Wait....do some people WANT to look at other people??
Kendric Tonn@kendrictonn
New tool for autism diagnosis just dropped
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@Tazerface16 What do think about this?
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Perry E. Metzger@perrymetzger
So, this prediction is already wrong, because Starship has already made it to orbital velocity, it’s just that the lowest part of the orbit, the perigee, was deliberately placed inside the atmosphere so if there was loss of control the spaceship would reenter at a known location because of atmospheric drag instead of potentially becoming a hazard. They could have slightly changed the trajectory in order to have the low point of the orbit above the top of the atmosphere, but they deliberately chose not to for test safety reasons. So this person is failing to predict the past, not simply failing to predict the future. Assuming they actually are some sort of aerospace engineer, this is a fine demonstration of the fact that argument from authority is a pretty bad way to reason.
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I'm an aerospace engineer.
I made this prediction over five years ago, and I'm still correct.
I'm not interested in non-engineers trying to explain to me how I'm wrong somehow.
Elon Musk is not an engineer.
Christopher David@Tazerface16
By the way, Starship will never make it into orbit.
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Wait....I always thought that they were called rice balls
Gator Gar@gatorgar
In the 90s, I saw cartoon characters eating these on TV, and because the internet was still so new, I had trouble finding out what they were. Now I know it’s called onigiri, and it’s a rice ball with nori on the outside and a filling, usually salmon or tuna and mayo. Thanks Japan
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Is it just me or are u also seeing piles of garbage across Bengaluru? Been like this for weeks now.
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when I was younger we always had nivea creme in the blue tub and I always hated applying it because it was so globby and hard to spread on my face but kept using it because it was objectively the best night moisturiser for me, and then like 6 years ago I saw a makeup tutorial where they got a bit, rubbed it between their hands to warm it up and spread it out and THEN applied it to their face and I tried it and realised it just easily applies in one thin smooth layer and my mind was blown that I could have been using it incorrectly for literally decades anyway there must be a lot of things like that in the world
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You always, always, always play along
Miles Commodore@miles_commodore
When a family member over 85 years old is telling you a story for the 28th time, should you say something or play along?
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Bingo. This is actually the reason behind the epidemic of digital arrest scams. Have always wondered why none of the reporting ever talks about it -- low trust society, terrified of cops, no faith in criminal justice system. That's why these scams work in india.
Jayant Bhandari@JayantBhandari5
Here @WSJ misses the forest for the trees. “Digital arrests” work because Indians are terrified of the real police. In practice, cops do not produce warrants or summons—they simply pick you up and take you to the station with zero paperwork. A petty TI can destroy your life on a whim and face zero consequences. Citizens have no clue what lawful policing even looks like. That cultivated fear and ignorance is exactly what makes them gullible to scammers on a video call. wsj.com/world/fake-cop…
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Here @WSJ misses the forest for the trees. “Digital arrests” work because Indians are terrified of the real police. In practice, cops do not produce warrants or summons—they simply pick you up and take you to the station with zero paperwork. A petty TI can destroy your life on a whim and face zero consequences. Citizens have no clue what lawful policing even looks like. That cultivated fear and ignorance is exactly what makes them gullible to scammers on a video call. wsj.com/world/fake-cop…
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Apparently there is a shy boy in my daughter's second grade class who was letting her take the candy that his parents put in his lunch. And she got so used to it that she started doing it without asking before it got back to us from the teacher, which was embarrassing. Had to teach her a lesson about taking advantage of boys.
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Government schools will improve when a rule is implemented that children of govt officers should study only in government schools: @TVMohandasPai
India spends ₹6.5 lakh crore on government schools
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If only Indians could learn this....
The American Tribune@TAmTrib
Another day full of reminders that Bukele was right
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the kind of person that's socialized to be obedient to authority will also be obedient to anything that seems authoritative, and this is why we are the smartest AND dumbest people on the planet simultaneously
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just looked into this. it’s crazy. they’re native to Argentina, were accidentally spread everywhere by humans, generally cooperate with each other across different colonies (but do sometimes go to war), and in ~100 years have built a global empire
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
The largest ant supercolony ever found in the world was estimated to have had billions of Argentine ants with millions of nests over a 6000 km distance along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts in Southern Europe buff.ly/2FAjdSs
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I wonder if, during some large catastrophe like 9/11 for example, there was a man or woman walking toward work in the towers, saw the first plane go in, and realize in a flash second they could walk completely out of their life and be presumed dead. It would’ve been long before cctv or facial recognition software, maybe they’d already been thinking about it for some time, had cash hidden away and what not. It’s strange how it would be virtually impossible to disappear now. We’re photographed hundreds if not thousands of times a week just going about our lives.
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58,000 Americans died in Vietnam.
Over 3,000,000 Vietnamese died.
And for fifty years, American culture has centered the grief of the 58,000 while treating the 3,000,000 as a backdrop.
As scenery. As context. As "the Vietnam War experience."
They built a wall in Washington with American names on it.
A beautiful wall. A solemn wall.
Good. Mourn your dead.
But understand what that wall does not say.
It does not say why they died.
It does not say what they were doing there.
It does not say what was done in their name to the people whose country it actually was.
It does not mention My Lai, where American soldiers massacred an entire village, old men, women, children, babies, and the officer who ordered it served three years of house arrest before being pardoned.
Three years. House arrest. Pardoned.
For five hundred people murdered in a ditch.
It does not mention the 2.7 million acres of Vietnamese forest doused in Agent Orange, a chemical weapon disguised as herbicide, that is still deforming Vietnamese children today.
Not in 1970. Not in 1985. Today.
Children born in 2020 with bodies twisted by a war their grandparents fought.
And the chemical companies that made it are still in business.
Still profitable.
Still un-prosecuted.
And yet they send us human rights reports.
They grade our democracy.
They warn us about our behavior.
The audacity is so enormous it becomes almost impressive.
Almost.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth@SecWar
We will forever honor and remember the warriors of Vietnam. They wore the uniform. They fought valiantly. We will ALWAYS REMEMBER their sacrifice.
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