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Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by nailer »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #628
nailer wrote: post #623

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not sure why you feel the need to respond to me on multiple threads. As mentioned elsewhere, I am not the source of the common meaning of the term, I do not edit the encyclopaedia, the newspapers, take the photos or anything else you will see on the front page of Google when you search for “authoritarian regime”. You know what an authoritarian regime commonly means, and you know what you were trying to do, and yo…

> I am not the source of the common meaning of the term, The accuracy of your claim regarding common meaning is being disputed. You might notice that well over half of the quote you pasted from Britannica is referring to totalitarian, not authoritarian, regimes. Nowhere does it say anything like "the term authoritarian regime is commonly taken to imply".

As mentioned, the most notable examples all conform to the common definition as does every other result on the front page of Google for the term. You are welcome to dispute all of them if you want to, but I’m not going to spend time on it.

You are using hyperbole at best and simply lying at worst and you know this. You can jump on any English language search engine, discover what the common meaning of the term ‘authoritarian regime’ is and reflect which behaviour you’re involved in.

Bing produces a very nice summary for the term which also doesn’t describe the US government. You can read that and argue with it if you like.

Here’s Oxford, also from the front page of bing:

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/41327/chapter/3523271...

> Authoritarian regimes must be distinguished from “authoritarianism,” which is a significantly broader concept

Which accurately reflects the OP attempting to reduce what they wrote earlier :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43412541

and also this person:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416052

I’m not spending any more time on this thread. Pigs, mud.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by tonyhart7 »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #650
tonyhart7 wrote: post #577

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its more easier to setup 1 billions self replicating robot in space than setups 1 billions human living conditions infrastructure because back to square one turns out water and plant is more rare than metal in space also human is fragile, weak, costly, too long to make it productive. it takes 15+ year for human to be any useful at all (and not counting experience) do you think these space corp would just sit 15+ year…

At the scale of billions, likely yes. But right now, we don't have working practical self replicating robots, but we do have humans. The cost of the 15+ years is externalized, you can just lure a desperate already-grown human with shiny promises, give them some training, and ship them off. Yes, you have to ship them oxygen and food, which is expensive, but it's a solution that exists and works with todays technology…

we talking about space colonization at this point, jensen huang literally have an wall-e robot now

also space is vast and empty, even with spaceship that has near light speed it still take years to even reach the destination not even counting do extract resources or back go to earth

human literally CAN'T do that

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by davidmurdoch »

foldr wrote: post #655
davidmurdoch wrote: post #613

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Assigning blame and fault are a similar, but still different than being seen as responsible for something, but I'm actually don't care to do either (blame/fault or responsibility). The point I am making is perhaps just being taken as a semantics issue about the use of the word "administration", but NASA _is_ part of the president's administration, technically and practically. But I can see how someone could think "Bi…

NASA isn’t practically part of the administration because its leadership doesn’t (generally) change with each incoming President.

Wholly untrue. The have been 14 NASA Administrators over the course of 13 presidential terms. Each is appointed by the president.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by belter »

thisiszilff wrote: post #658
fooker wrote: post #555

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"Wilmore said he had no reason to doubt Musk’s claims about an offer to bring them home earlier" "Ken Bowersox, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations, said, “I think there may have been some conversations that I wasn’t part of.” But he said the option to fly a separate mission to the space station to retrieve the astronauts was “ruled out pretty quickly.” First hand sources: https://x.com/elonmusk/statu…

And the remainder of that quote: > Wilmore said he had no reason to doubt Musk’s claims about an offer to bring them home earlier, though Wilmore said he was not privy to such an offer. Which pretty much amounts to "I don't know, but I can't see why Musk would lie."

Musk lying...never :-)

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk...

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by 93po »

cman1444 wrote: post #333
93po wrote: post #277

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Interesting to complain about partisan politics and then write an extremely partisan article

How would it be possible to critique these partisan comments by Trump and Musk without writing an article like this? What would you have preferred they said?

well for starters, if you're writing for a tech news website, maybe just stick to tech news instead of injecting politics into absolutely every part of our lives. tell me about some new phone or video card and keep the political rants for your twitter.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by exe34 »

flanked-evergl wrote: post #648
exe34 wrote: post #468

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he closed down all the government departments that had open cases on his contracts.

Not a citation.

it's really great that people like you take online discussions so seriously - here's the citation: https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025.02....

I hope you read it carefully and we can have some intelligent conversation about the contents.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by flanked-evergl »

exe34 wrote: post #666
flanked-evergl wrote: post #648

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Not a citation.

it's really great that people like you take online discussions so seriously - here's the citation: https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2025.02.... I hope you read it carefully and we can have some intelligent conversation about the contents.

Does in no way show that Elon is being paid for DOGE.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by GolfPopper »

majormajor wrote: post #543
queuebert wrote: post #274

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If that's true, why did the astronauts confirm Musk's version of the story in an interview? Genuinely asking ...

They basically said "we don't know but I'm not gonna call anyone a liar" and it got spun for obvious political reasons. https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/butch-and-suni-send-mi... > Wilmore: I can tell you at the outset, all of us have the utmost respect for Mr. Musk, and obviously, respect and admiration for our president of the United States, Donald Trump. We appreciate them. We appreciate all that they do for…

And keep in mind that the people saying these things - while doubtless busy for the last three months - have not been locked in isolation. Even the barest hint of recent news would make it clear to them that negative comments about Mr. Trump & Mr. Musk could destroy their own careers, and threaten the programs they have worked on and the lives and careers of their co-workers.
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