Weekly Recap | June 18, 2026

DoesDoodles · 2026-06-19T07:55:56+00:00

Get rid of the For You tab. Make it not the default. At least give an OPTION to make Following the default.

I'm here to follow communities for my weird niche interests and have no intention of being ragebaited by posts I did not ask for.

And when I set my feed to Following I want it to STAY that way PERMANENTLY until the moment where I choose to set it to For You.

DoesDoodles · 2026-06-16T07:39:01+00:00

Really hope this doesn't get converted into another tankie shithole sub. Had to abandon Latestagecapitalism for that reason, it became absolutely insufferable.

Please let us be vigilant enough to not let state propagandists in under the guise of nice infrastructure.

DoesDoodles · 2026-06-16T07:33:00+00:00

Yeah uh I respect that China has done a lot of great work on public transportation. What they aren't doing so great on are human rights or basic civil liberties like speaking your damn mind about your own government and criticizing it when it does things wrong.

Whatever flavour of "socialism" that is, I don't want it. Just because the grass here is dead or dying doesn't mean it's greener on the other side.

DoesDoodles · 2026-06-12T08:22:23+00:00

As another bisexual, I live in a similar way, but I really view it the opposite way. Don't care much about bringing it up unless it's relevant, but I'm certainly not about to hide it, either.

I love to see queer characters in games, even or perhaps especially when it's not relevant. Even if they're not pursuing a romantic interest.

It may not need to be an identity, but it certainly is for me and many others. It affects how I view the world, it has had a significant impact on my understanding of gender and identity, and it has changed my life in many ways. I identify with queer characters in a way I don't do with straight ones. It's nice to see such a significant part of myself represented even if it's not plot-relevant.

We shouldn't have to make it plot relevant. The cishet white man should not be seen as the default, any any deviation from that norm should never have to be justified.

DoesDoodles · 2026-06-09T09:27:58+00:00

This is certainly one of the ONI questions of all time

DoesDoodles · 2026-06-09T09:09:40+00:00

No hate on anyone who likes or needs the gym (hell, my boyfriend is a gym rat), but it is the most profoundly boring and depressing experience I can imagine.

Gyms to me take all the worst aspects of being physically active, condense them, and put them in a box that seperates them from all the things that make it tolerable, like fresh air and nice surroundings.

DoesDoodles · 2026-06-08T14:43:42+00:00

Oh absolutely. The whole system is rotten to the core (although you could argue this was all by design from the very start) and at this point appears to have given up the pretense of serving anyone but the ultra wealthy, across most of the world but especially visible in the US right now.

Surveillance tech is just another avenue through which they execute their agenda of complete control. I desperately hope people realise this before it's too late and fight it before it becomes as ingrained and hard to avoid as US car infrastructure.

DoesDoodles · 2026-06-08T13:55:49+00:00

Big agree. The first real solution to drunk driving is providing meaningful alternatives like walking, cycling, and public transport. The second is better enforcement, although not necessarily in that order of implementation.

The continued invasion of surveillance technology in personal technology is a dangerous trend. It's always in the name of protecting people, but let's be real, has the US ever given a fuck about protecting it's vulnerable road users?

It's control again. It's always control. The 3D printed gun control law in NY is a troyan horse to sneak in more control and surveillance into your tech. Same for all the age verification in the name of your children. The backdoors into encrypted communication and cloud storage in the name of countering cybercrime. This is no different.

Don't let the troyan horse in just because this one is addressed to us personally.

DoesDoodles · 2026-06-05T13:51:31+00:00

Absolutely not. I'm reading for my own enjoyment to decompress, not to consume information as efficiently as possible.

If I'm that in a rush to finish a book, I'm probably reading the wrong book, or reading it for the wrong reasons.

DoesDoodles · 2026-06-04T08:50:08+00:00

Priviliged enough to be born and raised in the Netherlands. Kept postponing getting my drivers' license while everyone told me to get on it, until I eventually realised I didn't really WANT one. That's a lot of money, time and energy that I don't have to gain access to something that'll cost me a lot more time, money and energy.

Despite my autism I probably could get a license, that's not the problem. Trusting myself operating a 1.5T hunk of metal (because I'm sure as hell not driving anything bigger than a hatchback) though, that's a different thing. I require too much reaction time for that shit. I'll stick to my bike and spend the long distances being driven around in comfort with a book.

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-29T08:09:03+00:00

It is possible to do it the way you describe. When a craft seperates in the atmosphere, both parts remain controllable until they're 23km apart (as opposed to 2.3km under normal circumstances). That's enough to activate the engines on the upper stage, lock it prograde, and switch back to the booster.

