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    SpaceX’s Starbase is coming alive again after a lull in Starship testing

    The cynicism in this thread is really something else. Most people here are so eager to see the brand fail that they’re completely ignoring the actual engineering happening right in front of us. The "taxpayer funded" talking point is factually stuck in the past. NASA contracts make up maybe 5%...
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    Russia is about to do the most Russia thing ever with its next space station

    Both the US and USSR accepted extreme risk. The Soviet program was more willing to knowingly endanger crews for political goals. The US had deadly failures, but not a comparable pattern of knowingly flying missions expected to kill astronauts.
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    Gay World of WarCraft guild forced to change name because of user complaints

    Personally, I think its bullsh!t to ban that guild name, but I'm not surprised. I get the argument, "But the members are gay and it's not a derogatory word in that case." Unfortunately the argument, "but it could be derogatory if members aren't gay," makes the first argument moot. If it can ever...
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    Google cofounder called Trump’s election “deeply offensive” in leaked video

    FTFY
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    How the Xbox One draws more processing power from cloud computing

    I don't mind the "non-user friendly" internal HDD. I would much rather add an inexpensive external USB3.0 HDD that I can bring with me to friends' houses with my saved games on anyway. As long as I'm logged into my XBL account on my friends' XB1, I have access to all my games saved on a...