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Rhymes with gluten!

Comparing us to SpongeBob can only be flattery. You’ll never be mean enough to get into the EU at this rate, Canada!

Hobnobbing with Abbott is always gross.

Still, with my parents dyed-in-the-wool Texas Republicans who were at least enjoying parroting “Talarico wants to make everyone trans” whether or not they earnestly believed it, the best I’m hoping for is that they are disgusted enough with Paxton to stay home or vote third party. My mom was disgusted enough with Trump the second time to write in Condolezza Rice (Dad is still a fan), so that’s about where the bar is. People like them will never think Democrats are anything but bad, so giving them social permission to abandon Republicans seems useful.

This one would require more reworking of our Legislative Branch. There are 435? Representatives currently, so the country is broken up into 435 house districts, with each district/ community voting for a single person to represent them. So you have a quantization problem; you can’t really split a single person.

I’m not saying I can’t imagine a world where we do it (whole states vote for all the Representatives from their state?), only that meaningful change is an uphill battle against 250 years of coagulated inertia + notably bad actors now diffuse through the system.

Hmmm… Missouri? That place really seems like it sucks.

I think it’s where they tried to confusingly phrase a ballot initiative to repeal the state constitutional amendment they’d passed to guarantee abortion.

Can you link me? I didn’t understand the post title at all.

Or we could have rank choice voting! Some places do!

Deflecting a large, irregular, rotating mass in deep space is a pretty different mission from launching a missile at LEO targets or launching an explosive vehicle from a satellite currently in orbit. The people I know that worked DART are now working other civil space missions like Dragonfly, the mission to Titan.

I guess they both involve orbital dynamics to calculate the rendezvous, but they’re very different orbital regimes.

Anyway, I disagree that it was military adjacent or more appropriate to be done via military funding. It doesn’t have direct military application in the near future. Even proposals I’ve seen for stuff like GPS on the moon is being funded on the civilian side.

I mean, I plan to vote exclusively for Democrats, but I don’t think it will change much. Even if Democrats sweep, and are acting in good faith, I agree with that recent NYTimes OpEd that the Legislative Branch has been effectively kneecapped by the Executive ignoring the law, subsuming power, and being protected by the Supreme Court. And then there is actually a possibility that 2028 voters will hold the Democratic Congress responsible for the shitshow that will continue.

The system is beyond fixing.

I think we’ve shown through repeatable testing that capitalists don’t think past longer terms than the next shareholder report.

Because humanity loses access to LEO for at least a generation if that happens.

From what I read, Starshield was what got shut down this time. In 2022, Starlink was what got shut down.

I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps. And, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should—our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.

Line up to tha mind cemetery now

Agree. I took Thermodynamics in my Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering coursework, and it was one of my favorite classes. I took Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics in my Applied Physics Masters, and it was one of the hardest courses I’ve taken.

AGREE.

https://youtu.be/pu3Cr6qjbJI?is=UDOLG5HjkmaG3D45

Republican congressmen got shot up at their own baseball team practice and still voted for the NRA. They don’t value their own lives either.

No value but shareholder value in the USA.

What do French people eat when they lose hours at work and/or lose their job altogether? Because the US will let you and your children starve.

Finally! I was going to comment that this thread was just a dick-swinging competition. Glad you brought the pics to prove it!