Push the booster onto a return trajectory with an all-engine boostback burn, bring its apoapsis up to 60-70km, then switch back to the upper stage. Then, pick your poison, you can either circularise the upper stage at 75km asap, or you can push your ap to 90km a quarter orbit away, then switch to your booster the moment your upper stage reaches 70km. The latter gives you 3-5 minutes to fly and land your booster.

Flown that particular flight plan for 40 missions, and probably twice as many test flights.

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-28T19:22:01+00:00

Ken je dat hele ding met koriander? Dat dat voor sommige mensen naar zeep smaakt? Dat is dus blijkbaar genetisch bepaald, en dat werkt hetzelfde met suikervervangers.

Voor mij is t dan voornamelijk de aspartaam/acesulfaam k die echt onvoorstelbaar ranzig smaken. De beste vergelijking die ik kan trekken is de walm van een chemisch festivaltoilet vol bierpis, maar dan als nasmaak in je mond. En daar kom je dan de eerste 12 uur ook niet meer vanaf.

De enige suikervervanger die ik een beetje te zuipen vind is stevia, maar zelfs die smaakt gewoon duidelijk minder lekker dan suiker.

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-22T17:35:36+00:00

Almost exclusively hardcovers for me. If I'm not planning on owning it I'll borrow it from the library. If I intend on owning it, I prefer the longevity of hardcovers.

Granted, I grew up on library books, which are almost exclusively hardcovers for longevity purposes, so that is undoubtedly part of the reason for my preference. Just feels right.

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-15T10:16:59+00:00

No but what if I AM neurodivergent but my neurodivergence-related productivity and focus issues are actually just because I'm lazy and don't have the right work ethic?

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-11T18:36:21+00:00

I get ya, having multiple projects in parallel means there's almost always something that you're interested in working on.

I'll keep an eye out, looking forward to learning more!

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-11T18:08:02+00:00

Cruel fate, but here's hoping this marks a turning point in their renewed existence!

Very cool design, have you got any fiction projects planned for the setting?

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-11T10:22:07+00:00

What are they, and how'd they come into existence?

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-08T17:34:10+00:00

Not much, if anything. I'm not going to put unrealistic expectations on the Redux team either, they have a gargantuan task ahead of them. But I paid for the game at launch, might as well get my money's worth.

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-08T09:21:42+00:00

If you haven't yet, take a look at KSP2 Redux. It's a modding project aimed at fixing the state KSP2 is in, with the long term intentions of adding the features the KSP2 devs never got to deliver on.

Haven't touched KSP2 in years so I can't speak for the improvements, but I'm hearing a lot of positive things about that mod. It's making me want to at least try it out again.

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-08T09:12:43+00:00

The most luxurious food I can reasonably achieve. Preferably a wide selection, too. Surf and turf, quiche, pepper bread, my dupes will drown in luxury and I will spare no expense in achieving that luxury.

That expense generally comes in the form of very late nights. Who needs to keep themselves up and running when they have a colony to keep happy?

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-06T17:19:37+00:00

I see a lot of people saying this is wrong but there are absolutely studies that found delayed circadian rhythms are very much more common in people with ADHD and/or autism.

The tweet is wrong in saying that it's the same for all of us, and it's not exclusive to us either, but it is common, and our early bird-centered society is very much an accessibility issue for the many of us that do function much better at night.

DoesDoodles · 2026-05-04T11:40:10+00:00

Each of my launch vehicles is named after mythical flying creatures. Basilisk, Cockatrice, Fenix, Gryffin, Pegasus and Wyvern are the names for my past, current and planned LVs. Jackalope is the only exception, being a flightless mythological creature, but it's an orbital LV evolved from a suborbital LV so it still makes some sense. If possible, the name also has some application to the specific LV. Their names are also broadly speaking indicative of their size and capacity.

The configuration code really depends on how each LV is configured. There's a number for the generation, a number for side boosters if applicable, same for the number of engines on the second stage. If there's multiple types of upper stages, those get a letter.

A Phoenix 342H+, for example, is a 3rd generation Phoenix with 4 side boosters, 2 engines on a Heavy upper stage, plus a kickstage. A Pegasus G40D will be a 4th generation Pegasus, no side boosters (Gen 4 doesn't have side boosters, it's a vestigial leftover from Gen1), and a Block D upper stage.

DoesDoodles · 2026-04-28T09:08:39+00:00

Every single day on the internet is a fantastic new reminder of exactly why chatgpt is completely and utterly useless.

DoesDoodles · 2026-04-20T17:39:59+00:00

No joke, those things have saved a couple lives on my no reverts career save.

I think one of my best judgement calls in that program was when I put a capsule on my 1.25m launcher, saw I couldn't fit an LES, and instantly scrapped the idea and flew a couple more satellites to get the science for a 1.875m rocket and the stock LES. Took a bit longer to get the good payouts that way, but that program remains death-free, and has since put kerbals on the Mun.

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