The advantage is the captive audience that is forced to buy what you want to sell, at the price you want to sell it at.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The advantage is the captive audience that is forced to buy what you want to sell, at the price you want to sell it at.
Trump couldn't have made it as a Democrat, as much as the Republicans worship authoritarians Democrats worship rule-making and process-following just as much. Trump would have been a round peg in a square hole.
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Trump couldn't have made it as a Democrat, as much as the Republicans worship authoritarians Democrats worship rule-making and process-following just as much. Trump would have been a round peg in a square hole.
It's not supposed to make sense, it's supposed to 'feel' sensible. Unfortunately Ted Cruz's chrysalis malfunctioned and he did not imprint human social communication subtext, so he can't pull it off.
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
It's not supposed to make sense, it's supposed to 'feel' sensible. Unfortunately Ted Cruz's chrysalis malfunctioned and he did not imprint human social communication subtext, so he can't pull it off.
There's not much better they can get *without major architectural insights*. If you asked someone just a few years ago, Eliza was pretty much as good as chat bots could get.
November 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There's not much better they can get *without major architectural insights*. If you asked someone just a few years ago, Eliza was pretty much as good as chat bots could get.
LLMs are pretty spectacular at teaching you enough that you can go find and verify the details yourself. I use them all the time to explain the basics of something, which makes me familiar enough to ask the right questions. Everyone likes to pretend AI is totally useless, but it's clearly not.
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
LLMs are pretty spectacular at teaching you enough that you can go find and verify the details yourself. I use them all the time to explain the basics of something, which makes me familiar enough to ask the right questions. Everyone likes to pretend AI is totally useless, but it's clearly not.
Never thought I would say this but Trump looking good.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Never thought I would say this but Trump looking good.
P.S. we are those people.
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
P.S. we are those people.
Humanity exists in a permanent state of imminent self-destruction. It takes constant effort to keep the the train on the tracks. If you feel like the current time is uniquely stupid, don't. If you feel like the people who are supposed to be keeping the train on the tracks are asleep, you're right.
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Humanity exists in a permanent state of imminent self-destruction. It takes constant effort to keep the the train on the tracks. If you feel like the current time is uniquely stupid, don't. If you feel like the people who are supposed to be keeping the train on the tracks are asleep, you're right.
Remember when this was a fringe policy not adopted by the government of the United States of America? That was nice.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Remember when this was a fringe policy not adopted by the government of the United States of America? That was nice.
WTF happened to tyt. I didn't follow whatever drama turned them into this.
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
WTF happened to tyt. I didn't follow whatever drama turned them into this.
ITT: a bunch of people commenting like this doesn't happen like clockwork every time. Big news: volatile asset is volatile. Everyone who knows this made a bunch of money.
November 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
ITT: a bunch of people commenting like this doesn't happen like clockwork every time. Big news: volatile asset is volatile. Everyone who knows this made a bunch of money.
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Get us Medicare for All Zohran, compliment his hair
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Get us Medicare for All Zohran, compliment his hair
Trump likes pretty people. It's that simple, I think.
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Trump likes pretty people. It's that simple, I think.
This represents a real, foundational, once-in-a-generation achievement. SpaceX is staffed by some of the best engineers and scientists of our generation and they're out there doing amazing work. It sucks when people tear it down because they don't like the boss. It's also stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This represents a real, foundational, once-in-a-generation achievement. SpaceX is staffed by some of the best engineers and scientists of our generation and they're out there doing amazing work. It sucks when people tear it down because they don't like the boss. It's also stupid.
SpaceX represents the first real work that our species has done toward manned spacetravel in almost a half century. So far we've paid spaceX a little shy of 9 billion dollars. The saturn program *alone* cost the united state something like 60 billion dollars in inflation adjusted dollars.
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
SpaceX represents the first real work that our species has done toward manned spacetravel in almost a half century. So far we've paid spaceX a little shy of 9 billion dollars. The saturn program *alone* cost the united state something like 60 billion dollars in inflation adjusted dollars.
I'll be clear for the last time and then duck out of this conversation because it's clearly not doing anyone any good. Musk is a waste of air who frequently promises things that are impossible because for a while people thought he might be able to do impossible things.
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I'll be clear for the last time and then duck out of this conversation because it's clearly not doing anyone any good. Musk is a waste of air who frequently promises things that are impossible because for a while people thought he might be able to do impossible things.
Are you even reading my posts? Are we having a conversation?
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Are you even reading my posts? Are we having a conversation?
Again, I am not particularly interested in musk promises, I'm interested in actual results. What I care about is how much $ it takes to come up with reusable heavy lift. Musk is all hype, but this organization isn't. It's composed of some of the best engineers and scientists of our generation.
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Again, I am not particularly interested in musk promises, I'm interested in actual results. What I care about is how much $ it takes to come up with reusable heavy lift. Musk is all hype, but this organization isn't. It's composed of some of the best engineers and scientists of our generation.
Any make no mistake, the Saturn V had tons of failures, they just had them in the many, many, many models they made and tested. SpaceX is building entire spacecraft in the moneyspace that it took to build a Saturn V. There's also the very minor additional feature of requiring re-entry landing.
November 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Any make no mistake, the Saturn V had tons of failures, they just had them in the many, many, many models they made and tested. SpaceX is building entire spacecraft in the moneyspace that it took to build a Saturn V. There's also the very minor additional feature of requiring re-entry landing.
That's engineering. You have two choices when making something new: tolerate extraordinary levels of expense of tolerate iterative design with failures. The proper one to choose depends on what you're making, but its a conscious choice. SpaceX feels like they can develop faster iteratively.
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
That's engineering. You have two choices when making something new: tolerate extraordinary levels of expense of tolerate iterative design with failures. The proper one to choose depends on what you're making, but its a conscious choice. SpaceX feels like they can develop faster iteratively.
It's been a while. How long did it take to get Saturn V? You need to scale your expectations to the task and resources. On the scale of what we spent on Saturn V this is rounding error. Its a good deal.
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It's been a while. How long did it take to get Saturn V? You need to scale your expectations to the task and resources. On the scale of what we spent on Saturn V this is rounding error. Its a good deal.
An exploded rocket is one revision closer to a working model. Building new things isn't like building bridges. There's no cookbook. You do your best to find all the things that can go wrong, and then you find the ones you didn't find in testing. Sometimes tests explode.
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
An exploded rocket is one revision closer to a working model. Building new things isn't like building bridges. There's no cookbook. You do your best to find all the things that can go wrong, and then you find the ones you didn't find in testing. Sometimes tests explode.
Elon musk is a garbage fire but we should be careful to separate the trash human from the very successful experiment that spaceX has been. SpaceX launch vehicles are a fraction of the cost of the previous generation of vehicles and the rate at which we can launch now is absolutely unprecedented.
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Elon musk is a garbage fire but we should be careful to separate the trash human from the very successful experiment that spaceX has been. SpaceX launch vehicles are a fraction of the cost of the previous generation of vehicles and the rate at which we can launch now is absolutely unprecedented.
I'm not sure that's how resignations work.
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'm not sure that's how resignations work.