ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

"In addition to the siting and sizing of the pad, SpaceX does not have a flame trench, nor do they have a water deluge system used to suppress heat and sound energy from any launches...

No large rocket complex on the planet exists that doesn’t contain one or both of these energy suppression systems.

SpaceX’s orbital pad, by way of comparison, is but a 30 ft tall stand situated 400 feet away from Methane storage tanks and 500 feet away from ecologically sensitive low tidal flats."

#Ecc is time for payback.
Do not let the suffering and sacrifice that so many #USA citizens took to end our insane 20th century wars be in vain.
Denounce and boycott all the corporations and governments that do not declare their public support behind #Biden for 2024.
It is not a #USA issue, it is a #World one and no matter how you feel about, sacrifices must be done.
And make sure your direct representatives know the cost of not boycotting #USA corporations and Billionaires that will not publicly announce their full support behind #Biden.

“Their calculation is the same as it was for Jews in the 1930s: It doesn’t matter if we end up in a homeless shelter far away, it is still safer than living under this fascist government.”

-Brynn Tannehill describes the human tragedies beginning to unfold under violently extreme Republican rule.

#Fascism #RepublicanExtremism

https://newrepublic.com/article/172097/republican-plot-end-trans-america

This is a small thing, but a nice thing: For years, our local small market in our little town had all the basics of life - but only the basics. It was recently sold, and the new owners have started bringing in little luxury items. I end up buying a lot of them because I want to encourage them to keep doing it, so I don't have to leave town to get, like, nice cheeses and stuff.

[whispers] fuck me like you were my health insurance

Derpy dog greets a delivery driver.. 😅

🎥 IG: ruffryderthegr

@jwalk1230 @washingtonpost I thought the same. It’s egregious. McCarthy starts a fire in the men’s toilets? “Biden running out of time to put fire out!”
Hell no.
Where are the editors here? This is a contrived “emergency”.

good morning my friend just sent me this and now I have faith in the future again 😂

“It’s on the banks, it was in the soil, it was in the vegetation. You would pull up vegetation and there were pellets embedded all in the roots. It was unbelievable.”

Longtime Gulf Coast activist Diane Wilson just won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her long-time fight against Formosa #Plastics. Our #Environment Writer @delger asked what's next: https://www.texasobserver.org/diane-wilson-goldman-environmental-prize-seadrift/

#news #Texas #GulfCoast #ClimateChange #pollution #water #politics #USpol

@ScottSoCal @Bette @actuallyautistic I have similar reasons to smile as I look back, but it got even better after I went back to coding for a (serious) hobby.

My highlight was having lunch with the inventor of the web in his local pub, just me and him, as he likes to meet in person rather than just collaborate online. I was working on something to do with his project Solid.

Nothing I did is in space yet, but I got back to doing some code this morning, so who knows. 😄

🎶 i'm not internationally known

@StillIRise1963 @Steve

Not only that, but when the news has to appeal to popularity for clicks and views, it ceases to be news.

There is really absolutely no need for 24 hour news networks. They are mostly a cancer on public discourse. And, frankly, they repeat the same shit all day. Only they do so in huge swaths of pundit segments and silly talk shows.

They aren't news. And when something big breaks, they cut into their programs just like any other station can.

24 hour networks seem to exist, mostly, for bored politicos and terminally online types. It's almost like they try to project this air of always giving news, when, in reality, they just recycle the same points dozens of times an hour, for hours on end, in between viagra commercials.

I can't say this country seems better informed or more civic minded than I remember it being before the rise of infotainment and 24 hour news channels. In fact, it seems much worse off.

@ScottSoCal Actually Goldwater kicked off the Southern Strategy before Nixon. Has been a long haul degradation & seems there's no bottom as MTG is now in full control [of McCarthy as puppet.]

Growing up, my Math teacher said I was average.

That was just mean.

@ScottSoCal agreed...just quoting author. But in context of the 'conservative mindset' today, it's not such a stretch to characterize the Reagan Era POV as about 'optimism & responsibility' as compared to the now Republican base: extremist evangelical, anti-human rights, violence forward, QAnon believing, lie-championing, & Russia-sympathizing/supporting.

@ScottSoCal @Bette @actuallyautistic that's cool. I had similar, found computers at the end of the seventies and my interest became the path to my career.

The current Supreme Court lacks credibility. It operates in secrecy without a Code of Ethics, a majority of its members were appointed by Presidents who lost the popular vote, and Clarence Thomas’ behavior reveals a culture of corruption. There are solutions if there is political will:
- Code of Ethics
- Require disclosure of all gifts
- Require release of tax returns before and during tenure
- Expand the Court to 13
- Term limits
#supremecourt #politics #USpol

Bit of a long shot, but could my good mastodon follower folk give me some boosts?

I'm starting work on a documentary podcast series about the future of space; renewable/sustainable technologies, commercialism in the sector and the public's perception of it all.

I'm hoping to connect with people who know space to complement my client's contacts, so any signal boosting would be appreciated!

I want to tell parents of trans kids under attack in the red states something:

This is simply horrifying. Like you, we can't understand how any politicians could stoop so low as to attack the most vulnerable among us.

You are strong, and we will fight for and beside you. And though we may lose these initial battles, your love and strength will help win this in the end. I know that to be true.