Like saying people were to blame for the reflecting pool fuck up. Sure that was true, just not any of the people Trump or the justice department blamed, it was the installers and morons who managed the project. Yah we get it, thanks for the lying pro-tips.

We were all waiting for federal cases to be built, or some disclosures. When it became clear that simply wasn't going to happen, one year into Trump's term the Republican controlled House and Senate passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November 2025.

I don't know what Biden's DOJ was doing, but Congress figured out what Trump's definitely wasn't doing after more than enough time had passed. Republicans controlled the house for the 118th Congress, Biden's last two years. Try asking your congress critters why they thought 2025 was the right time to get involved.

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Fox "News" can mean many things, but this sure is broadcast. The actual answer though as a news segment, no, those are exempt.

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Well for one thing, the question was Fox News, and they'd likely be exempt as bonafide news right? If we're bringing the rest of Fox (we mean broadcast right?) into this, having had people on is not AT ALL the same as fulfilling equal time requirements. Jimmy Kimmel has had people on, Trump himself, Ted Cruz, etc. it doesn't mean anything.

The question is really if Judge Judy (national program carried by Fox broadcast affiliates) had a special with Ken Paxton, guest judge, on trial, jury, makes no diff, does the station have to give equal time to James Talarico.

TMZ Live, if they have Talrico on, does the Fox affiliate have to give Paxton time?

Or, does the 700 Club, that syndicated weird religious fake news program, if they interview Paxton, is the station required to give equal time to Talrico?

Dr Phil Primetime: One on One with Donald Trump aired in 2024 in several broadcast markets, did they have to give Biden/Harris equal time.

That's a good spread of entertainment through the faux seriousness spectrum. The only answer to any of these now is we'd have to find out because shits different. Some of those are not actually hypotheticals, we used to know the answer from past precedent, some we wouldn't know unless the candidates cared to ask. We definitely know the FCC didn't go bulldogging their party's opposition. Can national programs be broadcast safely with political candidates in them, and does the answer depend on which team they play for.

You need to talk to a psychiatrist.

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Whole lot of stuff you wrapped up in "spaceflight" there. There is no commercial demand today for station resupply, orbital logistics, lunar landers, crewed vehicles or launch, or for any kind of super heavy or deep space launches. Not even looking at the government launch infrastructure SpaceX needed in its earliest stages. Government contracts are paying for all of that, including the development, in order to create a commercial market. Musk's money didn't build all that, and it's a bit stupid to think private money ever would, because again, there is no commercial market demand, there are government contracts driving all of it.

If European countries want to stay competitive with .. whatever the hell all this is, capitalism in space ... they will also need to publicly fund commercial space development. It's just fucking asinine to think Musk or anybody would step up in a vacuum to pay billions of their own dollars and the kindness of their hearts to build some romanticized "spaceflight" fantasy. He's taking government money, investor money, and the general public now via his 90x overpriced IPO, and he's promising to write you a check from Mars. He's already getting paid, morons, it's the oldest scam in the books. I know where to find $scarybignumber dollars, just give me %10 of those dollars and I'll go get it for you. PS, it's on a other planet.

That's how capitalism works, do you have a problem with that, or how the commercial launch market is bootstrapped by the government? *shocker* it sucks off the government teat here too, and wouldn't exist without directed efforts to establish commercial space. The whole point of capitalism is competition driving efficiency, so again, what is your problem.

He bought his way into the club just like any other entrepreneur can, and your true space nerd visionary measuring stick is bullshit. Throws his money at data centers and now he's an AGI nerd and visionary machine intelligence philosopher too right. Just sweep all his lying bullshit about the state of self driving over the years under the rug, right where you swept his straight to Mars bullshit. Fuck off with that dumbassery.

Which part, asking for funding vs telling you other people will pay for it? Measurable objectives? De-risk, admitting risk at all? "Execution" has too many syllables, you know he can't say that.

Bud, all commercial space is taxpayer funded, there was no other way to get it off the ground. Space tourism can't pay for things like heavy lift, deep space exploration. Who do you think is paying for crewed launch capabilities? Ain't tourists. Who's paying for deep space transport, not mars colonists. Who's paying for lunar research, sir as fuck not moon rock prospectors. There's no damned market for any of that without government programs.

Your whole post shows a deep misunderstanding of how capitalism works and the government's role in building markets.

Which one is shaped like something the U.S. Congress needs to be involved in.

Well fuck, the one they voted to look the other way on is the one closest to being involved in a war I was thinking of. How about the one we're blowing up? Fuck. You got me.

Amazing we can still name post offices at all.

Many years. No, bubbles don't pop when you look at them. Yah that ain't real, models will continue to improve, but the rate of improvement may slow. Then there's the vacuum of potential behind it that will take some time to realize. They way we use them is changing as rapidly as the quality, as in models could all stand still a year and in that year you'll see very different ways of extracting more from the same quality model, better harnesses and frameworks, etc.

Bubbles don't go away when everyone agrees there's a bubble. Anyone can tell when the price of a thing far exceeds its fundamental value, and it doesn't matter as long as someone will buy it. FOMO and greater fool theory can maintain bubbles indefinitely as long as there's money to spend and people are willing to take risks. I think one of those needs to change before you see a bubble pop.

That said, what even is the AI bubble, the price of a GPU, a mw of datacenter, monthly token spend? It would help to be able to put your finger on what price is inflated beyond reason. Maybe it's in datacenters/gpu, too much redundant effort being put in to climb to the top and eventually it's going to consolidate down to a few leaders. IDK if that is even co spidered a bubble, but some people think AI is a bubble in the way internet advertising is a bubble, because they don't even look at them, so therefore the entire economic engine powering the free internet is a bubble, and I don't think that's a useful way to characterize whatever that is.

What kind of retarded inbred claim is Africa never had checks, or that checks were as good as cash anywhere else, on what fucking planet? There's a long history of personal checks not being accepted, or only if the merchant knows your bank or employer. There's a long tradition of people in need being denied financial services in general, especially in rural America (high trust my ass), and OBVIOUSLY rural colonial Africa and indigenous parts of Africa didn't have financiers standing by with bags of money.

How the fuck do you make a grand claim of societal differences and ignore the realities of financial service development in ANY country?

Ofc you don't.

You're stereotyping an entire continent. There are scary stories south of our border too, but if you reduce all of south and central America to that you're a fucking retard.

The U.S. is an active participant in one of those and Congress still manages to name a few post offices.

The commercialization of spaceflight IS a contest. Not sure what else to say, I thought people knew what was going on.