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    In ur base, hacking ur rockets
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  1. Thomas Stafford (commander, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project) dead at 93. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/science/space/thomas-p-stafford-dead.html
  2. But also unproven, as algorithmic manipulation nearly always is. It feels like USG can't face the reality that TikTok's target age groups hates them that much without any help from the Chinese, and their own attempts at psyops either fail or are actually amplifying the message.
  3. Given that Bezos is on the march against SpaceX starting about mid-February and word of ULA acquisition, I don't expect him to be stopped here either.
  4. I really think it's just data wars. I had to look into Amazon and Alibaba these couple of days and it struck me how much Amazon just looks like a desperate attempt to substitute Alibaba and thus prevent ReD cHiNeSe InVaDeRs from getting detailed data on the transactions of American businesses. Alibaba famously used this data in lieu of normal financial reporting to produce credit ratings and push SME microloans.
  5. Sounds like he dodged a bullet there. That's, pardon me, gaslighting. (Although I may be spoiled by a largely toxicity-free workplace where I pretty much adore everyone... from a distance) What if I told you about all the tax avoidance and money laundering going on in restaurants where I... Wait, did I tell you the COVID-era blanket moratorium on health, safety and fire inspections is still in place Russia-wide because of the war? Yeah.
  6. Expanding from beyond the Russian spaceflight thread... Anton Frolov, The Downfall of the Neuronet "And who knows what the warrior is? What technology will come along next?" Comments be like: "Butlerian Jihad?" "BUTLERIAN JIHAD!" "Omnissiah be praised..."
  7. I believe this was initially "sold" as an anti-COVID sanitary measure. But, as always, it's just cost-cutting with a smile. Is it? Forcing you to have more first dates or having to shell out to impress sounds like a sleezy customer engineering strategy. Plus, you're not producing content for social media and free marketing for the venue if your smartphone is in your pocket. Post at least four photos of every course to Instagram, or else.
  8. Shuttle (and Apollo?)* astronauts were all trained to drive their emergency escape M113, to their absolute delight * I believe the Shuttle crew just left no space for a driver, but this wouldn't be an issue for Apollo
  9. I think you're conflating two big groups. The first are trolls. Now, back in the day, trolling was a difficult task. One had to switch apparent political alignments like a T-1000 to get under the target's skin. This day, however, the battle lines are very clearly drawn, so one can blanket-posture as, in most cases, a far-righter sharing the various degrees of conspiracy theories, although the "breadtubers" also produce some madm... people from among their audience (and back in the Runet, we've got our own Reds vs royalists culture war that's kind of orthogonal to the Anglophone one). Point is, they don't necessarily believe the stuff they spout, it's entertainment and roleplaying, although oh gee can it be a political rabbit hole. The other group are actual nutters. Now, here's the problem: they don't gain validation directly from your enragement, as trolls do, they gain validation through elitism. The conspiracy nutters and their equally delusional counterpart, the uncritical mainstream enforcer, are in the game because they believe themselves the lone heroes holding off the hordes of ignorant rabble and the sneaky and nefarious powers-that-be to get the message out. Therefore, all their internet posting is actually really important... but at the same time they don't really care about interaction with anyone.
  10. "Pardon my newest friend. He's dead tired."
  11. So it's more or less understood that tooth fillings have potential as accidental (oh my gosh, that's terrible) AM radio receivers. Can perceptible sound be induced or by a solar storm (catastrophic magnitudes included), or am I a failure at physics?
  12. Il-20 is no pretty thing but its name hides an ancient secret that is far more visually offensive
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