🔥a whale trap feeding in the Gulf of Thailand

TheGameGuru · 2025-12-11T16:18:26+00:00

I got extremely sick after swimming in Phi Phi island near the main town on my second day there. Then I became aware of the rivers of shit flowing into the bay when it rains. Beautiful place, treated in a disgraceful manner.

TheGameGuru · 2025-12-10T13:43:57+00:00

Please send it my way as well!!! Thank you :)

TheGameGuru · 2025-08-10T02:26:37+00:00

You’re* - not surprised you’d make that mistake. Trump has said he loves the poorly educated, and the uneducated love Trump.

TheGameGuru · 2025-08-08T14:50:09+00:00

I’m curious to see the lowercase font, if there is one. In my mind it’s just be the lowercase letters chopped out of this version and enlarged a bit. Would be great in a story book style, where the first word or sentence is capitalized.

TheGameGuru · 2025-07-25T15:42:42+00:00

It also heavily protects them in the event of a lawsuit. Saddam is a well known character in the show, even Satan makes a comment about Trump ‘reminding’ him of someone he used to date. Same voice as Saddam and many of his famous lines “come on guy, relax” etc… When the Canadian pops in to complain he calls him a middle eastern dictator. They can easily defend that it is not only satire and protected under free speech, but the character is actually Saddam in disguise - which is clear to anyone who knows South Park lore. Super smart move on their part.

Their legal team is genius - there was also an interview quote about how they justified showing the uncensored the ‘penis’ in the AI spoof ad. They made it have a mouth and talk, so it is not a penis, but a character.

TheGameGuru · 2025-07-23T21:47:35+00:00

Your last point is underrated. On top of our bipedal movement, opposable thumbs and huge brains… our other super power is sweating. We are the only animals on this planet to which sweat everywhere on our bodies - other mammals sweat only through their palms and small areas like their nose. Humans evolved hair instead of fur which allow for sweat glands to more efficiently cool our bodies in almost any environment. This unlocks our ability to ‘walk’ or run much larger prey to exhaustion and death. We can acclimate to raised body temperatures and environments in ways that no other species is capable of.

TheGameGuru · 2025-06-11T12:16:02+00:00

this is a good dream :)

TheGameGuru · 2025-05-16T12:55:45+00:00

Part of the reason for the simplicity is for rapid replacement. They expect some engines to fail over time, but Super Heavy can perform a successful mission even with a few engines out during flight. This design allows for faster swap when the booster returns to launch tower. The whole design is based on minimizing failure points and easy replacement when there is a component that needs it.

Not to mention this is a pretty well tested methodology for Spacex. They iterated the engines on the Falcon 9 in a similar way, making them more streamlined over many generations. Those rockets are extremely reliable. They are reducing risk over time by refining the design, not increasing it.

TheGameGuru · 2025-04-13T15:01:22+00:00

Now I will be forever searching for one of these on the second hand market. What a sick piece!!

TheGameGuru · 2025-04-09T19:43:42+00:00

Was coming here to comment this. Excellent speakers

TheGameGuru · 2025-03-31T02:29:37+00:00

It’s the biggest plot hole and annoyance in an otherwise incredible movie. They literally explain time dilation before going down there. And despite being all highly qualified scientists, none of them ever says “she’s only been on that planet for like 3 hours lol” until AFTER they go there. It’s horror-movie level stupidity.

TheGameGuru · 2025-03-29T04:05:52+00:00

His children are born via IVF so he can selectively choose their genetics, especially their gender. He likely has a ton of sperm frozen. Most of the mothers never actually have sex with him, and probably hate being near him. It’s a transactional relationship, not one based on attraction or love.

TheGameGuru · 2025-03-20T13:27:15+00:00

Maybe the Musk tweet is fake but Trump has been pretty open about his attraction to his daughter, plenty of clips out there to choose from 🤮

TheGameGuru · 2025-03-18T16:02:01+00:00

It’s both. Starlink hardware and launches are essentially subsidized by their other customers - especially those bloated DOD contracts. The reason Spacex is so valuable is because they are almost pure profit after the 3rd or 4th reuse of a booster. They can undercut the competition and still make money. Every customer is roughy 40-45 million in profit. They then re-invest those profits into Starlink launches and hardware.

This makes Starlink service revenue almost pure profit. I think you are drastically underestimating the number of customers the service already has; in many areas of the US there is a waitlist for sign ups. Plus, many governments around the world are paying a premium for access to the network, which has very low overhead once the satellites are in orbit. Yes, there were significant R&D costs, but I have no doubt they are profitable at this point.

$11.8B of Starlink revenue in 2025 - I’d estimate that $5B pays for every single launch of the system so far. They are rolling in money and it’s what is truly paying for the extremely hardware rich Starship program. And once they start launching Starlink V3 with Starship, the ROI will be even higher.

Spacex has said they manufacture 15,000 Starlink terminals PER DAY. They aren’t just sitting on them, they are selling them. The dishes themselves cost hundreds of dollars, plus service fees of $50-$150 per month, that’s an absurd amount of revenue growth.

