No, We Shouldn’t Ban Waymos Over a CatDec 12
on kitkat, the beloved sf feline who was run over by an autonomous vehicle, and jackie fielder, the pandering sf politician who now wants to ban the vehicles altogether
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How a 50-Year-Old Law Makes Domestic Supersonic Flight Impossible in America
startups are building ultrafast, ultraquiet supersonic jets that could cut travel times in half, but washington still outlaws flight speeds over mach 1
Chris Dannen
May 30, 2025
In January 2025, a prototype of the first privately built supersonic plane slipped through the sky over the Mojave Desert, reaching Mach 1.1 without any sonic boom. When its manufacturer, the ironically named Boom Supersonic, delivers its final product to airlines in 2029, it will be the first new civilian plane to fly supersonic since the Concorde’s final flight in 2003.
But it won’t hit Mach 1 over the United States thanks to 14 CFR § 91.817, also known as the Anti-Supersonic Law, an unholy product of government incompetence, environmentalist astroturfing, and Luddite subterfuge that closed the door on supersonic domestic flight in 1971.
No, We Shouldn’t Ban Waymos Over a Cat
AI: From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be FreeDec 10
research shows most large language models, when prompted with thousands of moral dilemmas, would save the lives of palestinians over israelis, zionists, and ultra-orthodox jews
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Breaking the Outer Space Treaty and Ascending to the StarsDec 6
a 1967 treaty bans ownership and resource extraction in outer space, preventing colonization and development. we must end it to secure humanity's survival.
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