Kyle Cordes

@TechOperator What do you mean? From the clip you posted, you can trust your cat not to rat you out, mostly because it won't cooperate with anybody about anything at all. Not like some rat would.

Turns out my serious distrust of cats is well founded.

I doubt he was physically forced. But he may have had to choose whether to fly or not. The right move, if you're bringing an irreplaceable object and they won't let you fly with it in person, is to not fly that day. Go find a shipping company that can provide assurance and insurance up to a very high dollar value and have them transport the object.

@No_Apologee At the gate he was forced to check it. Any photos of you with your string instrument having its own seat?

🚨 UNITED DESTROYED THIS MAN’S 1962 GIBSON GUITAR — THEN SAID “NOT COVERED” AND WALKED AWAY He picks his case up from baggage claim and opens it. His 1962 Gibson J-45, a vintage guitar worth thousands, is completely wrecked. Cracked body. Scraped finish. The kind of damage you only get from being thrown around. He says it was inside a “nearly indestructible” top of the line Calton hardshell case. So he calls United. Their response? “We don’t cover instruments.” No compensation. No accountability. Nothing. Now this video is blowing up again as new clips show baggage handlers literally throwing guitar cases. So this isn’t a one-off. It’s the same damage and the same excuse. If they can just say “not covered”… what’s actually stopping this from happening every day? If this was YOUR guitar… what would you do?

Getting enough budget will be challenging, but the ideal scenario would be two completely separate stacks. SpaceX with Dragon, Starship HLS, etc. A few of the other space companies could partner up with their offerings. Contract both to take crews, supplies, base parts, etc. to the moon N times per year. Diversity against either stack being delayed or paused due to an accident etc.

@kylecordes @SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Exactly . use Orion or dragon to transport to Starship which is in orbit and then undock and shoot it off

NEWS: NASA is planning a bigger @SpaceX Moon mission role using Starship, in a massive blow to Boeing. With the new proposal, Boeing's SLS would no longer be used to boost Orion close to the moon. Instead, Starship and Orion would dock in Earth orbit, giving Starship the pivotal role of propelling the capsule to the moon’s orbit, before taking astronauts down to the surface. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@Tslachan On one hand, I'm pretty sure Carwow's thing is in bad faith. But I'll cut a little slack because sometimes Musk posts about something that seems to be FSD, but he says Autopilot. If Musk sometimes mixes them, we shouldn't be that angry when other people do.

It's a world where famous reviewers can't distinguish between Autopilot and FSD.

@wholemars There are probably contract requirements about the extent to which it actually works before the first 10,000 are purchased also.

“We’ll buy 10,000 and then maybe 40,000 more if it actually works”

@andyorsow Shipping will be a challenge, but you could sell that monitor stand rock for at least 100x its value at a quarry.

Does anyone else want a monitor stand that's just a chunk of rock?

There have to be, right? Even a small craft not normally used for this purpose could step into service and earn a very good living for a while. Obviously they'd have to be very careful getting up adjacent to a container ship, but in calm seas and lack of wind, it should be possible to have the crew drop a rope and haul up some provisions.

@kylecordes @mercoglianos I was thinking more about the ports. Surely there are small craft at the port which can ferry provisions.

🚨Crews at risk in the Gulf🚨 Just heard from a crewmember on one of the 3,200 ships stuck in the Persian Gulf. A ship called the local port authority requested permission to dock as they had run out of water. They were denied permission! Multiple ships are in the same condition, with stores, food and fuel running low. Ports are overwhelmed and security is such that they are refusing permission for ships to dock. Crews cannot get off and reliefs cannot fly in. What is being done to address this matter @POTUS @SecWar @SecDuffy @DOTMARAD @IMOSecGen @IMOHQ.

@jezzle9 @RobertJ585 @mercoglianos I assume this is a result of careful analysis, but it still seems surprising. Plenty of small yachts, i.e boats that technically meet the definition of yacht, but not the pop culture definition, carry a "water maker".

