Do tell me more about their battery offerings.

For house scale backup systems there are some with lower dollar per KWh, but those are heavily weighted to enthusiast barebones systems that will require a lot of addons, labor and know how. If you are going to go with Enphase or Genrerac or another of the big all-in-wonder brands you'll be dropping more per KWh.

There are reasons to not go with Tesla. They don't make it really reasy to integrate with gear outside the Tesla ecosystem. Generator support blows. But in terms of overpriced? No.

No they did not.

Texas sent a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to Protcor & Gamble and Colgate-Palmolive. The exact wording of the CIDs is not public, but looks to be geared toward advertising and marketing materials.

Fluoride can be an unpleasant substance when taken beyond therapeutic does levels. The dose makes the poison and all that. Both the CDC and the American Dental Association call for reduced use of fluoride toothpaste for young children. Texas is looking to see how the companies are marketing their toothpaste to young children and their parents. Backdoor attack against fluoride in general? Most likely. Something that probably should be looked at no matter one's views on fluoride? I put that in the same most likely bucket. Either way, no Texas has not sued.

Your pain with sours would be my pain with IPAs. Many many markets are so dominated by not just IPAs themslves, but the perception that more IBUs makes for a better IPA has twisted so many other styles. Crack open the beer menu at a place bragging they have 32 taps and see 5 are set aside for the mass produced lagers, 14 IPAs, 4 ciders, 1 kombucha, 3 pale ales that might as well be IPAs, 1 red that forgot its malty roots, 1 imperial lager that tastes like Budweiser mixed with a medicinal vodka, a porter at 83 IBUs and two stouts. Guess I am having another hot summer day stout.

I miss the days when every craft brewery had a brown ale, a porter and a stout in regular rotation. Good quarter of them also tried their hand at a scottish.

So many of the IPAs rule crew could be served water mixed with Bitrex and would rave about it.

You do realize you do not do your causes any favors by imagining a different color of the sky and making wildly inaccurate statements out of thin air? It makes people to the left look like nutters. With Trump in office all you have to do is *not* look like nutters and you will do well. Is it that high of a bar to clear?

Googling gave me the names of locations in PA with reports of long voter delays in the last election. Gonna type them here and start googling their county leadership.

Chester 2D 1R
Luzerne 6R 5D
Bucks 2D 1R
Philadelphia hmm, all city government with no city city council is 14D and 3 Working Families Party
Montgomery 2D 1R

The billionaire money instead...bribed the voting machine distribution crews? Cause that is not an overwhelming list of conservative dominated governments. Hell, you have to be 73 years old to have been alive the last time Philadelphia had a Republican led government.

If you dig deeper, you find out this is not true. Almost every state, Pennsylvania included, leave it to individual counties to purchase, maintain and deploy voting machines. In PA the state is responsible for validating vendors and certifying particular voting systems for use in the state. State also does inspections on voting machines to ensure they have not been tampered with. The counties themselves actually pick which approved system to purchase, spend the money and enact the labor that allows voting. If a district had insufficient capabilities to handle voter turnout, then it is 100% on the district.

What limitations are left? Took them a while, but SpaceX finally has gotten their extending fairing into production to handle the larger physical sizes. They did their first vertical payload integration a couple years back. There were a couple of the DoD reference orbits that Heavy could not make in its first two flights, but those were sorted on flight 3.

Other than a whole lot of others such as every other nation currently with their own launch program...

China Long March 10
European Space Agency Themis
Indian Space Research Organisation Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (no name but openly stated their next launch vehicle after the H3 will be a vertical lander)

Then in the private space, beyond SpaceX working on their third reusuable launcher...
Blue Origin New Glenn
Rocket Lab Neutron
iSpace Hyperbola-2
Stoke Space Nova
Landspace Zhuque-3
(and I would get tired of all the Chinese companies that have made annoucements but are further away from first launch)
(in that same bucket are quite a few European companies at well looking to capitalize on ArianeGroup's lack of observable progress in this space)

How do you figure?

Driven partially by the reduction in willing advertisers due to Musk's increasingly polarizing nature, Twitter is still strategically shifting their revenue stream focus away from advertising to users and to subscriptions.

Starlink is an Internet provider, one that is often the sole decent choice, for five million households. Prime position to inject advertising. Not doing so despite having been serving customers since 2020.

SpaceX? Don't see ads popping up during their launch livestreams nor do I see rockets launching plastered like a NASCAR vehicle.

