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SpaceX fans: "'Assured access' is just pork, why should we pay ULA/Boeing/Blue/RL/... when SpaceX has a better product?" SpaceX: *shuts down American human spaceflight because of a temper tantrum*

This evening, the Senate Commerce Committee released the Senate version of the reconciliation bill, which includes money to fully fund Gateway, as well as funding for both SLS and Orion for the Artemis 4 and 5 missions. Also, $1.25 billion for the ISS. commerce.senate.gov/2025/6/chairma…

"we went from 'nothing is happening' to 'dragon is dead' within two hours" - current state of the company via voice call

With this in mind, @ThePrimalDino's stash of memes for today has been a wonderful addition to the group chat.

I've been watching the whole Elon/Trump drama unfold thinking only one thing: maybe AR4+ is actually gonna be fine. Like, even if nothing comes of this directly, anyone in Congress who was on the fence about gutting NASA in exchange for commercial partners may think twice now.

THE SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM IS SECURE FOR ARTEMIS IV AND V. SLS BLOCK 1B IS SAFE. WE DID IT GANG

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a thread of hope

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live with yourself

Now, you can ask: "what if my tasks at work are simple enough to where GPT does solve it all, easily? Can't I just use it for that?" Congratulations. You may have discovered the path to being unemployed. If the AI does everything you can do, *why would they keep you around*?

@snafuluke @TwinkleSkeleton Sure, I'll jump into the fire. Discrimination based on gender identity IS sex discrimination. It is saying that only people born a certain sex can look/act/present a certain way. There is no way to define "legal" gender identity discrimination without invoking a person's sex.

@TwinkleSkeleton No it doesn't Race is not a choice that makes sense along with sex thats why there protected against discrimination. But that does bring up religion since that is a choice

Iowa just TOOK AWAY civil rights for trans people. Do you get it yet? We went from them wanting us to be our birth gender, to being punished for even daring to present as trans. Don’t TELL ME that we as people are overreacting.

I think the shift to a Saturday - Monday con should've been reiterated prior to the room block open, seems like several people forgot (myself included) until they posted a reminder well after block open. Thursday was heavily contested for not even being a buffer day...

One of the more chaotic room block openings I've fought through, but I was able to get a double Queen for con days + buffer days in main for Megaplex!

@MegaplexCon Friday the 29th? Or Saturday the 30th?

@hey_im_dry I love La Dispute, and especially their album Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair, but the climactic track "The Last Lost Continent" has been giving me the strength to carry on with everything happening in the world right now. open.spotify.com/track/7rpqjZcb…

Y'all should show me your favorite lyrical music youre listening to right now! Bonus points for indie/prog/abstract stuff, I need some new music to sing along with 🥺

these things have evil intentions and i don’t like them

I will wear this as a badge of honor. Besides, based on some of their other replies in that thread, truly nothing of value was lost.

x.com/spacesudoer/st… *incoherent screaming, muffled by a pillow*

I love/hate reading replies in threads like this. It's a fun exercise in restraint. I literally write FSW for the Orion PPC all day long, and am intimacy familiar with its architecture. It takes a lot out of me to just smile and scroll past all the blatantly wrong statements.

@TheMarckArt I say this as a joke: the amount of times I wish I could just pull a War Thunder...

@astroftl Yeahhhh they've been testing my mediation skills for a while now