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A note on the acid leaching process for battery recycling:

It only creates a new waste stream if the recycler doesn't bother to treat their residual waste / recover spent reagents. It's the same fundamental process being used in the orange peel method, they're just using citric acid and (hopefully) cleaning up their residuals.

That said, even if all they're doing is separating the waste into clean water and landfill-bound solids, that's still better than dumping batteries directly.

Every part of the materials involved is useful, but some are not useful enough to pay for the cost of recovering them. IMO, this cleanup should either be paid for in part by battery manufacturers themselves or turned into an obligation like we've done with plastic grocery bags.

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On vacation, don't have to work today! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Because Oh holy shit! that's why

𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮’𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝘆 𝗨𝗦 𝗮𝗿𝗺𝘀, 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he’d be in the market for U.S. arms, Trump’s ambassador to China said on Sunday.

David Perdue said Trump raised the prospect of the arms sales from the U.S. to its ascendant geopolitical rival, an unlikely offer that if consummated would upend generations of U.S. policy toward China and Taiwan and potentially expose U.S. technology to a potential foe...

https://apnews.com/article/trump-xi-china-arms-sales-weapons-b5df7c498d2165c646a559799116786b

"This can't be true!"

"Of 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 it's true."

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"Rex Tillerson reportedly described Trump as ‘a moron’"

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He thinks these teeny tiny weapons sales are huge revenue generators.

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https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com/post/3mwjshmrmdc25

Punxsutawney Jill is sticking her head out a little early this cycle.

Dr. Jill Stein @DrJillStein

If you had high hopes for Democratic Party reform, you may want to reset your expectations.

PS. Stop drinking the cool aid.

10:00 AM • 9/23/26 • 1M Views

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Jill Stein is another person with an endowed chair at The Fetterman School of Politics at The University of Ohgofuckyourself..

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https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mwl4gcbcgs2e

So far Trump has tried to rig the midterms by:

1. Attempted to nationalize voter registration & voting requirements.

2. Mid-decade gerrymanders.

3. Tried to use the USPS to obstruct mail-in balloting.

4. Used taxpayer money for ads.

5. Intimidation of election officials.

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i noted during the last mid-decade gerrymander that a properly motivated district attorney is perfectly capable of having a speaker of the house and a sitting governor arrested.

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𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀

https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-colleges-food-pantries-struggling-students-d24b38bd5c95dd55cecc5e44f740a25f

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Over the past several years, I've been contributing to the student food security fund at my alma mater..

Sure, I still contribute to the engineering school.. but kids gotta eat to learn..

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Everything is 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦!

"After SpaceX's record IPO, Elon Musk's net worth grew by roughly $29,000 every second in 2026"

https://statspanda.com/blog/elon-musk-wealth-per-second

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We should not need "pantries" with so much wealth in this nation. Unacceptable that we treat students like this.

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Unacceptable that we treat *anyone* like this.

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𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴. 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘫𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘚 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘴.

𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘟𝘪 𝘑𝘪𝘯𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬.

𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗫𝗶 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝗺

Kowtowing to tyrants makes him think he’s strong.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-china-xi?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=501423&post_id=217617411&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3i9ct&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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Well it’s not like China is an enemy, unlike (checks notes) Canada.

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AP reports that Trump offered to sell US weapons to China.

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First, impeach all the sycophants in his "cabinet" ... then go after the phat man himself.

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Set your AI search on the following…

“Compare and contrast elon musk to howard hughes”

Elon’s future is written in the past.

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Hughes designed and built the Spruce Goose. Elon has never done such a thing.

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"Howard Hughes was driven, but he wasn't a fucking idiot"

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A bit odd but not a idjut.

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Meanwhile, never forget that Musk got tossed out of PayPal for being too unethical for PayPal.

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Nah, that's easy to do just from watching The Aviator. Hughes actually knew some things about the areas he dabbled in, and his mental illness mostly harmed himself.

Let's not waste half a city's worth of electricity and water getting 'AI' on it.

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𝐓𝐚𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫-𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐰 𝐛𝐢𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐬

Expect several sternly-worded letters.

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I think Schiff will roll this into his investigations of all the banners of that orange bag of shit's face.

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Might even get a "tsk, tsk" finger wag.

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𝐍𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠

Not gonna work there, Jensen.

locked doors only deter honest p̸e̸o̸p̸l̸e̸ agents

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One more time - the 'agents' aren't doing anything they aren't told to do. That includes breaking the rules that the companies making them claim to have set for them.

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Indeed

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘦. 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘈𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘈𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘤𝘬.

𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘈𝘐 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 “𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦” 𝘈𝘐 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘈𝘐 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/24/openai-hacks-australian-government-health-data/

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Six fighters just took off full tilt boogie to the NE. Watch out Canada! Or, maybe Pennsylvania.

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(cnbc) president super intelligence has been t̸h̸i̸n̸k̸i̸n̸g̸ stinking again..

𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 ‘𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲’ 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬

𝑈.𝑆. 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐷𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑙 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑢𝑒𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟.

“𝑊𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦,” 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑡𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑎 𝐹𝑜𝑥 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝐶𝑢𝑝 𝑔𝑜𝑙𝑓 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝐼𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑖𝑠.

“𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑔𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑠, 𝑠𝑜 𝑤𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦. 𝑊𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡,” ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑.

but

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑’𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑙 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑚 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈.𝑆. 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑢𝑒𝑙 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑠.

pfft what do they know anyway? The Soooper Genius has it all figured out!

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"So a diesel export ban would probably do little to assuage U.S. concerns about affordability. It would create uncertainty that deters business investment, in energy and other industries. And it would further weaken America’s hand in its geopolitical rivalry with China over energy.

In short, a ban would be a really bad idea. Which is why it’s probably going to happen."

Professor Paul Krugman a few days ago.

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'You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump' -- Fran Lebowitz

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And something about no need to look for anyone more stupid once you meet him.

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He's doing a grand job fucking over the world economy.

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it is apparently his superpower..

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Morning all. ☕️

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Good morning, all.

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Launch window opens at 8:15 AM (Eastern) for SpaceX Starship #14. They're going to try to loft the Starship up into orbit this time. All previous flights (that didn't explode) have been suborbital; i.e., below the 100 km Karman Line.

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Keep the cherry red Tesla roadster company?

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Karman Ghia! I thought those were the coolest back in the day.

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That's because they were the coolest. Fun as shit to drive!

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Parents of one of my friends had a KG convertible.. that was THE cool car.

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Saw a Corvair station wagon at the Lane Motor Museum. The sign beside it very carefully avoided mentioning Ralph Nader or his book by name.

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I'd like to see it go boom as well, also, too.