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It’s probably stood up for the picture, considering it’s not much use photographing the lack of a visible bike on black and white film…

But Your Honor, I… I just failed a Constitution check is all.

Except that the original post from TikTok or insta (can’t tell which was first) wasn’t even censored, and some dumbass on reddit added the crayon scribbles.

Agreed. Fourscore and twelve just works (English used to use this, at least in formal speech and writing).

I think memes can be used in well-known cases of bigotry to better remind a wider audience of our society’s issues. Maybe it shouldn’t have been used if this was something new (I feel many prefer a proper report or article if some well-known celebrity is newly found to be hateful), but in this case we’ve all seen this tweet a thousand times by now. Those who dislike political memes can just block it, and humor has been used effectively for centuries (if not longer) to bring awareness to important political issues. If it’s a sensitivity issue, the slur could be censored, but it hits harder to leave no ambiguity in what she said.

Actual Space Systems Engineer here (and not for SpaceX): Yes. One of the more recent ones had a communications failure, and self-destructed to make sure it had very little chance at causing the damage the above people have their arses in a knot over. It’s rapid prototyping. Why?

NASA projects run overbudget and over deadline because they’re trying to get it perfect in the first few launches. That’s only part of the problem, but it’s a significant part. Look at Artemis: 1) launch, 2) launch to the moon, 3) launch to the moon for a long duration stay with humans. That takes so much time and money and simulation and testing of everything that even a government has trouble. So what do they do? They adapt, extend deadlines, increase funding, etc.

Private industries don’t have that luxury. If SpaceX decided to run Starship 500x overbudget to get it right in the first few attempts, they’d be bankrupt. How do you remedy this?

Give it your best guess, strap a bunch of sensors to it, watch it (probably) explode (which really is any failure, as it’s required to explode for safety if it can’t land), use that data to improve the design, and then try again a few hundred times until it doesn’t explode anymore.

And in the end, it’s cheaper than spending years predicting every mode of failure and preventing them like NASA does. It’s a different mode of operation, because industry and government have different resources and norms down to the way the project is structured from a leadership point-of-view.

And that’s why commercial rockets are supposed to explode.

(All this said, Fuck Muskrat)

Isn’t a machine drinking oil the equivalent of a human pouring a glass of blood? Are all oleovorous robots vampires?

Like like they’re maybe trying to avoid the hate crime charge via an insanity plea…?

:þ supremacy

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Appears to be the 50501 protest thing 50 protests, 50 states, one day. It’s a coordinated peaceful protest at each state capital against project 2025. https://50501.carrd.co/

I like trains and computers

We are Hive. We are Legion. And you are One of Us. The crier of “Sheeple,” harbinger of individualism.

You, too, are Legion.

Fuck yeah!

I am only a humble instrument of The Community; I bring only what must be said, and it would have been said without me. We are inevitable.

pussy

You’re allowed to say pussy

Ok now I need to run a cfd sim to check the terminal velocity of a car…

Are any of these about right? I’m just beginner in Swedish (native English) but they seem pretty close.