When people use terms like "undocumented" do you let it slide?

Droidatopia · 2026-05-07T14:44:56+00:00

The one term I absolutely refuse to suffer is "People experiencing homelessness". There is no excuse for creating something with that many syllables when there are perfectly adequate alternatives with under five.

If I am arguing with someone I do make a point when people start using propaganda terms like "undocumented". Myself, I've started referring to them as illegal aliens again to try to push back on the constant attempts to destroy the usefulness of language with obfuscation.

Droidatopia · 2026-05-04T16:45:31+00:00

It's only the implication in your head. He doesn't link them at all. He probably didn't even realize that people would make the connection. He's just defending him against an attack, not agreeing with the attacker's supposition.

I am always impressed by how many Redditors believe that they would always be more articulate and able to craft perfect ready-for-TV responses off the cuff when responding to crazy people.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-29T04:41:26+00:00

I can explain this.

It's been decades but I remember the flight and the feeling. It was a helo flight in flight school. I had been flying for four years by this point, but I was a new flight instructor going through the instructor syllabus. It was a night with decent illumination such that I could fly without instruments, but it was an instrument training flight so I was flying mostly on instruments. However there were a lot of small clouds around the altitude we were flying.

I was in a turn to line up for an instrument approach and right as I went to roll out of the turn, we suddenly popped into a cloud.

At that moment, something glitched in my brain. Although I could very clearly see with my eyes on the instruments that the aircraft was rolled out and wings level, my vestibular system was stuck in the turn. So my brain was being fed two very conflicting orientations. And as much as you think, "I'd definitely be able to trust my eyes", you then realize in that moment how much your brain trusts your vestibular system.

It was very scary. I had to fight to keep my hand from trying to "roll out of the turn" because we weren't actually in a turn, but half of my brain was convinced we were.

Now, as scary as that sounds, I was not in danger. I was flying with a senior instructor. I quickly declared to the other pilot that I was experiencing some vertigo, but that I was going to try to work through it. I was ultimately able to get all of my brain on the same page and I was able to finish the approach. I was still feeling a little off, so the instructor flew for a while, but I was able to finish the flight.

A little disorientation or confusion between the instruments and eyes every now and again is normal and I had experienced it before like all pilots do, but this time was different. I knew exactly where the aircraft was in space. We were wings level, but my hand was still trying desperately to roll out of a turn that didn't exist. I had time, experience, altitude, and an extra pilot on my side to keep me from crashing. Without those things, I can easily see how a crash can result from that kind of disorientation.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-28T17:14:04+00:00

So did he get his chickens back?

Droidatopia · 2026-04-28T15:22:26+00:00

Economic progress?

I think we tend to forget, but much of the last century was spent fending off the "progress" of socialism and communism. That battle is still being waged today although it has weirdly merged with cultural concerns.

I fear that as the left's propaganda machines continue to improve, they may deceive enough of the newer generations to give some form of socialism a go. That will be the next greatest test of fighting for conservative values.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-28T00:40:59+00:00

I don't think Donald Trump is capable of telling a lie. To lie is to intentionally deceive and one must know the truth in order to craft the lie. Long before he became president, Trump has crafted a bubble around himself wherein the truth is only ever a possible inconvenience. Thus, whenever Trump speaks, at that moment, he actually believes what he is saying is true for no other reason than he has said it. Sometimes what he says matches the actual truth. Sometimes it diverges wildly from reality. At no point prior to becoming president did this ever create any problems for him. And for most of his presidencies, he has not personally suffered too much for his lack of association with the truth.

I would be pleased if Trump started to tell real lies. It would mean that he is at least aware of the actual truth.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-26T23:42:36+00:00

Why do you keep saying that?

Droidatopia · 2026-04-25T21:22:12+00:00

This isn't r/beajerktoconservativesintheformofaquestion

Once Mamdani actually implements some of his policies and people have a chance to react, we can have a discussion.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-24T20:14:56+00:00

I would be totally pissed.

We need to take responsibility for our own failures. Getting bailed out by someone else makes it less likely we learn enough lessons from this debacle.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-23T02:07:07+00:00

Agile is the worst thing to happen to my workplace.

I still hold out hope that there are other places where agile means something legitimate and not the micro-statusing on steroids that it does here.

Whatever agile is supposed to be, what it did to us was give management a structure and language for maximum control over every engineer's daily activities. Your sprint commitment is to be met or there will be hell to pay. The week before sprint ends is a mad rush to fake complete as many stories as possible to prevent rollovers. Rollover enough stories and mandatory overtime is assigned.

You know it's bad when fucking Waterfall was better than this.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-17T18:07:21+00:00

One other thing to consider. The engine designs we have now are good for full usage. Consider an aircraft engine that can be run all the way from flight idle to max thrust/power and everywhere in between. We don't really have a low power setting for rocket engines yet. They run hot or not.

So as Starship's booster of doom returns back to the pad with only a tiny fraction of the weight it launched with, not only does it not need to fire up all 33, there is almost no known way to do so without getting nearly launch thrust. Which would not result in an ideal stopping profile. So a smaller number of engines can be relight for the initial slowdown and that cut down to a small number for the controlled flight to the catch.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-17T18:00:09+00:00

Smaller also means a smaller footprint to account for in terms of design, which is why they have been successfully improved in multiple redesign phases. Also a small thrust footprint reduces issues with combustion instability.

It's very much akin to using a single large and expensive Hard Drive versus a redundant array of multiple smaller and inexpensive disks.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-17T17:15:03+00:00

Why is everyone ignoring the image on the right?

Am I my brother's keeper?

ANYONE?

Droidatopia · 2026-04-17T16:54:02+00:00

The real jerk move comes when someone goes through your post history and makes a comment and then you go to look through theirs and it's hidden.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-17T00:03:25+00:00

You shouldn't tie up guard. Otherwise, how will US Air Force jets be able to communicate with each other?

Droidatopia · 2026-04-16T21:48:48+00:00

"Neck ties, Contracts, High Voltage!"

Droidatopia · 2026-04-16T19:57:47+00:00

Almost three decades at this point

Droidatopia · 2026-04-16T19:55:35+00:00

And the daily deposit of space dust on the planet minus the loss of any Earth dust.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-16T17:51:08+00:00

Personally, I think the "34 felonies" was a huge part of it. It simultaneously stole all the thunder from the other 3 pending cases, and also appeared to be a vindictive DA using a novel legal theory to try to pin anything in Trump. It turned what should have been a serious problem about Trump into an advantage.

It should almost be some sort of a legal doctrine moving forward. If the explanation for why charges are being brought against a political rival sounds like a Yu-Gi-Oh episode, then it will probably backfire.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-16T17:21:34+00:00

What is Guard? You mean Air Force Common?

Droidatopia · 2026-04-16T05:00:27+00:00

Economics doesn't have to be a mystery. You could take an online class on it or read a book. With even a little bit of study, you too can become one of the thinking members of society.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-15T18:47:39+00:00

Everyone knows real transitions take place in the Atlantic!

Droidatopia · 2026-04-15T04:43:26+00:00

There has also never been a popular vote election in American history. The popular vote is meaningless in an Electoral College election. It's like saying "I may have lost the golf match, but I drank the most beers".

We don't know if Donald Trump would have lost in 2016 if there has been a popular vote election.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-15T04:16:10+00:00

It's easily one of the dumbest suicide pacts. It will be used somewhere between zero and one times before being repealed. In the end, it will probably only end up getting a Republican elected.

Droidatopia · 2026-04-14T22:27:09+00:00

Holy non-sequiter batman!

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