Notices by Administrator (mdm@mcnamarii.town), page 2

I don't have anything against federating with #threads. It's just another server.

...I do have a problem with federating with threads, if their users can't see federated responses. What's the point of even allowing replies, then?

@mekkaokereke Mekka, I really hope you find what you're looking for on BlueSky.

And if you ever do come back to Mastodon, I hope that some of the moderation tools you've requested will finally be part of the main codebase.

@Gargron I mean... really? Am I the only person in the world that thinks Reddit's default web app is fine? :/

@fivetonsflax @mekkaokereke I grew up in the US south. All history we received painted racism as a solely Southern problem.

We learned about MLK marching in Alabama.

We never even heard about MLK marching in places like Chicago, where's he's quoted as saying:

"I have seen many demonstrations in the South, but I have never seen anything so hostile and so hateful as I’ve seen here today."

https://truthout.org/articles/when-king-came-up-against-chicago-racism/

@thomasfuchs Oh -- look at who the COO of SpaceX is -- it's *not* Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is just a guy who started the company, and then, smartly, handed off the running to other people.

Currently, like you say, he's just a distraction who shows up sometimes. Unlike Tesla, I believe Musk actually has very, very little to do with the daily runnings of SpaceX.

@thomasfuchs Exactly -- SpaceX has stated sometimes that with volume, each launch of Starship could get as low as $1m for each launch.

I don't believe that at all, and that's why said "even at 100X what they estimate". Their current rates to launch a kg to space are something like 30X less than their nearest competitor.

Regardless of where the money comes from, the people at SpaceX (thousands of whom *aren't* Musk), have done amazing things to save the taxpayer money.

@thomasfuchs @Scrappydog This is a valid question. Even with my admittedly amateur understanding of rocket tech, the lack of a flame trench in SpaceX's design is... interesting.

Even fans of the SpaceX program are questioning that now, as I heard on the NasaSpaceFlight (unofficial) Youtube Stream today.

@thomasfuchs Your take is funny -- I give you that. But even if the Starship somehow costs *100* times what SpaceX is estimating each launch could cost, it's still *1/20th* the cost of each launch of the SLS.

They are not the same.