China Manned Space Agency officials reaffirmed their goal to conduct a manned lunar landing no later than October 2029.

Looking forward to seeing a crewed moon landing in my lifetime. Three days on the surface isn’t bad either, that’s about the maximum they got with the Apollo program.

I know it’s a big system, but it being down this long makes it seem like more than just a crash

I don’t think Haiti has enough of a military to do anything here. Like, El Salvador has been carrying out airstrikes with helicopters on what they’re saying are gang compounds. I haven’t seen anything about military resistance from the Haitian government.

Regardless of whether his mistress was a spy, a lot of NVIDIA GPUs are making their way to China (and Russia, through China). NVIDIA got too big too fast and ignored a lot of the legal shit you kinda have to do as one of the biggest companies in the world, and then their tech gets used for open source Chinese AI and Porky brings the hammer down.

What a strange series of events this has been

It is a little funny that these laws are always attributed to Asimov, but a lot of his stories instead explore the ways they can be misinterpreted, subverted, etc

The current one is almost always stickied on the home page, that’s pretty close

Gem of a quote from an article about new US anti-drone efforts:

Though the U.S. downed 80 drones, many fighters quickly exhausted their air-to-air missiles. Three F-15E crews even attempted—unsuccessfully—to drop laser-guided JDAM bombs on drones.

The rest of the article is kinda interesting as well, apparently they’ve started using laser guided rockets (with proximity fuses that were originally supposed to go to Ukraine!) in an anti-drone role. Only really works on the slow ones but it’s much cheaper than an air to air missile.

Huang is married, right? What a way to find out your husband is having an affair

Tesla to end Cybertruck production

To celebrate liberals winning elections: this is a type of liberalism I didn’t even think of

To be fair, there were 10 trans people either elected or re-elected last night and as best I can tell from searching them, she’s the only one involved with the US military. It’s just like, pick any of the other ones to highlight!

The 1911 was endorsed by the Idaho DSA but I don’t think it won anything

Per her own campaign website, she is a software engineer at Redstone Arsenal, a gigantic US military instillation. Please do the bare minimum of research before making these embarrassing posts supporting the MIC.

America is a laboratory designed to discover infinite varieties of Hitler particles

In other news, Idaho proves they have awful taste in guns

Adding to my previous comment about the electoral college state compact:
222 EVs worth of states have already passed bills to this effect. After today, another 61 EVs now have a Dem trifecta in the state government, so if they also join, they would be past the 50%+1 required.

Constitutionally, the states have full control over how they allocate electors, so if Dems want to be cool (lol), they can just ignore the supreme court. State level Dems tend to be better than national ones, especially in red/swing states, so this is something to keep an eye on.

Reducing community input is probably a net positive given the amount of NIMBYism in NYC