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Is there anything that could go rescue them?

No.

The only Sci-fi workable solution is that they somehow park in a orbit near enough to the ISS so the astronaut can simply exit Artemis and do a space walk to enter the ISS, then be rescued from there.

But, as said, this scenario work only in Sci-fi movies

Yeah, because it so much more smart to just buy another car if someone in your family need a breathalyzer to drive just because of a beer.

It make sense only if there you keep in mind that there is no way to be sure that it will be always connected, which does not seems to be the case…

Building on US tech means the US generally has control over whether you can deploy your military assets, and gives a foreign, militaristic/fascist trending power, deep insights into your military operations. Pretending like these risks are not greater than, or at the very least on par with, “its hard to integrate systems/build our own” is silly.

I know, but it is not what I said.

I only pointed out that simple saying “its hard to integrate systems/build our own” did not automagically means that it is said by some US influence campaign or disinformation. It can be the result of an assessment done by someone with some knowledge of the reality.

The fact is that such thing is hard and if we want to break free from US tech (as much as possible) we should be aware of the fact, which obviously did not mean that we should give up.

The USA is a threat. They are actively attacking anyone they feel like. They are actively antagonistic towards their “allies” and neutral nations.

Yep, and if Canada and EU had the balls, they simply would send a message like “man, we own your debt, keep quiet or we could just sell it” and then just sell about 10% to just show how it would feel.

So any news story about how hard it is, is likely a US influence campaign.

Not necessarily. To build such systems is hard, they are not simple systems you can put togheter in a couple of weeks.

What is true is that it is difficult to distinguish between a true warning about the difficult to build such systems and a US influence campaign.

Or maybe people finally understand that it is useless to swap the phone every year.

The check in the US is done when you register to vote. Once you are registered, a variety of proofs of ID can be used to vote at your polling location.

And why the double check ? It would not be better to just go to the polling station, show your id and then vote ?
(I undestand that it is a simplification, in the US people move way more often that here and this add some other problems)

Requiring a passport and birth cert or some other strong ID are unnecessary at the actual voting site. The main reason for doing this is to make voting take longer,

Considering that if I have no one before me to vote, it take about 30 seconds from the moment I enter the polling station and the moment I am handed the cards to cast the vote I would argue that saying that this way it will take longer is not really true.
And, btw, we do the check of the document against a printed list who containt all the names of the people who can vote at a polling station, splitted between man and women.

and be more strenuous, which means that you can have a greater effect on election results by manipulating the number of polling stations for an area.

Every difficulty you build to try to make harder for your enemy voters to cast their vote is a difficulty you set up also for your voters.
And simply manipulating the number of polling station in a certain area give you nothing: people who want to vote against you will come anyway and you cannot know if they will come before your voters of after and which voters eventually will lose their patience and just go home without casting a vote

The Trump administration is building a computer system so that States can ‘verify’ a person’s citizenship prior to allowing them to vote.

As an Italian (but think most of EU citizens) who need to show my id card to vote, I don’t really see where is the problem if there is a check if the person could vote or not. I can agree that using the SSN maybe is not the right way but why should people who are not citizes allowed to vote ? For context, in Italy if I have my legal address (residenza) in Milan I cannot vote for the mayor of Rome, and btw, why should I ?

It is not this case, I agree, but to be honest it would not be the first time that some company create an artificial scarcity to keep the prices up.