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Geez, at least they had a sense of style and pose back then. The ding dongs we have now look like they just got out of class and are heading to the cafeteria to make fun of the foreign exchange students.

TACO Tuesday is starting a bit early this week and i am not complaining.

Aye! Silver lining is that the project is done before DOGE decided it was a government waste project and the feds investigate it for DEI.

Surprised Pikachu face

But in all seriousness. Always looked at them as Middle Class version of payday loans. Never would have considered one but gosh darn… If things don’t improve I can see myself begrudgingly getting one for something I need.

Didn’t the US do that in Vietnam? Issue an evacuation order to an area and then declared anyone remaining an enemy combatant?

As a salaried employee. i demand that i get tipped my salary

I am desperately trying to be positive in a really bleak situation. But……

Maybe this is the 5D Master class Chinese Checkers move by the administration? Make the EU the primary regulatory source for medical trials and set the bar here in the USA by saying its FDA approved if it is already EU approved? Then boom cheaper drug prices for Americans and more expensive drug prices for the EU?

Again, most likely not the case but I really need some optimism at this point.

In other words. Israel has decided to do the absolute bare minimum in order to be no worse than a 90’s Somali warlord.

Not trying to be a pessimist. But we need solutions in the next few months to a year. Even if we went all in on high speed rails, its gonna be years before there are tangible impacts to transportation.

Here is the neat part. ATC controllers in training needed a huge bump in recruiting numbers 10 years ago. These jobs aren’t something you can pull people off the street to do. There can be zero mistakes, trainees need to be vetted and undergo tons of hours in training and education to be experienced enough to work unsupervised in the tower.

I reckon we are past the point of no return with the current system. Either we are going to see a reduction in operational airports or we are gonna see a lot more automated systems directing traffic.

Oh good, you’re bored, I can now forge in peace. I heard the farmers in the next town over is basically giving away soybeans since the tarrifs hit. I should go and see I can get some to make tofu.

I am just responding to what you said. never called you anything. I got no time to creep on your comment history. I am too busy searching for cheaper eggs on the DL so that I don’t rouse ICE to any potential thought crimes.

I am winning so hard with tarrifs right now. /s

Lets also not forget that this is peanuts compared to the national budget even if it was true.

I am not saying to cut the national defense budget but can you imagine the low hanging fruit that can be gained just doing an audit.

Surely banning homeless encampments will solve the homelessness problem.

Is it bad that things are so bad that this is a win win? like, chance of it being built with Boeing quality? Win. Bugged? Still better than Signal so win. Foreign adversaries threat that uniquely only affects those on board the plane? win with some collateral damage.

I am not seeing a downside

Am I misreading the article? They are using rockets to ship payloads anywhere in the world in the span of a few hours.

I initially thought nukes too. But why “ship” nukes using this? An ICBM is already the preferred mode of shipping a nuke to an intended target anywhere in a few hours. Rods of god don’t make sense either since they are kinetic weapons and need to be dropped from orbit.

I guess, this could make organ donations an international effort at some point.

I honestly can’t think of a single situation where completely discreet orbital payloads costing a billion dollars makes sense.

Even if the payload is split up into dozens of cube satellite like payloads. what on earth is valuable enough to send and keep in orbit but disposable enough that it burning up in the atmosphere is not the end of the world?

plot twist, there was never any nutz