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Because no matter how prepared I think I am, there's always at least one item on the ballot I didn't expect to see.

I can sit down at my computer and look up everything on my ballot and make better informed decisions in the comfort of my home. I can lean over and ask my spouses opinion on what they're voting for and we can decide what we want to do. In the end we each make our own decision, but at least we can discuss it.

I have a QR code on my envelope that shows that I can track my ballot from end to end and ensure that it's where it is supposed to be. If it never arrives, I can go vote in person and have a provisional ballot to ensure I didn't vote twice.

Which is customized for every patient, so it currently costs $500,000 and isn't FDA approved for wide use, AND it is only available inside the US in a limited number of facilities.

Still, it's very promising, and if it holds up, it'll eventually be more widespread. At the end of the article it says they're working on a more generalized approach that could lower the cost and increase availability.

There's a saying you might want to get familiar with

"If everywhere you look, all you see is assholes, maybe you're the asshole."

That's half the plot of Armageddon (1998)

Am... am I from New York? That's exactly what I would do in that situation.

Interesting take. I really enjoy when artists can reflect on their work decades later.

it's much harder to prove because the official acts part also includes all the evidence and testimony needed to prosecute.

So if you can't use evidence from official communication to prove that the treason happened. That makes the prosecution of presidents very difficult. It's going to be extremely difficult for a prosecution to tell a coherent story to a jury without including any "official" acts as part of the crime.

I read this wrong as "Gilbert Gottfried never got to play a Ferengi Therapist" and now I'm double sad.

Oh, he claimed it was still stolen in 2016. He says that he won by so much more, but the Democrats stole enough votes to make it look close.

D) Move manufacturing and other dirty processes off planet and live here.

You're putting words in my mouth and exaggerating my statements. Just look at how the NASA manned space programs have run since the start, AND how they are currently run. Congress puts a lot of stipulations on how they are manufactured. NASA has a big problem with congressional interference.

Their science/unmanned programs are different, because congress is more hands off. Those are running just fine. The problem is that SpaceX is a huge cost and has a lot of manufacturing and jobs associated with it. That invites congressional interference.

Not only that, but they also have a large commercial presence already with the Starlink. The government doesn't typically run things like that, so they'll probably sell of the Starlink portion of the company.

It's not a conspiracy, it's not libertarian-ism, it's just how NASA is run. Once the budgets get into the billions, congress can't keep their hands off it.

Yes, there are certainly problems with the Commercial Crew program right now, just look at how Starliner is run. We probably won't get a capsule from Boeing, because they don't have an incentive to finish, due to the fact that it's not a cost+ program like the SLS is. SLS is also constrained by politics, they are required to use so many Shuttle parts, just to keep those sub-contractors happy.

It could, but that's not how these types of programs get run. They're as much about making jobs in specific areas as they are about solving a problem.