I don't care about wokeness, the game looks like plastic garbage and they genericized the combat

I don't think I'm wrong at all to suggest that they have different philosophies when it comes to launching rockets. The reason behind that is worth talking about, but the fact remains that they have different philosophies. Personally, I would love for NASA to get funding exceeding SpaceX's funds. We could certainly afford it. But no matter how much funding they get, Joe Public will get pissed about wasted tax dollars if NASA starts blowing up rockets. SpaceX, while partially publicly funded, is ostensibly a private company, which allows them some leeway in the eyes of the public when it comes to blowing up rockets.

SpaceX mishaps so far have not killed people. Will you still be giving them leeway when they do?

What kind of leeway do you think I'm giving SpaceX? What kind of leeway do you think I'm not giving NASA? Consider the fact that I'm morally consistent. Do you think you can answer your question yourself?

And then the concept of "and then" ceases have meaning, when the ratio between the time when there are things and the time when there are no things approaches 0

The darkest thing is the universe, in about 10^10¹²⁰ years (or seconds, or stellar lifespans, it's all the same at this time scale), after every star has died, every black hole dissipated, and every material object quantum tunneled out of existence, when energy is as dispersed as it can possibly be

I do think there's a significant difference in approach. NASA has a focus on doing it once and doing it right, SpaceX has a focus on doing it as many times as physically possible and learning a tremendous amount from the many, many failures. Be honest, did anyone genuinely believe that rocket would be successfully captured on the first attempt?

If it had blown up, oh well. That's SpaceX's whole thing. If a NASA rocket blows up, it's a big fucking deal, and suddenly we don't show shuttle launches in schools anymore

The lamp story was over a decade ago, this greentext was well after it

But also it's not an incredibly uncommon dream. I've had the same kind of dream before, though not nearly as emotionally affected as these guys

Elon Musk is an apartheid nepobaby fascist, but Gwynne Shotwell, and to a much greater extent the engineers actually doing the damn thing, seem to have their heads on straight

Mechazilla is objectively rad as fuck

She's rolling in ze hay in heaven :'(

My biggest problem with the podcasts I once loved. I fully stopped listening to anything for like 6 months in 2020, so now I have four years of backlog, and the part where I left off was right around The Worst Time Of Our Lives...

The only podcast I try to keep up with these days is Hey Riddle Riddle, and even then I tend to be like 6 months behind

Source for my claim

I should have said half of the Americans reading my comment rather than half of the people reading it, though if we include all people who speak English as a first language, the statistics don't change much—Americans make up more than 60% of all native English speakers, so at the absolute least, 3/10 of the native English speakers reading my comment are below an 8th grade level (assuming there's no correlation with Lemmy users having higher than average literacy, which I'm sure Lemmy users would like to believe, but we shouldn't make this assumption without data to back it up)

I blocked the entire Blahaj instance a while ago

I cant think of a single user I have seen from that instance that isn't unsavory

Can't imagine why you haven't seen any of the many chill folk from that server

If I understand right, they're upset that the blahaj.zone admins blocked content from CDRMITTENS on their instance. Blahaj admins can't remove content from a community hosted on SJW, but they can prevent content posted by individual SJW users from showing up on blahaj.zone

Personally I think nuke is making a mountain out of a mole hill. Blahaj admins can do whatever they want on their instance. I don't really care whether or not I can see content posted by someone who supports the IDF. I'd actually rather not see it tbh

Unfriendly reminder that over half of United States adults read at or below an 8th grade level. My favorite part of this statistic is fact that, unless you've had your reading comprehension tested in an objective manner recently, you have no idea whether you fall in the upper or lower half. Statistically, half of the Americans reading this comment read it with a lower proficiency than a middle schooler.

I mean we can simply let the kids handle the .22s, and adults like myself can stop the .45s and shotguns

Yeah unfortunately the only flaw in this plan is that they're simply aren't enough fingers for all the guns

Wake me up inside

What took Matt's code over an entire month to run, viewers optimized so damn hard that the majority of the runtime of the code is just loading the words, so they started optimizing the code to run while the word list was loading. Takes like 4 milliseconds to load the word list, and 2 milliseconds to run the program

People joke about the Parker Square, but he's unironically the most inspiring public figure imo. The king of Doing The Damn Thing

My prescription is just strong enough that the cheapest available option from the cheapest Chinese manufacturer is like $100

Very Lain adjacent! Yoshitoshi Abe did the character design for Serial Experiments Lain before making Haibane Renmei. There are many Lain fans in the Haibane community

Can't wait for 0 people to join my Haibane Renmei community that I don't have the experience or patience to mod, nor the understanding of the source material to justify creating it in the first place

ETA: I just searched, and found out one person already has made a Haibane Renmei community. It has one subscriber, the person who made it, who has been inactive since 2022. There are some things that simply can't be replicated in a smaller platform.