Tesla, as far as I have heard, is not showing ads on that big ass center screen of theirs. I have heard that SuperCharger stations now show promotional screens advertising subscriptions for charging.

So again, what signs and portents do you see that would lead you to think Neuralink is going to go down an advertising revenue path?

The emergency texting came out at the end of 2022. Non emergency texting just came out this summer. I tried the non emergency this year but never could exchanges messages with the wife. No matter how I held or wiggled the phone, it just never sent. Keeping the Spot subscription for now.

Pondering a getting the cheapest supported Android and T-Mobile plan to see if the Starlink coverage works better. Meh. More likely will continue with Spot and wait the year for their exclusivity deal to end.

Would not say they were uploading civil forfeiture in this case. That was not the dispute at hand. Rulings on the 14th Amendment have split seizures into two large buckets - real and peronal property. Real property is something like land that is not going anywhere. Personal property are smaller portable possessions that could disappear.

Since someone can't hide real property, the government has to take their time and perform a preseizure hearing. Personal property can be seized immediately and only requires a postseizure hearing.

This case was about which hearings are required and when they need to be held when the property is an automobile. Nothing about the overall constitutionality of seizures. Thomas and Gorsuch consented to the overall narrow decision, but did write a separate opinion that was less than welcoming to the overall concept of civil forfeiture.

This case started with a class action against Alabama with two main claimants. In both there were criminal charges and convictions. In both the cars were returned in horribly slow manners.

He is commonly referred to and is legally considered as one of the founders of both these companies. Google, ChatGPT and Wiki all agree on this.

Delta Clipper? Other than having the concept of landing vertically under propulsive force, there is not anything remotely comparable.

First stage landing? First stage reusability? Rapid reusability? Private orbital rocket? Private cargo mission to ISS? Private manned flights for NASA? Private manned flights. Five million subscriber satellite Internet provider? Methalox engines? Full flow engines? Second stage reusability?

Love how as SpaceX continues to succeed the haters have to stretch all the way to comparing their work to the freaking Apollo program. You know, a program that was funded by a very nonzero percentage of the federal budget of a superpower for over a decade.

That program remains one of the pinnacles of human achievement. It managed to put six landers on the moon each with a dry mass of around five tons with under 7 cubic meters of internal space. If SpaceX can get an HLS Starship on the moon, one landing could carry about thirty of those landers by mass.

Even without adjusting for inflation, the highest cost estimates for the Starship program (including building the launch and rocket contruction facilities from scratch) are less than half of what the Apollo program cost. With inflation adjustments, the price differential is insane.

HLS is a fixed price contract. If SpaceX needs to spend more money to get HLS operational, it comes out of their pocket.

This is just flat out wrong. You should probably stop trusting CSS and Thunderfoot as sources as they tend to take the wackiest ancient extreme cases and present those as the norm.

Adjusted for inflation there is absolutely nothing than compares with the Falcon family for price to orbit.

What is out there for heavy lift rockets? Vulcan Centaur has two flights under its belt and is in the same class as Falcon Heavy. SLS carries more but isn't doing contracted flights and costs bloody fortune.

SpaceX has launched several of the largest payloads in recent history. Some classified US Space Force missions and comm satellites for ViaSat and Sirius come to mind. Not too mention multiple science payloads for NASA.

Yes, SpaceX just barely beat out the horde of space companies to being the first to land an orbital class booster.

Just barely.

I mean, BO might just might take fourth place (after three SpaceX rockets) in that race this month. 9 YEARS later.

Other than some low altitude and zero horizontal velocity Delta Clipper tests and fishing Shuttle SRBs out of the ocean and spending more money on refurbishment than building from scratch...what else was there prior to Falcon 9?

It is amazing the number of things you get factually wrong.

Rittenhouse was not acquited, nor was jury nullification involved, in the unlawful possession charge. That charge was dismissed by the judge as not being legally supported. Turns out that prosecutors kinda ignored the part of Wisconsin law that allows minors to possess long barreled firearms. Additionally the claim that Rittenhouse crossed state lines with the firearm was sourced from a politician making an unsupported claim in a media interview. There was zero testimony and zero claims by law enforcement that he crossed state lines with the firearm.

The charges he was actually acquitted of, in contradiction to your claim, were homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangerment.

Even better than dropped. The unlawful possession charge was dismissed by the judge as not being legally supported. As in the judge ruled the charge itself was completely unfounded.