Agreed. It wasn’t the right answer, but it was the one the government pursued.

Fracking was our answer to energy independence.

Governments do.

It has potential to be a good rocket, but I’ll be interested to see if it becomes the revolutionary rocket that Elon says it will be.

I think enshittification is hitting everything, but it’s probably also that you are old. I find that I just can’t eat the same way that I could 20 years ago.

In the US nearly every window that opens has a screen in it to keep insects out. That’s why venetian blinds have gone out of favor in the past 70 years.

Same here! Too much union busting for me to feel comfortable buying things there. I’m sure they’ve done other stuff, but that alone was enough for me.

That is based on $67,000,000 per falcon 9 launch. I suspect it cost SpaceX way less to launch than that even though they might bill that amount to customers.