Trump doesn't joke. He doesn't really comprehend the concept. What he does is say something outrageous and then if there's pushback he'll claim he was joking so it doesn't look like he's backing down.

Honestly, the "distractions" are at this point so far far worse than the Epstein files themselves are that I do kind of want to focus on them.

Last I heard the judge hadn't decided yet whether the current dismissal of the case would be "with prejudice", which would prevent reopening it. Presumably his lawyers will be bringing statements like this to the judge's attention to further drive home the argument that this is deliberate persecution.

Alas, sometimes smart people do really dumb things now and then.

It really baffles me sometimes how clever people can make such basic mistakes when doing crimes.

If you're planning to do something illegal don't literally document your crime. Or if you do need to do some written-down planning ahead of time, a major part of that plan should include how to destroy that documentation at the earliest possible moment.

It's a real thing.

Oh man, I used to look forward to deleting lots of stuff so I could watch this run.

Choice is a good thing. Small communites are good. Decentralized is good because then big bullies can't come in and take your community away. Small size and fragmentation are features, not bugs.

Would be nice if the Fediverse had more of that.

There are three or four different "Technology" communities. But there might as well just be one, it's the same bubble in each of them.

2-10 million per launch, but each launch will carry ~60 satellites. So that's as little as $30,000 per satellite.

Starship is going to fundamentally change what the launch industry is. It's easy to overlook.

They're not putting up just one satellite. It's going to be a constellation. The constellation as a whole will be equivalent to a data center.

Also, it won't cost them millions of dollars to launch a single satellite. That's why this project is paired up with Starship development, the two go hand in hand. Starship makes the launches cheap, Starmind gives Starship the scale of demand a ship like that needs for its economics to work.

The actual Starmind satellites will have 175kW of compute on them, Scott made that video before the specs were released so he assumed a minimum package. But all of this scales linearly, if you double the power usage you just double the size of the solar panels and double the size of the radiators. If a 20kW satellite works then you can bolt ten of them together and get a 200kW satellite that works too.

The only people inconvenienced by "poisoning" your old comments are actual humans who come across old threads through Google or whatever in search of helpful information.

When Reddit sells data to AI trainers or whatever, they sell their internal database. It's got the deleted content in it still. So do the public archives that third parties have collected and made available as torrents.