Tim

I shelved her after a crash and a thousand dollar scare. I moved on to more comfortable projects that don't defy gravity. I could leave it shelved, intact and safe. But no, titan dynamics said I could use their airframe in my dissertation. I paid $200 in tariffs for monster ESCs and brushless motors. It's time to crash her or add the coolest flourish I can imagine to my defense, ego, and resume. New motors are gonna take fresh mounts on the arms and re-leveling which was a pita. I'm ordering a gh1.25 pre-crimped because I'm so afraid of another short in the same place. I picked up some 6Ss which should get us to 2x thrust to weight ratio. Should be done before the weather is nice enough to fly. Then hover tests and quad calibrations. After that, I guess you just punch it? I'm so scare to try flying again. ora pro me

@keatonc33 @mattyglesias

@mattyglesias Is it based off the game?

Star Wars: Starfighter is a hilariously bad title. How did they not spend 30 minutes brainstorming a better idea for their trillion dollar IP?

@yacineMTB this guy just punched his ticket to air to air Valhalla

@BackwardsFeet @MrsRuvi vaguely a combination of the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars (positive)

@MrsRuvi the fantasy trilogy of four books written by a homeschooler in the mid-late 2000s, selling 33.5 million copies, that is vaguely a combination of the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars

do Kids These Days read the Inheritance Cycle

@yacineMTB npc stands for nice personal computer

if you unironically daily drive windows you do not have a soul. you are not a real person. you are incapable of changing the fate of the world. unless you're john carmack. he gets a pass

@mauddweeb Come to find out The Ick is actually an evolutionary response in women to prevent exactly this.

Doesn’t that mean there is someone more fit than you to raise them? What if the ideal sorting has you raising inferior genes?

@DiscussingFilm Baron Harkonnen looks better in this movie

First look at Dwayne Johnson as Maui in the live-action ‘MOANA’ remake.

@df00z @yacineMTB manicpost even harder

@yacineMTB I don't know how to deal with this

i'm going to win

@christophcsmith They added an alg where you can just see stuff your friends post in chronological order. It’s pretty good.

In the process of making the algorithm more addictive, the X team seems to have cannibalized most of its useful properties. I could defend coming here every day when it helped me keep up with friends and tech trends, but it's all empty calories now. Considering going cold turkey.

They've now got the "For You" feed dialed in to a degree that's almost frighteningly addictive

What’s the best sci-fi you’ve ever read not named Dune, Red Rising or Sun Eater?

My dad bought this weed eater that has a metal blade instead of string. It makes me feel like the bad guys in an Avatar Movie. x.com/timpostor/stat…

My parents are on a tear clearing out the underbrush in the creek by their house. In an attempt to reclaim my childhood enclave for my 3yo nephew, I have committed crimes against biodiversity on a scale that could only be described as “small”.

@Tysenberg @uncledoomer

@uncledoomer Not only that, he holds several notions many consider to be antiquated

"youre telling me 'bronze age pervert' was...a pervert???"

@eigenrobot @selentelechia I add it to other people’s Spotify playlists to Confuse

so @selentelechia your daughter was running around grandparents' house playing the same horrid note on a recorder. so i challenged her to play 4'33" she didn't understand but was distracted for long enough that she lost interest in the recorder so im calling it a win

@ANNVYSHINSKY Twoth

OOMFie is saying that “to tweet” in the past tense is “twote”.

@mauddweeb I might be a prude but I can’t really imagine having sex at a protest

this is very on-brand

@phillippepayant @goblinodds sorry, more specifically I mean it's the only instance I can think of with smoke being the intended visual. but yea smoke from all of the above, and mist/fog/the smoky mountain hydrocarbons all tickle something in my brain that says "magic"

@timpostor @goblinodds If you’re in the wilderness and you see a column of smoke rising in the distance, you know you’re not alone out there. It’s at least a campfire, possibly a chimney. Wildfires also produce smoke but not in an orderly column.

why are explosions so fun to look at on like a visceral level like does something in evolution account for this

@phillippepayant @goblinodds Right there are plenty of instances of smoke downstream of some other utility. Incense is the only example I have though of smoke as a visual.

@timpostor @goblinodds cooking fires?

@ryanpatrickauth there's some crazy stuff tucked away in that place IIRC a literal x-wing

Took my younger 3 and my parents to Udvar-Hazy yesterday and my dad kept asking what they replaced the SR-71 with...

@BackwardsFeet not only that, but I've never actually seen a token I even cared to funge

No NFTs were obsolete the moment that right clicks were invented