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.
Informative interview with Svetlana Blitshteyn, a pioneering MD in treating #dysautonomia (autonomic dysfunction), which has exploded with #LongCovid by @erictopol
I would like a $12,000 EV that would be perfect for the small island where I live but Biden admin is putting a 100% tariff on Chinese EVs and American EVs cost $10,000,0000.
Welp the last little pocket of #covid sanity has collapsed. The infusion center I go to regularly just eliminated mandatory masking. One nurse out of eight I can see is wearing one. And I'm the only patient of four masking.
I kinda thought it'd be a permanent policy in a roomful of cancer patients and other sick people. Nope.
I watched a bunch of "Super 70mm Panavision 50s-Style" AI-generated highly stylized movie trailers of films like Dune, Star Wars, LOTR etc. The first four or so were mesmerizing. Then it felt like I had eaten a bag of Cheetos and I got a little nauseous & I never need to see them again.
Conservative policies kill. The longest study comparing death rates during liberal vs conservative rule, in the UK and Australia, looked at a century of data. Same holds in the US.
My friend told me her #cat recently died. It was TWENTY-EIGHT (28) YEARS OLD. I asked if she called the Guinness Book people and she said she didn't want to sully her pet's memory with such tacky commercialism.