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?

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)

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.

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

They are two different things, in the same way that running towards a rabid dog, and sitting still while a rabid dog runs towards you, are two different things

“I just don’t think the dog should have rabies in the first place” is a perfectly reasonable thing to say, and it’s not going to make the dog not have rabies

“If you don’t vote Harris, you hate America”

Great way to convince the folks at hexbear and .ml to vote Trump

Hell yeah, that’s what sets humans and non-humans apart: if part of our pack can’t survive on their own, we take on the burden of surviving for them. No other animal can survive a broken femur like humans can, and it’s not because we have some incredible healing factor. Whenever I’m on the verge of feeling despair, I think about that 15,000 year old broken femur

Plus of course capable of coming up with ways to cheat

Yup! Ingenuity is our greatest strength! People like to talk about how a naked human with no tools is weak, and like yeah, but that’s like saying your average house cat could kill a gorilla if you simply removed its muscles

I got a bone to pick with this kind of diagram. Everyone likes to talk about how much better other animals are at things than us, but if you look at animals holistically, humans are really fuckin good at everything. Like yeah there’s a bunch of animals that are faster than us, a bunch of animals that bites stronger than us, a bunch of animals that are more muscular than us, but we’re consistently in like the top 10% overall

Finna make a version of this meme where it’s mice and iguanas

“A Personalized Profile analyzes your unique head and ear shape for precision sound,” reads the option on the Call of Duty store.

Sounds customized for your specific ear shape??? I’ve never been less willing to believe something in my life

Yeah, I’ve never seen a vegan say that either. Didn’t say I did. It’s always carnists trying to catch vegans on some imagined technicality so they can pretend they’re hypocrites. I put the word “debate” in quotation marks because there isn’t one—it’s not a debate if one side is founded entirely on ignorance of the other’s position

Unfortunately, honey bees aren’t the bees we need to bee helping

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36457280/

Entirely true. My favorite stupid argument is about lab-grown meat. People don’t seem to understand that veganism is practiced for a variety of reasons. Is lab-grown meat vegan? It depends on the vegan.

My rule of thumb is that I’ll eat it as long as nothing was permanently injured or killed to make it. Factory farmed eggs? Nah, I’ve seen videos of macerators. My neighbor’s chickens’ eggs? Hell yeah, I’m friends with those chickens

ETA: then there’s the breast milk “debate.” Can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen numbskulls try to argue that breastfeeding isn’t vegan because “milk is an animal product”

“Just gotta enable the OEIS menu in the .sysbin folder and it’ll make that program CHIM, that should solve your problem”

What it looks like when I ask “how do I put Cura on the taskbar”