Hugely tall and extremely rigid, because if it wobbles while the projectile is moving through it, it will tear itself apart.

The shallower your incline is, the more air you have to fight through post-launch to get to orbit, during which you're losing velocity. And to get into low-earth orbit you have to reach 28000 kph (17000 mph) because it's not so much about going up as it is about going really fast.

So you need to leave the end of the gun going fast enough to lose speed to air resistance and still reach and maintain orbit. I haven't attempted the math, but it seems like your vehicle would burst into flame going that speed in the atmosphere.

Compressions force the blood flow. If you can keep some blood flow through the brain, almost everything else is survivable/fixable. Compressions are 100% vital. Brain tissue dies real quick without blood flow.

Also if you're doing it right it is fucking exhausting manual labor so switch out every minute if you have another person available. And you will probably break some ribs, that's just how it is.

It's such a train wreck, and it must have been obvious to a lot of the people working on it that it was going to be a train wreck.

I can really only imagine that this was the product of a corporate yes-man culture, where critical voices get sidelined or eliminated and the solution to every problem is to just throw money at it (but not too much money, just enough to make it look passable).

So if we could completely annihilate a mass equivalent to the Moon with an equal mass of antimatter and capture all of the energy with no losses to heat and without ripping the device apart, that would work?

No problem, we'll have it done next week.

So sad that it should come to this

Hmm, this is specifically about the SOEs purchasing unsold (but finished) properties using loans from PBOC. There shouldn't be any need for the developers to still be involved with the properties afterward. The SOEs should be making the housing available for use after purchase.

If the SOEs offer the properties for sale, they will have to lower the sale price in order to move the properties because they already aren't selling at the current price (that's the problem that the government is trying to solve).

But you're right that leasing is an option, and could be a long-term income stream that could offset the debt being incurred with the loans. That might make sense.

When? Under Stalin?

Hmm, this made me wonder... does Trump keep toupées in different styles?

Only if she dances.

It's a hook they can use to drag the Christian voting bloc around with.

How else would you say /etc ?

Yes, it's a bailout. Government funds from PBOC are being transferred to property owners via SOEs. This is a direct purchase by the government of bad assets which could not be sold and are currently losing money for the owners. It's a wealth transfer from the state to the owner class.

Privatize the gains and socialize the losses.

"A falling knife has no handle."

You mean between March and May of 2024? None so far as I can tell, though it's hard to find specific information. HR 8034 passed the House on 20 Apr 2024, if that's what you're referring to, but it hasn't passed the Senate or been signed into law yet, and in any case it is a funds appropriation bill meaning that all it does is earmark some money from the federal budget for the purpose of military aid - no material has been shipped yet based on this bill, nor will be for awhile.

Not sure why you omitted the rest of the sentence:

As of September 30, 2023, the total amount disbursed for TARP programs was $443.5 billion and OFS collected $425.5 billion

as it explains the difference. TARP purchased shares from the banks with the money. It later sold the shares and recovered the majority of the money. I assume the other ~$13 billion was lost in operating costs (or possibly graft, there's always some graft). Ultimately TARP didn't cost the government very much.

Huh, they got this thing in place and operational in two months, that's impressive. I definitely thought it was going to take longer.

The inspections are happening in Cyprus before the trucks are shipped to the pier to be unloaded. The trucks unloading at the pier are already past the inspection point.

Therefore not smoke and mirrors because the potential delay you're talking about is already past, and the aid is currently being delivered.

Any that try will find that their ability to make a profit will be greatly reduced and it would have been more “profitable” for the developer to just take the money from the state owned enterprises and retire.

Yes... and well, let's extend a sort of best-case into the future:

1. the SOEs purchase unsold housing from real estate companies
2. the SOEs then offer those units for sale to buyers at reduced prices
3. the real estate companies spend the money from the SOEs to develop new properties
4. the completed new properties are put on the market... where they are now competing against the units that were previously sold to the SOEs

This is bad. Either the developers have to build low-value units which they expect to be able to sell at lower cost than whatever the SOE will be selling units for, or they have to build high-value units which they expect they will be able to sell to wealthier clients who don't want the units that the SOEs are selling.

If the former, then they will undercut the SOEs' ability to sell the units they purchase, leaving the government holding bad assets. If the latter, then there will be no additional affordable housing built.

So I think you're right, it would make sense for a lot of the developers to simply take the money from the SOEs and then leave the market.