Fear not! It's entirely possible the category was chosen by an AI. Editorial automation would probably reduce the error rate here.

And therein lies the problem. People who just want a simple, sane political system feel (correctly) that it's not something they should have to put in a lot of effort to get or maintain. But the horrifying extremists have all the energy in the world to get their nonsense through, and won't expend any energy at all to just step back a bit and consider that their policies might be hurting themselves as well.

But yes, at the bare minimum people should put in the effort to vote and not nope out after buying into the nonsense that politicians are all the same.

Fucking dihydrogen monoxide. Terrifying stuff. Did you know that it can cause terrible burns and skin damage in liquid, solid *and* gaseous form?

I mean, First Nations people aren't native to The Americas, either, they wandered over a land bridge about 15,000 years ago.

Aedes aegypti is an invasive species to North America, only been here for a few hundred years, so I doubt that the food chain has grown radically dependent on them.

How so?

That's what insane is. Basic principles of morality "Do no harm" and "Take action to prevent harm" mean nothing to someone who is insane.

Just how insane he is.

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those ;)

Including gravity, which turns out is a major obstacle. One reason to go to the moon to to test build a Moon stalk, which is a lot easier to test and build on the moon than a Terrestrial Space Elevator. A Moon stalk is within our technological grasp and space will probably provide the technological opportunities we need to create new materials technology that would allow us to create a Space Elevator. That would dramatically reduce mass to orbit costs.

Absolutely this is the goal. Oxygen is four times the mass of methane IIRC, produce it in the moon and you eliminate launching a lot of mass into space from Earth. That's why B.O's second stage is hydrogen fueled and their lunar lander project is testing tech to extract oxygen from lunar regolith. If you look at their tech closely you can see how they're trying to build an orbital supply chain for fuel.

and hope their hydra-zine fuel launchers don't come down on a village or a city. The Chinese successfully combine the worst aspects of capitalism and communism together in terms of their regard for the everyday Chinese citizen. It's a terrifying thought that that may control access to space or the moon. I hope they change their ways.

A day or so ago Blue Origin had a launcher explode on the pad for a spin prime test IIRC. I'd bet it was probably the second stage considering the last launch also had a second stage failure that failed to put it's payload into orbit and we've had no news on what happened to NG-3's second stage or where it's coming down.
That's not a criticism of Blue Origin, New Glen is needed. It's context on how second stages are hard to produce because they have to operate in zero gravity. So far N.G has had two, IIRC, second stages operate, however this last failure will probably put them back by about a yes.

So B.O is externalizing big risks launching customer payloads knowing this is the case, reason being is their competition for Starlink, LEO has federally mandated deadlines for them to launch otherwise they loose their license to operate it.

Now contrast this with SpaceX's approach, 12 launches whose multiple goals include testing second stages in zero gravity environments that destroy the hardware as an expected result. So even though they haven't launched a commercial payload yet with StarShip, the real payload is the operational experience they get from each launch.

I think B.O will catch up because they have a re-useable first stage for a stack that offers greater flexibility than SS however SX is simply proving that there is no substitute for the experience of operating space craft in space.

The CIA can't just make arrests on US soil. They actually do need the FBI to do that. That's another form of oversight.

reminds me of that sneakers chip from the movie. picture it marty, all code is cracked and exploited. all systems are compromised. no more secrets.