Not using a 2400 bps modem to complain about how tiresome new technology is.

Nah. It's because Ford got off a sick burn talking about how much real estate there is on his ass so Trump has lots to kiss.

There's something the kids say about only a handful of unique sentences being left unwritten.

Ketchup.

I was thinking about this. I fully expect the journalist said "weight" because they don't know or didn't think about the difference, but you can't actually measure mass. We always infer it from measurements of force and, sitting stationary in a gravitational field, we virtually always do so by measuring the force required to counter gravity, i.e. by measuring weight.

Nobody has to hold this thing up over a significant gravitational source

The rocket that launches it does.

You either misunderstand which way the Earth rotates or what effect that has on rocket launches. California is limited to retrograde orbits, which nobody uses except the Israelis because they have no choice, and polar orbits.

It's not their fault. They've been immersed in propaganda since at least WWII, and somehow failed to develop the cynicism of your average eastern European.

No way man. Datacentre FLOPs are shit compared to artisanal home made FLOPs.

Datacenters are misguided. Soon enough models and hardware will be good enough that everyone will be able to run their own local AI at home.

My father had an Apple II. It was one of a wave of "personal computers" that would let you run things like word processors and spreadsheets at home.

Guess where most people run those things now.

Interesting how quickly Americans go from God given, inalienable rights to "should they be allowed to foreigners?"

Meanwhile, what those evil liberals think should happen to YOU is... that you be given healthcare and a general social safety net.

They've been launching dummysats from Starship for a number of launches now, so I'm not sure why you think they're "forever away". The only reasons they've been using dummysats and not actual satellites is 1) Not wanting to risk more valuable payloads thusfar, and 2) wanting to keep Starship suborbital (e.g. trajectory that reintersects the atmosphere) at just under orbital velocity until they can verify deorbit reliability (failure to do so would leave that massive ship falling onto a random point on Earth).

If they were to choose to, they could start launching payloads on all subsequent Starship missions, even if they're not yet ready for reliable recovery or quick reuse. In fact, given the killing off of Falcon 9 in Florida, one can presume that's the plan (if not immediately, then soon).

Um... no they're not?

Further reading: Musk's other unstated reasons for shutting down Falcon 9 in Florida (Behind The Black)

TL/DR, the author thinks that SpaceX shutting down Falcon 9 launches from Florida was secretly a magnanimous gesture by a charitable Elon Musk to boost the competition:

I therefore honestly believe that SpaceX’s decision was not entirely based on its own internal needs. Those needs certainly were the main motive, but based on Elon Musk’s passionate dream of making the human race multi-planetary, as well as his repeated willingness to help his competitors when they needed SpaceX to launch their satellites, I believe he recognized that SpaceX’s dominance could be hurting the rest of the rocket industry, and that the instant it made business sense to clear the field for these competitors, he was quite willing to do so.

LOL.

Yes, I remember way back when Mike Pence had nearly absolute unchecked authoritarian power.