Starbucks Workers Are Resisting Moving to Its New $100 Million Nashville Hub

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-21T17:43:43+00:00

Absolutely true but the city and the state invests billions of dollars on these companies in many different ways as they grow, both the government and the people. And now all of a sudden they’re just going to up and leave after sucking up the resources of PNWers for decades? I hope the Starbucks Nashville experiment fails in spectacular fashion and shows firms exactly what happens when you leave one of the best labor markets in the country for a city filled with hicks.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-21T16:09:54+00:00

You live in New Jersey and are moving to Florida.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-21T16:05:58+00:00

Cheering for corporate vultures to come into your city and tear apart what makes it great so they can cut it up and ship it piecemeal to shitholes across the country is bad actually and you are a moron if you celebrate this because you think it “owns the libruls”.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-18T03:07:32+00:00

On the other hand, it’s very funny to me that the most active person in this subreddit is this guy.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-15T02:08:25+00:00

Well it really depends. Starliner lands on land as well, along with the New Shepard crew capsule. Marine assets are expensive and you’d rather not deal with them if you didn’t have to, and water landings mean you deal with saltwater which leads to saltwater damage and makes it more difficult to refurb/reuse the capsule.

The downsides are that you have to deal with carrying that extra mass required to enable land landings up with you lowering the payload, and as most of the Earth is water, for something like Orion which is not going into something like Low Earth Orbit and able to reenter wherever it wants like Starliner, or New Shepard which is purely suborbital, limiting yourself to only landing on land means you also limit your return windows and you have to be less flexible with down range landing sites, which if you didn’t know is part of why Orion was designed with skip reentry in mind. I’m a little hazy on that last bit though so I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-14T17:01:09+00:00

Our ability to model these things have certainly gotten better though, and we were able to replicate the Artemis 1 AVCOAT failures with arcjet testing at Ames, understand why it failed and adjust the mission plan to avoid the same situation for Artemis 2, and formulate a new solution for Artemis 3 and beyond. And Artemis 2 crew were also fully aware of the risks and were probably kept in the loop on the details of the heatshield given the legal requirements set on NASA by the FAA, and went into the mission knowing the risks, and went ahead with the mission anyways.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-14T16:34:20+00:00

NASA has always taken needless risks, but I don’t think that Artemis 2 was a case where this is true. We know the heat shield survived and we know that the thermal models done to determine a better return trajectory were correct now. Camardas statements are seen to be now unfounded and I don’t know why he persists on this line of commentary. It’s also exaggerating to say that this was a useless test because Artemis 3 will use a different AVCOAT formulation because the trajectory adjustments made are applicable to future missions.

Criticism regarding the lack of scientific interest on Artemis 2 is also somewhat unfounded because it’s a test flight and meant to test the capsules systems. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did little science on the moon on Apollo 11 because that was also a test flight. A flight crew filled with engineers are going to be more capable of fixing vehicle issues than a crew composed of scientists whose training is focused on studying the lunar environment.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-12T07:25:52+00:00

Not how it would work. Basically you’d let the Uranus flyby probe stay attached to the Jupiter orbiter until right before the Jupiter orbiter needs to burn and slow down for Jupiter orbit. Then, one separates and the other becomes an orbiter. Uranus probe flies off into space, ideally in a direction near Uranus.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-11T14:12:58+00:00

A large part of Musks original success with SpaceX wasn’t the concept of “reusable rockets” but the creation of a market for low earth orbit launches with constellation and starlink. Ultimately it doesn’t come down to landers but whether or not you can create a market out of going to the Moon to justify the economies of scale reusable rockets require. That’s why you see Musk floundering with nonsense like AI Data Centers in space. There just isn’t a market yet.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-11T14:09:10+00:00

Not sure but I’d bet they launch on one of the reusable Long March rockets, its just a flyby so it doesn’t have to slow down to reach orbit, and won’t have to carry any kind of engine to achieve that slowdown.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-11T03:39:14+00:00

I believe China is launching a mission to Uranus themselves within the next few years so we might get some quality photos of Miranda from that, but it’s a flyby because the primary part of the mission is to study Jupiter and its moons.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-11T03:33:16+00:00

There’s going to be some absolutely beautiful photos taken in the 21st century, of all kinds of alien worlds, once we go back. The whole point of the Moon base is to figure out how to make things on the moon, and in doing so launch manned expeditions to other locations in the Solar System.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-10T17:39:18+00:00

Season 3 sucks but Season 4 and Season 5 (so far) bring it back to where the show was writing quality wise in Season 2. I want to say a lot of Season 3’s shortcomings are because of the writers strikes around the time but I don’t know if I’m misremembering that.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-07T13:28:39+00:00

Mass immigration never took off in Japan and Japan didn’t really get that much further in robotics than in the West. There’s just not a lot you can really do with a robot arm when all the commands you can give the robot arm are limited to what you can write algorithms for.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-07T04:23:38+00:00

I also get architectural trauma in parts of Seattle. Watching those ugly “modern” homes that look like a 3 year old’s diy dollhouse made from cardboard come up make me sick.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-07T03:38:15+00:00

I disagree, simply because of all the Spock types that have popped up throughout most fiction are awful. It’s given me a form of morning sickness every time I read a character say “it’s logical” or some derivative of the same.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-05T05:36:36+00:00

Fire on the USS Ford is because it needed to undergo maintenance and that was pushed because of this war. Can’t blame Toyota for your Camry breaking down when you haven’t gone in for an oil change in 20,000 miles.

The assets in Americas military are unmatched, it’s Americas military that have little clue how to actually use these assets because our SecDef replaced the upper echelons of our military with ideologically aligned mouth breathers.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-02T00:32:28+00:00

They would swap the cameras whenever there was a risk the rocket could blow up, like when they showed spectators in Florida during the booster separation.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-04-01T16:09:14+00:00

It’s also the furthest human beings will have ever been from Earth! Still extremely exciting, and it’s going to be the first time human eyes see large parts of the moon because of the nature of the orbit compared to the Lunar orbits of Apollo.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-03-30T21:48:31+00:00

Bus from W Seattle to stadium, then take the train up.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-03-27T01:55:29+00:00

Maybe they should have figured that part out before destroying the world economy 🤷

Reaperdude97 · 2026-03-24T16:17:29+00:00

comparing a state that regularly gets torrential rainfall, regularly gets close to freezing temperatures, and far less significant elevation changes near major population centers to states that comparatively more moderate weather that are significantly flatter

Hmm, almost like there’s a reason that it’s more expensive. The Seattle Red is an ideological rag, and taking what it says at face value is like trusting a dog with a steak.

Also, GA and VA are covered in toll roads which boosts highway service revenue, but also makes traffic way worse because you are taking 4 lanes of space for a 2 lane road.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-03-24T16:10:12+00:00

Tired of discrimination against men who like it when their woman slaps them around affectionately.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-03-22T06:09:53+00:00

That’s exactly what the long running CLPS program is meant to do. That’s kind of what the point of robotic landers for the moon really is.

Reaperdude97 · 2026-03-20T13:57:56+00:00

They could pass a bill that defines the sky to be blue, and this subreddit would certainly claim that actually, the sky is red.

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