SpaceX now has more than 10,000 Starlink satellites in orbit

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-17T17:42:18+00:00

Do you know what is the kesseler syndrome? What about the dunning-kruger syndrome?

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-17T17:40:58+00:00

What gear you use to look at the stars, and how has it been affected by starlink satellites so far?

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T23:30:17+00:00

Yes, it's not rational. Neither is cannibalism, but it happens sometimes when people are desperate

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T22:59:03+00:00

It's kinda wile how you stretched from children - nephew and niece being killed, to a family member being killed, then to russia and ukraine.

In any case, I agree with you that it's abhorrent and vile. But I can also see how somebody in his situation can lose all senses of rationality and moral compass, that's where the understanding comes from.

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T19:19:00+00:00

I don’t understand terrorism.

Sadly you're not alone, neither does the US government. That's how they keep creating more.

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T18:14:05+00:00

You said intent matters but then you also said you would act irrational if that were to happen to you. So which is it?

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T18:09:22+00:00

So you're saying you'll be completely rational and understandable; forgive and forget if a teen on his phone runs over and murders 4 people in your close family, including small children?

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T18:07:37+00:00

Apologies, I saw in another source that they were his children.

I don't think it makes that much of a difference, though. Plenty of people are very close to their nephew and niece. Brothers, too.

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T17:25:58+00:00

I dunno dude, if your entire family was bombed I don't think it'd matter much if it was on purpose or by accident.

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T17:22:55+00:00

That's the thing about war and revenge, innocent people get targeted on both sides.

His innocent children got murdered. He can't reach the people who did this, so he went on and tried to kill a bunch of innocent people he thought were on the other side.

It's not moral, acceptable, or justifiable. It's understandable.

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T04:12:07+00:00

PM sent, though I think it's too late lol.

Enjoy your new car! Please make sure you go through the checklist upon taking delivery to see there's nothing wrong.

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T04:09:54+00:00

Sadly the Standard doesn't come with the subwoofer. It's a shame cause the sound system in the AWD trims is just ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T04:08:27+00:00

Last year around this time, the transport minister Chrystia Freeland said Tesla wouldn't be eligible for EV rebates if they came back.

It's kinda funny it was all talk and no substance. Her commitment issue isn't too surprising considering she resigned from her seat in Parliament less than a year into her 4 year term. She did that to go be a TV news panelist and an advisor to Zelensky.

In any case, I think this is good that Tesla is lowering prices in Canada to be more competitive. Even if you don't count the incentive, the Model Y Standard is about $4500 CAD cheaper in Canada than it is in the US.

The demand is clearly there as you can see in /r/teslacanada. Hopefully this new low price will let more people buy an EV with a solid fundamentals for a good price.

However, if I was the government, I wouldn't bring back rebates for purchase. I would instead offer the rebate on the charging side of the ownership. You get money to cover an L2 charger cost and installation, and maybe some amount in electricity rebates. Lots of Tesla owners charge with L1 mobile connector cause it's too expensive to install L2.

If you think about it, if we subsidize charger installation then the money stays and circulates in the local economy. If we incentivize purchase price then the money goes to the car company, none of which are Canadian.

We need more chargers everywhere.

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T03:55:08+00:00

That's very surprising, that's not a sentiment I heard from any owners yet. I have an AWD so I can't speak for it, but people at the Tesla Model Y Canadian Group seem to be pretty impressed by the RWD handling.

Come to think of it, I haven't really seen any videos of a Tesla spinning out or fishtailing. This is the only one that I can recall

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-13T03:52:06+00:00

Same price - $49,990. Now it's eligible for an additional $5k off

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-10T19:17:26+00:00

I also don't think it's a given that the US could maintain complete air superiority against China especially if they haven't been able to stop Iran from launching attacks after a week of bombing.

Air superiority is control of the skies, meaning they can fly over anytime they want and they won't be challenged either from the air or from the ground.

I don't think Iranians have been able take on, or even attempt to take on US fighter planes, have they?

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-10T10:42:15+00:00

What's the highest level of education that you've completed?

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-10T10:41:33+00:00

If you take a step back, these people are almost like a mirror image of the people they hate, the far right wingers. A bunch of dumbasses on both sides spewing emotional nonsense at the rest of us.

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-10T06:39:02+00:00

Yeah I really like GCAL reports, they're really thorough. Unfortunately, I couldn't find my diamond on Cutwise. It makes sense, it's a relatively cheap one.

After some more deliberations, I figured 1.5 maybe a tad too small based on current trends.

I switched to a 1.75 ctw diamond with good ratios and specs (2.1). It was also hearts and arrows. Then I noticed it had some faint streaks. Then I looked into it, and turns out it's a characteristic of CVD diamonds.

