So, "People With Disabilities Don't Exist" then?

My father was recently paralyzed by Guillain-Barré, so I'll let him know, thanks.

This way the headline sounds SCARY!

It is technically a recall by the NHTSA definition, even if the fix is just an OTA software update.

AeroPress is awesome. I have used one at a friends place. My french press is big enough to make 2 full mugs of coffee, which fits my morning routine.

To be clear: As a business owner in a state with at-will employment, I would absolutely terminate an employee who spoke out publicly against the interests of my company. If their beliefs are counter to the company's needs, there is no longer a good match.

Do not threaten. Do not pressure them to change their views. Do not try to prevent them from exercising their rights. Just part ways. They have the right to feel what they feel, and the right to participate in public discourse. I have the right to not employ people who disagree with what my company does. Don't make it more complicated than that. Don't try to find an excuse to avoid paying them what they are owed.

This depends on your position in the company. An executive is an officer of the company, and is considered to be speaking for the company unless explicitly stated otherwise. A line worker is generally not authorized to speak for the company, and should not be presumed to be doing so unless they explicitly state that they are. Someone in a public-facing role (such as customer service, human resources, legal, or public relations) may be speaking for the company, and should always clarify.

Many employees have non-disparagement clauses in their contracts that -explicitly- ban the employee from speech or action that harms the company's reputation. These clauses may be limited depending on the jurisdiction and circumstances.

There is a place for freeze dried industrial coffee products.

I keep Tasters Choice crystals in my camping gear and in my emergency survival pack. I also have a LifeStraw, a bottle, a metal cup and firestarting supplies. I can turn a puddle into clean water and either mix in coffee crystals and drink it, or make fire and have hot coffee... a luxury in a bad situation.

On a daily basis I prefer to take my time and make coffee in a french press, or espresso for a treat.

Oh god. If I spent enough time digging through my ancient Slashdot posts, somewhere back there there are posts of me going, "While I loved the strategy behind Falcon 9, I'm really not keen on this plan to make Starship out of huge carbon fibre tanks, that sounds like a really failure-prone solution..." I'm glad they only spent like a year on that idea before deciding it was dumb; somewhere back there there's also a bunch of posts of me cheering their switch to steel ;) . SpaceX still keep having random COPV problems (most of which they don't even make themselves). Not too encouraging for the notion of the cold gas thruster add-on to the Roadster, where the plan is to replace the back seat with COPVs, so you have a COPV right behind your head.

Electron has been getting by on CF, and honestly I'm impressed, but they've also been only working with very small launch vehicles thusfar. We'll see how neutron goes...

One time spending with the one time income was a good thing. The fuckup was spending on programs that needed ongoing spending to maintain -knowing that there would not be enough money to cover them in the upcoming years.

I am in California. We benefited from the spending. But our smart politicians set us up for a budget deficit the following year, because of HOW they spent the money. They created ongoing expenses without ongoing income.

You are correct, sir! I was simply spouting off what I could remember...

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to say about printing small rocket parts, such as for the engines. But they were printing basically sheet metal cylinders, which is such an immensely slow and inefficient way to go about it, and it left them with parts that were heavier and less aerodynamic (rougher surface). Crazy that idea ever got any funding.

The one seen over Moscow might have been, with a bit more thrust...

"SapceX has got to be a huge scam too" - SpaceX launches the vast majority of the world's commercial cargo to orbit. The Falcon 9 FT has the highest success rate of any rocket with a statistically significant number of launches under its belt, and is dirt cheap. SpaceX's core operations are roughly breakeven, but that's including subsidizing the development of Starship. Starlink is a money printer.

There are lots of things sketchy about the SpaceX IPO, to say the least, but SpaceX, as a company, has been extremely successful with rocketry.

MidJourney was the first sizable AI company to become profitable, having done so back in 2022.

The funny thing was that I knew him for like six months online before I realized he was fully paralyzed. He's been covered in the Finnish press a number of times. Amazing guy. Up until recently he was living in a house he built himself before ALS struck, but the medical service decided he was too far away and he had to move closer. You lose a lot of control over your life with ALS.

He wrote a book about nuclear safety engineering recently, which is a fascinating read, and which I strongly recommend.

No. For the same reason our businesses do not leave the EU over their regulations: The potential income from remaining vastly exceeds the cost of staying and paying.