I made the worst airline seat choice of my life. Flew from Tetouan to Madrid and rather than seeing the coast of Morocco, Ceuta, Gibraltar, and the Strait, I saw… boat.
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Space. Travel. Not yet space travel.
But once we got over land I did see Saturday pleasure boats off Benalmádena, and construction on a new Spanish high speed rail line.
Texas ObserverNew from Gaige Davila: Even before its first workplace death, #SpaceX saw 427 injuries and 9 respiratory illnesses between 2022 and 2025. These injuries included concussions, second-degree burns, partial finger amputations, hernias, dislocations, crushed hands, and broken ribs, legs, and ankles.
https://www.texasobserver.org/worker-death-starbase-spacex-osha-elon-musk/
I don't know if I've ever plugged Kiva on here, but it's a thing I've been doing for many years now. I've made 780 loans of ~$25 each, for a total over $20k.
It's almost certainly not as good as UBI, but it's a thing anyone can do. https://www.kiva.org
@mattblaze My first hour-long executive meeting at a company that would later be worth about $4B was entirely focused on the CEO complaining that one of the engineers anodized a part pink, and how that was obviously done as an insult to him.
I prefer your world where Trump is an outlier, but it has not been my experience.
Was trying to search for the date of the first programmable electronic computer and made the usual iPhone error of hitting the period part of the spacebar, which led to finding that https://programmable.computer is a valid domain. Solid work on that registration, Mr. Whitaker.
@alyx cubic light nanosecond, milli-Melchizedek, % of average human blood volume.
@reedmideke Aha, tanks, not tanks. Silly language.
It's like Spanish bomba, bomb, vs. bomba, pump. Watch out for that bomba de gasolina.
This is 20 years old, but remember the fake fat Olestra that just shoots straight through your system? Turns out that because it's very similar to fat and doesn't get absorbed, a daily dose of it washes fat-soluble toxicants out of your body, like dioxin.