These assholes have been dragging there feet and putting off transitioning to building EVs for waaaaay too long. They need a kick in the teeth so they will get their ass in gear and actually do something. However, knowing that they are assholes, they are more likely to simply ask to block EV imports.

Unless you are also going to make ICE cars intrinsically more expensive to own then you risk backsliding.

It'll work fine with a 65 watt charger. You might possibly be able to note a charge time difference if you completely drain the battery and use a stopwatch, but I doubt it. Apparently 20 W phone chargers also work fine, although more slowly.

Lol. AVS is part of the USB specification. It's not proprietary. In USB PD 3.2 it's required if you want to deliver more than 27 W.

Not if you're even further right.

Collective punishment is fine if you're choosing to be there. Search "BDSM group punishment" on pornhub.

Much of the body positivity movement just says you shouldn't be mean to fat people, or anyone else, because of their body shape. That's what the words mean: body positivity.

There are some crazy body positivity types who actually claim that any amount of obesity is just fine and has no adverse health implications at all, despite mountains of evidence to the contrary (although I haven't met any that think anorexia is cool). That is indeed RFK Jr style crazy.

Wah, BMI is a stupid measure because I am all muscles!

Okay, we came up with much better criteria based on clinically validated measures like waist to hip ratio.

Wah, moving the goalposts! Now pass me the cheetos.

Not exactly apples-to-apples. That's like saying there is no experimental evidence that an addition problem with n+1 digits where n is the most anyone has bothered to actually add can be performed.

Besides my statement being just as true as the one I quoted, it is indeed "apples-to-apples."

You can break factoring-based public key enrcryption with quantum computers, just like you can do with classical computers. Both problems are scaling up. Both problems have possible fundamental limits in the way of scaling up to current key lengths. The difference is that for classical computing we know we're already bumping into those limits.

There is definitely theoretical evidence that movement in time can go in any direction, FTL (hello warp), and transporters can be things

An episode of Star Trek isn't theoretical evidence. There's no (definitive) theoretical evidence those things are impossible, but that's not the same as theoretical evidence that they are possible.

AI =/= LLM.

It's not that funny. Purges of the military and government are pretty standard practice when taking over a country. You kick out anybody who can't be relied upon to support you. The problem is there tend not to be a big pool of both qualified and politically reliable replacements so by emphasizing the latter the former suffers.

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So I took a look at it and it's all Go and Python. I would recommend people use PIA which has a C++/Qt client and doesn't need a 2GB snap package to run because they have actually OS packages.

Three years of launches, and they have yet to complete an orbit.

It's too bad you lead with this bullshit. Purposely putting their giant rocket within a fart of reaching a stable orbit is a demonstration of exquisite control, not failure. There's absolutely no reason they won't be "reaching orbit" whenever they like next year.

Rendezvous is tricky, but they already do it all the time, and with much higher stakes. Orbital fuel transfer has been done (including by SpaceX IIRC), doing it again with Starship wouldn't really be too surprising. I would be surprised if they have a finished version of a fuel depot a year from now, but not so much if they stick a stripped down Starship up there to practice on.

I'd be really surprised if they fulfill their HLS contract next year, but I'll also be surprised if they don't beat Blue Origin, Lockheed and Boeing, and with a much more capable lander at a lower cost. Artemis looks like it's been watered down into another flag planting mission, but maybe SpaceX will be able to sell lunar transport to somebody who actually wants to do something interesting. Blue Origin and Co definitely won't be.

Mars, whatever.

Would US government rocketry have been successful if not for all the preceding work by a bunch of Nazis? Would the US government itself have been successful if not for all the prceding work by enlightenment philosophers? Would enlightenment philosophers have been successful if not for all the preceding work by Gutenberg and his printing press? Would Guttenberg and his press have been successful if not for the preceding work by a bunch of lazy winos?

It's true that governments have been big launch customers. Many (not all) launch companies have designed rockets to serve government customers and then also launched private payloads on them. "On the back of" kind of suggests the GP thinks all the private satellites are ride shares on government launches, which just isn't true.

Governments aren't even the majority of the market anymore:

https://www.grandviewresearch....