Yet another Starship failure. I know they're proud of iterating quickly, but surely they could spend a bit more engineering and QA time to save millions...

That’s actually quite typical, I’d like to make that point.

It’s ok, we’ll just tow it outside the environment

Revenge of the woke mind virus

Happy cake day!

there was consequences/investigations by the FAA

That was a flight test. This was a ground test. Ground testing is not a licensed activity with the FAA, so they have no reason to get involved here. (Per Adrian Beil of NASASpaceflight)

tax payer dollars

Not really. SpaceX are paying for these tests. While NASA have agreed to purchase Starship launch services for the Artemis program, they aren't funding each test individually. The Starship contract for Artemis is fixed-price, not cost-plus. Whether SpaceX blow up one Starship or ten during the testing phase, NASA pay the same amount for the operational flights.

There’s a timestamp in the photo. Yesterday at 23:00 CDT.

But the idea behind doing things with the risk of them going boom is to learn things. I'm not sure they're learning what they need if they're going from testing Starship in launches to going back to static firing. If the idea is to rework the engines for Starship, I have to wonder if that's a fundamental enough step to put the entire project back to pretty much square one.

Could you possibly whitewash this any harder?