18%. Slightly lower than the ~23% for the city as a whole but roughly 1 in 6 people who live in Manhattan are below federal poverty level.

People who've never been to NYC forget that Manhattan doesn't stop at Central Park North...
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Oh please. Screeching out a "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?" has been the favorite tactic of bullies authoritarians literally for as long as I can remember. "Oh, the nerdy kids are making friends with each other and playing Dungeons and Dragons? Well now, we can't have that. I know, let's tell everyone that D&D turns kids into virgin-sacrificing, blood-drinking satanists so we can ban it!" was followed up only very shortly after by Tipper Gore's crusade against heavy metal (more satanic panic), rap (I really have no idea why. This was before it went all "gangster" in the 1990s. Maybe just because the artists were mostly black?), and Prince (Again, I can't fathom why, other than probably because he was black.). Around this same time there was a similar "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?" panic about video arcades being dens of inequity that lured children in to... what, I'm not exactly sure. Then it was MTV (Oh noes! Somebody might think Beavis and Buttheart are supposed to be role models for kids... BAN IT!!!") At some point in the 1990s (It definitely started when I was in high school but was still going on in my college years.) there was a move to ban anime because something something about those degenerate Asians "corrupting our youth." And then John Carmack wrote the first Doom and the Helen Lovejoys (Oh, and speaking of Helen Lovejoy... the Simpsons... yes, THE SIMPSONS... was the subject of a ban-it-for-the-children moral outrage crusade back in the day!) of the world flipped their shit about computer games continuously for most of a decade or so.

I could keep going... 'got about another 25 years I could cover and there's more I could mention from the years I have covered. But really, do I need to? All of this shit that the prigs, scolds, and authoritarian thugs of the world are doing now... the website bans, the social media bans, the book bans, the attacks on cryptography and privacy... it's all just more out the same playbook they've been using my entire life and undoubtedly since well before I was born.

And, suffice it to say, I grew up as a fan, viewer, listener, or participant of all of the above. And I didn't turn out as a blood-drinking satanist, gang-banger, degenerate reprobate, arsonist, psycho killer, or brazen hussy; but as a boring, middle class, middle age, engineer. The same thing's going to happen with "kids these days." They're nowhere near so fragile as the people pushing authoritarianism my pretending to advocate fro them would have you believe.

> If you killed off everyone that lived in between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, you would destroy far more people than Thanos did with "The Snap".

This region makes up 36% of the Earth and holds roughly one-third of the Earth's population.

Pretty sure Thanos dusted more than a third of the population. Turns out the majority of people live north of the Tropic of Cancer because that's where the majority of the habitable land mass is.

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> application of law(s) used in the case and whether those laws are compatible with the constitution

What laws, exactly? Plaintiff is accusing defendant of being responsible for the death of a family member through negligence. What is there to interpret the applicability of law for in a lawsuit that does not allege any laws were broken? Are you suggesting that they appeal all the way to SCOTUS on the idea that it's unconstitutional to settle grievances in civil court?

We are definitely not saying the same thing...
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The Saturn V rocket stages were not reusable and were not designed for re-entry. Kinda an important distinction.

The temperature resistance requirement is due to being a reentry craft.

You're comparing test flights for SpaceX (of which most of them have been) to, what exactly?

SpaceX has a success rate of 25:1 vs 18:1 for NASA - if you include test flights for NASA. Which is a more accurate way to represent things.

You realize the Space Shuttle had little to no aluminum exposed, right? It was coated with all sorts of other things to thermally insulate it because it wouldn't survive reentry otherwise, and it needs an overhaul after every flight, too. It also has/had a very different mission objective and purpose than Starship.

Every single competitor to SpaceX has: a worse launch success rate (except ULA, which is using archaic disposable launch vehicles); a far lower launch volume; a far higher launch cost (about 2-4x for comparable payloads). None of them are capable of orbital launch.

I'm unclear as to whether you had an actual point.

The current warming, however, has nothing to do with Milankovitch cycles

Which would be pretty obvious to you if you at least glanced over the article you linked.

Well, the transition to electric and solar and in some cases hydrogen is happening pretty rapid at the moment.

The situation is worse than the scientists have predicted.
Not really.

The situation is worse than what Scientists were allowed to publish. Or what the newspapers liked to publish.

That the situations is pretty severe since 20 years and downplayed should be obvious who reads scientific stuff.

> The second part of that is correct, though the first is not.

Article 3, Section 2

The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority;--to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls;--to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction;--to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party;--to Controversies between two or more States;--between a State and Citizens of another State;--between Citizens of different States;--between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.

In simpler terms, the SCOTUS power applies to:
- Questions regarding the constitutionality, validity, and applicability of laws and treaties
- Lawsuits involving government officials and employees
- Lawsuits between states
- Lawsuits between citizens and the government
- International lawsuits

So no, not "any case" could come before the Supreme Court, only cases that are characterized by one or more of the above. A person or group of people suing a private company falls under none of them.

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Why, it's almost as if the web was meant to be a many-to-many relationship and we weren't supposed to all be dependent on a single point of failure.

I wonder if the Internet can figure out how to stop putting control of every last goddamn dollar on Earth under the control of a single company full of people who are sexually obsessed with destroying creation? This is what, round three after IBM and Microsoft?

You're off on this... Aluminum is largely unsuitable for spaceship construction due to its temperature sensitivity and the fact that it makes anything constructed of it unsuitable for thermal cycling. Aluminum, unlike stainless, becomes extremely brittle when it's thermally cycled. It's an almost 5-fold temperature difference (150C to 1500C). That's not a small difference.

It also has additional cost savings over any other forefront material (eg. CF or Ti5) - like 30x for similar capabilities. If cost was no object, inconel would be the clear winner in most regards, but since cost is a significant factor.. We've known (NASA has) since the 50s that SS would be the superior metal used for such things, and here we are.

There is, arguably, nobody else in the space/rocket industry doing what SpaceX is doing, so I'm not sure how you could even have that criticism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lemMFXNXRIg

Companies like Amazon seem to be betting on the AI taking over theory. It's probably the only explanation that makes sense now, because their reputation among skilled technical people will be permanently damaged by moves like this. It won't suddenly repair itself whenever the pendulum swings back to being an employee's market, if the great AI revolution turns out to be just another hype cycle after all.

Working at a FAANG used to be attractive to a lot of highly skilled technical people and having employment history inside that bubble used to be a positive thing on your resume. I'm not sure how true either of those things is any more. Maybe those who are still there and making premium TC in a big US city are still getting a decent deal out of it. For others, most of those big brands seem to be increasingly unattractive, and having history there seems to be increasingly regarded as neutral or even negative when employers outside that bubble are hiring.

FWIW, I'm a little more optimistic. In the UK, we don't have the kind of pork barrel politics that is endemic to some other western democracies. The ICO are, like many government regulators, under-resourced, but they are basically trying to do a decent job and I think moves like the one we're discussing here today are going in the right direction.

> t'll get shot down at the supreme Court and everyone involved knows that

SCOTUS only hears cases that related to either lawsuits involving the government or government officials, or matters of law/legality (including constitutional/civil rights).

The defendants would have to try to argue they have a right to pollute or that it's illegal to sue them or something, which would actually end up as a different case all together, meaning this specific case will not end up before the Supreme Court.
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