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Sounds plausible to my econ undergrad.

As far as goods, essentially nothing is produced without some overseas resources or labor. Even for food we're still exposed to real price movement due to import/export pressure. How that shakes out numerically, I don't think anyone knows. A weaker dollar means we're objectively poorer as...

That word is doing a lot of work to describe a mission that involves launching a rocket to orbit on a planet with zero humans or infrastructure on it.

For whatever it's worth, my brother-in-law was working the sample return mission at JPL and he thought they were already on a tight budget given the demands.

This mission was in the works until last year when Congress couldn't get its shit together to pass a budget.

I taught kids martial arts classes for a number of years. The best setup we ever had was where the parents were in a sound-isolated lounge behind a one-way mirror where they kids couldn't see or hear them. Parents who don't train/play are the fucking worst. My wife and I are both experienced...

Not that I'm a kpop fan, but I was impressed by the way they blended the animation, choreography, music, and storytelling. A really cohesive artistic vision. Now I just have to get my daughter to stop playing the soundtrack.

CA. I'm sure they are. I've spoken to them again tonight and they're going to document my report to them, confirm the story with the girl enough to make sure this isn't some terrible misunderstanding in a game of telephone through two 10 year olds, and then take next steps with the authorities.

I've trained myself for almost 25 years. If I see anything happen in my presence I'm tying the guy in a knot with his head up his ass and sitting on him until police arrive. This girl is one of my daughter's friends and a real sweetheart. Makes me angrier the more I think about it.

My daughter (10) practices jiu jitsu. A friend that she was training with told my daughter that her dad hits and kicks her at home when she doesn't execute the techniques properly in sparring, and will also withhold food. "But only when Mom isn't around." I've seen this girl crying during class...

Thanks! I'll be sure to spread the word.

I'd be more than happy to never see either guy again. It's clear through their respective bullshittery that they've forgotten you need to be a successful active athlete at the core before you can fuck around as a personality performance artist.

This looks like an amputation machine. Unrelated:

Insane is what it is. Two changes is more money than I've cumulatively spent for oil on my 2001 Camry.

Pretty interesting new sharpening jig from Katz-Moses. I share his complaints about the existing clamshell/eclipse jigs. JKM products are affordable and quality in my experience. I have his router plane and really like it.

This kind of bullshit is why I either do the job myself or go through a handyman who is an old friend. Commercial plumbers wanted 12k just for the rough-in on my bathroom when it was already demoed to studs.

The original was great and I love me some metroidvanias, but my backlog is big enough I'm still going to wait on reviews.

It needed a little context but found me, and even pulled up some names and memories I'd forgotten. (I was the GM of Paradigm on Solusek Ro.)

I wouldn't rent to friends; someone will feel like they're being taken advantage of. In the family, though, having nearby properties can be great. My in-laws have three siblings on the same block since the 80's and it's been wonderful for them.

Right in my genre wheelhouse. I'll give it a spin.

I've had like nine MRIs for my hips and knees. Get a good nap every time. There aren't many alternatives unless you're going to irradiate the patient with a CT scan.

There was a huge breach of gmail accounts recently. That's probably cascading access to other platforms.

Is this worth getting into now? Looking for a shooter to play with my son.

Quintet rules have a real problem where stalemate is a legitimate path to victory. Even when stalling calls are enforced you will always have athletes doing the bare minimum. It was better the second night with the submission bounty, but only somewhat. I liked the first CJI format better.

He said explicitly in some interview that he just throws a lot of fun-sounding stuff at Carl and then figures out how to use it later.

Where I live we have 30+ degree temperature swings through the day. In the morning it might be 65, which means unless I set the cabin temp to below that the heater triggers. Then five minutes later after the sun has warmed things up the AC is on full blast because it thinks I wants a...

Fully loaded the total energy is about what was released over Hiroshima, but since it's not designed as a weapon the damage profile would be substantially reduced. The fuel can't all oxidize simultaneously and the speed of reaction and therefore violence of the shockwave is slow compared to true...

I do agree that I'd prefer the basic info (speed, etc) to be centered, but you get used to it after a few hours. What bugs me more is that there's a single cabin temperature set point and if it's cool outside it's like an 11-step process to get fresh air to the interior without triggering the...

I just mean that's what the future capacity is designed for. As a byproduct they'll cut the cost to orbit by an order of magnitude or two, which will bring big demand expansion. They'll obviously need to fund it as a going concern.

Which is why it isn't and won't be, by design. The pressures of public trading make for terrible long term planning. You need a time horizon longer than a fiscal quarter. As far as billionaire vanity projects go, this is one I'll get behind.

They've been quite open about it, but no one seems to want to take them at face value. Starlink and Falcon/Starship will generate cash that they're going to use to put a million tons of infrastructure on Mars. It seems too sci-fi to be real, but there's no reason to disbelieve them at this point.

SpaceX should be an all-time case study for risk tolerance. If it's just money on the line, the long-term advantage of allowance for failure seems quite clear. If you're not failing, you're not trying enough new ideas. Not having any is exactly what stagnated NASA.

Just bad expectations and wanting to see Elon attached to failure. Regadless of what you think about the man, SpaceX is objectively the most skilled and successful rocket enterprise in history.

Just a reminder to get your colonoscopies. It's not super fun but sure beats late-stage colon cancer, which is hitting younger and younger these days.

Lightning.

(Edit: Misread.) Definitely go with the other doc. Never a good idea to wait around with cancer if treatment is inevitable.

Scrubbed for weather, bummer.

I've used electric blowers and trimmers for almost 20 years. They work great, with no small engine bullshit.