"community sharing in the ownership of Figma"

Did your brain not parse that properly? The way you share ownership of a company with the public is by, surprise, selling shares the the public.

How do we know what the actual cost of a Falcon 9 flight is?

Because they put their price list on the Internet.

https://www.spacex.com/ridesha...

https://www.spacex.com/media/C...

They're private companies. They do that because they need to in order to maintain their funding.

This is as opposed to government organizations that do things like build rockets in chunks in Utah so they can ship them by rail to Florida where they can be bolted together with o-rings that leak in the cold. Or build giant space planes because it's gotta have wings big enough to land back at the same secure launch facility after a single orbit because reasons. Or {inspiring} {inspiring} and beat the commies who have super rockets and want to kill us all. Also to maintain their funding.

You can't do big projects without hype, fear, greed, or shadowy ulterior motives because humans are the way they are.

So? Literally everything anybody does is "standing atop a mountain of taxypayer funded R&D."

Ever hit compile and have your program not work? Ever hit compile when you were pretty sure there were errors but wanted to find out where they were?

What are your BS excuses for those failures?

Depends on your jurisdiction.

The New Hampshire Constitution guarantees that the only purpose of prison is reform.

I know, in some self-proclaimed "Christian" states they love to talk about gay rape as a purpose of prison.

Those are psychopaths, Donnie.

The US leads in total overall emissions but emits less than HALF the annual CO2 of China.

You say that like its supposed to mean something. It means the opposite of what you think it means when CHINA HAS **FOUR** TIMES THE POPULATION OF THE USA.

Irrelevant to the fact that Biden signed a bill to reduce the exploitation and Trump is ignoring it.

Google's average global income tax rate over the last 10 years is apparently 26%.

someone who gets free housing, free clothing, free food, free educational and job training and so forth.

You fascist clown.

That be the Zionazis, Captain Dumbfuck. Who literally rioted for the right to rape Palestinians to death. Not the good guys ie Russians. Go back to sucking Joe's rotting cock, its the only thing you're good for.

Not when they have no nuclear weapons program you dumb fucking fuck. No amount of dumbfuckery or sucking Joe's rotting cock will change that fact.

"Oh, you're in Dallas, what part? That's very interesting. I'll be there next month - what's a good restaurant there that you like? I always like to ask locals where to eat when I'm visiting get the real scoop."

The North Koreans get tripped up and stammer something irrelevant. Buh-bye, stop wasting our time.

The Feds took down one instance of the racket. It's like busting Epstein and Diddy but not the other twelve.

> Why are we struggling to do now what we once achieved decades ago with far more complexity and far less technology?

"Everybody is stupid and lazy now" isn't the most parsimonious explanation.

Especially from the Gulf of Tonkin/MK Ultra era.

To add to what you said there wasn't a bright line between the Apollo Program and the ICBM program.

Though SpaceX is being funded to build a war-fighting duplicate of Starlink and a weapons-deployment copy of Starship for the Air Force.

Whether or not Armstrong walked on a moon or a set at Elgin Air Force Base wasn't important to the ICBM program, just to TV and politicians. And he refused any TV interviews for decades.