Who is ready to go back to them?
The notion of wearing a mask in a restaurant is absurd. You can’t eat with a mask on. This is another area in which the pandemic hasn’t affected me much, because I’ve never liked going out to eat at restaurants, other than for social reasons. It’s both expensive and unhealthy to pay someone else to cook for you, and I don’t like having people serve me.
Rocketlab didn’t go to space today, or at least not to orbit.
[Sunday-morning update]
Here’s the story from Eric Berger.
A great essay on the current culture war.
This could be an interesting salon on Thursday.
In the face of both the pandemic and the lawlessness, Bob Zimmerman isn’t happy with either the party or Trump.
Its solar panels are generating much more power than expected.
Well, that’s nice.
[Tuesday-morning update]
NASA is very happy with the Crew Dragon performance so far.
Meanwhile, SpaceX is moving from stage-production mode to fleet-management mode.
Only four cores doesn’t seem like enough to me. One of the reasons we retired Shuttle was that we had too small a fleet with only three. But SpaceX can build more.
[Bumped]
The demented legislature in Sacramento just voted to strip the California constitution of its requirements for non-discrimination. It’s up to the voters now.
…why do people still believe in government?
[Afternoon update]
Related: The lockdown was a colossal mistake.
…is racist. I mean, yes, it has to be, since it happened under Woodrow Wilson.