plainfield.bsky.social
Dog, Cat & Wildlife feeder with native plant gardening.
Backgrounds in Earth and computer science.
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Balderdash!
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I like it. The best ability is availability and the Bulls get back a defender who can shoot 3s.
Twice now FO trade for young former lottery picks odd men out on stacked, lux cap teams.
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Tuberville throws stones at NYC out of his glass house.
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And Ws just resigning Kuminga means they get less financial cap benefit if he’s trade before December.
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Maybe this time
www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/s...
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At a more fundamental level, his businesses are not viable. there were more than a dozen investigations into his companies.
IMHO he was at the end of his rope and jump, jumped into politics to stop investigations and steer money towards his failing companies.
That explains all the contracts.
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Or his noncompetitive robotaxi, starship and starlink need govt subsidies.
Apparently Starlink isn’t scaling and the LEO Sats last just 5 years.
FSD Autonomy far behind competitors like Waymo and Starship design is fundamentally flawed.
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Add debris and attempt to create the Kessler effect, cascading collisions, in LEO.
Gravity youtu.be/prlIhY3e04k
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Cereal boxes had a 45 record printed on the back. Cut it out and played their theme song.
Here’s an Archie’s record.
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Ars Technica’s sister publication is Wired.
I subscribed to wired for their reporting on Musk’s DOGE.
Compare and contrast.
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Yeah. I’d wouldn’t be surprised if a career SES took the “Fork in the road” resign email and crated the HR process with this acronym.
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And not counting Federal workers on the Deferred Early Retirement Program who are on paid administrative leave. The first wave of those leaving will be unemployed this September.
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And 25% reduction is the least drastic cut across all the centers. Goddard Space Flight Center in MD has a 45% cut.
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Yes you can pull it and his behavior and threat to disassemble Dragon area other reason.
There is no constitutional right to a top security clearance.
And if SpaceX isn’t testing him randomly there’s another reason. Failure to take a test is a fail.
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How about pulling his security clearance for smoking pot or verifying that SpaceX is drug testing Musk as required after his stunt on Rogan’s show.
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You’ve just stranded the astronauts on space station.
Musk smoked weed on Joe Rogan. Pull his clearances.
SpaceX is supposed to be drug test testing him. Demand the dates and results of all tests.
Call for investigations of contract awards. Did they follow the FAR?
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Yes he blurred the lines.
Still Ro lost the Dem primary.
In the general election, top two advance so he naturally ran to the right of Mike.
He was much younger with connections to the Valley tech leadership. Capable of tough talk.
I hate him.
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He did.
He’s an opportunist.
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FWIW Ro (Silicon Valley) beat democratic incumbent Mike Honda in the general election by running to the right with tech bro money.
Even this spring, Ro’s website made references to Musk and how he’s able to have a tough talk with Elon when necessary.
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Ro is an outliner and no good. For years he’s bragged about his connections to Musk and being able to have a tough talk with him.
Ro earned his seat beating a decent Mike Honda using tech bro $& and backing.
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What if these centrists stopped “trolling a little”?
Maybe getting yelled at as part of driving up their engagement.
When you have to type, “I sincerely believe” as opposed to other times when they troll.
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Not that I know but spouse retired in October after 25 years.
Staff expecting cuts with drop in grant funding.
Hoover Institute sits on campus and is where Rice is employed.
IMHO MAGA and tech bros don’t think they need the think the tank legitimacy.
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This attitude existed when I came up in grad school since the 80s.
Thankfully U of ID allowed (maybe still) non CS majors to earn a MS degree in CS after completing basic prerequisites in CS.
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… in the next six months, or early 2026.
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She’s at Stanford. Voice of self interest.
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MapQuest, drawing your route is a robot “telling” you where to go only instructions are printed on paper.
Pre-computer, AAA Auto provided a flip map service. You go to one of their field offices. They, a human, would assemble a series of maps in a flipbook and trace the route in highlighter.
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Some may get a job in their field but they’re not going to nearly as productive.
It takes years to build a lab and assemble a talented team.
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Cool. Was it focused on White Pine?
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What would gracefully bow out look like? His hearing was delayed from the expected April confirmation.
He has interest in doing lunar missions and the budget he had no influence over cut lunar science. His advocate Musk’s WH fallout and congressional pushback coming.
Why accept the job?
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The earlier defects are found, the cheaper and easier they are to fix.
Finding problems in full scale, integrated hardware tests is very expensive and will slow down development.
Engineers do retrospective analysis to find the origin of a defect and how it escaped to later stages and why.
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Fixed cost contracts do not allow for cost overruns.
They are launching under a fixed cost contract.
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Yes, it’s taxpayer money but it’s not a blank check
NASA awarded fix cost contracts. Cost overruns are the contractors responsibility.
NASA has nothing to do with environmental cleanup. Bill submitted for that purpose would be rejected.
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arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
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Bioinformatics experiments on the ISS showed micro gravity suppresses genes for stem cell production. Treadmills and resistance training do not compensate. There may be pharmaceutical solutions. So far no.
From a former nasa scientist.
a.co/d/jkXV5WI
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Also there are many unsolved medical issues for long duration human space flight beyond LEO
humanresearchroadmap.nasa.gov/gaps/?i=
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No consideration that the 2nd amendment was written to also arm against and “protection” from slave revolts?
www.pbs.org/wnet/african...
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California’s election system is broken.
Diane Feinstein won her last election beating out the Democratic primary winner
She came in second in open primary where 2 advanced to general election and there she beat the Democratic candidate because of GOP votes.
Gavin is angling the same way.
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Ro Khanna ran against Mike Honda in the primary and lost.
In the general election, it is top two. Ro best Mike in general election with republican voters siding with the more conservative candidate putting him ahead.
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Gavin likely to come in second in our primary race for Senate.
In the general election, he would be going against the top folk getter, a democrat.
He’s hunting for GOP votes to win the general election.
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I apologize for piling on. This isn’t X.
Everyone’s entitled to follow things they enjoy. I watch Apollo 9 as a kid and been a geek since.
the national academy press site helps to keep uptodate. It’s public and accessible reading and summarizes current work.
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Yes