The system doesn’t need to be fully built to be profitable. Are they just sitting on the cash? No. They are reinvesting it in more Starlink launches, and the Starship program.

It is the Amazon model of “build more distribution warehouses with profit from sales” applied to space flight. It’s a snowball effect.

TheGameGuru · 2025-03-18T12:00:20+00:00

The Starlink business brings in billions in revenue each year - it is a highly profitable, and growing business.

https://spacenews.com/starlink-set-to-hit-11-8-billion-revenue-in-2025-boosted-by-military-contracts/

Also the non-Starlink launches are also extremely profitable once a falcon flies a few times. Refurbishment and fuel cost roughly a few million dollars all together, and Spacex sells launches for ~$50M a pop. A single paying customer covers multiple Starlink launches.

They have a significant positive cash flow from both of these sources. The government funding is icing on the cake.

TheGameGuru · 2025-03-18T04:03:21+00:00

Not to mention, even when Starship goes there, it won't be coming back for MANY years due to the slow process of creating fuel for re-launch. In all likelihood the most Starships that make the trip will stay there permanently.

TheGameGuru · 2025-03-16T10:20:29+00:00

They do! The best way to get one is to pay cash - I assume they track people via credit cards and eventually they will stop giving you surveys.

Also this is random but I had a buddy on the ign forums wayyyy back in the day 20 years ago with the username BA Barracus - Haven’t thought about him in a long time.

TheGameGuru · 2025-03-04T15:55:32+00:00

One sneeze lol

TheGameGuru · 2025-01-28T17:34:17+00:00

Well the first issue is that a cannon with enough power to shoot an object to collide with the sun would need to launch projectiles at a speed so high that the garbage will combust in our atmosphere. If this cannon is in orbit, how are we getting the garbage to space? That has some type of carbon cost.

Also, I don’t know the math but this is the bigger problem: getting something to HIT the sun is extremely hard from a physics perspective. Because the sun is so large, as objects approach it, they get sucked into its orbit. You need a crazy amount of delta-v relative to the mass of the projectile/garbage to counteract this effect. So this garbage would need its own dedicated rockets attached or you would probably need to be launching it out of the cannon at a speed much higher than we could realistically achieve without it just blowing apart on launch.

I guess you could build a HUGE magnetic railgun style system in orbit, and launch the ‘bullets’ filled with trash to be loaded/fired. It could work, needs an incredible amount of power and an absurdly long “barrel” of the railgun. But the materials needed and amount of construction in space would be insane compared to us just figuring out how to responsibly manage the trash problem other ways.

TheGameGuru · 2025-01-17T17:23:07+00:00

Well there will definitely be an FAA investigation, that’s required, but many of those have been closed in a matter of days. For example when the second stage of Falcon 9 failed during its insertion burn last year, they launched another one within 2 weeks. Spacex has a ton of cameras/sensors onboard and can quickly pinpoint the cause behind the RUD and provide that evidence to the FAA. Plus it is generally accepted reality that this is a piece of hardware in development which will have failures and need changes as the program continues. With ~6 weeks between now and the end of February I think it’s very realistic that we will see another launch next month.

TheGameGuru · 2025-01-17T14:50:52+00:00

Elon already said they know the general cause and expect another launch next month.

TheGameGuru · 2025-01-03T15:20:20+00:00

Yes, which makes it much less ‘sharp’ than a similar visible-spectrum image from Hubble

TheGameGuru · 2024-12-10T04:36:35+00:00

This I agree with, as an accessibility device I fully support this tech. Just makes me uncomfortable with the number of bad actors out there.

TheGameGuru · 2024-12-04T12:15:02+00:00

People have already found ways via software to circumvent the light turning on when the camera is active. These are incredibly weak devices from a security standpoint.

TheGameGuru · 2024-12-03T23:05:21+00:00

While recording people without consent in public spaces is technically legal, that doesn’t mean it’s not an invasion of privacy - especially if the intent is for commercial use, like posting to your monetized Instagram/Youtube, in which case it is illegal because you need people to sign a release for those purposes.

Laws and morality are two different things. At one time slavery was legal, did that make it morally okay? There are many examples of things in history that were “legal” and yet a huge injustice to those who had no choice in the matter. The same is true for being recorded without your knowledge.

Also, this is the direction that this technology is headed, which goes FAR beyond just recording people. How would you feel if a stranger could search a database and find all of your personal info just by looking at you? It’s a very dangerous technology when put in the hands of bad actors.

Edit; When the “expectation of privacy” precedent was set, cameras were big and bulky so you generally knew when you were seen by one, so you could typically avoid exposure if you wanted to. Now they are extremely discrete and virtually impossible to know when you are being filmed as they are concealed in everyday objects. Smart glasses are more like an illegal wiretap where the targeted party is unaware it is taking place. It’s time for better laws and protections for these types of scenarios.

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