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Comment Re:advice to children (Score 1, Redundant) 125

At the same time, "but I don't like this law" isn't going to protect you from punishment if you break it.

Fight unethical laws with every fiber but you're going to be far more effective if you Chesterton's Fence than if you just stomp your feet and whine.

Comment Re:So it was illegal (Score 1) 61

Your characterization of Biden being a "uniter" though, is exaggerated. Biden came down very forcefully on the liberal side of the fence, on every hot-button issue that divided (and divides) Democrats from Republicans. As a centrist myself, I personally despair of either party truly deciding to work with the other.

Man, everyone would take "centrists" a lot more seriously if they'd actually NAME the polarizing hot-button issues of the day when you do the hand wavy both sides schtick, and stop acting like "centrist" is an excuse to not have a rational opinion on anything yourself.

Just come out and say it, windmills, vaccines, egg prices, bathroom governance, confirm everyone's suspicions. You have to say it though, your own words, what did Biden do, the great divider of hot buttons.

Both sides think centrists are fucking idiots. They're two adults yelling past each other, one wants what's best for the family, the other is balancing limited means with reality. A centrist is the kid eating nuggets wondering which parent he's going home with and if that means he can stay up late. We both care deeply about you, now cover your ears and go back to your cartoons.

Comment Re:I have 2 kids...not concerned + can't ban cars (Score 1) 79

Why can't they watch porn though? What's going to happen?

From a parent's view you mean, why go out of our way to block it? Are you serious? It's extremely unrealistic for one thing. This is a tech site for old farts, it'd be like letting your kids program in BASIC.

Imagine your kids all got to some age where they all started thinking about programming every ten seconds. Then you find fucking JavaScript on their computer. It is not educational in a healthy way.

Comment Re:Blessing in disguise? (Score 1) 77

I got one around 2008. They were the best of the non-premium 1080p HDMI screens at the time.

The one I got had slightly better test review scores on display quality than the LG that year. The Sony was 20% better for 3x the price.

It lasted about twelve years and by then a bigger 4K with much brighter colors was half the cost in nominal dollars, so probably 1/4 the cost in real terms.

And by then cheap flashable streaming sticks were available as was pihole and fairly easy outbound NAT rewriting rules to keep the beasts contained.

Comment Re: too bad (Score 1) 312

Congress absolutely controls the militias (as far as the federal militia is concerned, STATE unorganized militias are covered by their own various constitutional rules), yes, that's exactly as written in the Constitution. Nobody is arguing that?

What's your point?

This is about gun control, and the 2nd amendment.
The Supremes have routinely found that the 2nd amendment ISN'T interpreted the way leftists/progressives believe it "should be". Not even close.

USSC has repeatedly stated that this is a right held by the PEOPLE, and that the militia comment is is justificatory but not obligatory.

I expect that even if you could somehow magically get congress to disband the unorganized militia the US Supreme Court *still* wouldn't re-interpret the 2nd Amendment your imaginary way.

Unless you get more dipshit Brown-Jacksons, lol. She doesn't really care much about that silly Constitution anyway. You WOULD have to get her to STOP TALKING first.

Comment Re:the original plan was stupid (Score 1) 73

Fully agree re l4/l5. I don't have anything against a mid-route station, there are some compelling arguments.

That they hand-waved "orbital refueling" as if it's no more complicated than topping off your car otw to the WI Dells bothered me; I am fairly certain - even to this day, for a moon landing that was supposed to be 2 launches away - they STILL don't know how many loads of fuel need to be in orbit, how they get it there, how they store it there.

This was from 2 years ago, and I applaud his bravery https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Virtue signal (Score 1) 136

In a sense, this is pure Gramsci: take anything literally or colloquially sacred, and shit on it. Not actually - this would spur resistance and a sense of martyrdom. Better to shit on it by undercutting it, replacing it, tainting it, corrupting it and who better to serve that mission than a "victim" of the current leader of the right? LotR franchise already set this up by their rather extensive wrecking of The Hobbit, of course.

Comment Mars is still the goal (Score 1) 73

The Moon is target practice. We need to get away from innovative bespoke engineering, into industrial mass production with continuous improvement. To do that we need to fly often. Mars just doesn't have the launch window availability. The biggest part of the challenge is that we were born in the bottom of a deep well. To toss enough stuff out of the well for a long journey is critical. Boosters that reliably fly on time often and cheaply enough to get ships and fuel out of the well. Ships that carry fuel into orbit and return over and over since the vast majority of the material we need to send out of the well isn't payloads or ships, it's fuel. Kilotons of fuel. Once the factories and processes are set up for that going far beyond the Moon is fairly easy. But with a narrow opportunity every two years that's not going to happen in a human lifespan. It's not enough refinement cycles per year.

I see this accelerating the Mars objective, not deferring it.

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