Because a good conman can always fool gullible and facts and the truth is less appealing than propaganda for the enough most.

The link is interactive, so to see licenses one has to select the year (2024) and click on "launch licenses" - the Vulcan license number: LLO 23-128

Could you provide some evidence, because AFAIK any launch has to have a license and only if the launch is for DoD or NASA it doesn't require FAA approval (though historically they have never been in conflict), and the second Vulcan launch was with ULA as a customer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), so it was a certification launch but not with DoD as a customer, hence would automatically fall for FAA jurisdiction.

I followed the link, and I found (as I expected) that the ULA second Vulcan launch was licensed by FAA, how about that?
https://www.faa.gov/data_resea...

I do not think so, Hera is the ESA mission and SpaceX is doing a taxi service, ergo a commercial launch, ergo the FAA authority.
The issue is with FAA giving exception due to the second stage not going through reentry (as many already posted here).

Yes, however FAA gave exception for Hera because: Falcon 9 anomaly was in the second stage reentry procedure and the launch of Hera requires so high dV that all the power of Falcon 9 is being used, i.e. Falcon 9 booster is not recovered and the second stage gets escape velocity - no reentry.

Regarding the anomaly, SpaceX has already submitted required documentation - the cause is known and mitigated, however I get more and more convinced that FAA has some grudge against SpaceX, as e.g. the recent Vulcan anomaly (blown side solid booster nozzle) seemed perfectly OK for FAA.

Agree, flat tax, no excemptions, income taxed the same regardless of where it came from (stocks, salary, and all the special fancy names invented by the top 1%, which are now practically tax free).

Additionally people should have pre-prepared taxes avaialble and just approve/add corrections on an online form, after all IRS has most of the data for most of the taxpayers. Germany does it better, practically for an ordinary salary person all one has to do is to sign a form and send it, ideally before a soft deadline, but no stress, in case one misses, one gets a nice letter asking to not forget to send the form within the next year or two.

Definitely, I have to agree that handling client's data is beyond AI capabilities, after all "there's no 'I' in AI".

Seems like someone is not really up to date with the technology. The AI is progressing astonishingly rapidly and the very nature of AI is to find patterns in data in hyperspace.

Some time ago I took an online course and there are now chains of AI LLMs, called agents, and one example was:
Input: "please find interesting patterns in US salaries and present it in a graph"
The agent fetched proper data, learned python, found correlation between salaries and company size and plotted graphs showing that the best salaries are in middle sized companies - my jaw dropped.

The only reason AI didn't turn the world "upside-down" is that only few are aware of it's capabilities.

There's Rocky Linux now.

"The world somehow got along fine for most of human history with very little law ..."
O, I'd encourage you to read about the reality for the most of the human history - to certain degree the law was even more restrictive, e.g.:
- everything in the country belonged to the king, including forests and all the creatures living in them, fish in streams and lakes and any violation was punishable by you know what
- every merchant passing a city was by law required to enter and trade certain goods
- every city was by law limited to how many goods was able to produce
- to be a master (to have ones own workshop), one had to pass an exam and only when the craftsmen trade allowed (i.e. there was an opening)
I could keep going - the general idea I get from the history is that, true there was much less law, but not because the life was better, but because ordinary people had no rights, so one could simplify everything to:
1. The emperor is always right.
2. In case of doubt see 1.
I prefer nowadays modern democracy with all its complexities and messiness.

Bogus claim not supported with facts or evidence - so far any technological progress, which made stuff cheaper instead led to more people being able to afford it, rapid development and never foreseen totally new branches of industry employing even more people, who got better and more comfortable existence in return.

It's true, however It's also not how most people understand this statement - confirmed with all the BS in the media. The core doesn't move backwards it spins just slower than the crust but still rotating the same direction as the whole planet.

I'd hope to avoid this troublesome trend of "click-bites" and misleading titles on /.

You seemed to poke "an" anthill with a stick.
And the wrong one for that matter. ;-)

You started an interesting and deep topic, however before we go into details of 9/11 terrorist attack and its consequences, let's finish the merit of this discussion, i.e. Russia adhering to the signed treaties, specifically:
- the treaty of not violating Ukraine's borders in exchange for Ukraine's nukes and later unprovoked invasion of Ukraine
- genocides in Ukraine on civilians
- developing chemical weapons despite signing a treaty of not developing such, and later using it to assacinate foreign citizens on foreign soil

Let's first finish the topics above, I'd like to hear your opinion about it, and then we can discuss another country.

All hearsay and just events - yes, US was at war, you're saying US has no right for self-defense?
Please provide a clear evidence of US breaking an international treaty (I provided 2 on my side), otherwise please go back to praising your leader and clean up his portrait, the friendly visitors might knock the door any moment.