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Reminds me of the skydiving "experts" who post on Facebook who see a high performance landing fatality and say "look it's perfectly simple! His shoot didn't open when he pulled his string! It was whoever packed his shoot that is to blame here."

So you agree that not only are Russia the aggressors, they are committing systematic war crimes as a matter of policy. Now do you agree that Russia should, with no conditions or ifs and buts, retreat from Ukrainian territory and stop fighting this war? Again, this should be a very easy question for you to answer and it’s very telling that you have so far refused to do so.

I got a motorcycle for my wife last week. Best. Trade. Ever!

I wondered a bit about that too, so I looked it up, here is one explanation: "Sidestepping decades of precedent, Musk says that Starship will have no separation mechanism at all. Instead, at some point during the design or testing process, Musk decided that a separation mechanism was entirely superfluous and that the same effect could be more or less replicated by using existing systems on Super Heavy. By using the booster’s gimballing Raptor engines to impart a small but significant rotation on the rocket moments before separation, Super Heavy could effectively flick Starship away from it – a bit like how SpaceX currently deploys Starlink satellites from Falcon by spinning the upper stage end over end and letting the spacecraft just float away thanks to centripetal forces. Because Starship is something like five times heavier than Super Heavy at stage separation, the ship would effectively float away from the booster in a straight and stable line, use cold gas thrusters to settle its propellant, and ignite its six Raptor engines to head to orbit. In return for the slightly unorthodox deployment profile, if this new approach works, SpaceX can entirely preclude the development of a pusher/spring system capable of pushing a ~1300 ton Starship away from Super Heavy. That approach is possible on Starship in large part because the ship’s six Raptor engines are completely tucked away inside a skirt, meaning that there is zero chance of nozzles being damaged by impacting the booster interstage."

I cleaned up the ARINC transcript so they aren't all crooked and gross looking. ARINC-Transcript.pdf

Well that was just a chaotic way to excuse Musk removing the labels from Russia, China and Iranian state media. He could have just made it a lot quicker by simply removing their state media labels in the first place, but then people like you wouldn't have supported that right? This way he actually has you cheering for him.