Name one other website that has been banned by the US, in preventing access to it from US citizens, that hasn't also been involved in clear violations of US law? I'll wait.

Freedom of speech, means freedom to listen to ideas, freedom to watch ideas, freedom to express ideas. If I as a US citizen, can't access the ideas being expressed by other Americans, associate with those people, or absorb the journalism I'd like to consume on TikTok, explicitly because the US government has banned my access to the platform where those expressions are being held, explain how that isn't a blatant violation of the first amendment on nearly all accounts of it.

I had a friend that regularly threatened his boss with emptying a bottle of degreaser into the fryer if the boss was being an asshole. Employees can cause lots of damage and downtime too.

Maximizing value return. I like it. The most value comes at the end of course but I'll enjoy all the pictures as well.

Why? To show that we can.

Thats certainly not true. The atmosphere and gravity of Venus would offer significant advantages to being suspended in a space station. You can also harvest the CO2 atmosphere to convert into breathable oxygen. At the altitude of 1atm on Venus, water is also maintained in a liquid state and heating and cooling needs are greatly reduced, drastically lowering the amount of energy needed for operations. Beyond the advantages of the atmosphere is our evolution with a gravity nearly identical to that of Venus. Bone and muscle mass will be significantly retained in comparison to orbital stationing or life on Mars.

Oh, can this be a Venus flyby mission with an end point into the sun then?

I often have to switch between Google and Bing to find what I want these days, in part because Bing has gotten slightly better, but largely because Google has gotten significantly worse because it has been rigged to death with SEO gaming and Google doesn't give a fuck about fixing it. If you don't see this problem happening, its probably because you don't actually search for anything obscure. There use to be a time where you could get endless pages of Google results. Doesn't happen anymore. Chances are pretty high that in the first few hits, it'll be a complete bullshit page trying to sell me something vaguely related, a CNET page that feels entirely generated on the fly and runs like dog shit, one of several crap pc performance websites entirely unrelated to my search (notebookcheck), and generally unhelpful non-relevant garbage that I can't even begin to understand why it returned such a result. Google also seems to refuse to respect search operators quite often these days. Frankly, the entire experience is terrible anymore.

Its only laziness if they were aware of other more preferred options being available. Google funding this sort of anti-competitive behavior actively prevents any other search engines from gaining any awareness among the public.

Thats not the same. Most smart TVs that have a Netflix button are also going to have a Hulu and Youtube button, and if recently made, a Disney+ button, a Paramount+ button, Amazon Video, etc. These are the popular services and they're all equally accessible in that circumstance. That isn't the case with Google existing as the default search engine, where it often isn't even obvious that you'll be searching with google until you get the results. This is pretty basic anti-competitive behavior.

I'm sorry but thats a dumbass take. There is no conspiracy of public schools at large pushing "Socialist Marxism". I live in the midwest and a good number if not a majority of teachers in this area are pretty conservative and don't even have or want a teachers union. Sure, you're certainly going to come across teachers that have such a political bias but nearly all teachers will have some form of political bias. You can't expect those biases to be entirely absent in the way they approach material. This is why small class sizes are good, not just for education, but to spread out that biasing effect across many teachers of different ideologies and cultural backgrounds.

Are there lots of conspiracy theories that have a kernel of truth as you say? Absolutely. A conspiracy wouldn't have a legitimate definition and it wouldn't be a legitimate crime if such a thing didn't exist in this world. Where people go wrong is in making assumptions that everything they find unpleasant, must be a plot to directly upset their political senses. Its a sort of self-aggrandizement and paranoia that some group of people are really out to directly attack you and your ideas. Most of the time, conspiracies themselves are selfish ventures of corrupting and wicked actions with little consideration of outside parties.

Recent research from NASA has determined that most trees planted in warmer regions are actually net carbon emitters, including even the Amazon Rainforest. Trees at higher latitudes in cooler climates are the current largest reserves of carbon negative forests. So while it might be beneficial in the high altitudes of Pakistan, planting them in Egypt will actually be absorbing little to no carbon out of the air. Anyone interested in this kind of research, I suggest you start with this pretty decent, if only a little long documentary by JPL: JPL and the Space Age: Sky High. It was quite enlightening. They start talking about the recent data on this topic around the 45 minute mark for anyone that wants to skip to that portion.

As I understand it, he has to get Starship off the ground to get the second generation satellites in orbit to pollute space with them. I don't foresee that happening any time too soon considering the numerous issues that continue to plague Starship/Super Heavy and the several serious design flaws that are going to make it a troubled launcher even if it gets to orbit.

A single outlet in a room? Why the hell would anyone prefer that? Its pretty handy to have an outlet on each wall if you ever want to configure your room differently than a single outlet would allow.

They didn't just promote the 'goofy' hippies, they propagandized their mentality until it caught on as the standard argument against nuclear power. The bandwagon is highly persuasive, even if people want to pretend and think like they are immune.

What a lame take. You're being intellectually dishonest in your argument because:

1. We don't have an actual published rating for how much a finished Starship will be able to tow into any orbit, only the loose assumptions mentioned by Musk which can be taken as accurate as his claims for FSD and Tesla

2. SLS is in Block 1 configuration with several more interactions that intend to more than double the capability of Falcon Heavy

Lastly, if a smaller rocket was suitable, then there wouldn't have been a need for Starship either.

Wow, may to be pedantic in the most unintelligent way. Do you honestly think 80,000,000 people will be able to afford a ride on Starship? You're incredibly naive if you think that to be true.