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  1. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/29/elon-musk-spacex-starbase-texas.html Starbase, Texas, has notified some residents that they might “lose the right to continue using” their property as they do today, according to a memo obtained by CNBC. The town, home to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is considering a new zoning ordinance and citywide map. The notice, sent to property owners in a proposed “Mixed Use District,” would allow for “residential, office, retail, and small-scale service uses.” Starbase plans to host a public hearing on June 23 about the proposed new zoning and map for the town. The notice was signed by Kent Myers, the city administrator for Starbase who recently accepted the job, according to ValleyCentral.com. Representatives for Starbase and SpaceX did not respond to requests for further information on Thursday. A “type-C municipal corporation,” Starbase was officially formed earlier this month after Musk’s aerospace and defense contractor prevailed in a local election. It is now run by officials who are SpaceX employees and former employees. As of early this year, the population of Starbase stood at around 500 people, with around 260 directly employed by SpaceX, the Texas Tribune reported. Most other residents of Starbase are relatives of SpaceX employees. The company town includes the launch facility where SpaceX conducts test flights of its massive Starship rocket, and company-owned land covering a 1.6-square-mile area
  2. Yep, a shitload of us are going to be dragged to this. At least it has Margot.
  3. Definitely. It was a good TV show, don’t get me wrong, but the book and movie were comedies with dramatic elements, while the TV show turned into a drama with comedic elements. Also, never understood the laugh track. About 15-20 years ago, I got a big-ass DVD set/rip of the UK/European version, and there was no laugh track and it was so much better.
  4. The amount of effort required to check every underwater support of the Kerch Bridge alone, and then to station security up and down the whole thing is huge.
  5. Texas is one special legislative session away from banning chemtrails as well. Louisiana passed their porn-blocking bill and then a year later we followed suit.
  6. Shit, I'll say that Donald Sutherland was a better Hawkeye based on the book. There were a lot of shit novelizations of TV shows and movies, and a lot of shit novels that TV shows/movies were based on, and for whatever reason, I read a lot of them (including Amerika, Kris Kristofferson's weird-ass Red Dawn series). The original MASH novel was great. The follow-ups written by the original author were..not great, not terrible. The sequels were....partially/fully written by W. E. B. Griffin and....
  7. There's been people saying it was appropriate to release it in November, and I'm not sure why. edit: figured it out: "It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld my man completed ...
  8. At any one time, there hast to quite a few of those aircraft down for maintenance or parts and tucked away in a hangar, which means the ones they hit were probably the working ones, so their capability was probably degraded beyond the 30% of the overall aircraft. Could have easily been 40-50% of working aircraft easily.
  9. Sounded like somebody dug it out of the rubble. Hus dad built the house in the 50s.
  10. Apparently a whole lot more behind it - his dad had built the house in the 1950s. His husband said it was neighbors who didn’t like gay people. And a whole lore more going on. Hard to say how much is true,
  11. John Redcorn from King of he Hill or the Chief from Parks and Rec may have been shot and killed in San Antonio. This guy
  12. The suspect was also 59, so if he wasn’t killed he might have done the killing. https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-texas-south-side-dorsey-drive-fatal-shooting-man-found-shot-dead/273-8bfb5a3c-5967-442d-a674-ca0722aa245d
  13. No idea if these will show or not.
  14. Mimi in that episode....
  15. Just imagine how many officers will be purged/thrown out windows. Lot of institutional knowledge lost, and they probably don't have a lot left at this point with all of the losses in Ukraine.
  16. Yeah, he's had some decent parts here and there, but I'd imagine it's tough if you're not headlining. He was great in Parks and Rec.
  17. I think so, but if they got wind of Russia setting up a huge attack, no way they could pass up a bunch of fully-fueled bombers sitting around.
  18. Yep, that’s what everybody is saying. Won’t be surprised if they release it in theaters with the buzz it’s getting.
  19. Written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, FRANKENSTEIN is on Netflix this November. Starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, with Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz. Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation
  20. I've had fantasies about a nurse that looks and dresses like this. Or am having them (spoilers ahoy).
  21. Pretty much this. Somebody figured out another show that's not Reacher, that appeals to middled-aged guys.
  22. Barracuda named paired up with Heart's Barracuda song... (granted the song is late 70s).
  23. Imagine a submarine built around delivering a shitload of small drones. Or re-purposing some smaller cargo ships. The Navy is doing the latter. Not over the breadth of the Pacific Ocean in the kind of numbers that Russia could throw over Canada. Maybe in 10 or 15 years (assuming they get their carriers fully operational and more of them). Their bomber mainstay was designed and started being built in the 1950s (and is still being built today) and still can't reach us, but it can hit naval groups and our bases in Asia. It might be able to reach Hawaii. Xi'an H-6 - Wikipedia Russia built that formerly massive arsenal for a full-blown slugfest over Europe and the Arctic Circle. Russia was building with the idea that we would destroy a significant number of their systems on the ground or in the air, so they had to have a large enough number to get through (or they worried that their shit would break down a lot, but if only 40% worked, that's 40% that worked).
  24. Yep. There was some idiotic notion of enveloping the US in some kind of "Iron Dome" like Israel has, and this should put that to rest. All you need to do to defeat it is to park some vehicles near key installations and you can cripple the air defenses. And given that Russia is the only country that can really do a massive aerial attack against the US, and they would never do that, it was kind of pointless to begin with. We are now rushing towards a future where a country could take a third-party cargo ship, pack it with hundreds of drones, and park it in another country's port, within that country's air defenses, and absolutely cripple a city with attacks against the electrical grid, naval ships, air defenses, etc. From an earlier post:
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