If you watch footage of the Hindenburg, you'll notice that it's burning, not exploding. The hydrogen certainly contributed to (and was possibly the fuel that initiated) that disaster, but it's not the fuel that you see burning. That was the materials of the dirigible. Also - jet fuel isn't exactly a safe substance. We've been dealing with that for multiple decades. We'll be able to figure out solutions for the risks involved with hydrogen.

Rocket Lab is developing Neutron, which is nearly twice the diameter of a Falcon.

Exactly right. Desal plants seem like such a no-brainer until you find out about the brine issue.

It looks like you think that you have to be able to get addicted to/abuse a drug for it to be a recreational drug. Mushroom experiences are incredibly fun to have with friends. Sure, they're not something you're gonna be sucking a dick for, but that's not something that makes it less recreational.

This is a weird take on what it means to use something recreationally.

Tyrian 2000 was a cool game!

Surely you'd leave the country and go somewhere like the Caymans?

Most cheese still has plenty of lactose to cause an intolerance reaction. Some of the hardest cheeses, like parmesan, have much less. Whey is one of the most digestible proteins, second only to egg.

So Microsoft doesn't understand the concept of the metaverse either, huh. At least now we know Facebook isn't an outlier there.

Why not do a direct comparison of the intellectual capabilities of say, New Caledonian crows, whatever the smartest octopus subspecies is, and bottlenose dolphins? Establish the most intelligent non-primate once and for all...

That sounds like something Cory Doctorow would write about...

You could call it the Apple Neural United Server

If most of the world went to Hell, the US would be near the front of the line.

Foot-pounds are not exactly sane. I can look at MJ/kg and know that it means megajoules per kilogram. Foot-pounds? How many stomps does it take? Oh, you have to multiply by some weird decimal. That makes total sense.

Try giving her Ambien. It has been very successful with vegetative-state stroke victims (I know she's not vegetative). It's pretty amazing how well it works.