TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]

Awesome! I haven’t made the switch to Linux yet, but DXVK has more often than not given me some performance boosts in more demanding games on Windows.

Alfred Hitchcock explaining the difference between surprise and suspense (in Minecraft).

https://www.shanghaidisneyresort.com/en/attractions/adventures-winnie-pooh/

You are a German in 1932, casting a ballot for Hindenburg while smugly thinking “I just saved the Weimar Republic!”

“These heroes in Russia who have immortalized their cause, our cause, who have paid in overflowing measure in blood and tears and agony unspeakable, the price of their fidelity and devotion to the oppressed and exploited toilers not only of their own land but of the whole world, now appeal to us for the food that shall save them from perishing as hostages to starva- tion, and shall we now fail to return in small party what we owe them for what they have suffered in the awful years of the revolution to break the fetters of labor everywhere and set humanity free from the curse of the ages?” – some tankie I guess

“I have no reading comprehension skills” isn’t the own you think it is.

For the purpose of the satire, they left out the whole point of the books, which is something you’d know if your knowledge of LotR wasn’t based entirely on cultural osmosis.

Over 200,000 Palestinians haven’t survived the past year and you don’t care. Never trust a narcissist to have anyone else’s interest at heart.

You support genocide. You’re a geek without a soul.

The primary source of the linked article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.20432

Observed magnitudes of Qianfan spacecraft range from 4 when they are near zenith to 8 when low in the sky.

Since this is the first run of the Qianfan satellite constellation, the most appropriate comparison would be to Starlink’s original satellites. As you can see below, the notion that China’s satellites are “significantly brighter than those of Western systems” is a inaccurate.

A 2022 paper on Starlink Original, VisorSat and Post-VisorSat models: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.17268

The Original spacecrafts have a relatively flat phase function, so they are comparatively bright over a wide range of phase angle. […] the characteristic magnitudes are: 4.7 (Original) […]

A 2024 paper on Starlink newer Direct-to-Cell satellites: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03092

The mean apparent magnitude of Starlink Mini Direct-To-Cell (DTC) satellites is 4.62 while the mean of magnitudes adjusted to a uniform distance of 1000 km is 5.50.

Clearly, even the newest Starlink satellites are well above the magnitude 7 limit astronomers recommend for satellite brightness.

On Hexbear, transphobes are executed on sight.

…this isn’t a news article… the headline being serious editorializing… Not saying it’s not true…

Not at all surprising. Hell, Hillary Clinton beat Trump by 2.5 million votes in 2016 and she appointed him to the fucking presidency.

Israel has no regard for the lives of Jewish Palestinians and loves to recruit Christians to the cause of Zionism. Go back to Reddit.

Israel kills plenty of Jews, too. Israel promotes Zionism, not Judaism.

When is your deployment?

Most Israelis killed in October 7th were killed by the IOF.

Oops.

Art Berman is a oil industry consultant (shill) who may or may not have a degree in geology – he is not a physicist and does not understand the Laws of Thermodynamics.

Go shit in someone else’s punchbowl. The future can be wonderful.

Um, acktually, we should build long-term Lunar and Martian habitats underground (lava tubes would work nicely) to protect from solar and interstellar radiation.