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They still haven't tested it under the Artemis payload weights, either. They're testing with 17 ton payload and last year at the starship launch celebration Musk said starship is supposed to be capable of 50 ton payloads to LEO. For comparison SLS block 2 ~~can lift~~ will be able to lift 100 tons to LEO.

The Artemis HLS is supposed to be 110 tons to the lunar surface, but supposedly loaded up in like 12 launches.

I assume they're still a few years away from Starship being usable.

SpaceX is still hitting the milestones on their NASA contracts

SpaceX has missed every single HLS milestone and is the primary reason the Artemis program is delayed:

By definition, this is not a bailout or waste of taxpayer money, as it was fairly competed on the open market, and approved by the congresspeople who were voted in by the public.

SpaceX famously hired William Gerstenmaier and Kathy Luedens right after they awarded them billions for the falcon and crew capsule. They barely skated by the government's "revolving door" conflict of interest regulations because SpaceX put them on "unrelated" projects.

The contract awarded to SpaceX and Starlink under the Trump FCC was rescinded after Biden's FCC decided that they weren't meeting the requirements of the contract.

Now SpaceX is awash in newly minted federal contracts from Trump's new federal agencies and Musk's "special employee" status.

SpaceX's funding has never been "approved by congress" outside of some confirmed cabinet positions, nor has it ever been what one could call completely "fair."

"The future" is whatever the majority of young people decide it will be, regardless of it's the past or not.

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A real shitpost

Thanks @ryan.gosling.stan

It's kind of crazy the variety of opinions people have on Andor and Rogue One

Jokes aside I actually do appreciate that almost all guix packages are verified source and not just copy scripts of already built tarballs.

Guix is awesome!

Nonguix substitute server is down for the fifth straight day, forcing me to rebuild the entire Linux kernel when updating

And you should Never use it!

I feel like it's more likely more and more young people will just retreat from the open internet and only trust content from people they already know don't post AI clips.

I know right. Let's put a more realistic "before they're out of kindergarten" on that.

I can understand the opinion that bringing kids into the world is causing them harm because the world sucks. But the number of people who seemed to bring that opinion into the real world on that sub was kind of scary.

Not an insignificant number of people who had stories like "my stupid natalist coworker wanted to take off to attend their kids' graduation, I told them I wouldn't help and they shoulda thought about that before they had their little shitstains" were there.

Like having kids already sucks enough, making parents' lives harder seems to be actively adding to the harm you're trying to reduce...