the central feature of Capitalism as it currently exists
Right. An aircraft of the state flag carrier or France, operating the product of a state subsidized aircraft manufacturer, crashed because capitalism.
Also, commie airplanes never crash.
but what was Airbus'es fault?
This incident required the combination of an incompetent crew and a faulty design. Without both, that particular flight would have ended without incident.
So the fault is shared, and the real criminals are in the boardrooms.
Like . . come on.
So that leaves only $100k to pay everybody who had to babysit it
Republicans shut up about states rights.
As your dumb ass was typing that, The big orange Nazi (R) is having his DOJ sue in federal court to have this Minnesota state law overturned.
Beyond that, this isn't even a partisan issue. This is about "tribes." Reservation casinos. You see, moron, Minnesota tribes don't want competition for wager money in the People's Republic of Minnesota. They oppose any attempt to introduce additional gambling beyond what was already established before their rise in influence: sports betting, prediction markets, whatever. Being a cultural pressure group, their casino money pays for lots of (D)s in the state legislature. And those (D)s do their job, outlawing what they're told and mouthing stuff about "safety" or whatever, providing a plausible narrative.
So congratulations. You're officially a Useful Idiot.
I can't believe
Someone failed to equip you with adequate cynicism. Upbringing issues.
*gestures wildly at the corn industry*
Like the US doesnt have heavily subsidized industries?
NINE MEGAWATTS
It's an electric rocket system. They've aggressively eliminated all possible hydraulics. Gimbling rocket engines and flap articulation is all electric in Starship V3 and booster stage. So is cryogenic recirc. All that stuff has to react rapidly to achieve the agility necessary for the insane flight profile they have; slow gear trains won't cut it; so they have dozens of the most powerful direct drive actuators our species has yet devised.
Also, 9 MW isn't all that much. It's about 12,000 HP, or what you get from a modest gas turbine, or a few diesel locomotives. Naval vessels use gas turbines of that size for on-board power generation.
Just like some newspaper recently reprinted Espressive
It's Expressif, and they can at least legitimately claim to have actual novel silicon that targets "edge" AI, including speech and imaging processing, and integrated vector instructions for AI.
Regardless of whether a mission expands or contracts, administrative overhead continues to grow at a steady rate.