After the other Starship launches this year, there will be enormous sighs of relief. At the same time, none of the fundamental issues with Starship have been solved. The added weight to deal with str… (View Post)

To be fair, the Trump energy policies are genuinely demented, and will clearly drive prices higher. It's one thing to remove subsidies from alternatives (generally a good idea); it's anothe… (View Post)

Just reading that should make any student of the English language wince... (View Post)

It's easy to forget, but Vance only won Ohio at the 2022 midterms (when the Republicans recaptured the House) by 6 percentage points. Mike DeWine, the Republican Governor, won by ... counts it .… (View Post)

People who get scammed by Nigerian conmen still believe. There is this kind of amusing myth that the scales will fall from peoples' eyes and they will say "oh, I was conned". No one ev… (View Post)