It’s almost unreliable narration the way Liz is presented, I’m sure that was super tough for her but what’s shown in comic is ultimately just the positive stuff.

To be fair, there was a whole story arc where immediately after Mae told her, she had a panic attack and was involuntarily committed.

The trouble is that it then goes into a “trapped in the psych ward” plot, resolves nothing (explicitly showing Liz as indignant that she didn’t actually get any therapy while she was stuck in there), and then pinballs between them planning to have a second baby before Mae starts HRT and “normal” comics about video games and whatnot, with Liz appearing fully-adjusted and supportive. It’s hard not to think there wasn’t significant drama left out.

This is why I (a Georgian) am doing early in-person voting and not mail-in voting. Between the tactic you mentioned, the possibility of disqualification due to a bullshit “signature mismatch,” and sabotage from DeJoy (who is still the fucking Postmaster General because Biden apparently hates the USPS as much as he does and failed to make board appointees who would remove him), mail-in voting is unacceptably risky unless you have no other choice. And that’s sad, terrifying, and – most importantly – fucking infuriating.

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Take the invoice to the insurance and ask for an adjustment. Good luck.

I’m feeling like bees, but vacillating between Nicholas Cage and Oprah:

Al Gore, too (never mind the EC vote, which he also would have won if not for the first Republican coup).

Good luck, they’d have to ban nuclear subs and no nation wants to throw that protection away.

No, that doesn’t follow. I’m pretty sure nuclear subs – or nuclear aircraft carriers, for that matter – rarely dock at commercial ports, and there’s no reason (other than hypocrisy, which is not relevant) that a country can’t decide to bar nuclear ships from commercial ports while still allowing them at military naval bases.

a thorium powered container ship

If the experience of the NS Savannah is anything to go by, the major hurdle that ship is going to face is Greenpeace etc. fomenting irrational anti-nuclear hysteria until it’s banned from so many ports that it’ll be too difficult to operate it profitably. I hope I’m wrong and I wish them luck.

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I was under the impression that a “rocket” does not include the payload.

Sure, I think you’re totally correct… if the part with the engine is separable from the part with the payload. But with the Space Shuttle, that isn’t the case unless you’re limiting yourself to talking about the SRBs. The orbiter is a spaceplane and that makes it weird, but its main engines are rocket engines (as opposed to a hybrid ramjet or something) and it launches vertically, so I think it’s still fair to also call it a rocket.

Or as another example, consider the problem scaled aaaaaaaall the way down to something like this:

Is the whole thing a “rocket,” or does that only describe the bottom half and it’s called something else from the payload bay up?

Remember, unless we’re talking about Enterprise, “space shuttle rockets” includes the orbiter itself. The orbiter’s main engines were where all that fuel from the external tank was going, after all! From that perspective, I would argue that the main “space shuttle rocket” was definitely much more complex than the Super Heavy booster, because the crew stuff, cargo stuff, spaceplane stuff, etc. was integrated into it.

I feel like your criticism of the shuttle system being less reusable than advertised might have been more applicable if we were talking about the Soviet Buran (which indeed used expendable Energia rockets to reach orbit), not NASA’s shuttles.

I binge-read it last night after making that previous comment. As a cis guy, I particularly enjoyed this comic about her being excited about surgery, and particularly, Dave’s reaction to it. I also wish there were more comics exploring Liz’s feelings about her marriage turning into a same-sex relationship without her orientation necessarily changing, as well as Harper’s reaction to it (she’s depicted still calling Mae “daddy” and I feel like there might be some subtext there). I’m happy for her that things have been [depicted as] working out well, but also a little worried since there haven’t been any comics since April 2024, ya know?

Peak oil was about conventional oil. Had we not discovered other sources and methods for extraction then we likely would have run out. And running out isn’t accurate, it’s just that oil becomes harder to extract and thus too expensive for regular uses.

In other words, we did hit Peak Oil and that’s what caused the development of things like fracking, oil sands, and deep ocean drilling.

Between the orbiter (reused), the boosters (reused), and the external fuel tank (not reused), which parts are not “just a small part” (in terms of technology/complexity/cost, not physical size)?

TIL Real Life Comics didn’t end in 2015. I kept that bookmark for years hoping for a new post, but gave up eventually, which was apparently slightly too soon.

It’s not just oppression against “other forms of transport;” it’s literally classist and (to the extent that race corresponds to class, which is a lot and on purpose) racist. A lot of these zoning laws about minimum parking requirements and minimum lot sizes date back to a time when United States government policy was explicitly designed to perpetuate segregation, and forcing every new parcel and development to be large and expensive enough to be unaffordable to most black people (because they were, and still are, poorer on average because of other institutional racism) was a part of that.

A significant portion of it is also literally about making friends with the NPCs.

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Now that you mention it, I feel the same way.

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