I will never understand people who like roasts.
hydroptic
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I absolutely don't know, but my guess would be spambots or somesuch
Finland; our police force is already really overextended and generally doesn't give a shit about small stuff like this.
Huh, that was an interesting article. I thought the failure of the honeycomb structure to work for the fuel tanks was what killed the X-33 and I'd never heard of that aluminum-lithium alloy; it isn't even mentioned in the X-33 wiki article.
Aaaanyhow, an SSTO vehicle with any sort of "traditional" engine (incl aerospike) wouldn't be quiet by any definition, though. But thanks for that link! It really was super interesting, and I definitely get why you're annoyed.
It probably was, but the universe has a penchant for getting very interesting
Well, as long as the positives of that relationship outweigh the negatives (to you), it's definitely better than nothing
Yeah that's pretty much what I had in mind. But why would they have something like that though?
Then again this is all 100% conjecture so it could very well be some SUPER SECRET ALIEN TECH 🤷 Pretty damn unlikely but the world's gotten pretty damn unlikely recently
I wonder if it isn't just some really weirdly-shaped lighter-than-air aircraft?
Supposedly, Mark Benioff of Salesforce wanted to hire me, but he was upset because I slept in on a Friday when I didn’t have to work.
[…]
But I’m starting to think he’s a manipulator and a liar.
Yeah you might want to listen to your gut feeling here
It just seems so weird that they'd be flying a super-duper-secret experimental aircraft somewhere that populated. Not that I'm saying you're lying about anything, just that what you described seems really weird
Vaikka en demareita kannatakaan, niin tämä Orpon lausahdus oli kyllä loistava esimerkki siitä, minkälaiseen järjettömään kusetukseen oikeistolainen ideologia nojaa, kun ottaa huomioon millä kiimalla oikeisto niitä julkisia palveluita on tässä 20 vuoden aikana tuhonnut.
Oikeistolainen "niukkuuspolitiikka" ei vaikuta ikinä johtavan niihin väitettyihin lopputuloksiin, vaan tulokset ovat käytännössä päinvastaiset:
Fiscal consolidations lead to a significant increase in extreme parties' vote share, lower voter turnout, and a rise in political fragmentation. We highlight the close relationship between detrimental economic developments and voters' support for extreme parties by showing that austerity induces severe economic costs through lowering GDP, employment, private investment, and wages. Austerity-driven recessions amplify the political costs of economic downturns considerably by increasing distrust in the political environment.
Lähde: The Political Costs of Austerity,
Our assessment of the agenda is confined to the effects of two policies: removing restrictions on the movement of capital across a country’s borders (so-called capital account liberalization); and fiscal consolidation, sometimes called “austerity,” which is shorthand for policies to reduce fiscal deficits and debt levels. An assessment of these specific policies (rather than the broad neoliberal agenda) reaches three disquieting conclusions:
•The benefits in terms of increased growth seem fairly difficult to establish when looking at a broad group of countries.
•The costs in terms of increased inequality are prominent. Such costs epitomize the trade-off between the growth and equity effects of some aspects of the neoliberal agenda.
•Increased inequality in turn hurts the level and sustainability of growth. Even if growth is the sole or main purpose of the neoliberal agenda, advocates of that agenda still need to pay attention to the distributional effects.
Lähde: Neoliberalism: Oversold?
Tulee pakostakin mieleen Stafford Beerin lausahdus että "there is no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do", ja että järjestelmän tarkoitus on se, mitä se tekee
Conservatism is a death cult. It's almost 100% guaranteed that any sort of technology they tout or decision they make will lead to people dying and/or a worse outcome for humanity