The largest and the most regressive tax since it impacts mostly the lower economic class that's already struggling with the cost of living.

Yep, this is more or less a VAT in disguise

That was the point of TPP which the US withdrew from in 2018.

Trump pulled out on his first day in office.

The rest of the countries carried on without the USA and to add to the irony, China applied to join it in 2021.

His claimed anti-China stance is one of his most effective lies.

I still have my T61 thinkpad from 2007. Other than the dead battery, it works great.

I purchased a battery for my T61 from GHU Electronics a year ago. So far no issues.

I think you have it backwards, given that the stage which failed has 6 engines, and the stage that did its job and landed back on its own launch tower (inconceivable less than a decade ago) has 33 engines.

The booster did the job and was recovered.

They could still recover and catch the booster precisely because they had that redundancy.

For Starship, the spinning out of control was caused by four (!) out of 6 engines shutting off prematurely, from which they clearly could not recover.

You understand that USPS is not sending you junk mail but some advertiser pays them to do so, right? So perhaps you are suggesting that USPS should increase the rates? Because otherwise your comment doesn’t make much sense.

Physics has not changed since the 60s. Wave drag due to shock waves is still a thing.

No, this is absolutely wild free-association. That's entirely unrelated.

By this reasoning, fighter planes shouldn't have improved either. We know that this is not the case. It's not the limits of physics holding us back.

And they have not! Both F22 and F33 are significantly slower than say F4, F104, or F106 all designed in the 50s.

Or the SR-71...

Indeed although it wasn’t a fighter; it was a reconnaissance aircraft.

This is true, although it was tested in a fast response fighter role, overlying enemy aircraft and firing air-to-air missiles from high altitude.

Going faster and improving are two different things. Planes have improved immensely since the 1960s, but they don't go faster. Commercial aircraft have much lower fuel use. Military aircraft have things like better radar and stealth.

Fighter planes don't have to worry about cost, noise, or environmental impact.

I believe the SR71 is still the fastest fighter jet?

How would you deal with all sorts of emergencies involving human pilots? For unmanned aircraft(aka drones) it’s a lot easier to implement unmanned traffic management (UTM).

Direct them to land in the best location and make sure all other aircraft are on non-intersecting flight paths. What exactly is ATC doing that software isn't able to?

How many options are there for handling emergencies with aircraft now? You pretty much just have either land ASAP or circle to burn fuel and then land.

Obviously you’re not a pilot. It might be helpful for you to listen to a few ATC transcripts of emergency situations.

It does seem like the routine could be automated more, no?

"You pretty much just..."

Ah, there it is. "How hard could coordinating takeoff and landing for thousands of flights be? You just..."

I’m also wondering why a full pardon rather than a commutation.

I am curious if this matters for the purposes of the Bitcoin "damages". By today's exchange rates it could be an insane amount of money. If the "crime" is supposed to be wiped clean as if he never did it, then in theory it would mean give him back his property, etc. I don't know the specifics about that or if it would change with respect to clemency or commuting of a sentence.

That's transparently obvious if you read the press release: Trump analogizes his own personal treatment by the Justice Department with that of Ulbricht c.f. "weaponization of the justice system".

Trump team wants his help running crypto shenanigans

Does he need help? They've already released two nonsense meme coins to bilk their followers and crypto people hoping to time the dump correctly.

This is the only explanation that makes sense to me.

Seriously? What a weird suggestion, crypto now has nothing to do with crypto back when he was running Silk road, and there are tons of crypto bros to pick from if the Trump team wanted someone to help run "their crypto shenanigans". I don't think anyone involved in crypto back in 2013 could've seen how much of a mess it would become anyways

> I don't think anyone involved in crypto back in 2013 could've seen how much of a mess it would become anyways

It seems that crypto then and now are pretty similar, mess wise.

I don’t get it. Was every non-violent drug offender in federal prisons pardoned or only this guy? If so, why?

"He’s selecting for the smartest people, collecting them, and exposing them to massive anti-reproductive pressures"

Assuming the statement above is accurate, why is the fertility rate falling across all developed and even most developing countries, many of which also experience net negative immigration?