Unibodies do have a frame it’s just not a completely separate assembly like a ladder frame.

As others have said there are lots of places to jack a car. Nobody uses the flange on the rocker panels unless they’re trying to change a tire roadside with the emergency jack.

We get crappy government by voting for it.

Yep, and our choices are Sideshow Bob or Grandpa Simpson. Vote wisely.

As a person who’s not a young adult anymore I’m not sure how or if it ever was. My young adulthood was full of angst, rumination, poverty, debt, etc. Looking back there were definitely good things that I miss, but I’m in such a massively better financial and mental place these days that I can’t imagine going back.

And before SpaceX the cost to do anything in space was extremely prohibitive.

As opposed to now…

With SpaceX they created re-usable rocket components

Nobody had done that before? Wasn’t the promise that they would do few quick checks, refuel, and send it back up same day?

Before SpaceX the U.S. was reliant on Russia’s soyuz to get us to and from the space station.

Nasa had do use Soyuz because crew dragon was late. SpaceX won the contract then underdelivered a late product. Basically exactly what ULA or Boeing would have done.

Wanna talk about Artemis?

Meta isn’t going to “buy anyone out” if they’re federated. They’ll just turn your instance into a portal into threads for everyone using your instance, then force your users to join threads by killing the link. Meta bought insta and whatsapp because they were completely unfederated alternatives to facebook that were gaining traction that facebook could not kill.

Smothering your competitor is always preferable to buying them out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE

I was there and I was using XMPP. Interacting with google chat slowly became the purpose of xmpp. Everyone who was using xmpp eventually found themselves talking mostly to google users. Then Google killed the link and every xmpp instance instantly became useless.

We can (and are) building a community without facebook. Or we can link to facebook and find that they quickly through sheer mass become the center of the lemmy community. And then comes the knife.