Starliner Test Flight

So I know people tend to get all prickly about "snowflake" talk, but when people describe "microaggressions," this is what they mean.

It's not OMG TRIGGERED meme, it's subtle "you don't belong here" prods that most people don't notice, ignore, or ascribe to simple mistakes.
The target is usually the only one who notices.

Thank you, @Ian_J.
 
🦈💜 said:
So I know people tend to get all prickly about "snowflake" talk, but when people describe "microaggressions," this is what they mean.

It's not OMG TRIGGERED meme, it's subtle "you don't belong here" prods that most people don't notice, ignore, or ascribe to simple mistakes.
The target is usually the only one who notices.

Thank you, @Ian_J.
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I wasn't trying to offend you, I think you know that. Why would I do that? Do whatever makes you happy, it's none of my business. If I slip up with a pronoun are you at all surprised or offended? Or do you enjoy pointing out someones unintentional faux pas? Trying to keep up with all of the new definitions of words, terms or phrases that I grew up with my entire life isn't possible. How do you prefer to be addressed is not a question I learned to ask when my parents were teaching me how to be polite. I will from here on out endeavor to remember that you are she.
 
invadertim said:
The other tactic for interstellar travel, generational ships, when you look at it, fails from an ethical standpoint. Even if we had the tech, and could convince enough people to go that there would be a viable population size, consider what generation 2.0 is confronted with. You would have a whole generation of people who would be born, live, and die aboard that ship, without ever having the chance to freely consent to being a part of the mission. They can’t leave, and quite a few generations face the same thing. You can argue that colonists here on earth subjected their children to the same thing, but at least they could leave, or try to anyhow.

Not going to be an issue in my timeline I suppose, but at some point we might also have to confront that Mars ain’t the kinda place to raise a kid…
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Disagree. It is the ultimate imperative of any biological organism to reproduce and expand. Ethical considerations are not relevant.
 
zmiller4 said:
Am I allowed to believe both that Elon is a chungus and that Boeing shouldn’t be anywhere near a crewed spacecraft?
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Sure. As I have no doubt beaten into the rhetorical ground, one doesn't have to *like* Elon (to the extent that any of us proles really know him) in order to think SpaceX is a pretty great thing. You could even argue that it's a weird artifact of the current moment that anyone thinks the two things are connected at all.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Sure. As I have no doubt beaten into the rhetorical ground, one doesn't have to *like* Elon (to the extent that any of us proles really know him) in order to think SpaceX is a pretty great thing. You could even argue that it's a weird artifact of the current moment that anyone thinks the two things are connected at all.
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Watching the 2 Falcon 9 heavy boosters land in formation on their tails, as God and Heinlein intended, will never not be cool.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Sure. As I have no doubt beaten into the rhetorical ground, one doesn't have to *like* Elon (to the extent that any of us proles really know him) in order to think SpaceX is a pretty great thing. You could even argue that it's a weird artifact of the current moment that anyone thinks the two things are connected at all.
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Musk betrayed the "progressives". He was a hero that brought affordable quality electric vehicles to the masses and made commercial space flight a reality. But he bought Twitter and gutted it and now he's a pariah to the folks that wanted to fellate him just a couple of years ago. It has nothing to do with logic or pragmatism, it's all about tribalism and feelings. Ask those Boeing astronauts how they feel about SpaceX right about now.
 
knot4u said:
Musk betrayed the "progressives". He was a hero that brought affordable quality electric vehicles to the masses and made commercial space flight a reality. But he bought Twitter and gutted it and now he's a pariah to the folks that wanted to fellate him just a couple of years ago. It has nothing to do with logic or pragmatism, it's all about tribalism and feelings. Ask those Boeing astronauts how they feel about SpaceX right about now.
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I can’t recall Musk having a significant progressive following at all. His vocal supporters seemed to be libertarian gamers on the spectrum with misogynistic tendencies.

He picked up a more conservative following when he pushed back against Covid restrictions. So, conservatives with misogynistic tendencies.

With his purchase of Twitter, it seems his primary followers are lovers of amateur porn … with misogynistic tendencies.

I wouldn’t suggest that Tesla owners have much affinity for Musk.
 
Returning via SpaceX in February, did I hear that right on the radio while driving?
 
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