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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Wish it said the purpose of this test. I can find what payload it can carry and that it’s end goal is to carry payloads to suborbital space, but was the purpose here to just test if it could get off the ground? For it to go up and suddenly stop going up it has to lose power somewhere, unless the purpose of the test was actually to get off the ground and bring it back down where it was and it strayed off the pad. Which if that was the case, it’s a much harder task and I’d expect them to have a few tries




  • They might not be enforcing it strongly enough, but it’s already illegal. Meaning the punishments and review process should just be reviewed/changed. That said if you look at where everyone made giant amounts of money last year it was Nvidia. It wasnt about insider information. The company just took off, and the legislative branch has actually put restrictions on the company, not voted to allow them to operate freely. Had Nvidia been able to sell in China and build more factories there the company would have been able to increase more rapidly. So the insider information would have been to sell Nvidia stock, not buy it.

    If we want to fix the issues at its core we need to find ways to ban everyone from investing in the stock market, not just government members.












  • Buffett is what, 480x her worth, with most of his money coming from investment banking as well. The Pelosis out performed him for the last ten years but she only made 250 million in that time supposively.

    To put that in perspective buffet makes her net worth twice a month. That’s at 5% growth, and the 10 year market average is over 10. Meaning he really should be making $1 billion dollars a month with average market investments.

    If you have money to invest the markets make you stupid money, the problem is that most people will never have money to invest like they do. Then again if everyone did, inflation would skyrocket as well.

    Our capitalistic system is designed around those who get ahead taking off, and the majority griding day after day filling their pockets. Banning Congress from trading stocks may help some day, but only if there was some way to make people impregnable to greed. Otherwise guess what, Buffet who wasn’t in Congress keeps going, Pelosi’s kids take control of assets and invest, the Trump organization is split between names, so nothing stops Ivanka/Jr/the rest of them from making the trades. Hell they can just make the trades in their kids names and the kids can say they are just taking care of their elderly parents anytime they want to buy something. (Those people are to old to use anything really) But the same principle applies elsewhere.

    Its better to just make strict regulations with a 3rd party investigative body… or put wealth caps, or if we could, come up with a new system. A democracy would be nice. A democratic communist society could be nice as well. Haven’t seen many of those outside of small pirate crews.


  • From what I understand Luther doesn’t believe in transubstantiation, he/they believe Christ’s blood and body are just naturally occuring in the Eucharist. It doesn’t have to become it, but you have to believe you are actually eating the body and blood of Christ. How would that be opposite if I never even mentioned transubstantiation? I just mentioned the Eucharist, which both Catholics and Lutheran’s eat, believing it physically is/contains Jesus.

    In my experience, most Christians don’t study their beliefs, so many people who claim they are Catholic, like my mother when she sent both my brother and I as kids to Catholic stuff, doesn’t know/believe that to be Catholic she must really believe she is doing so.

    So she may really believe in Jesus, and not go to church in the last 15-20 years, but she in reality isn’t a Catholic, she’s another form of Christian and doesn’t know it.

    My brother and I both got dragged through the whole communion and he did his confirmation thing back in the 90s. Whole thing was stupid. I was rejected by the Church to be baptized as a baby because my father worked weekends and only my brother and mother went. So my grandparents lived next to a priest from another church and they just had me baptized there and brought me to the church that refused me anyways. I’ll never understand the things people do just to fit in.