it doesn't help that the craft of writing is being forgotten, even if you don't read you can see the same issue in film and television.

In 2020 Elon said they'd build 100 Starships a year, last year (2024) he said they would build 1 per day.

I have to ask if the world needs 365 $100mm fireworks each year.

Well, you can make things yourself worth 365 x 100 million and decide to use them for something else.

Fortunately, the rules in well-functioning societies do not allow anyone other than the owner of something to decide how it should be used.

If you spend your own money sure why not, I couldn't agree more, but it's the taxpayer's.

This very same individual was until recently trying to highlight frivolous government spending, surprisingly coming up short, obviously it'd be very cynical of me to suggest even a hint of hypocrisy let alone a conflict of interest so I'll leave it.

SpaceX is not financed by taxpayer money and I believe its contracts are paid on reached milestones.

Musk said it himself "that's $100mm every time but it's the taxpayer footing the bill and they should get value for money" (paraphrasing), I can't remember the show but it may have been his Rogan appearance.

Sorry to burst your bubble on that, even if it is just carrying Starlink satellites it's still at public expense, not limited to the rocket itself but the infrastructure, and oversight from third parties.

Do you have to ask?

I would, where do I sign

If you have to ask this question, the offer is not for you. :-)

How much for a ZJ?

Since I'm not that deep into American pop culture, I had google:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gVhZT1tHzg

(for those who are also out of the loop)

sourcee: beerfest (2006) ::

Barry Badrinath, down on his luck man-hooker: It's $10 for a BJ, $12 for an HJ, $15 for a ZJ... Landfill: [Interrupting] What's a ZJ? Barry Badrinath: If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

as a Londoner I want to urge you to rethink your position.

I used to have to use this for potentiometric titrations, along with toluene for maybe 6 months I was exposed to this stuff daily...how fucked am I?

and for disassembling the gamecube (in the days before easy access to non-standard screwdrivers)

Well quite, it's an indictment of americas institutions if investigations held in the public interest must be conducted by third parties and not the establishment.

What other hidden dangers slip by without public knowledge.

If only there some proven way to hold abusive power to account in the public consciousness. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle

whatever the answer it's getting easier by the day.

Got 'em.

It's not like humans ever make catastrophic errors when driving.

theoretically he might have discovered this after he had paid for Trump's win. I despise the guy but it's entirely possible that he was blind to the publicly available evidence before seeing the secret evidence.