@AkaSci I think elons politics are messing with spacex progress
They used to use idealism about space colonization to motivate people, but now that seems to be weakening
@davidho there’s some economic value to mars nonetheless though, like using the saberier reaction (inverse combustion) you can easily create fuels and oxygen on the surface which could be helpful for stuff in the asteroid belt and just general space exploration
That’s really long term, but even in the short term the advertising value of space is huge
Last year Columbia sportswear spent 20 million to put there logo on a lunar lander
Unfortunately the #OpenStreetMap wiki is very slow today. We are fighting an aggressive web scraper bot. 10,000 of IPs involved. Randomised User-Agent. Ignoring robots.txt #aibot #ddos
Update: Fixed. We've been able to mitigate the bot traffic. #fail2ban
Remember how Y2K was going to lead to blackouts, bank runs and worse?
Well, it didn't. We had a deadline. We invested somewhere from $300 to $500 billion(!), and things turned out fine.
Climate change has no Y2K deadline. That's what makes it even harder to deal with
Me in @Salon https://www.salon.com/2025/05/01/climate-change-is-both-predictable-and-unpredictable-we-dont-need-certainty-to-know-its-a/
Words matter.
The Trump regime did not "deport" a 2-year-old U.S. Citizen of Latino ethnicity—the Trump regime knowingly *Human Trafficked* a 2-year-old U.S. Citizen of Latino ethnicity.
That isn't just a violation of US Constitutional rights, it's a violation of international human rights law. In a just society the people responsible for this crime would face criminal prosecution. That is what should happen here.
emptywheel
OpenStreetMap Ops Team
Gernot Wagner
Democrats Abroad
qurlyjoe
Qasim Rashid, Esq.