The people who vote against ranked choice are either too stupid to learn what it is and how it would objectively be better for democracy, people who are smart enough to know how it works and don’t support it because it will be bad for their political party, or people who were told what to vote for by an authority figure

“People are stupid” is rarely the best explanation. I’m just surprised that it was so close to 50%. Voting reform isn’t usually such a wedge issue.

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1859364942039875749

Targeting Thursday, November 21 for a Falcon 9 launch of 24 @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida

Starbase activities (2024-11-20):

• Nov 19th cryo delivery tally.
• Nov 20th road closure is revoked.
• 1-hour road delay was posted for Nov 21st (00:00 to 03:00) for transport from factory to pad, but then revoked.
• Build site: S26 moves to Highbay, the LTR1220 crane delivers a ring spreader, and the lower 4 rings of S26 are removed. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3, Beyer, DeffGeff)
• Booster transport stand arrives at the production site. (ViX)
• Potential raptor delivery truck is spotted. (ViX)
• Pad A: Chopsticks and launch mount inspections overnight. (Starbase Pulse)
• Launch mount work platform rolls back out to the pad. (ViX, NSF)
• Three truckloads of cryo piping are delivered. (ViX)
• Booster stabilization pins are moved back towards the launch mount. (ViX)

IFT-6:

• Gulf of Mexico: Final sighting on Nov 19th of B13 heading south into Mexican waters, guarded by support aircraft. (LabPadre)
• Two out of three support ships return to port. (Cornwell, Cornwell 2)
• Indian Ocean: The two ships slowly move west, likely following the remains of S31. (Cornwell 1, Cornwell 2)
• “What caused the catch abort?” Elon: “Lost comms to the launch tower computer. Catch would probably still have worked, but we weren’t sure, so erred on the side of caution.”
• “What happened to the banana?” Elon: “Well, the fairing did blow up when the ship fell over after landing in the water (as expected)”
• FAA confirms no mishap. All outcomes were within the scope of the launch license. (Beil)

Other:

• “Is the perspirative cooling still off the table?” Elon: “Metallic shielding, supplemented by ullage gas or liquid film-cooling is back on the table as a possibility”
• The FAA publish a revised Environmental Assessment draft (Revised Draft EA, PDF warning) for increasing launch cadence to 25 per year. Document includes (pg. 153 and 154) a map showing the planned trajectory for Starship RTLS, passing over Matamoros (Mexico) and the outskirts of Brownsville. (thanks u/Nydilien and u/scarlet_sage in The Other Place)

Passers-by are warned by a sign on each of Spot’s legs: “DO NOT PET.”

“I don’t know that anyone is tempted to pet these robot dogs. They do not look cuddly,”

Hey, every warning sign has a story.

I see you’re really taking the name of this sub literally…

I think their point was not that the grid should be abolished, but that when energy generation is decentralized, the grid becomes less susceptible to single points of failure.

Is that the Mimble in the crowd?

Why is it so close?

Great read. Thanks for sharing.

no need to draw the distinction between the two

How dare you imply such a thing! The two formats are nothing alike! ;)

I’m surprised that you happened upon this thread six months later, and pleased that you decided to finish it.

He’d probably just gotten used to using it within the umbrella by that point. After fifty years, it might have been difficult to switch back.

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The human-ish hand holding the gun is rather unsettling.

This is actually written the correct way, horizontally and does not fit here.

It wouldn’t fit on “DontDeadOpenInside”, but I think it fits here, no?

In a “NoSafetySmokingFirst”, the text reads correctly left to right, but visual cues (like colouration, vertical proximity, or horizontal separation) lead you to try to read it top to bottom.

They cleared his name at the end of book 2 (CoS), after which he became a teacher in book 3 (PoA).

Glad to hear that it’s in the works, at least.

Damn, that sucks, especially with that lockup at the end. If it’s any consolation, you’re still roughly twice as fast as me.

Ooh, it seems we’ve rounded a bend!

Interesting take. Are you of the opinion that posting an article about a company implies endorsement of the country where the company is based?