That increase in overall launches matches the increase by SpaceX alone, which performed 134 Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches in 2024, up from 96 in 2023. The company performed more orbital launches than the rest of the world combined.

Holy shit.

Yep, makes sense. Thanks for your efforts!

Great list, thanks for putting that together!

Yeah I get it, I don’t really have personal social media accounts, but I’d open them for a business.

If you’re going to go the content production route then that’s another whole ball of wax. Can be very good for business if it takes off, but you’d have to figure out your strategy for that and execute on it. Customer builds or just stuff you’re building in general can be good. It shows off the process and generates trust/desirability. If someone buys a custom piece, it’s kind of nice to have its story fully documented.

But content production, editing, publishing and social media interaction takes time, skill & effort. It can be quite the commitment to do it right.

I’m sure there’s different ways to generate sales, hopefully you can find something that will work for you. Some kind of platform to get the word out will help. Maybe you can find a niche and develop a reputation through word of mouth. You’ll need some kind of sales and marketing strategy, whatever it is.

It sounds like you have experience with the back of the house stuff. Logistics, supply chain, production, etc. Customer facing side is very different. Just be realistic about what that’s going to take.

It’s certainly possible to do this. Just beware that building furniture and woodworking is a very different skill than running a business.

Running a business means endless sales and marketing and customer service and follow ups and dealing with vendors and stocking supplies, managing inventory, doing taxes, handling finances, managing partners and employees, renting space, maintenance, payroll, etc.

Just be realistic about how much of the job is actually building things and how much of it is going to be about… everything else.

It sounds like you’re trapped inside a media bubble that’s feeding these positions and stories to you. Don’t confuse the stories people are talking about with your own life.

There’s always been crappy stuff going on. There’s always been amazing stuff going on. The human race is not dying. Some stuff gets better, some stuff gets worse. If you hyper focus on all the bad stuff and outrage that the algorithms are shoving down your throat then you’re going to get pretty crappy. It’s like trying to live off of sugar.

Retake your agency and live your life; be yourself. Don’t go crazy obsessing over yet another doomsday scenario someone is spinning for clicks.

This emulator rocks. Anyone know of a similar emulator for TI84 Plus CE?

I believe you uncheck “Hide extensions for known file types”

Yeah you got taken by the clickbait headline just like me

Oh this looks nice! What did you use to cut the mortise & tenons?

Curious to see what the economics of starship will shake out to be

Those are normal crystalline panels, not tandem

Are there any perovskite/monocrystalline cells in commercial production yet anywhere in the world? I keep seeing a lot of buzz for adding a perovskite layer to crystalline silicon cells, but I’m not seeing any in actual production. Maybe I’ve missed something?

When I was a child I thought that people’s symbolic beliefs were their authentic beliefs

That’s rough. But now that it’s all gone, consider moving to disappearing messages. It’s kind of freeing when you don’t have to worry about the burden of immutability.

What about the past 250,000 years of lost music?

Looks great! Did you use any finishing?

This only works if the bridge is financed as an NFT

Not enough context, impossible to answer this question.