How dark?

#e0ac69 should be good enough, but maybe #c68642 just to be sure.

Also, these people were already in the pipeline before Trump was sworn in.

If you're referring to me, I'm not a bot; I just have that in my name -- from about 1998 - as an homage to Farscape slang "fahrbot" and the various Futurama robots "-bot". -- Cheers, Rick

I would guess it's because so much of it simply blames problems on others and/or make others the "bad guys" and that's *way* more palatable. The right is more like "you're the problem for us", where the left is more like "we're all part of the problem" (and "the solution"). The former is easier and latter harder. In the case of MAGA specifically, it really seems to be a party of exclusion - with the test being if you're currently "MAGA enough" and an ever-narrowing definition of what that is. Just $0.02 from my Left pocket.

You forgot the part where the fixing is often more painful than the breaking - like tax hikes vs cuts - which makes people unhappy, especially in the moment, because many have the memory and attention span of a goldfish and have forgotten how we all got there and they're disinterested in the future.

To illustrate your comment about Republicans / "Conservatives", think about how they lost their collective minds about trans athletes, then consider there are only 10 (ten) trans U.S. college athletes, out of 500,000. From Trans Women in Sports: Facts Over Fear:

Got to hand it to them; it got people riled up though and some of those voted on that issue. Unfortunately, that says more about the voters than the politicians, and it's not necessarily good.

Who also has 40 years of accumulated code to pull from.

Not as interesting as his other quote, "I drank what?"

(From Real Genius.)

This was a few years ago, so not exactly Gen-Z, but a similar situation. I was helping a very recent hire, just out of university, with a project and he asked when he would get promoted from a Junior to Senior Software Engineer. I told him, among other things, when he didn't need a senior engineer to help him with his work.

It took him two weeks to complete his task, even with my on-request guidance. When he was done, he thanked me for all the help and remarked that I had always been ready with an answer and to talk through things and he asked how I had done that. I told him that prior to being given the work his manager asked me if I thought this would an appropriate task to give him. I said I'd check it out by doing it myself first, and I had run into many of the same issue he did. The junior guy asked me how long it took me; I said two hours (which was true). Granted, I had many years of experience on him and a lot of accumulated (Perl) code from which I could pull that helped reduce my effort.

Is NASA doing anything useful?

Aren't they just trying to repeat what SpaceX has already done?

I vote to call them the Sardaukar.

The Applied Optical Materials.journal article referenced in TFA/S describes the stability testing setup:

That depends on how much I'm paid.

For enough money, I can tolerate almost anything.

The truth is an absolute defense against libel in America.

It is a weaker defense in the UK.

Another difference is that in America, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff to show the statement is false. In the UK, the BOP is on the defendant to show the statement is true.

The arbitrator imposed the non-disparagement clause.

Sarah agreed to the arbitration process (she couldn't afford to do otherwise), but didn't specifically agree to the ND clause.

It's the red coloring in the onion skins, which is extracted and bound with cellulose from wood pulp. From TFA:

I'm guessing it'll be too meager a meal for termites... :-)