SpaceX has been paid on delivery of promised services, and their success rates are much higher. That’s the opposite of control; that’s the government stepping back from owning a company’s costs. Seems to work a lot better than the tight relationship Boeing and government have.

It would appear you’ve not fed him enough. The poor thing is reduced to a single back leg.

WW3 started two years ago

It’s not a proxy war between Russia and the US. It’s a proxy war between China and the US.

Russia and Ukraine are the pawns

I’m not an expert either and I could have predicted the invasion based on:

• huge buildup of troops in preparation for invasion
• 8 years prior they had invaded after saying they wouldn’t

So basically, any time a company lets people go that’s stealing, and you want there to be a court thing that judges whether any particular loss was due to mismanagement or “genuine misfortune”?

That seems like a pretty extreme response to high delivery fees don’t you think?

Making money by facilitating deals and delivery. Sounds to me like everybody wins.

They need access to a better place. I suppose they just get financially stuck in S Korea? Or do the move on to other countries too, more willing to give them a chance?

Every picture of Putin and Kim together just looks like an adult tricking a kid.

poly fill indeed

So humid you can barely see the hill two miles away

Yup, racism. Right out in the open. Upvoted, even.

I take my consent from the dog. You’re its caretaker, friend, and family. None of that means the dog’s incompetent to decide and communicate desire to be touched.

edit: I should be more clear. I ask for permission from the owner. I say “Can I say hi to your dog?”

Then I say hi by putting my hand out to smell. Then if the dog wants a pet, I’ll pet the dog.

Permission to approach from the owner, but consent to pet from the dog.

What if I’ve frozen the dog in carbonite, and he fits in my carry-on?

No, the issue is artificial friction added to the new construction process which keeps overall supply lower than demand, and pushes prices up continuously.

It’s good to have building codes, because we need safe buildings. But we should offset their existence by slightly subsidizing new construction. Basically we want to enable as closely as possible the natural balancing between supply and demand. Right now, the heavy regulation (both legitimate and overreach) of new construction, as well as the high paperwork and hassle cost, and the uncertainty of permitting or of permitting timeline, all those things are a big finger on the scale pushing supply down.

Maintaining a constant downward adjustment on the amount of new housing constructed each year is a recipe for exactly this situation we have now: disrespect of tenants by landlords, and exploding rent prices.

We don’t have a free market in housing. We have a tightly controlled market where new supply is constantly gatekept and thereby suppressed.

I mentioned building codes but there’s also nimbyist zoning laws. There are plenty of places where a 100-unit apartment building would be a more profitable use of space, but zoning prevents the construction of more than 10 single family homes.

We do this for lots of reasons, such as maintaining the architectural character of the town, protecting rich people’s views by prevnring tall buildings, avoiding health issues, managing transportation demand, etc etc.

But we need to be conscious of the fact that the price we pay for all those other benefits, is that we have a housing shortage.

Well yeah. You do realize there are many, many levels of wealth right?

Orwell explains it well in 1984. The upper class only comes down when the middle and the lower team up.

If you’re upper class and want to prevent a revolution that takes you off the top level of society, the way to do that is to sew division between the lower and middle classes.

In a typical landlord/renter scenario, the landlord is middle class and the renter is low class.

That person is like an inch above you, and there are other people who are miles above that.

Right. Because murder is a heinous crime that rips a person’s life away.

Renting out apartments isn’t in the same category as murder.

True. China is making rapid gains in territory and influence on Earth and Luna, and soon plans to expand its operations into the Belt.

I don’t mind profit driven because I’m confident that free markets are good for everybody.

The space race is on. That’s why Starship has been launching so much. Someone at the FAA must have finally realized that if SpaceX doesn’t go ahead at full SpaceX speed, we’re gonna see China take over space.

They’ve got a space station and a rover on the moon. China will easily overtake us in space, has already in a few places.