…between living and the economy.
And no one gets out of here alive.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Artemis Alternatives
Plus, it considers only the extra $35B that NASA wants for Artemis, while ignoring the money hemorrhaging of SLS.
Well, This Should Be Embarrassing
A hostile Venezuelan warship is sunk by a cruise ship.
[Update a couple minutes later]
More thoughts at PJMedia.
[Update Sunday afternoon]
Your Recyclables
…are going to the dump.
It’s a pointless uneconomic ritual, and civic religion.
Zoom Meetings
A catalog of the worst kinds of people on the platform.
China
Is it in preparation to start a war?
The Toilet-Paper Shortage
It’s not about hoarding.
That makes sense. It would imply that places who specialize in supplying businesses, like Smart and Final in LA, would have plenty.
[Update a while later]
It’s disrupting the locavore supply chain as well.
We’re now seeing the fragility of our civilizational infrastructure. It needs to be more robust and resilient.
The Captain Of That Carrier
Why he had to be relieved of duty.
What struck us as particularly off in the captain’s letter was his statement: “We are not at war.” He added that “sailors do not need to die” and that “if we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our sailors.” The Navy, though, doesn’t need to be instructed on the value of its own sailors. Plus, too, under our system it’s not carrier captains who decide whether we’re at war.
The most important asset is not the crew, but the ship, and the crew must be ready to be sacrificed for the mission. I wrote a book about that.
The Latest Starship Mishap
Dang.
I was hoping for some good news on at least one front. Well, at least they’re getting practice at building them.
[Late-afternoon update]
Here’s the story from Eric Berger.