to pay the 30% tax and run everything natively.

This is why Steve Jobs launched the iPhone without native apps. The idea was that all of the apps would be web apps, with offline and persistent storage if needed. Apple released tools (DashCode) to build these iPhone web apps. It was good. It was too early, but it was good.

Honestly I see the web app approach as much better than the native app approach. The walled garden of the App Store is dumb.

It's really simple- Boeing has a contract to demonstrate that they can provide a vehicle that can autonomously dock with ISS, under ISS rules of approach. They've never built a vehicle that could do this, so the requirement is about Boeing successfully demonstrating that they can do docking without human assistance.

Everything else reported about no need for a reflight is simply to obscure that requirement. There's little if any need to hurry here, as NASA is already spending $2B a year on SLS+Orion, which was supposed to be the backup/alternate path to get US crew to ISS, so we're already working on the redundant US crew options.

There's a commercial crew competition between Boeing and SpaceX under contract with NASA now; to enforce the contract for one provider, and not the other smacks of favoritism at best and collusion at worst.

That's fine, just don't eat steak.
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There's some reasonable, in-depth analysis on the failure here: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42798.200. Be warned, if you like rockets and spaceflight, going to that site will cost you time.

Summary: The first stage/boosters failed to generate enough thrust to achieve the proper staging point, as shown by the planned plot on the broadcast and the actual track. Some speculation points at a failure of one the boosters during the initial flight phase (before the boosters separate). The second stage separated and fired considerably later than planned and at some point, the mission was declared to be unsuccessful, due to flight anomalies.

Politics aside, please note that the open broadcast of the launch is what enables this informed discussion, and for that, us space geeks can appreciate the access granted by the Chinese Space Agency to the live broadcast.

Opinion: this was not helpful for the Chinese launch program, but at least the vehicle didn't RUD (rapid unplanned disassembly). Analysis of the telemetry will assist them in determining the cause, and may help them to engineer a fix. It's still a setback to their heavy lift ambitions for this year.

Is anyone using launchd on Linux? If I recall correctly it's modern like systemd, but primarily in it focused like it should be.