Cocodapuf @ Cocodapuf @lemmy.world

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Um, no it doesn't... At all...

This is a first step landing test, not even suborbital, it flew to a height of 300 meters. This is the point that SpaceX was at in 2011 with their grasshopper rocket.

SpaceX is regularly landing orbital hardware and working on a fully reusable rocket with a greater lifting capacity than anything else ever. It's not really the same...

But fuck Elon, no argument there.

Dang, what a shitty doctor.

I mean... Medicine is super hard. You have to remember, when it comes to biology, we're still figuring it how everything works and there's way less that we actually understand than what we don't understand.

I try to think of it like this, doctors aren't like engineers, because engineers actually have all the specs for the materials or systems they're working with. They can run the numbers and tell you what will happen when the system is altered in x way. Doctors are more like hackers, they have to reverse engineer a complex system that they never got a spec sheet or user manual for. They can't read much of the internal diagnostics and the hardware itself wasn't built with any sensible order or design philosophy. Frankly, it's a terrible system to have to support and maintain and they don't really have the tools or information to do it.

All that said, doctors do an impressive job. And seriously though, this hardware suuuucks...

So if you had a plastic spoon and an exacto knife to modify the spoon, only then would you be all set.

I think it's valid to want to defend those who you feel compassion and closeness to from those you perceive as threats.

Yeah, absolutely. I think what's kinda interesting about that though is that's essentially exactly what racist cops are doing, and wanting to protect people is probably why they joined the force. The problem lies in their perceiving brown people as threats...

Oh yeah, that's like a common household term for me.

Everyone is intolerant about something. Everyone has boundaries.

Exactly, like white chocolate eaters. To anyone who prefers white chocolate to dark chocolate, fuck you, you're the problem!

I think it's simultaneously simpler and more complex than that.

I think most of these people just want money and power and they don't care who has to suffer or who they have to oppress to get there.

So you see, it's not hate specifically, it's indifference to humanity and morality. It's the pursuit of personal gain without a conscience.

Their motivation is still evil, but I don't think it's hate specifically, that's just a tool in their belt.

That really can't be correct. Growth adds some jobs for sure, but not as many as you're implying. While "maintaining" an economy, you still need just as much health care, food production, retail stores, education, road maintenance... I mean just about everything I can think of with the one exception of construction won't be significantly different in a growth economy.

That's a really interesting theory, I think it has a lot of merit.

Honestly though, they should probably just complete the project. i'd bet Israel's whole attitude would shift once they actually had nukes.

I mean it's some pretty serious overstepping... Nobody even does that to North Korea, even though they get ever closer to developing a ballistic missile, something capable of delivering a nuke (which they do have). But nobody is bombing NK... Why? Because that's a fucking act of war!

Bombing Iranian facilities is just an egregious breach of their sovereignty. If on the other hand, some country tried that against the US, it would be a major international incident as soon as they crossed into our airspace, regardless of whether they deployed a single munition. But if they did hit a target, a completely unproportional retaliatory bombing campaign would ensue.

And the only reason Israel gets away with this dangerously aggressive behavior is that they have the military might of the US at their back. They believe they're untouchable because they assume the US will always be an ally. And truth be told, it's all a terrible policy for their own longevity. Some day, eventually, we'll have a president with a conscience and a Congress that supports them, and then we'll stop giving weapons to Israel. And on that day Israel will finally have to take responsibility for their actions, and we'll see what their neighbors really think of them. Until then, they continue to dig themselves into a deeper hole, convinced that it's the safest way forward.

It's not good at all. Israel forces have been murdering so many civilians that collateral damage has become part of their plans.

So... you must know that the atrocities committed have nothing to do with the quality of their intel.

In other words, the comment makes 0 sense as a reply. I mean it's a fine comment on its own, it's just not at all a reply to what you quoted. I really only bring it up for your benefit, because being unrelated to the quote like that makes the comment seem dishonest, which makes the rest of your message less credible.

Well you managed to avoid the question...

Imagine the money was contingent on the action.

And like I said, imagine you loved your family, like for instance if it were your spouse and kid.

Using a Mac wouldn't be any safer, that's also an American company. Plus Apple has full control of the hardware as well as the software and they make their own silicon... It'd be even easier for Apple to spy on users than Microsoft, they could even do it with less chance of being detected.

Conversely, if asked if you're a dirty rotten liar, the only logical answer is "no".

What if some powerful people give you billions of dollars to not do it? And simultaneously other people start sending you credible death threats if you go through with it.

Now imagine they're also threatening your family and that you love your family a lot.

The problem with power, is how it's effected by money and fear.

Do you actually believe that? It's a pretty simplistic view of the situation.

I think if you honestly look at the situation, it's pretty clear to see that conservatives definitely love America, but they have a VERY different idea of what America is and how to make it better. They are working towards that goal of making America better, it's just that their privileged, bigoted, deeply problematic views would produce a truly horrifying version of the US.

The other issue is conservatives seem comfortable using an "ends justify the means" mentality, when the means are evil and the ends are only based on one interpretation of their faith. That kind of thing would certainly bother most progressives, but in their own eyes, they're "doing God's work".

I've been thinking about this, and I'm afraid I agree. I'm not sure how you could enforce this. Paying federal tax seems like a personal choice and the consequences would be felt by individuals (tax evasion charges, unless trump manages to get it treated as a terrorist act). I'd be interested to see if the state was actually offering to shield CA citizens from being arrested by federal agents or subpoenaed by federal courts.

Also, for the most part the Fed already has our money, right? The majority of that federal tax is withheld from paychecks and goes directly to the Fed...

It seems to me that the problem isn't that we shouldn't be subsidizing farm insurance, but that we need tighter controls on what the insurance companies are allowed to do. We've seen it in every sector, insurance companies will take advantage of people with unfair policies and always refuse to pay out if they possibly can. But crop insurance is an important and valuable safeguard, we shouldn't throw it out entirely, we just need to keep the insurers from being criminally greedy and make sure that even smaller farm operations have access to this service.

But why? I mean the effects of that are pretty regressive right?

As a country, we want to be able to produce lots of food, that's a good thing. And we want to keep the price of food down, that's also a good thing. We don't want a scenario where food is so expensive that more people need to start making hard choices between eating and rent. And regardless of that extreme example, if we see higher prices on food, that's going to have a greater impact on the poor than on the wealthy.

We subsidize lots of things, fuel, education, home renovation, etc. Many of these subsidies are pretty important to making our economy operate smoothly. Food production seems like one of those things that's worth paying for.

It probably should have released a could months ago, pre switch2 hype.