NASA just made a rocket - the Space Launch System. It was ridiculously more expensive than SpaceX’s rocket. And the Space Shuttle before that was also very expensive and suboptimal.
I am not a private sector fundamentalist (fuck privatized healthcare), but rocket launches is one area where the private sector has proven better than the public sector.
This was BH’s giant rocket, the biggest in history
New Glenn is large-ish, but it is not the biggest rocket in history. Starship is much bigger, for example.
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in word. --Jean-Paul Sartre
Iran has a history of using international terrorism, and the US has just re-affirmed themselves as “the great Satan”, Iran’s primary enemy.
While it might be the least bad outcome, it is arguably not cause for celebration. Even if you don’t like Trump.
They can’t stop it, it’s hilarious.
It is utterly sad that they want to stop it, to burn more coal.
uninhabitable land with little or no environmental value
As I understand it, the partial shade created by solar panels will often be a plus for the ecology of the land below solar panels. Especially in a sun scorched place like Texas.
the millisecond renewables are cheaper
Not true. Trump is actively sabotaging wind as we speak. Trump is doing vice signaling, not economics.
Lawmakers from both parties are raising concerns about the Trump administration’s spending decisions. In the latest example, the administration said it will pay nearly $1 billion to energy companies to abandon plans to build two wind farms off the U.S. coast. Liz Landers joins Amna Nawaz to discuss.
Trump is like 100 years old. There is no endgame but dying pretty soon, there is only the mental disorder of some kind of horder syndrom, accumulating resources he does not really need for no good reason.
The one-term Biden economy wasn’t sturdy enough yet to withstand their bullshit as well.
IIRC it was said that the economy at the end of Biden’s term was amazing.
Trump has been uniquely economically irresponsible. Stuff like the tariffs changing every week is just insanely stupid.
The war powers resolution failed 49 to 50 as the Pennsylvanian was the only Democrat to vote with Republicans who control the Senate. Three Republicans — U.S. Sens. Rand Paul, of Kentucky; Susan Collins, of Maine; and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska — voted with Democrats.
Saying that Fetterman’s vote was deciding is silly, when it was a 49 to 50 vote - every vote was deciding.
And the Republican dissenter votes are purely performative. They pull this shit all the time, with the same persons. Who would never vote against their party, if the vote could truly fail. Especially Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski do this all the time. Hence the people here blaming the Democrats for being captured are sheep being tricked by the Republican performance.
The old Republican party died a long time ago - with Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
Maybe. But the future is hard to predict, so maybe not. So no reason to burn the bridges under Trump, unless we have to.
And even if it is only temporary, Russia is threatening to invade Europe now. So even a temporary 4 years reprieve under a Democrat President would be hugely valuable.
But she is a woman. Isn’t a woman having a job DEI per definition, according to Republicans?
And doesn’t stuff like that operate on a “need to know” basis? What does she need to know?
And if it is a paid position, what are the chances that she was the most qualified candidate, and it is not nepotism?
The article says “partly joking”, but it would be insane to not take the US President seriously when he says stuff like that.
92 years old, obviously doesn’t have all his marbles, and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Major “weekend at Bernie’s” energy here.
True. But it still looks symbolically bad.
Not really. Iran are blockading non-Iranian ships. The US is only blockading Iranian-bound ships.
So a priory there was no reason to think that the US would block the Russian ship. And it would be illegal under international law.
They’ve received all the best equipment and ammunition and they’ve made zero progress.
So Ukraine fighting the “second army of the world” to a standstill, instead of winning, can only be explained by extreme corruption?
And Ukraine did not receive the best equipment in the world. The US (and Europe) has refused to give Ukraine tons of the most potent weapons, like Tomahawk missiles.
It is vice signalling. Which seems to be a thing Christians(!) in the US do.