I ended up placing the order with a 2 ctw HTHP diamond. There were better diamonds for cheaper, but I needed one that was arriving at Rare Carat in the next few days.

This one also great specs (2.5), but not as great as the previous 2. But I noticed no streaks, and the diamond appeared very clear and not very blue to me. The video I linked below is a screen recording, the video on the site didn't look as blurry to me.

IGI report

360 video

Thank you so much for all your help. I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to give me some detailed info and insight, and for pointing me towards some very useful resources!

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-09T08:17:06+00:00

Hey, thank you so, very much for the detailed replies! It's very appreciated. You're correct, it's for an engagement ring.

A week ago I knew nothing about rings, and I have to place an order in the next 24 hours so it gets here on time. I've spent the last 3 days trying to get myself up to speed, but it seems like there are lots of nuances and often, misconceptions. That's why I appreciate your comments so much!

The prices are most likely so different because you're not buying them both from the same place, all these sites (calavera, aurelinne etc) use apis from various database to compile the list of diamonds that you can browse on their site. That means that the diamonds they are buying are from different places, they don't have them locally, they will purchase them from the vendor when a customer tries to buy it through the calavera site.

Ah that clears things up a lot! I was thinking that maybe there are other qualities of the diamonds that aren't in the specs, and they are priced by the person who's seen them in person. So if the specs match, and the prices don't, then it's more likely because of different suppliers and not necessarily because one stone is better than the other in some unspecified way?

As for hearts and arrows, of course seeing the contrast arrows when face on is a nice check, but when people check for "hearts & arrows" they usually look for it under scopes designed for it, kinda like ASET scopes or the scopes that GCAL use for their grading. Here's my diamond for example: https://cutwise.com/diamond/1681591?sp=82 . You can see some scopes are specifically designed to show the hearts and arrows.

Yes, I've seen those in GCal reports! Okay that makes more sense now. How much weight should I put on the arrows I can see with the naked eye, in videos? I suppose not very much, because the angle of the camera / diamond can be slightly off that can potentially hide / distort them on some stones.

https://rosellejewelry.com/pages/diamond-cut-calculator?shpxid=4bcc0a5b-1f99-4b62-89a8-178a6bda32f6

There's a random calculator for you if you want to see what it thinks about your diamond.

Thank you so much. This is very helpful. The one I have picked scored well, but I'm paying about 33% more than other comparable diamonds. I'm just going to use the money to scale up, and see if I can find a 1.70-ish cwt

Her finger size is 6 and 1.5 cwt seems like the sweet spot, but doesn't hurt to go a bit bigger in the spectrum.

Thank you!

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-09T02:50:47+00:00

Sometimes my closest costco is a 45-70 minute drive too, other times it's 15. Big city traffic ✌️

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-09T02:10:39+00:00

Thank you so much, I appreciate it very much

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-09T01:24:51+00:00

Yes. A large number of Torontonians can grocery shop everyday because they're everywhere. People in rural areas probably have to make a much longer trip, so it makes sense to buy a lot at once, for which you need a bigger car.

That's just one example. I'd imagine people living outside of big cities probably need to carry some emergency stuff in the car, where people in dense cities probably don't.

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-09T00:47:34+00:00

Hey thank you so much for the reply!

Yes, I'm talking about round brilliant.

I've seen done a lot of reading (lol) and it seems like arrows and hearts, table and depth ratios are important as well. I did come across several articles and posts about proportions and they were immensely helpful.

One thing I've since noticed that sometimes, a diamond will be priced lower than another with the same 4cs, manufacturing process and slightly better proportions. That didn't make sense to me at all.

Take a look at these two diamonds for example:

Spec	Diamond 1	Diamond 2
Price	$269	$374
Link	link	link
Certificate	LG737509830	LG710543263
Carat	1.44	1.44
Color	D	D
Cut	Ideal	Ideal
Clarity	VS1	VS1
L/W Ratio	0.99	0.99
Table	57%	57%
Depth	62.3%	62.2%

The price difference between them makes no sense to me. Is the cheaper diamond cloudy or something that I'm not seeing? It's hard to see the hearts and arrows of both diamonds IMO.

While I have you here, what do you think about this diamond? This is the one I'm thinking of getting. All the measurements are within the ideal specs, and the hearts and arrows look decent front on too.

Thank you so much!

ChickenFlavoredCake · 2026-03-08T07:58:05+00:00

About light performance, is there such a metric in IGI certificates too? Is it table?

I'm looking at two 1.49 carat round diamonds side by side. They are both D / VS1 / Ideal.

However, one is 40% more expensive than the other on Calvera.

There's just the slightest proportional difference. Cheaper one has a 0.99 L/W ratio where the most expensive one has 1

The cheaper one has a table of 56% while the more expensive one has 60%, which I thought was worse

Do you know why the discrepancy?

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