My personal opinion is that it fails because SpaceX, like a lot of space startups, embrace a silicon valley coding mindset of ‘move fast and break things’, which results in them spending much more of their time and effort on testing than on design. Make a change, test, make a subsequent change, test. It gets them to a working prototype more quickly than legacy space/ defense companies. However, there’s no emphasis on modeling or design, which is problematic for solving complex problems that haven’t been solved for 50 years already.

You mean like Starship?

Attacking the commenter personally is not helpful. Obviously the whole destruction-of-American-Democracy thing is very different. But let’s look at some salient issues.

As far as the war in Gaza, Biden/ establishment Democrats still stood behind Netanyahu in the wake of Oct 7th. There was only slight functional differences in Biden’s America’s stance on Israel in Gaza and Trump’s.

Less salient, adding a cap on mortgage interest deductions on taxes. Republicans under Trump I did it to punish wealthy coastal (high home value) residents who rented to vote blue. Democrats left it in place because they approved of people who have more home value paying more taxes.

It goes on. Both Democrats and Republicans failed to close Guantanamo, advance voting reform, advance marijuana legalization, end the war in Afghanistan, or take ANY action about climate change for decades, etc.

It’s not every issue mind you, but Democrats are frustratingly adherent to the status quo while the United States has needed meaningful reform for decades.

Maybe new? Their account has been suspended (I know the temporary looks like that, unsure about the permanent suspension).

I can’t laugh because Uvalde still makes me choke up.

As someone new to Lemmy, thanks for asking this. I just joined lemm.ee from a Reddit link, and I don’t know all the different flavors of the different domains.

NGL, I’m pretty sad to lose this handle.

My husband blows on his soup to cool it so it doesn’t burn his mouth … Intelligence is also attractive.

As a heterosexual cis woman, soccer players always have the sexiest physique. One of the only sports I look up for, just to check out the players, not because I ever care.

You mean Russian asset Edward Snowden?

Does “bugs” have a scientific meaning? I was assuming it was a layman’s term that I could abuse.

Not sure what your definition of people is, but Mexicans, Ugandan, and Koreans all eat grasshoppers (and probably others). I know crickets are eaten in Southeast Asia.

Ants seem too tiny to try to eat, but a Google search reveals they are eaten in South America and Southeast Asia.

Shrimp, lobsters, and crabs are kinds of bugs.

Exactly. Hence the name distinguishing it as the “American” one… People (Americans?) are so dumb.

I think he had to enter into agreements about content in order to get financing from the Saudis and Russians.