I like AntennaPod for podcasts.

AMfAB

I brought up Northrop because I’m guessing they bid a Cygnus derived deorbit vehicle.

How is this a handout? They bid for a contract and won it vs competitors.

I’m hoping we get a source selection statement soon where they spell out why companies like Northrop and Blue didn’t win.

I think my next campaign needs a pawn shop that’ll consider buying anything but will seriously low-ball it if they can’t move it easily. And maybe need to talk to an expert they know.

Ok but honorary planet vs king of the dwarf planets?

Biden ft. Obama, you are on the clock

They know they can get away with it and almost nobody will take them to small claims court.

Yup, I’m at the point where I gave up on cleaning at all because I get screwed every single time.

Eh. Mine freaks out and fails half the time I try to go full screen. And the frame rate seems like it gets awful randomly.

I’m moving and starting over with a lot of my computer / AV setup. I had Plex awhile ago but haven’t run a media server in at least a few years. Should I go with Jellyfin or Emby? Or something else? I guess the main limitation is streaming to a smart TV.

Will you feel just as smug about your moral high ground if you don’t vote and Trump wins and makes all that and much more worse?

It’s a fucked system, but it’s the one we have right now. Not voting for the lesser of two evils means you’re ok with the even worse guy winning.

They were already trying to ruin it with Tidal exclusive albums

I switched to AntennaPod for podcasts because of this. It’s also just a better experience - it auto downloads new episodes and deletes them after playing.

I don’t think this is true anymore. The cost of a rideshare with SpaceX is super accessible. Companies can launch for <$1 million. This has been huge for a lot of companies trying to launch a proof of concept or one-off, and even for some operational constellations.

AstroForge thinks they can close the business case for asteroid mining. Their concept is to launch mining satellites to near-Earth M-type asteroids to mine platinum group metals. These would go on 2 year missions to bring back $100 million+ in metal at a time. With launch and satellite costs dropping, it might just work. Their forge demo sat has been struggling but moving forward. Their asteroid flyby demo sat should launch later this year.

Redwire 3d printed a meniscus in space last year. That’ll take awhile to get worthwhile scale and cost, but it’s another interesting avenue.

Varda hit regulatory trouble, but their orbital drug manufacturing demo did its job.

That was mostly from a past group that basically disbanded. The more recent campaigns I’ve played and DMed in figure out characters together and roll stats in-person during a session 0.

I don’t necessarily want to kill all of them, but, you know, putting a metagaming mage in an antimagic field, a min/maxed flyer in a little cave, no flanking plus some poisoning to reduce sneak attacks…

I’m just done with people showing up with “broken builds” they found online and totally legit stat blocks that they definitely rolled.

In pursuit of known dunamancer Rick Sanchez

You can still get free Amazon shipping without Prime, and they generally beat the week or so that they say they’ll do for me.