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Dameius posted:I'm insulted you'd think I'd support anything the most divorced man in history has, is, or will do. Phew. Thank the space wizard (God)
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Jiro posted:More amazing Mexican and Tex-Mex food with a decent beach for us. *shrug* Based on the new New Yorker piece by Ronan Farrow, it seems like the government kinda has its hands tied as it relies on SpaceX too much and has to flatter Musk. So we can expect the FAA to completely roll over on all the bullshit SpaceX is pulling at Boca Chica.
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https://twitter.com/_dannydavis/status/1694009060327076077 The Tostitos Fiesta Athletic Director, brought to you by Mastercard. Mastercard: What's our slogan? What's in your wallet? No, that's a different one...funny commercials though...
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LanceHunter posted:Based on the new New Yorker piece by Ronan Farrow, it seems like the government kinda has its hands tied as it relies on SpaceX too much and has to flatter Musk. This is sadly not surprising and I kinda figured this was the case. Love Farrow's pieces when they come out. Like has NASA been way too entrenched in the military and military industrial complex to move more efficiently on getting space exploration done?
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Dameius posted:NASA's budget is too limited to do extensive LEO and not LEO cool poo poo so they wanted to offload the getting to LEO part to the private sector because simply appreciably raising NASA's budget by percentage of total spending will apparently never happen. NASA has been gutted by years of conservative governance intentionally kneecapping government programs in order for barely competitive private companies to stand a chance. SpaceX is about 60 years behind NASA right now and will continue to flounder because that's the goal when 'pro business' 'small government' types get elected to federal office.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1693970807096017156 I can't even entertain him as a NeverTrumper Republican alternative when he voted against impeachment when he had the chance. You can't take that vote when you don't even plan on running for re-election and then act like you have some ethics over partisanship position in this race.
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kzin602 posted:NASA has been gutted by years of conservative governance intentionally kneecapping government programs in order for barely competitive private companies to stand a chance. SpaceX is about 60 years behind NASA right now and will continue to flounder because that's the goal when 'pro business' 'small government' types get elected to federal office. Yes. NASA's budget has basically stayed flat since 1958 in constant dollars which equates to huge cuts. 
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Elon musk out here trying to moonraker his rear end a moon harem. God I hate that man
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https://twitter.com/_fat_ugly_rat_/status/1694073335754182920 Angie Chen Button might be in a bit of barney
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/_fat_ugly_rat_/status/1694073335754182920 oh sweet not a billion blue check replies at the top of this https://twitter.com/BulzBig/status/1694097697710412133 oh okay I agree McKinney (where she was born) is a lot like another country but I think it still technically qualifies as America
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No Safe Word posted:oh sweet not a billion blue check replies at the top of this Yeah cause the Confederacy was dissolved.
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Ratmtattat posted:Fully agree. I was at the Snoop concert the other night and weed may as well have been legal. That was a whole lot of tax revenue that the state isn't getting. Last page and we've moved on but. . . When we had Snoop at the Hobby Center in downtown Houston, the building told his guy, basically: "It's a $10,000 fine for every dressing room you smoke in" "Are you telling me that Snoop Dogg can't smoke in his dressing room?" "No, I'm saying it's $10,000 per dressing room. . .so pick one" When we went to load in the next show, they had a dressing room completely gutted, ceiling tiles out, all the furniture was out, carpet was out, poo poo off the walls, and there was a guy in there painting. Funny (to me) is that it was the same dressing room Mayor Turner had just been using earlier in the season.
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https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1694409967871074794 https://twitter.com/DavidPasztor/status/1694415604239729053 Whoa poo poo, they just turned over their CEO and publisher too. Azura in particluar did really good investigative work, she was the reporter that broke that DPS/DMV cross-checking citizenship stuff a couple years ago that led to the letter and the non-confirmation of David Wiley. zoux fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Aug 23, 2023 |
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1694403816920137880 It is absolutely hideous
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1694403816920137880 This is why we don't make things in america
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1694409967871074794 Like the entire staff was laid off??? Holy poo poo.
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No I don't think so, those two are the only ones I've seen confirmed. ALso it would be bizarre as hell to fire just those two, they are two of the best reporters on staff. McCullough has been covering the Texas prisons AC problems for like 3 years at this point. It may be that they have too much seniority, and therefore too much salary, and the dark secret of the Tribune is they've always leaned on fresh-outta-J-school reporters to keep labor costs down. I wonder how much of a cost outlay their access journo dicksucking tribfest is
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1694409967871074794 Evan Smith just retired less than a year ago. I had no idea they were struggling at all. I mean, all of them are, but their non-profit model seemed to be working for them. No Safe Word posted:
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:Evan Smith just retired less than a year ago. I had no idea they were struggling at all. I mean, all of them are, but their non-profit model seemed to be working for them. Yeah I've held them up in the past as a model for workable journalism in the modern age, guess not.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1694403816920137880 It looks like the front seat is a Kouchtown couch
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zoux posted:Yeah I've held them up in the past as a model for workable journalism in the modern age, guess not. first wendy nine years ago and now this. huge hits to your credibility recently
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i say swears online posted:first wendy nine years ago and now this. huge hits to your credibility recently We really need to shut this thread down until we figure out what's going on here.
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Why have I been seeing more poo poo about the heat dome now that it's moved slightly northeast? Did no one really care when it was over almost all of Texas, Northern Mex, New Mexico, and Oklahoma? Why the gently caress is ERCOT asking me to conserve more power for an entire week next week?
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Jiro posted:Why have I been seeing more poo poo about the heat dome now that it's moved slightly northeast? The rest of the country kinda wants Texas to melt down its grid because they believe the poo poo Greg Abbott says about our energy production instead of looking at the rising renewable numbers Turns out the rest of the country has lovely infrastructure too and now they're terrified Edit: I think we are kinda screwed if the winter is as bad as the experts are predicting
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Having the entire grid collapse is the price we pay for uh, not being connected to the rest of the country's grid.
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It just kinda rubs me the wrong way being down here in the RGV when we've been having 109+ days for the past two months on top of the normal humidity here making the heat index even higher. And now it's only something to pay attention to because the elderly whites in the Midwest are getting a bit warm.
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The circumstances that led to a grid collapse in 2021 were unique. Half of the state's electric generation capacity disappeared over a period of a few hours. This is not something that is contemplable during the summer. Also maybe we should be investigating whether or not gas suppliers artificially cut supply to drive up prices, as both KS and OK are doing as we speak, but then we might get to the actual source of the problem and since the actual source of the problem accounts for a good portion of the state economy and political donations, I wouldn't bet on it. zoux fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Aug 24, 2023 |
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