@RobertJ585 @mercoglianos Merchant ships don't have distillation plant on board as they're not designed to swing around the pick for weeks on end without shoreside water supplies available.

@Didicoy_Tonttu @mercoglianos According to 10 seconds of (AI...) research: no, container ships and oil takers generally do not carry tenders!

@mercoglianos Do they not have tenders? Ferry supplies to them, this is an untapped market apparently.

@ArtemisConsort Setting aside the illegal immigration politics part... It is super weird how banks are all up in your business with KYC, but somehow don't actually check citizenship?

Debanking illegals is probably the most effective way to achieve genuine mass deportations. It’s critically important that the administration follows through on this plan.

@MobofJoggers @OwenSparks Assuming Starship eventually works, which seems likely but is not yet actually in evidence, it's hard to see how anyone watching a budget would want to buy any more SLS.

@OwenSparks So does this mean SLS is cancelled?

NEWS: Tiny SpaceX rocks Boeing Starship will now boost Orion and the Artemis crew to the Moon rather than Boeing's SLS.

@mnmcsofgp @SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Once refueled, which could potentially take surprisingly many tanker flights, a topped-up starship in LEO has a lot of delta V. Apparently far more than anything else ever flown, if compared carrying a more than a very small payload.

@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Wait.... do they have the delta V for that? I guess we don't know the exact specs on anything really but I thought they were pretty short for that profile

@Amy_Siskind According to other coverage, the situation is not quite as simple as this implies. But the point stands that, for whatever reason, he is apparently more concerned with the price of oil than with the goals (has that been stated by the administration yet?) of the war.

Trump has now lifted sanctions on: * Russia * Iran * Belarus Three of the most villainous autocracies. But we hate all our former allies 🤷🏻‍♀️

They can vote in the state where they briefly resided at birth decades ago. So such an attack vector would need many long-departed citizens born in a swing state. Biggest states for birth tourism is CA (non swing) and FL (swingish, but unlikely to be the tipping point state). Still, the point stands that such a scenario seems pretty unreasonable, and tallies in "tighten the rules on to whom birthright citizen applies" side of the current argument. [All according to 1 minute of AI "research"]

If birthright citizenship is interpreted to include anchor babies and birth tourism, then Chinese citizens can order ballots from swing states, and vote in every congressional, state, and federal election.

@another07047584 @SawyerMerritt @carwowuk The most dishonest auto reporting SO FAR. I expect it will continue to worsen.

@SawyerMerritt @carwowuk that is some of the most dishonest auto reporting I've ever seen. Starting a video describing something, then attempting to validate it with something completely different. And you just know that they know *exactly* what they are doing. carwow - you're now blocked. goodbye

Carwow just released a new video to its 11 million YouTube subscribers titled: "Why Tesla Full Self Drive is Pointless!" @carwowuk misleads its viewers into thinking Tesla’s Autopilot is FSD, even though FSD hasn’t been approved in the UK yet. Autopilot isn’t meant for city driving, yet they test of bunch of scenarios that Autopilot wasn't built to do in the first place....

It's realistically kind of hard to tell from the news coverage how well it's going. Many people are over-indexing on the Strait; but with a few minutes thought, we should expect marine traffic to be disrupted for a long time, whether the war goes swimmingly well or horribly, so we really can't tell much from that.

@Cernovich Does it now? This seems to be the most effective and well prosecuted war I've ever seen.

War has a way of spiraling out of control.

@Cernovich That's a common outcome. Another common outcome, so much so that many people assume it happens every time, is the long-low-boil quagmire.

There's lots of discussion here on whether this will snap back with the next president. I'm not so sure. I have a hunch the next president will 95% return to the past day-to-day friendliness with our allies, but may partially stick with certain Trump-era shifts in expectation of allies' policies and behavior.

This is wild. People in *every single one* of the top US allies now think it's better to depend on China than the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.

@McFaul I understand the anger in the current moment. But from a long-term point of view, that is some delusional thinking, right?

Shocking. But also reversible if we change our ways.