apemint

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[–] apemint 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

He wants to keep the money despite his rocket programs literally blowing up in everyone’s faces

What are you yapping about?

  • SpaceX is the most prolific space company in recent history, performing a launch every 3 days on average.
  • Falcon 9 is the most reliable launch system in in world.
  • Besides the 60 year old Soyuz, Dragon is the only human certified spacecraft capable of delivering crews to and from the ISS.
  • Starship is the largest rocket prototype -and manmade object- to leave the atmosphere.

And they did all this in the last 10 years.

Shitting on SpaceX just because Elon's name is attached to it, -trendy as it may be right now- is dismissing the work of the engineers who made all this possible.

And no, I'm not sucking Elon's dick.

In fact, the only reason SpaceX works well is because, allegedly, there's a wall of people shielding the company from Elon's batshit insanity. If it wasn't for them, he would have ran it to the ground already.

[–] apemint 5 points 2 days ago

"update your drivers and run windows update"

[–] apemint 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Because they're ugly, bulky and inconvenient as fuck.

[–] apemint 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think it’s loosely based on some comic books of a similar nature

Yes, the movie is Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, based on the comic Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. 😆

[–] apemint 16 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] apemint 2 points 1 month ago

There's always money in the banana stand.

[–] apemint 141 points 1 month ago

Well, not really. The cosmic microwave background radiation was a tiny fraction of that noise. What everyone saw was mostly thermal noise generated by the amplifier circuit inside the TV.

[–] apemint 72 points 1 month ago (4 children)

We're in the one where Biff takes the Almanac back to the past.

[–] apemint 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a UFO Civic and, out of all the cars I've been in, it has hands down the best dashboard. Everything is tactile and arranged in a way that I don't have to look away from the road to adjust anything.

Beyond tactile vs. touchscreen, I wish more manufacturers payed attention to ergonomics so I wouldn't have to reach into my ass to find the AC or the defogging button.

[–] apemint 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, most people just give up after seeing the price.

[–] apemint 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Fun little piece of trivia: Originally, nimrod used to mean "skillful hunter" (after Nimrod, the biblical figure) but then in 1940 Bugs Bunny sarcastically called Elmer Fudd a “poor little nimrod", and kids of the time not knowing the reference, simply assumed it was an insult on Elmer's character.

And that's how a cartoon rabbit single handedly changed the meaning of a word.

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