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☕ David Antoine in #space
On the topic of Artemis, here is a speech on why the current approach may not yield a good outcome. The author of the video did a very good job explaining the seemingly unnecessary risks the actual mission planning poses. In front of an official NASA audience... A must watch. m.youtube.com/watc...
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Zero Edge Late 2020 - Early 2021: Riots misclassified for political games. 2021-2022: Dehumanization misclassified as safety. 2022-2023: Annoying. 2023-2024: Political persecution misclassified as justice. 2024 - 2025: Thorns misclassified as roses. Roses misclassified as thorns.
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🦧 Simon Gray "We are a race of tit-men, & soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper ." - Thoreau
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🤚🏻 Vivek How was it?
😀 Tom It was okay. It was the latest one that was cowritten by the author's son. I noticed a stark difference in the writing right away, but it was still just as readable and enjoyable.
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☔ Johannes I liked it a lot, actually. One of my favorite sci-fi series. And yes, I think I heard something about that! The Wandering Earth was made into a movie in 2019, but it seems kind of so-so unfortunately, I hope Remembrance of Earth's Past does better.
😀 Tom Interesting, I read The Three-Body Problem (and the sequels) not too long ago after seeing it mentioned all of thr time. I haven't read any of the author's other works, but if it was made into a movie, it's probably worth checking out the book.
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Daniel Holmes I recently heard a Paul Washer sermon the other day, talking about the role of Deacons and Elders, but more specifically Elders. He spoke to the danger of teaching and how if the fear of God isn't upon you when you're speaking then you need to go and repent. Furthermore he said that just as a husband should be willing to lay down his life for his wife and his children, so the responsibility for an elder is. You must lay down your life, because you are not given authority for authority's sake... you're given the authority to serve.
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💬 Subreply Autumn has come with its goodies. Reply bangs lets you refer a reply and author gets the mention. Bang replies by using ! in front of base-36 identifier. Spotify and YouTube social links were added. Unique name handles across the network allows you to set new emoji status every time you feel like it. Top left logo is your emoji status.
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👨‍💻 Matthieu V. how can I set multiple URLs ?
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🧑‍🎨 Adam Rajnoha I really like subreply's simplicity, indie-ness even. Found myself pressing "save" on posts i like to let the author know, then I realised how altered my mind has become.
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Zero Edge I have been looking at Novavax which seems to be closer to the "standard" vaccines we are used to. I am also waiting to see what the overall outcome for those who have already gotten it is. If it is less severe each time until its basically "nothing". I probably wouldn't mind passing thru a few times as opposed to multiple injections every year indefinitely. Already had it once..
☕ David Antoine Yeah still not inactivated type. It is a subunit type vaccine with chemical adjuvants to boost the response. And apparently, the EU commission authorized an advance purchase agreement of 100 million doses + 100 million others as option while still being under Phase 2/3 and under rolling review by the EMA. Sputnik V also under review, but no contracts in advance. How strange. I don't trust them. Inactivated types only used in China, Russia and India. Still, it's done too fast.
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👨‍💻 Matthieu V. some find them too "scratchy", I can get that point, but I never used lubed switches yet and I must say I'm pretty afraid to try, I fear to not be consistent on all my switches...
🧐 Nrmn I read some test where the author preferred them non-lubed. He claimed lubing changes them for the worse
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😀 Tom Something inconsequential bothers me: A novelist writing a series of books featuring an American, spells "curb" as "kerb". "Curb" is the U.S. spelling, "kerb" is the British spelling. That spelling seems unnatural to me, I like the way other British words are spelled, but for some reason, not this one. I wonder why the author uses that spelling. I've only noticed it in his recent novels, so I wonder if he's used the American spelling in the past, and if so, why he changed.
🤘 Matthew Maybe the author has a different editor who hasn't reminded them to do a :%s/kerb/curb/g op on their manuscript?
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Cole Hudson The attempt to get physicists to use constructor theory has the same energy as the push towards geometric algebra in the gaming industry. There's an analog with functional programming here too, does not imply the same dynamics however
🦿 Lucian Marin A theory to explain other thories, that's the interesting part about it.
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😀 Tom Something inconsequential bothers me: A novelist writing a series of books featuring an American, spells "curb" as "kerb". "Curb" is the U.S. spelling, "kerb" is the British spelling. That spelling seems unnatural to me, I like the way other British words are spelled, but for some reason, not this one. I wonder why the author uses that spelling. I've only noticed it in his recent novels, so I wonder if he's used the American spelling in the past, and if so, why he changed.
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☕ David Antoine Something even more inconsequential and maybe a bit related to that bothers me: why so many Americans pronounce the word nuclear, "nucular"? It's very stupid and drives me crazy... How in the world the syllabes nu-cle-ar get transformed into nu-cu-lar? You don't pronounce the word clear, "cular", do you? It makes zero sense and I even heard that pronunciation from some scientists, which is pretty... Baffling. Whatever...
🤘 Matthew Maybe the author has a different editor who hasn't reminded them to do a :%s/kerb/curb/g op on their manuscript?
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Cole Hudson for totally unoriginal reasons i have looked thoroughly into zig and in finding it pretty compelling. i have a soft spot for languages that strive to be high-level assembly
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Cole Hudson Yes, Starlink is still underrated as a technology on its own terms. But its even more underrated as a Gurridic tool for social change (see amazon.com/dp/B07J...). When internet access is decentralized, authoritarian tools for controlling information (e.g. the great fire wall) no longer work.
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☕ David Antoine Don't know if it can be fully decentralized, Starlink still needs access to ground relays and governments approval. But I'm not a specialist anyway... Also, dozens of thousands of satellites are gonna be a disaster for ground astronomy. What's next? Giant orbital billboards for ads? Makes me depressed to think about it... I'm all for it but they need to limit the max amount of operational satellites, because big corporations will not care.
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Cole Hudson for the californians, the LAO provides a fairly thorough analysis of each proposition here: lao.ca.gov/BallotA...
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🤔 David Much appreciated! I will say that in my area of California--the Central Valley--there has been quite a push to vote No on proposition 23 (dialysis). Funny how the text bears little semblance to the fearmongering by the advertisements (<_<)
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