Artemis III

"Artemis III is planned to be the second crewed Artemis mission and the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17 in December 1972.[6] As of December 2024, NASA officially expects Artemis III to launch no earlier than mid-2027 due to heat shield issues on Orion and valve problems in the spacecraft's life support system."

So yeah, probably delayed but the Artemis II mission is going to be manned but just slingshot and no landing.

Since I was curious you can see the thing in action

COBOD 3D Printing & Finish Options Displayed at World of Concrete 2022

I've seen these before but I do always love that it really is just as one would imagine as a "3d printer". "Gantry and squeeze goo from nozzle" just make it bigger and change the goo.

The MLB minimum for 2025 is $760,000 up in 10 years from $507K in 2015

I mean there have never been more options for quality keyboards and massive collections of easy to get custom keysets available than today, it's a keyboard renaissance out there.

Yeah I am not discounting the process, but that just affirms my contention; one side rejects science and facts and the other does not so they are quite different. The fact the electorate agrees on a rejection of facts to me reveals a more telling sign of where the current conservative/Republican thought process brings people. The hard part is what to do about that.

If even in your example of FUD tactics the key thing you brought up is present; those people are accepting the science and facts and have policy proposals. You and even myself may find those proposals wrong or prefer different ones but we can have that discussion grounded in the base level facts. The other side is doing the opposite, their position comes from a rejection of the facts. Why people believe things is just as important, maybe more so, than what they believe.

That also affords the liberals the ability to change direction based on evidence, something the conservatives have locked themselves out of. They can't go back on climate change. Meanwhile everyone's liberal energy punching bag nuclear power Biden and the democrats pumped more funding into it with their two bills and had proposed adding even more. Their positions have shifted based on information.

I am not asking you to like AOC but if you listen to them both and come away with the "they're both the same" then I don't know, I don't think you've been paying attention or really care about this in the past 2-3 years. This is the AOC simulacrum where her comments from her first election and the conservative media presentation of her becomes reality.

Did AOC show a person's penis on the house floor? Jewish space lasers? Secret democrat weather control? Great replacement theory? False flag Vegas shooting? Again, not asking you to like her, there are plenty of criticisms but equivocating her and MTG to me is revealing. "Two sides of the same coin" doesn't cut it anymore, rings extremely hollow today.

Again, there's the equivocation "it's ok that we have some neo-nazis because the liberals can be kinda annoying". We are in fact allowed to call some things more bad than other things. Not the same coin, at all.

You continue to say it changed based on the election but in between the election and those comments a *very critical* thing happened. The FDA approved the EUA for the vaccines.

I mean if you're a business then the price of Adobe Creative Suite can be easily justified and considered even a bargain.

$660 a year for the 5 "big" programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, After Effects, Premiere) and the 15-ish supporting ones? Chances are your users generate way in excess of that $660 in a given year with all those tools. Sure they could use many of the alternatives but when you have a business to run is re-training or interrupting your employees workflow worth $660 a year? (or less if you are buying in volume)

Sure but the current admin isn't just censoring, they are deporting people based on beliefs, or as we would more alarmingly call them thought-crimes (and they say in court it they can on nothing but belief)

You are allowed to have anti-Israel sentiments in America. You're allowed to have anti-America sentiments in America, that's like the *most American* thing you can do.

I do appreciate how we have to pretend like the current sitting US President "doesn't know" if it's legal to ship citizens to another country. Incredible stuff.

It's not unreasonable to question if the President is trying to move the FDA faster than they might want or eliminate processes that they think should be in place when he saying he is going to do those things. You make it sound like Biden said these things entirely unprovoked.

What vaccinations don't go through "rigorous trials"? My core issue is RFK is a liar either through malice or ignorance, doesn't matter which, and misrepresents data or doesn't understand it and makes decisions through a wholly unscientific process. Telling me his beliefs (with no renunciation of his previous statements either, he just as you said, "moderates his talking" so we should believe he still believes all those past statements. )

Ahh, the old "heh, you think you can ascribe views to me? well, get this? I dont believe in anything actually". Got it. Good day sir,.

To be fair NASA is on track to land on the moon, their date is 2027 so probably 2028 but the equipment for the next 2 Artemis mission is being constructed right now and some of it is done. Yes SLS is too expensive and throwing rockets away is very, not with the times but there's no real evidence that it doesn't work, it performed as expected the first mission, so Congress really just has to keep it funded and there's a genuine 2.0 moon race.

