Speaking of that other failure, It's been reported the total verifiable savings was approximately $1.4 billion. No, that is not missing any numbers.

For comparison, the F-35 program has an annual budget of $12 billion. That means, 11.7% of the annual F-35 program was saved as a one-time reduction in overall contract expenditures.

Fascinating.

uses mirror-like reflectors to collect sunlight in orbit. The sunlight is then transmitted to stations on Earth

Why not create the electricity in space then beam it down via microwaves? Or is this even worse when it comes to converting sunlight to energy?

The drop in bot activity. Noticed a site I visit had far fewer spamming posts than usual.

I wonder if many people noticed...western sites just aren't all that important.

Of course they're not important. That's what you've been told. If they aren't important, why would your government need to censor and block them?

Yeah any kind of porn is very good and we should teach kids about fellatio and sodomy as early as we can:

Yes, they should be taught so they know how to do it right. Too many nights have been ruined because one or both partners fumbled their part.

The goal is to make you pay and by not approving such projects you can be guaranteed electricity rates will rise substantially over the next five years.

Every time this regime gets rid of anything which could help people it is guaranteed the reason is to make you pay.

Don't say you weren't warned.

Honestly, it was the tone of the message, which is admittedly difficult to derive from a forum. IMHO, the proper response would have been one that questioned whether the 'upscale grocer' selling spareribs at $6.99/lb vs $1.49/lb were at different ends of the subjective or objective quality spectrum. In my case, they are literally the same brand: Smithfield. The only difference is that Aldi is $5+/lb less expensive.

That said, IMO, unless we're talking about a butcher that sources heritage-breed Berkshire (or the like) pork from a local farmer, I don't really give a flying fuck where the previously cheap cut of meat I'm going to put on my smoker for 6h is sourced from.

I'd rather get reviews from "regular people" and not "professional reviewers"

Because what I want to see is Billy Bob telling me how "woke" (whatever that means) a movie is because the female lead had short hair and didn't cook in the kitchen.

Why would I pay $6.99/lb at one of the 'upscale grocers' in town for spareribs when I can get them at Aldi for $1.49? I, too, drive a Mercedes, but it doesn't mean I'm a fucking moron w/my money.

Windows is for people who are too non-technical to use Linux,

You don't need to be technical to run Linux. Aside from creating a boot disc, Mint walks a user through everything. It uses a gui which people are familiar with and it takes a short time to get your bearings.

Yes, there are quirks about what things are called, but with the package manager doing all the heavy lifting, updating or installing is just a click away.

For the average user, running Linux is far easier than the daily death defying run in Windows.

Me, I'm just mad about the USA ending investment in mRNA cancer drugs. Of course US Big Pharma doesn't want them to exist, because they actually treat cancer quickly.

"Big Pharma" had nothing to do with this. This is all on the anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. He doesn't want vaccines which help people to exist. What he wants is for people to die from diseases then crow about all the people who didn't die so he can claim "natural immunity" is the way to go.

This notion that "Big Pharma" doesn't want to cure diseases is the typical lie spouted. If that were the case, why did they develop a vaccine which wiped smallpox off the planet? Think of how much money they've lost over the decades. The same with rinderpest. That's hundreds of millions more dollars they're losing out on because they also wiped that disease from the planet.

This stinks of cancel culture.

Such as Republicans cancelling The Dixie Chicks because of their political views?

Next we'll be hearing about an exciting new experiment whereby AI controlled robots are able to extract iron from copious amounts of human blood they've been programmed to have an unquenchable thirst for.

You only need just over 2,300 people to get enough iron from their blood to make a sword.

If you want to go for steel you'd need just over 16,000 people.