Commodore was always a superior engineering company with substandard business executives. At times, extremely dumb executives.

It's not hard to understand why. Musk supports the people who are actually building things, instead of the middle managers. Steve Jobs was the same.

Here's a good graph. Starlink is fine, they do a good job planning EOL to make sure they don't contribute to the problem.

The sad thing is there are now far more resources for learning than ever before. I used to have to go to the library and look through microfilm.

Now we have Wikipedia, which is better than any encyclopedia. If you want to know how to reroof a house, there are hundreds of videos available about that.

A more important problem is that often the teachers don't find the material interesting.

If the teacher actually enjoys the book 1984, they can teach their students to enjoy it. That kind of teacher is a good teacher.

Your boos mean nothing!!

Stanford grads aren't idiots, though. They have at least a minimal level of intelligence.

You're talking about what AI might be in the future, not what it is now.

It is extremely important to make that distinction.

More than one study suggests we're past the tipping point for Kessler syndrome: https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Nah I just typed the wrong word and meant Starlink.

In some LEO altitudes, objects can take 50,000 years on average to clear out due to orbital decay. At the Earthlink altitude it takes 10-20 years on average for an object to de-orbit.

Because the number of objects increase dramatically every time there is an explosion/collision, we have likely already hit Kesler syndrome. That is, even if we don't launch anything else, the amount of space junk will just keep increasing. (You would know that if you'd bothered to read the Wikipedia article).

Scientists used to think that space junk would clear because of the atmosphere, but that hasn't been thought true for thirty years or more. There is probably no way to avoid Kessler syndrome now.

Oh come on, green is a very beautiful color. It's probably Biden's fault.

Someone needs to let Trump know that the best way to clean algae from a fountain is to add laundry detergent. Lots of it.

That's a little extreme, some are better than others. Last time I went to Los Gatos DMV, even though it was a bit farther away. Much more pleasant than Santa Clara DMV. Next time I'll probably go to Capitola DMV, even though it's rather far. I'll visit some nice restaurants while I'm there.

Ships have been floating through the Straight of Hormuz for a month or so now, and Iran hasn't been able to do anything about it. They tried.

https://www.politico.com/news/...

Surely it's Ahmad Vahidi, head of the IRGC.

I like your concept that the negotiations are aimed at driving wedges between the factions in Iran. Certainly, agreeing to a deal this week requires the IRGC to show their hand at least.

If the Iranians understand what Trump is up to, they are more astute than I am.

I have no fuckin' clue what Trump is up to until he does it.

It's really hard to know what is going on inside Iran right now. Last year, good data was hard to come by (like reasonable polling data). This year it's even harder.

AFAICT the president of Iran has always been more of a figurehead. Do you think that has changed?

Yes.