Former science reporter at The Washington Post and elsewhere. Disabled by complex chronic post-viral illness. Living on #Kauai#Hawaii. Grew up in Wisconsin. Occasional SCUBA diver.
The contract #Boeing got for a new spaceship was fixed-price, and worth much more than SpaceX got for the same job. Boeing has for decades gotten fat off of cost-plus contracts, meaning they could bloat the project until shareholders were fat & happy & DOD just kept paying them.
One fixed-price contract & they turn into helpless marshmallows.
@mrcompletely Yes I heard...turns out Billy and I share a doctor here on Kauai, a PA who is also a keyboardist who used to warm up Bill before he hit the road, so whenever I went in for a doc appt I'd get the Dead & Company update. Kauai is a small island.
Informative interview with Svetlana Blitshteyn, a pioneering MD in treating #dysautonomia (autonomic dysfunction), which has exploded with #LongCovid by @erictopol
Sometimes, all you have is the lesser of two evils. White people, please join the club and now rise to the occasion. The occasion is your own fucking life. That’s what you’re voting for.
