If you know SpaceX isn't worth 2T you can always short their shares.

Most rich people pay a stupid amount for cellular and home internet. There are probably 500M people who will pay over $100/month, another 500M who pay at least $50 and another 5B who pay $15 or more. So 150B/month = 1.8T per year. Assuming Starlink only gains 20% of the world market and their capital is obsolete in 5 years. They need to spend less than 1.8T every 5 years to be profitable. Space is expensive but not that expensive. I've seen some estimates as low as 10B. That's a rounding error compared to the revenue. Maybe you hate Musk and Bezo but you have to admit, in a reasonably fair market they are providing a valuable service to people.

It's not a lie. The unemployment rate is crap. Both parties like to use it to lie about how good things are when they are in charge, which is why most of them don't want to kill that goose.

It's destroying the planet. Sustainability is job #1. SMH here.

No, it literally is not an ad hominem in absolutely any sense whatsoever, period. If you think otherwise, you may or may not be stupid, but you're definitely ignorant. I could have phrased it some other way, if I were trying to be dishonest, but that is not what I do. I'm not here to be nice about shit ideas which ennoble or enrich shit people, nor to coddle their enablers.

Ad hominem means insult from a person. It is an argument that an argument is false because a certain person made it. It literally does not matter whether an insult is involved, although it can be. The fact that you're issued moderation points for a site like Slashdot when you're so eager to be so fundamentally wrong about what something means is utterly pathetic. This is exactly why moderation should be public, so people can know whether it means anything, or it was executed by someone who has no fucking idea what they're on about. This is also why moderation is and always has been fundamentally broken on Slashdot. Posting and moderating in the same discussion isn't allowed, but the people who are most qualified to moderate are also the people who are most qualified to comment.

I also note that you failed to understand the part about comments whose sole purpose is to insult and enrage, with your comical focus on insult when that is not even the core of what ad hominem even is. It's especially amusing that you quoted that section in light of your inability to understand either thing.

Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.

lolololol etc ad infinitum.

It’s not. Literally through the 60s all the way to the 90s improper construction methods caused widespread destruction and unaffordability in Florida and its suffering to this day with no one wanting to insure those homes. In my state stucco homes in the 80-90s were built with a sealed style of construction that worked well in dryer/warmer areas but caused billions in damages to the point around here a stucco home is considered garbage and has a bad name to this day. It’s not that homes can’t be built with stucco even here, it’s that when you build without understanding the environment then practices that work quite well can fail systematically and catastrophically.

You don't even know what an ad hominem attack is, since I didn't make one.

Learn what words mean before you use them, kid.

I guarantee it was an off the shelf device running their app. It's the elon phone!

If you don't hate Elon after what he did to USAID, which has killed thousands abroad elsewhere and also resulted in the screwworm showing up here, you're stupid.

Fine words from someone who has done neither.

What you're doing is called simping.

A problem (or rather a lack of a problem) in my state are fixed rate utilities. kWh are the same price during peak usage as middle of the night and the rate is quite low compared to much of the US so batteries don’t make sense from a power savings perspective. About the only thing it provides is uninterrupted power during outages but the problem there is infrastructure around here is well regulated and down times are exceedingly rare and when they do happen statistically last only a few minutes. In two decades we have only lost power twice that lasted over 24 hours.

Getting insurance dramatically changes depending on home construction. If you have a ground level 60s style house where they took regular building practices and simply put it on a beach or within a hundred or so miles of the ocean then you get total destruction and unaffordablity. However, if you put it high on stilts that are 18’ above high tide on the coasts to avoid surges (height depends on location), use hurricane proof windows, siding, roofing, and internal bracing, etc. The cost may go over double per square foot but it will survive hurricanes largely without substantial damage the majority of the time. You can actually see aftermath videos where ground level old construction homes are completely absent and modern construction stilted homes are unscathed and they used to be neighbors after a major hurricane.

I don't believe this and stated nothing of the sort. Where is this coming from? My remarks were mostly about what Florida can do to mitigate impacts it faces not asses, thumbs and doing nothing. I even expressed my opposition to the legislation yet apparently that didn't register.

People love to enumerate perils of climate change and engage in endless debates with deniers. Yet when it comes to states enacting serious policy or even discussing policy proposals to address problems the lack of dedication and seriousness speaks for itself.

Next time check the dictionary before embarrassing yourself.

"to degenerate through a gradual change or evolution"
https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Watching animations on their site of asteroids the first thing that popped into my head they found all the Starlink satellites but no just real asteroids.

Interesting they have a github repo /w the software that runs the telescope.
https://github.com/lsst-ts

I can't stand Reddit UX is horrendous always showing tiny amounts of data always requiring you to expand expand expand drives me absolutely nuts. Old is the only thing that made it usable. Governance is far worse... the whole site is a series of disjointed echochambers enforced by Nazi moderation. Really sad to see sites like Reddit eating so much of the Internet.

The other day was searching for something on a mobile which I rarely do and a nag came up demanding I install the reddit app... you couldn't dismiss it the best you could do was reload the page and read for a few moments before it came back.

There have been an increasing number of annoying popups saying the same thing and having to continuously push the I'm 18 button is beyond annoying. What is the point of needlessly harrasing people with this garbage? Old was the only refuge from bullshit and now even that is going away... I don't get what they hope to gain. Hopefully reddit is the new myspace.