That’s rough buddy.

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When billionaires use those agglomerations of capital to manipulate markets and engage in other types of anti-competitive practices, it turns a free market into a captured market.

Anti-monopoly regulation & enforcement is required to maintain a market’s freedom.

Sam.

Where will you be when the zoomies wear off?

• high probability of being autistic

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“You can’t just shoot a hole into the Moon.”

MISSION OBJECTIVE: Shoot a hole into the Moon.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/eare-earths-mine-usa-china

Most rare‑earth ore occurs as a geochemical stew, so producers must grind, acid‑leach, and solvent‑wash huge volumes of rock before they bottle a kilogram of oxide. The solvents themselves are toxic; the tailings ponds can leach heavy metals; and any thorium or uranium hitch‑hikers raise radioactivity concerns.

Open‑pit mines also chew through landscapes, consume prodigious energy, and disrupt local water tables. In short, the elements may not be geologically rare, but clean, socially acceptable production sites are. That scarcity, not crustal abundance, keeps supply tight and prices volatile.

That’s an excellent point.

I don’t really know what the launch detection sensors’ capabilities are. However, there’s probably a detectably different spectrographic signature from solid fuel rockets like ICBMs versus Neutron’s methalox.

This is the natural consequence of a business that is not worker owned.

Yeah, apparently he voted for a Republican recently, making him complicit in USA’s rapid decent into fascism.

Given the ham-handedness of Indian propagandists in English-speaking social media, if their pilots are of a similar quality, then it may have just been a skill issue rather than a demonstration of the quality of the hardware.

Every article at the top of the search results, wiki included, is frustratingly short on details about his psychology and values.

Is he more like Francis or Ratzinger? Is he more like Jesus or the Pharisees?

Looks like a versatile, modular platform.

The cargo bay looks like it can be swapped out with just a screwdriver.

The installed module on the right image seems to have slightly different geometry from the module installed in the left image.

The forward swept wing is not ideal for speed or maneuverability - they tend to twist and need heavy reinforcing, and that weight penalty typically isn’t a good tradeoff to make. However, it does push the center of lift forward to support a heavy payload in the nose.

because I didn’t know what it did either, then made a typo in the ChatGPT prompt when asking about it

What energy company is a natural monopoly?

edit: are you talking about utilities that produce and distribute energy, or the companies that provide fuel for them? Because a case can be made for mining operations like Exxon & etc to be subject to market competition, whereas natural monopolies like your local electric utility should be publicly owned, i.e. owned by the government, and not have ownership shares traded privately or in public markets.

Its inefficient for natural monopolies to not be owned by the government. Privatization increases cost and decreases quality of service.

Are you suggesting that the First Lady is receiving secret service?