NaibofTabr

Betteridge’s law.

Ah, no, see if you demonstrate any capacity for troubleshooting printers you fail the intelligence test.

Gas tank fills in 5 minutes if you are empty and have a large tank to fill, otherwise less. Also, if I know that I am going to be away from gas stations for awhile (camping, offroading) I can fill up my can and carry that with me.

They will probably sell them to private prison companies.

So, do much astroturfing today?

Rosen misses what he considers to be a bygone era of elite dominance. Lamenting the current state of democratized influence, Rosen says “the old gatekeepers were political professionals who could count cards; small dollar donors today are amateurs yanking the handles of ActBlue slot machines.”

Abundance adherents often bristle at the suggestion that the project is orchestrated by Silicon Valley elites. But as the leaked documents demonstrate, Rosen and his colleagues clearly view it as such, and even frequently use the word “elite” by choice.

ROSEN OPERATES AT THE NEXUS of tech titans’ “hostile takeover” of San Francisco politics through a “grey money” network, documented in reporting from The Guardian and Mission Local. The Phoenix Project has dubbed this overlapping set of organizations and campaigns the “Astroturf Network” and detailed its operations in a set of reports and a pair of influence maps.

These people are villains.

Even if there is some legitimacy to this motivation, it is very myopic and selfish.

Um, I think you didn’t actually read what I wrote.

I think it has more to do with representation of the character in visual media (comic books, television, movies). Showing the character from the side is better than showing just their feet. Also, flying sideways is visually distinct from simply jumping upward, which is important when you’re trying to show the action in the context of two or three comic frames.

Also, that’s how Superman took off, so that’s how a lot of superheroes designed after him took off.

It’s about fucking time someone did.

Kristen Welker has more balls than half the rest of the media put together.

Yeah… how exactly do you ventilate 40km of tunnel under the ocean?

The pump to drive air through 25km of duct would be an impressive piece of engineering all by itself.

The duct would be a real piece of work. The pressure in the middle of that pipe would be kind of nuts.

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Huh… so…

There is not a tectonic plate boundary there… drilling a permanent tunnel could actually work… at least, it wouldn’t be especially vulnerable to earthquake issues…

That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea, of course… 85km is a very long distance to travel through a tunnel. A train would make a lot more sense than trucks for cargo movement.

If you were planning to buy any electronic devices soon, do it now and be satisfied with the specs for the next 2 years.

The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation

And, if your curiosity goes beyond that basic explanation, check out this NASA page on rocket launches:

Chapter 14: Launch

If a spacecraft is launched from a site near Earth’s equator, it can take optimum advantage of the Earth’s substantial rotational speed. Sitting on the launch pad near the equator, it is already moving at a speed of over 1650 km per hour relative to Earth’s center. This can be applied to the speed required to orbit the Earth (approximately 28,000 km per hour).

Getting into orbit doesn’t just require overcoming the force of gravity pulling down. In order to stay up, you basically have to put yourself on a path that allows you to go around the Earth faster (or as fast as) you fall back towards it. When your movement around the Earth is balanced with the rate that you’re falling, you are in orbit. This means you have to go really fucking fast, not just up but sideways.

Oh yeah, that’s a good reason to aid the expansion of global surveillance. Let’s all be complicit with the police state because we can’t acknowledge our social anxieties with a bit of honesty.

What is that, like 1 minute’s revenue for Amazon?

Pee is stored in expelled from the balls.