Logarithms…

Theme?

The transporter wouldn’t be able to disassemble the one ring. In universe, my assumption is that they wouldn’t even be able to get a sensor lock on it.

Probably couldn’t transport anyone carrying the ring either.

I hope they have a good use for it. I’d love to see them utilize the name to try to de-radicalize folks.

The Onion seems to have gotten a new life after they were bought, so maybe they’ll go the Cards Against Humanity route and start to push things in a better direction.

The supreme court has no ability to enforce their decisions. The states can and have ignored their orders in the past.

If an order comes back that’s blatant enough, there will be pushback.

https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2024-11-13/jb-pritzker-and-colorados-jared-polis-launch-governors-coalition-to-protect-against-threats-of-autocracy-under-trump

The states control the elections, enough of them could literally just refuse to put him on the ballot.

Yup, sometime in the next year or two I’ll get laid off, then I’ll just mooch off my spouse.

Assuming he’s only actually married to one person, it’s just adultery, which is mostly legal.

Of course, that assumes everyone is there consensually, and is free to leave whenever.

Also, not all races are contested by both Democrats and Republicans. Sometimes the third party is the only one running for a position, sometimes it’s just one third party vs the Republican.

Local races are significantly different.

There’s a saying you might want to get familiar with

“If everywhere you look, all you see is assholes, maybe you’re the asshole.”

Am… am I from New York? That’s exactly what I would do in that situation.

The mechanical iris was a later addition, before that there was a stone cover. Without either anyone can come through from the other side.

A little irresponsible leaving it unguarded with the iris open.

I read this wrong as “Gilbert Gottfried never got to play a Ferengi Therapist” and now I’m double sad.

D) Move manufacturing and other dirty processes off planet and live here.

You’re putting words in my mouth and exaggerating my statements. Just look at how the NASA manned space programs have run since the start, AND how they are currently run. Congress puts a lot of stipulations on how they are manufactured. NASA has a big problem with congressional interference.

Their science/unmanned programs are different, because congress is more hands off. Those are running just fine. The problem is that SpaceX is a huge cost and has a lot of manufacturing and jobs associated with it. That invites congressional interference.

Not only that, but they also have a large commercial presence already with the Starlink. The government doesn’t typically run things like that, so they’ll probably sell of the Starlink portion of the company.

It’s not a conspiracy, it’s not libertarian-ism, it’s just how NASA is run. Once the budgets get into the billions, congress can’t keep their hands off it.

Yes, there are certainly problems with the Commercial Crew program right now, just look at how Starliner is run. We probably won’t get a capsule from Boeing, because they don’t have an incentive to finish, due to the fact that it’s not a cost+ program like the SLS is. SLS is also constrained by politics, they are required to use so many Shuttle parts, just to keep those sub-contractors happy.

It could, but that’s not how these types of programs get run. They’re as much about making jobs in specific areas as they are about solving a problem.

Problem is that if SpaceX becomes part of NASA, then it’ll be like the space shuttle. It’ll need parts made by every small company that contributed to some random representative in every state, so we’ll end up with 300+ contractors all building critical components.

Hot tip, change HIS last name prior to the wedding and she gets the name change free.

I know a couple that waited until after the wedding to do that and the husband changed his name, then the wife was given the option of keeping her old name, or switch to his old name.

She ended up having to go through the entire name change process without the benefit of the auto-name flip from the marriage.

Let me translate that statement: practical sets dramatically enhanced by CGI, with some, maybe all scenes having majority CGI.

NOTHING is pure practical, and it never was. It’s always enhanced by in camera, or post processing. If it wasn’t, it would look awful.