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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. residential solar on the brink of collapse⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite solar scam is the Power Purchase Agreement:

  • company installs solar, you pay $0
  • typically sized to generate 100-150% of your consumption
  • company bills you ~80% of your actual or previous average use
  • price is on contract and has scheduled increases
  • after 15-20 years, negotiate a new contract, maybe buy the system, or have it removed

  What if solar gets 20x better? Fusion gets solved? Too bad, contract pricing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about you, but I have 2 Apple accounts, 2 Facebook accounts, and like 9 Google accounts. I know I’m above average, but it’s not hard to have 1 of each for normal uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  39.5ft

  Nice Grinch reference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, there’s plenty of reporting, mostly with agendas. www.inc.com/kit-eaton/…/91195626

  Perfect? No. Meeting more primary goals than not? Yes.

  Flight 1 – Apr 20, 2023 Primary Goals: ❌ Integrated launch ❌ Stage separation Secondary Goals: ❌ Booster splashdown ❌ Starship reentry

  Flight 2 – Nov 18, 2023 Primary Goals: ✅ Hot staging ✅ Near-orbital trajectory Secondary Goals: ❌ Booster recovery ❌ Starship reentry

  Flight 3 – Mar 14, 2024 Primary Goals: ✅ Orbital velocity ✅ Propellant transfer demo Secondary Goals: ❌ Payload deployment ❌ Raptor engine relight

  Flight 4 – Jun 6, 2024 Primary Goals: ✅ Booster splashdown ✅ Starship reentry Secondary Goals: ✅ Hot-stage ring jettison ✅ Landing flip maneuver

  Flight 5 – Oct 13, 2024 Primary Goals: ✅ Booster catch with launch tower ✅ Starship splashdown Secondary Goals: ✅ High-altitude flight ✅ Flap durability test

  Flight 6 – Nov 19, 2024 Primary Goals: ✅ Booster recovery ✅ Starship reentry Secondary Goals: ✅ Raptor relight in space ✅ Daylight splashdown

  Flight 7 – Jan 16, 2025 Primary Goals: ✅ Booster catch ✅ Starship splashdown Secondary Goals: ❌ Payload deployment ❌ Harmonic resonance test

  Flight 8 – Mar 6, 2025 Primary Goals: ❌ Booster recovery ❌ Starship reentry Secondary Goals: ❌ Payload deployment ❌ Thermal protection system test

  Flight 9 – May 27, 2025 Primary Goals: ✅ Booster reuse ✅ Starship reentry (reached, failed in execution) Secondary Goals: ❌ Payload deployment ❌ Raptor relight ❌ Heat shield tile test (data collected, vehicle lost)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The author wants the capabilities of SpaceX “brought into the sphere of democracy.” That sounds less like nationalisation and more like selling it to a functioning government. I wouldn’t trust Trump or his cronies to run things any more than I would Elon. Fortunately, Gwynne Shotwell is the functioning adult running the company and (mostly) managing Elon’s interference.

  Also

  Any story about SpaceX as a font of private innovation because it’s free from state interference would be hard to square with the economic reality of the many billions it’s reaped from its numerous contracts, some public and some classified, with NASA and the Department of Defense. Without that, SpaceX in anything like its current form would be unthinkable.

  Without “that” - meaning contracts to deliver services. Should they have not taken any government jobs? Does “build a new vehicle to deliver people to ISS” or “deliver satellites to orbit” count as state interference? This paragraph is idiocy. As far as I know, the only government money granted to SpaceX was ~25M from Texas to lure Starbase and Starlink production. Everything else was a contract or other performance-based funding.

  SpaceX - with reusability - has undeniably changed the space industry on a global scale, and the decrease in $/kg to orbit is the main factor in our ability to access space and the solar system. The cost hadn’t gotten meaningfully under $5,000/kg ever, with the Shuttle at $65k/kg, until Falcon 9 brought it to ~2500 and Heavy down to 1500. Starship (which has been performing successful tests with some explosive secondary goals) should get it to $200/kg. ourworldindata.org/…/cost-space-launches-low-eart…

  Fuck Trump. Fuck Musk and his drug-fueled slide into shitbaggery. Let SpaceX cook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s by usage via API, but all-you-can-eat via web UI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, a duty to hundreds of millions of people and the future, that one has to volunteer for and convince a plurality of their fitness for… not just a job that you should be able to neglect, let alone subvert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨am i insane?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely sounds like bipolar or something close. See a psychologist ASAP; faster cycles can be a warning sign. You’re not insane, you just have an unreliable narrator!

  A few things I’ve learned from being married to a lady with bipolar for 16 years:

  • it’s not your fault, but it is your responsibility
  • not being able to trust your brain sucks, but knowing it can be a liar helps
  • you can be happy and productive and have a normal life
  • take your pills, especially if you don’t feel like it
  • self-medicating has trade-offs - try to stick with TV or other distractions instead of things that can have consequences like drugs or sex

  Good luck on your journey!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren't having it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The video will need to be at a 45⁰ angle and misuse a lot of Latin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Check the color chart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hard to argue with⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  bobs and vagene?