No doubt it’s a bit different. But it was still splitting and both did have established western boundaries.

Tennessee split from North Carolina. Georgia split off Mississippi and Alabama

There’s a chance that Musk has bought himself enough influence to turn conservatives on climate change. I don’t know if I expect it, exactly, but there’s a chance at a scenario where there is at least some progress there.

Granted Musk will mostly use it to enrich himself, but if he at least stops then from repealing green subsidies and the like, that’s movement in the right direction.

That’s exactly my point. We are not a democracy where every decision is put to a poll (especially not a poll made by some private group).

We are a representative republic where we elect leaders who are trusted to make decisions on policy in accordance to their beliefs and stated policy positions when they were elected.

If you think we live in an absolute democracy, that’s pretty bold.

Yeah, because foreign policy decisions should definitely be made based on poll numbers.

I don’t like our unconditional support of Israel, but this is a bad take.

Physical when possible. Little downside and some potential resale value down the line. Faster installs, even accounting for updates. Sometimes less space taken up on a device that should really have more than it does.

Until they start discounting digital over physical, why wouldn’t you?

Non-X link for those who don’t want to give them traffic

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-youll-never-see-me-again-loses-to-biden-2020-9

Rhapsody back in the day beat that. You could use All Music Guide info to build amazing custom playlists. Custom options like “Music featuring electric guitar with no vocals made between 1950-1957 with a tempo between 90-120” and it would shoot out a whole playlist

Pretty much just kerosene. So not the best, but not horrible. It just uses LOX and RP-1 (highly refined kerosene) for fuel.

So given the median savings in the USA is about $8000, it would feel like $25 does to most of us.

She’s worth $28 billion. Unfortunately she will miss $100 million like the rest of us would miss $50.

It’s pretty easy to strip most of it off. It’s definitely an adjustment, but I got used to it (the remaining things I couldn’t change) pretty quickly

I held on to mine for so long, but after they stopped getting updates, I bailed since the S22 wasn’t massively larger.

It’s 5.75" tall, so no. It’s as big as I want to go. I’d love something a bit smaller to be sure

You can still lock down privacy stuff to a fair degree. I’m keeping an eye on it

Galaxy S22 with Nova launcher getting rid of the Samsung UI and making it note pixel-like.

Pixel phones have been too big for me for a while. They won’t fit in my pockets comfortably and I don’t want to have to stretch to reach the top of the screen. Come out with something 5.75" tall or less and I’ll re-engage.

“lack of experience in the area…”

Boeing dwarfs SpaceX in experience building spacecraft.

Mercury and Gemini spacecraft were both built by the McDonnell Corp. That company merged with the Douglas Aircraft company (which built the 3rd stage of the Saturn V rocket) becoming McDonnell Douglas in 1967, which merged into Boeing in 1997. Boeing itself co-manufactured the space shuttle orbiters with Rockwell.

On paper and judging from experience and history, if you were going to pick a single company to build a spacecraft, it would be them. Not some brand new company run by a space-obsessed software engineer.

Clearly Boeing has huge cultural issues and has for a while.

Just saying if you wanted to go off experience alone, they’re the best there is.

That is a notable change from “we’re just double checking things on the Starliner, which we think we can fix. We expect them to ride it home soon” that has been the message for a long time. Now it’s “we’re looking at all options”.