Tarquinn2049

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[–] Tarquinn2049 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Can't be seen trying to lower emmisions by having shorter flights to their concentration camps, that is teetering dangerously on the edge of woke... probably, it's hard to nail down where their version of woke is.

[–] Tarquinn2049 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I changed my auto correct on my first smart phone like 15 years ago now and have propagated my user dictionary and rules forward automatically with every new phone since. I've made more edits on every single phone along the way, too. But never had to change the same thing twice.

Any time it does something annoying, actually take the 3 seconds to fix it....

[–] Tarquinn2049 9 points 2 days ago

Yeah, the issue with the old moon landing tech is that the success chances were so low. It was worth it to them when it was the first, but now that it's been accomplished, there is less reason to take something that only has a 50/50 chance of working. Now, we want the odds of a successful complete trip to be at least 99%, ideally much higher. That is a much higher burden on the technology. I mean, consider the percent chance of a successful launch alone so far.

In 2023, there were 210 out of 222 successful rocket launches, about 95%. That's just launch, the part we have the most practice with... once it leaves atmosphere, the number of things that can go wrong dramatically increases. Granted, that includes a lot of unmanned launches, which have a lower burden of safety. So far in the entire history of manned rocket launches, the success rate has been 98%, have to assume including only more recent data would probably pull that up a bit. If launch alone is barely hitting 99%, how many people are gonna sign up for something much more complicated, with much less motivation than they had in the 60's.

[–] Tarquinn2049 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If it helps at all, genetic odds suggest they grew up undiagnosed if they don't think they were neurodivergent.

My dad is definitely adhd, and my mom is quite likely on the autism spectrum, but growing up my dad was just a "troubled kid" and my mom "did her own thing".

Now they just have big ol bags of repression and forced conformity that they feel ashamed to have never fully lived up to.

[–] Tarquinn2049 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Maybe we'll find out next time on "nobody asked" the show on drop out entirely about answering questions that likely have never, and probably should never have been asked.

Dropout is what college humor is called now that they bought themselves and work for themselves now. A play on them dropping out of college to basically work from home and be their own boss. Sure, it's another streaming subscription, but its like 3 dollars or something, and if you don't want to pay that, they also eventually release almost everything to youtube too.

[–] Tarquinn2049 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's always weird trying to put in perspective how valuable the things we waste are. Like to us, butter is a couple dollars, cuz it's never not there, we don't have to think about how much butter there is. There is no other tangible cost than the simple dollar value. So like if you compare it to going to see a movie in the theater, the dollar value kind of makes sense of using this butter for entertainment and teaching. But if butter didn't feel potentially unlimited to us, the cost might then not feel worth it, even if the dollar value didn't change.

[–] Tarquinn2049 2 points 2 days ago

I guess the tape didn't hold, mirror fell off sometime during the car jackers time in the car.

[–] Tarquinn2049 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can't be sure, but that was likely in response to "sending me".

[–] Tarquinn2049 8 points 5 days ago

Yeah, that stock photo site is well-known for not reliably filtering out AI generated stock photos despite having a check box specifically for that purpose.

[–] Tarquinn2049 3 points 5 days ago

Ah that's fair. Listening to him talk was one of the best parts. Don't always get to have a smart person in the white house.

[–] Tarquinn2049 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It gets worse, melting chocolate over the sprouts, and then adding the nut crumble makes them look exactly the same...

[–] Tarquinn2049 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Drones were gonna happen at that point in time, no matter who the president was. It's not like US was the only ones using them.

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