NASA freezes Starliner missions

That took long enough. Insane that the gov was entirely silent after this week's starship launch as well...

Even though I'm not an elon fan, pretending to not notice for political reasons (not to mention the insane halving of launches at Vandenberg AFB) is completely insane and damaging to our country.

I wish I had any idea on how to deal with the Elon situation. I genuinely believe SpaceX wouldn't be achieving nearly what it is without him, but he's obviously also going way off the deep end these days and it's uncomfortable to watch one man with that much power getting increasingly unhinged.

It's something I constantly wonder about, I strongly believe we should be taxing the absolute shit out of people and working hard to flatten society, but I also worry that we need insane people in power sometimes to get stuff done. Starship (hell, even F9) is an astonishing achievement and there's zero chance that innovation would be possible anywhere except SpaceX or another entity with very strong leadership (Valve or Steve Jobs' Apple if they made rockets)

> I strongly believe we should be taxing the absolute shit out of people and working hard to flatten society

We wouldn't have SpaceX or Tesla with that policy.

> I genuinely believe SpaceX wouldn't be achieving nearly what it is without him

It simply wouldn't have existed without him and the conventional wisdom would instead be that what he's accomplished is impossible.

> insane people

Musk is the sane one. It's the rest of us that are insane.