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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Drone maker DJI is based in China and controls over 70% of the world’s drone market share, a combination that threatens U.S. lawmakers. As we first reported in April, 6% of DJI stock lies in the hands of Chinese state-owned businesses, which has led to fears of Chinese government backdoors, national security risks, and other fears of Chinese surveillance using the company’s drones.

    Elise Stefanik, the Republican representative from New York who sponsors the anti-DJI legislation, said of the drones, “DJI presents an unacceptable national security risk, and it is past time that drones made by Communist China are removed from America.” Of course, this unacceptable risk h















  • Any moon mining is going to be expensive because it’s the moon. That kind of travel is going to be expensive.

    We do tunnels all the time, it’s not that energy intensive that it’s prohibitive. If you add up all the tunnels from tunnel boring machines I bet you’d be surprised how many there are around everywhere. It’s simply cost from the complex machinery (that’s not energy), all the crews, the bit of the fickle nature of it. Nevermind that it doesn’t need to be a tunnel, we have huge swaths of empty land.