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  • By people who then go on to get cushy jobs at his companies.

    How Kathy Leuders hasn’t been investigated for corruption is beyond me. She was Associate Administrator at NASA for 2 years, during her first year she told SpaceX how low their proposal needed to be in order to get the contract for Artemis.

    Less than 18 months later, after SpaceX got the contract, she retired from NASA. A month after that, she took a job as general manager at SpaceX’s Starbase.

    She forked over 2 billion dollars in tax payer money to secure a job at SpaceX.

    2 billion dollars that has, so far, only gotten us 3 launches of an experimental rocket, none of which have reached orbit and 2 of which exploded in the atmosphere. Oh and SpaceX is supposed to do their first unmanned moon landing of this vehicle in a month, if they want to stay on track for the contract.


  • Zron@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlI have a theory Guys
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    Did not have an identified serial killer until 1903. Both of these killers were white and killed white victims.

    I don’t think the police were really looking into crimes against black people in South Africa at the time. It’s entirely possible there were several serial killers that targeted non-white victims to avoid detection.



  • You’re really trusting your country’s food safety agency.

    In most countries, some government entity is responsible for reviewing foods sold in stores for safety, and regulating what the packaging can say. So if a company wants to sell a new kind of mushroom in the stores, they have to get it analyzed for safety.

    There’s many mushrooms that are perfectly safe to eat, but don’t taste particularly distinct, don’t store well, or just don’t respond well to farming. There’s also many more that are incredibly toxic, and look very similar to the safe ones.

    I’ve done foraging as a hobby, and it’s fun to go out and find things in the woods. However, I pretty much only go for berries and leafy greens, as there’s very few truly dangerous flavors of those in my region. I also generally only take a handful at most, as I don’t want to damage the local ecosystem, or risk a mistake making me seriously ill.

    For most people, it’s much safer to just go to the store and buy fresh looking produce. Most places of the world no longer have the habitat to support even a few people going out and regularly foraging for fresh produce. If you do find something you like, you can always take a sample of the fruit and plant it in your garden. This is also great for expanding native plants in your area, which provides food for local wildlife like birds.




  • And what, you want to be able to use spy satellites to see your neighbor sunbathing in the backyard?

    These are military satellites, to look at military shit like what planes an enemy has on the runway and how many, where tanks are on a battlefield, if a convoy is getting ready to leave a depot and how many vehicles it has. Not to mention, what they are even capable of seeing is a matter of national security. If an enemy knows your satellite only has a certain resolution, they can figure out exactly what camouflage they need to defeat it. If they know how the infrared photography works, they can develop strategies to fake the number of functional vehicles they have. Not everyone in the whole world should know that shit. Otherwise the entire intelligence apparatus of the United States should just pack up and retire.

    We already have a global low latency communication network, it’s the thing I’m sending you this message on now. When we don’t need is a global, high quality, spy satellite network that everyone and their brother can use and learn the capabilities of.


  • You have no idea how a spy satellite works, do you?

    They take pictures.

    With really, really fancy cameras.

    Cameras that are very carefully, and secretly, designed to be very good at their jobs.

    No, you can’t just let some third party decide to use your fancy spy satellite, that means they now know what your satellite can and can’t do, which means they can hide things from it, which means it’s now just a very expensive lump in orbit.

    And need I remind you that SpaceX is not some magical self funded space ferry service. They’re a US Government contractor, that’s where most of their money comes from. The satellites are made by other contractors. There’s not a government satellite factory somewhere in the desert, they pay companies like Boeing and Honeywell to make them the parts for the satellite, and then SpaceX gets money to launch it.

    When the government pays for something, the contractor is legally required to keep their mouth shut about it, hand over the keys, and be available if it breaks. The contractor cannot just decide to let someone else play with the government’s toys, that’s called espionage.


  • They essentially already are.

    Tesla likely would not be selling cars if the government didn’t offer EV tax incentives.

    SpaceX’s largest customer is the U.S Government.

    Musk has torpedoed every other company he’s touched.

    If the only reason you are in business is to sell things that the government is helping pay for, why are you even a business. He’s blown through his budget that NASA gave him for Starship and still doesn’t have a working product.

    The Cybertruck Founders Edition doesn’t have the Self Driving feature that made it 20k more expensive, and has a real chance of being a fraud trial.

    Why are we giving private companies boatloads of tax dollars to develop vaporware?



  • A part of me says that it’s entirely reasonable that a guy who worked for Boeing and likely signed off on thousands of defective parts would feel a brutal surge of guilt after giving testimony about it. I can’t imagine the guilt if I thought I had potentially hundreds of people’s blood on my hands. We don’t know if he was or felt he was responsible for the deaths caused by MCAS or other tragedies. Maybe saying it out loud brought all of it back and he felt like he needed an out.

    Another, louder part of me, says that Boeing either pressured him into committing suicide, or shot him themselves to stop him from revealing too much damaging information.

    Another part of me remembers that Malaysia Flight 370 was a Boeing plane that disappeared by essentially cutting all communications and flying back towards the mainland. Knowing now what we do about how Boeing has been run, I think the most likely thing is that some serious technical issues happened to that plane, the pilots tried to return back but were unable to control the plane long enough, probably due to being unconscious or dead, and it eventually crashed into the ocean.


  • Wait, is it the same Adin that shot his Cybertruck and then got mad because he broke the door he was shooting at?

    I don’t know what confuses me more. The fact that he’s somehow dumb enough to do that, yet also capable of breathing and speech at the same time. Or that he probably has more money than I ever will because he’s that stupid.

    I want to reallocate my stat points.


  • Unfortunately the US has basically been running on the polite fiction that people who want to be leaders will be good leaders and behave like rational human beings.

    So when someone who has no good intentions and is not rational got into power, we learned that a lot of things we thought of as laws were really just habits.

    And as much as it sucks, it’s actually sensible that trump can run until he’s been proven guilty. Otherwise a wannabe dictator could just drown the opposition in frivolous lawsuits and bar them from running because of the suspicion of crime.

    Don’t get me wrong, I think trump is guilty as sin and is a danger to our democracy. But, we need to be careful how we respond to this, or it could be worse when the next maniac gets into power and starts banning people from running because all of his opponents are suddenly under investigation for tax irregularities or littering.