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SpaceX manages it for their launches

I had the same thought as well. The firewall is just assuming a dumb model can't be tricked

You forgot Tibet and the Uyghurs https://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/gen...

Tibet, the Philippines, and Taiwan would like to have a word, not to mention Chinese military action in support of its North Korea puppet state, and wars with Vietnam and India.

In all seriousness The Hague has no jurisdiction over Americans and Congress has already authorized military use of force against Brussels should they ever attempt to prosecute Americans.

All three have active US military bases on their soil and enjoy the economic surplus of living under the US defense umbrella.

This is progress it is peak idiocracy for the taxpayer to subsidize junk food to a largely obese population

Yeah Trumps spending was bipartisan but Biden unilaterally poured fuel on the fire after Covid.

Harris played to and reinforced this economic illiteracy by proposing federal price controls for groceries.

At least diamonds are shiny and you don’t have to pay miners literally forever

The United States Navy, which operates 83 nuclear-powered ships, demonstrates that small reactors are clearly a viable energy source.

The old content can become a liability. Maybe the brand has shifted, or norms have shifted and the old content is off-key.

U.S. tax law needs to change for this to happen. Individual health care should be totally tax deductible (the way it is for businesses) or should not be tax deductible at all for business (a small step in this direction by the Obama Administration was vilified as a "Cadillac Tax"

Medicaid spending-- driven by huge federal incentives-- is crowding out state dollars for higher education. Medicaid enrollment has increased 50% in WV in the last decade (while the state population has declined). The US is making a policy choice to funnel more of GDP into a wildly inefficient health care system to support obese and aging populations, instead of funding K-12 and higher education.

Florida is overall one of the best run states in the country. The public pensions are largely pre-funded and there's no state income tax. The biggest issue is the property insurance marketplace.

https://equable.org/pension-plan-funded-ratio-rankings-2022/

My family member died from his addiction and I'm still angry at him. He made several decades of selfish, disastrous choices. He had every advantage in the world and squandered it all. I'm angry we don't do more to fight these drugs. Drug dealing is very much a violent crime, it killed my cousin. The popular culture that celebrates drugs and dealers.

Plenty of blame all around but central is the person who decides to use.

Most of the Ivies were much more academically rigorous in the past. There were no ideological, unrigorous majors like Sociology or Gender Studies. Graduates were expected to read both Greek and Latin.

Clearly you didn't learn the meaning of "barbaric". Memorization and mastery of vocabulary and multiplication factors are a base towards more advanced learning.

This is by design, it meets the primary goal of the government which is funding patronage jobs that make few, if any, demands on the worker.

Russian media had wall-to-wall coverage of the US elections.

The benefit to the United States from the dollar serving as the world's reserve currency is enormous, and poorly understood. Congress has been foolishly pursuing fiscal policies that put it at risk.

Culturally the U.S. inherited a strong and aggressive maritime tradition from the pre-eminent naval civilization, the English. American colonists were famously pirates, some of whom operated as far away as the Indian Ocean. The spiritual father of the U.S. Navy is John Paul Jones, a brawling pirate and revolutionary war figure who responded "I have not yet begun to fight!" when asked to surrender.

"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont (16 November 1778)

"The future naval officers, who live within these walls, will find in the career of the man whose life we this day celebrate, not merely a subject for admiration and respect, but an object lesson to be taken into their innermost hearts. . . . Every officer . . . should feel in each fiber of his being an eager desire to emulate the energy, the professional capacity, the indomitable determination and dauntless scorn of death which marked John Paul Jones above all his fellows."

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, address to Naval Academy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones

The vertical farms don't use pesticides which is a major, high value feature for some consumers.

Traditional satellite phones, with 800ms latency and data caps, are not in the same category as the unmetered broadband access provided by low orbit Starlink.

The personal attack on Musk is unwarranted and violates HN norms. I'm working with an aid organization on the ground in Ukraine desperately seeking Starlink. They currently have mobile internet but expect it lose it soon.

Let's hope Starship lift capacity will make Webb obsolete in a decade!

Korea has a significantly higher per capita GDP and Turkey is in a full blown currency crisis. In terms of societal capacity the two economies aren't comparable.

The ACLU has abandoned its defense of free speech in the US; I'm glad to see IJ taking up the mantle.

As a nation, US inflation adjusted, per-student K-12 spending has tripled since the 1960s.

School choice is still universal public education. It is just the government providers of education have to compete with private providers.