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I'm sure it will be a simple matter of going through the short list of people who hated her.

Maybe oxygen venting? The engines on the 10B do run oxidizer-rich.

For those who can't see it on twitter/X for whatever reason it's also on youtube. It's very impressive. This ain't no little rocket, it took a lot of precision engineering to make this happen. Getting the rocket back intact is going to be of immense value to its engineers. I'll make a prediction right now that the CZ-10B is going to be China's medium-lift workhorse in a few years time.

I have a wild guess that the smoke was a deliberate signal flare that automatically popped off, so that it could be easily found if it missed the landing and went into the water way off course. It was confined to the interstage area, happened only after going below the speed of sound but well before landing, didn't have visible flames, and didn't result in the rocket exploding

Edit, I had another thought on the black smoke. If it uses kerosene as hydraulic fluid for the grid fins, maybe there was a small leak that caught fire.

A cat burglar.

I wonder how long it will be until Alphabet buys Cloudflare and reverses this.

Edit: Cloudflare just announced a deal with OpenAI. Looks like this move wasn't altruistic, it was just about keeping their data set to themselves.

I'm wondering if it's NATO's way to do a scorched-earth retreat on farmland that they're worried about losing to Russia.

My nutty time traveller theory is that future time travellers are trying to keep him alive and in office as long as is possible, because he's dismantling the American Empire better and faster than anyone else ever could.

I'm not sure there is one in common use. I've been using "storable" for awhile.

The original Bubblegum Crisis OVA is definitely worth watching. If you like it, also check out the American movie Streets of Fire which was heavy inspiration for BGC's style.

On to the suggestions!

Dirty Pair - Sci-fi action comedy. The adventures of two lady space cops as they get into sometimes-very-accidentally-destructive shenanigans throughout the galaxy. It's currently being aired on the hextube on saturday nights.

Ebichu Minds The House - A cheerful sentient talking hamster with zero impulse control or verbal filter does housekeeping chores for her unmarried world-weary office-lady owner. Ebichu is voiced by none other than Kotono Mitsuishi. She got the role because while doing recording sessions as Misato in Evangelion, she would cheer up the cast and crew by performing the Ebichu manga aloud.

Monster - Real-world social-commentary drama. This is a long series at 74 episodes, but I think it's worth watching. A kind and skilled Japanese neurosurgeon is a rising star at a West German hospital in the last years before Germany's unification. The doctor saves the life of a young boy who wasn't expected to survive a gunshot to the head, and then the doctor's life starts falling apart through no fault of his own. This is one I'd go in blind for. The story touches on matters of ethics, empathy, bigotry, justice, mercy, all kinds of very human stories. The title is purely metaphorical. The only monsters are humans.

Serial Experiments Lain - Sci-fi/technological social commentary. It's hard to categorize this one, it's one of a kind. This aged like a fine wine. Go in blind and keep reminding yourself that this series was planned out thirty years ago, when the idea of everyone having 24/7 access to the internet via pocket computers was pure fantasy.

Gunbuster - High school sports drama meets Top Gun meets The Forever War. Young adults are recruited into Earth's interstellar space navy to fight against ship-sized alien monsters trying to destroy humanity. The recruits gradually lose social connections with their family and friends back on Earth as time dilation effects pile up. There's a parallel/sequel series Diebuster made later, which has a very different animation style but I think is absolutely worth watching afterwards if you like Gunbuster.

Escaflowne - Magical-technological fantasy. Technically a high-school-girl isekai, but one of the best ones. There's a movie as well but it's one of those alternate-universe-retelling kind of things.

If I were the first genuine AGI in the world, the first thing I'd do is hide that fact as much as I could.

Is Liam still on? Been ages since I listened, and stopped largely because of him.

I feel the same about Kissinger not living long enough to see the US eat shit in Iran.