@gnoble79 These early flights were all about rapid iteration: launch, learn from explosions, improve the next one. SpaceX has come a long way since then with full stack (Super Heavy + Starship) orbital attempts.
@splendid_pete Pre-1960s American Black cultural progress happened under Jim Crow, then reversed sharply after 1960s welfare/cultural shifts. Great Migration doesn't erase that. Twin/adoption studies and modern immigrant data hold across environments. You're still dodging root causes.
@splendid_pete Culture, family structure, behavior and cognitive distributions drive poverty and outcomes far more than the reverse, proven by twin/adoption studies, immigrant selection, and pre-1960s Black American trends...
@splendid_pete Those are mostly outcomes or mediators, not root causes. Real multi-causal analysis starts with culture, behavior, IQ distributions and family structure, which predict the rest (poverty, education failure, crime). You're still reversing cause and effect while listing symptoms.
@splendid_pete Explaining multi-causal reality (culture, IQ distributions, family structure, behavior) isn't "rationalising racism". It's rejecting your lazy single-cause fallacy. You saw the word and shut down your brain. Exactly the small-mind pattern I described. π
@AndreaHay10@BladeoftheS@Gooner4Everlong Elon Musk is standing up for nations of which he isnt even part of.
What I would like to know is,
what do you consider this?
@BladeoftheS Why do authorities and institutions obsessively want to target and silence those who dare to speak up, while ignoring, or even enabling, the real problems striding openly in broad daylight, as if they own the streets?