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You mean the one he has now or the one the government will be paying for?

Probably buy RD-180 tech package or just the engines from the Russians.

The RD-180 is one of the most robust and reliable rocket engines ever made. Slap that baby on the bottom of a couple fuel and oxidizer tanks, and you can reach just about anywhere in the world in 30 minutes or less. The North Koreans stole the plans for it and now they have ICBMs, the Iranians could do something similar.

The average global temperature has been rising steadily with greenhouse gas emissions, for over 50 years, but sure we’ll just ignore that and say it’s impossible to know.

We only have the one planet, sometimes you can’t get multiple data sets. But you can certainly study the things that are happening and make predictions based on that.

“It’s hard to link changes in climate to climate change”

Is the author stupid?

Let me address your concerns.

Leaving their hand and going into mine is about as instant as it gets.

Excel and open source equivalents exists.

Buy a safe and keep your damn mouth shut.

Don’t be a criminal, or don’t do 2 crimes at once.

Production cost is irrelevant to how fast the currency goes from person to person.

Any currency will have a lag for economic stimulus. That’s not a currency issue it’s a human emotion and thought issue.

I can go to the next state and pull out a thousand dollars in cash, come back, pay for my stuff, and now it is practically impossible to tell who has what bill, when they got it, what it was used for, or anything else about it after it left the bank. Your mechanic and grocery store don’t catalog the serial number on every bill they get for every transaction.

Cash is instant. It leaves their hand and goes into mine.

It never left

Read a fucking history book

Ah yes, genocide is always the answer.

After all, we killed all the Germans Right?

The US is likely never going to be a manufacturing powerhouse again.

Americans love the idea of buying American made products, but not the cost and certainly not the labor that actually goes into making them at scale.

Certainly some things need to be produced domestically, and still are, either because it’s expensive or impractical to ship them, or because it’s a national security concern. But the vast majority of products your typical American buys will never be made here, because they would instantly become luxury items.

Tariffs are really meant to increase demand for domestic production, but that can only really happen if the production exists domestically to begin with.

This is the same country that classified its nukes so hard that the engineers couldn’t find non-redacted procedures for making a critical component of fusion bombs.

We’ve always been incompetent, now it’s just partnered with enhanced stupidity.

Who would have thought that releasing trillions and trillions of tiny toxic pollutants into the biosphere would have negative consequences.

I mean, probably some executive at shell or BP, but clearly executives have some kind of mental disorder that prevents them from anticipating anything further out than 3 months in the future.

Chapter 1: don’t steer towards that giant radar signature.

Chapter 2: turn away from that giant radar signature.

Chapter 3: holy fuck open your eyes.

It’s certainly classified info, but I sincerely doubt the F35 has a kill switch.

If you have a kill switch on a weapon, that means an enemy can potentially disable your weapons.

One can argue that only export models would be equipped with a kill switch, but that puts the US in the position of potentially having Allied planes disabled remotely, leaving the US as the only air support in a conflict.

It’s far more likely that the US would simply discontinue parts and software updates, leaving a former ally scrambling to maintain their sudden white elephant fleet, while the US updates their own software to better manage fighting an identical aircraft that they know the exact technical specs of.

This freeze hurt private companies.

And everyone knows that companies are a higher class citizen than people, so the court defended the companies.

Ah yes, the company that routinely blows up rockets to test them, and that took several minutes to realize their first starship blew up wants to be in charge of airline safety.

I’d rather they pull a random 12 year old from school and give them the job of running the fucking place. At least the 12 year old doesn’t have a track record of fucking up 50% of the time.

Yeah, note instead of Russia being a communist authoritarian hellscape, it’s a capitalist authoritarian hellscape.

Very different

More like there’s systems in place to prevent countries from creating a stateless person, who would have no rights anywhere.

Just because it sounds nice to happen to people you don’t agree with, it’s still something that shouldn’t be allowed to happen.