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Remind me which countries Biden threatened to annex? I'm drawing a blank on that.

Trump and Musk have done a coup and are violating the constitution and law. It doesn't matter though because Republicans in the Senate are complicit and the supreme court has granted Trump unlimited power with the immunity ruling.

Soft power benefits Americans. The foreign aid and cooperation is helpful to both sides.

You're lucky. Really varies by where you live. Santa cruz mountains get the worst of it, but other parts like where I am are pretty bad too.

I lost $1000 in groceries in the Bay Area in 2023. Four multi-day outages on the peninsula.

If you have enough resources, you can definitely degrade the service.

I cant wait for the inevitable EU sanctions against the US.

What is "the Kardashian saga" as it relates to MR?

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You can also use Waymo in San Francisco. Do both California and Texas have the least laws protecting consumers?

It's not going to work through the skin of the plane. They won't service you moving at airplane speeds. Starlink sells a solution that places antennas on the exterior of the plane. How would you power it? It requires a lot of current.

I wasn't providing a counterexample.

It's been decades since I was on a plane that hasn't been within a few seats of full.

They plan to sell public lands to fund this. National parks, BLM land, etc. Terrible trade.

When he brought the person who wrote the forward to Project 2025 on as VP? How about when he nominated Russell Vought as Director of OMB in 2020?

Which company? Doesn't sound like the infra org I was in at a FAANG

For your sake, I hope it doesn't happen.

This is really confusing to me. The original discussion was about changing licenses, but somehow (coincidentally?) there was malicious code discovered shortly after? Are these related?

I don't think that is quite right. You can hit a satellite with a suborbital projectile. The kinetic energy of the satellite is enough on its own if you hit it.

Pretty far. In LEO it's hard to see much of Earth in one shot since you're still so close.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/x-37.htm

This source indicates an 38,000 km apogee, which is is about 1/10 the distance to the moon, and just barely beyond geostationary.

How big is the payload bay on this thing? The whole craft is only 29 feet long, so it's not carrying a Hubble in to orbit.

One use for highly elliptical orbits is being able to linger over some part of the earth for longer periods.

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

I haven't seen the orbital parameters of the X-37, so it may be in an elliptical orbit for some other reason, such as spying on or interfering with geostationary satellites or who knows what else.

Space Force song written just after the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AUXpnB065o

It's shortsighted because they are asking China to take over.

You think this NSF money was stolen? Where's your evidence of that?

Why should we not be concerned with that? People shooting eachother is bad, but also, bystanders get shot all the time in these.

Is there some place where it is not possible to be shot? Even space is not safe, Russia brought guns with them.

Is it hard to believe that some types of insurance may cost 4x as much as 20 years ago?

Who administers these cards?

The kinds of intelligence they display is really interesting.

They can't figure out obstacles very well if they can see where they want to go, but are impeded. They just pace back and forth, frustrated, instead of walking around the obstacle.

They are very social, recognize people, and can be trained in some limited ways (eg. to return to the coop with whistles, if you associate it with treats).