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Comment Re:The core of the problem (Score 1) 93

I still don't think the incompetence is quite advanced enough to be indistinguishable from malice. Saying the photo's text is probably in a foreign language isn't wildly unreasonable if you haven't bothered to examine it, and up until a year or two ago it was more likely to be true than that the photo editing software did a bunch of garbage without the user telling it to.

Comment Re:The core of the problem (Score 3, Informative) 93

If the summary is correct (which isn't a guarantee, I know), they didn't straight up lie; nobody intentionally made the modifications, it was the photo editing software that tried to be helpful. You can certainly criticize them for not noticing the changes, but my guess is that whoever originally said they didn't modify the photo just asked other people and didn't personally check for themselves.

Comment Re:Give fish to them (Score 1) 73

The point at which some environmentalism reveals itself as misanthropy is where "don't feed the animals" is commanded because it's "unnatural."

Most "don't feed the animals" rules are because people tend to feed animals "unnatural" foods like processed grains and meats, which aren't safe for the animals to eat.

Comment Re:I like that we are going to burn our entire wor (Score 2) 77

I wouldn't call the summary "grossly" wrong or misleading, it's just a common (though highly annoying) error in one place. The first sentence of the summary says "200 megawatts of... energy", where the first sentence in the quotation correctly says "200 megawatts of power".

Comment Re: Musk doesn't have the best people. (Score 2) 163

If it's safety critical, the engineers should be following the documented requirements, not following what was talked about in the cafeteria. I don't necessarily disagree that meeting in a conference room is better than meeting on Teams, but if it isn't documented, it effectively was never said. Otherwise, what do you do if one of the engineers was on vacation that week?

Comment Re:Erm... (Score 1) 163

That the author of this article is an idiot.

Yes, humans went to the moon in the 1960s. It also consumed a huge chunk of the federal budget. Adjusting for inflation by NASA's NNSI inflation index, the entire Lunar program cost $288,1B. If the US were to prioritize a project to the same degree today as then, accounting for GDP growth in inflation-adjusted terms, it would be $702,3B. NASA's annual budget is around $25B.

I think that's the point of the article, though (not that I read it, of course). A lot of people are assuming that it should now be cheap and easy to land ships on the moon, but there are reasons that we spent that much money to do it the first time, and those reasons are still true.

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