I think it helps to remember too that NASA really doesn't "build" most of this stuff anyway. Artemis includes all the USA classics. Boeing buids the rocket, Aerojet the engineers, Northrop the boosters, Lockheed the capsule, The Europeans and Airbus build the service module and the astronauts would walk onto the moon off of a SpaceX landing ship. It's a classic American contractor smorgasbord and sometimes that's OK.

Scientists *absolutely* consider those thing, even when they don't have to. The entire thing they are pointing out specifically with regards to say the climate debate is the effect is will have on the current human way of life. Yes the politicians job is to take that information and turn it into some type of policy or at least form a coherent response to their actions because that is their job, to hire the right advisors and be able to interpret many different pieces of information even if they have no formal training in it on their own they have to sus out who to trust and why.

If a politician looks at the absolute mountains of evidence and regarding anthropomorphic climate change and vaccinations and come away with the conclusion of "not happening" and "unsafe secret poison" they are just rejecting science as a method and saying "activist scientist" lets them get away with it for those who allow them to.

And if you think they are or represent anything anything close to the same then I would say your brain has been absolutely cooked on alternative media that is part of the very core of this rejection of facts and alternative realities and that precisely is the issue I am getting at and a large part of *why I am actually acutely aware of why Trump was elected*. The fact you see it that way only strengthens my resolve in that point no matter how much centrism it is wrapped in.

And actually, looking at the number of alt-media conservative loons that Canada has sent our way including some very prominent nazi types I would say you might be better in some ways but you got a lot of issues on your own.

No, you are making a construction I am claiming does not exist, that Biden and or Harris remarks (which they have always qualified that they trust the vaccine, they trust the doctors, they trust the FDA and do not want it interfered with) are anything at all like what RFK espouses which is doubt on the vaccines, doubt on the process, doubt on the FDA, doubt on the entire system they got something wrong that only he and a precious few cranks see but is nowhere in the data.

You refuse to give any extra context because it would blow up the very thin equivocation you are trying to present, because that is all you have, you cannot defend your's,RFKs or the administrations actions or statements so your next best move is to just say "well everybody does it".

I notice at no point have you defended RFK's actual beliefs because you probably know they are indefensible and you have no real concern for what the consensus or the data says. His entire schtick is built upon distrust of science, distrust of the process and you've bought into that, why? Politics. You all changed, the rest of us are wondering what the fuck happened.

Apple has shown it's chops as being a terrific production company, the shows they produce tend to be high quality and critically and audience acclaimed and they seem to have more of that old-school HBO mindset of find talented people and let them do their thing.

That does not mean you can or should also be the only distribution source in a crowded field, especially when people want their ever-cost-increasing subscriptions to have a large library for their money.

Apple would probably be better off selling their shows to other platforms. Netflix or Amazon I imagine would probably pay a pretty hefty sum for the final season(s) of Severance for example.

"Activist scientists" is, no offense I don't think you mean it that way, but sorta fascist propaganda speak, an easy reason to ignore it and discount and let some policymakers reject facts.

Jonas Salk could have labeled as "an activist scientist" today should we just have ignored him?

Part of science is interpreting the data for the non scientists, not just collecting it presenting it and being silent.

If you think their data is true and their interpretation is true then some deference should be afforded what they say as a politician since you are a politician, not a scientist. "Just make scientists run for office more" is fantastical nonsense, most of them make shit politicians and vice versa.

The problem some people refuse to accept is that the fringe has taken over one half of the body politic in the USA, attempting to just brush it off as fringe is partly how we are in this mess and those that do are more concerned with maintaining their central purity than seeing reality and once you deny reality then science don't mean shit and here we are once again to back to burning coal, rejecting science, outlawing vaccines and god knows what else.

There are way more zealots one one side and I'm tired of having to pretend that's not true because it makes some people feel icky..

Look pal I love the way we do free speech in America and if it were up to me every nation would do it that way but they don't and a social media company is not the hero we deserve or need to try and change that. The fact they built it open and extendable enough that they can't actually censor or ban entirely is very in the American spirit, what's more American than malicious compliance?

So yeah, sorry we got our own issues right now so the nuances of freedom of speech in fucking Turkiye isn't exactly top of mind and if we don't wake up about it the USA is gonna look more familiar then we'd like.