halcyoncmdr

The friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is a threat to them.

And kidnapping since she was supposed to be released.

Gestures broadly at basically every CEO avoiding punishment for the illegal shit their companies do daily

You would have to show that Trump specifically ordered the alteration. That almost certainly didn’t happen and it was someone else in the administration that actually made that call.

Gonna be a really expensive lawsuit. That is paid out by all of us taxpayers.

I wasn’t even referencing Blue Origin there, I was referencing ALL rocket launches. BO is a very tiny sliver, they hardly launch shit because all they do is a handful of tourism flights that don’t even go to orbit. Actually, BO is the worst of the bunch currently because their launches still don’t actually have a use other than tourism.

At least SpaceX and ULA launches send satellites to orbit, resupply payloads, and crew to the ISS. Starship is working towards modern Moon and Mars missions, and while SLS is a boondogle created by legacy Space companies and Congress, at least it has a generally good goal. BO is still just making the engines ULA now uses, and futzing around with their first orbital rocket with mixed results.

Rocket launch emissions are visual but in reality a small portion of overall carbon, about 0.1% of all emissions. Even accounting for the difference in altitude where they are exhausted, it’s a tiny fraction.

The fucking cows in the beef industry produce a lot more carbon emissions than every rocket launch. Approximately 12% of all carbon emissions in the world every year. You just don’t see it coming out the exhaust so you don’t think about it. It’s the reason that reducing beef consumption alone is one of the fastest ways a regular person can effect an actual real world tangible change to carbon emissions.

I’ll re-clarify… Any non-CEO that’s been there.

It seems that the mental bullshit that enables someone to operate as a large company CEO can even overpower something that brings normal people to tears.

Knowing this, how are we not putting them into asylums for the safety of the rest of society?

I’ll take anyone that’s been able to experience the Overview Effect.

The overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as “a state of awe with self-transcendent qualities, precipitated by a particularly striking visual stimulus”. The most prominent common aspects of personally experiencing the Earth from space are appreciation and perception of beauty, unexpected and even overwhelming emotion, and an increased sense of connection to other people and the Earth as a whole. The effect can cause changes in the observer’s self concept and value system, and can be transformative.

A 2018 questionnaire survey of 39 astronauts and cosmonauts found that humanistic changes predominated over spiritual changes. In particular, the survey found a moderate degree of change in the Perceptions of Earth subscale (Earth as “a beautiful, fragile object to be treasured”), which significantly correlated with subsequent involvement in environmental causes.

Immediately after his October 2021 Blue Origin flight, William Shatner told founder Jeff Bezos, “What you have given me is the most profound experience. I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now.” However, in October 2022 he recounted that it took hours for him to realize why he wept after stepping out of the spacecraft: “I realized I was in grief for the Earth.” He later said that “I saw more clearly than I have… (the) slow death of Earth and we on it.” His biography Boldly Go recounted that “it was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands… It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.”

Just don’t claim to be a federal agent. That’s very explicitly illegal. You can dress up however you want otherwise.

Get that lawsuit money after the fact.

If you think they’re not monitoring the fediverse, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

Just release it all without redactions. They had time to redact before the deadline. Their claims for redactions, “protecting the victims” is bullshit. The victims have called for them to be released the entire time.

A reminder that the push for gun control legislation in California started under Reagan in response to the Black Panthers arming themselves and cop watching back in the 60s. And was supported by the NRA, in case you ever thought they might not have had a racist undercurrent at any point on their history.

History repeats, roughly every 80 years or so as the generation that experienced the events directly all die off. A little early this time, but…

We have the Black Panthers in Minnesota now watching the cops yet again.