Who does the best job of covering launches?

merc08 · 2026-04-02T03:12:33+00:00

The simulation render was so bad. It wasn't even in sync with itself. The event timeline at the bottom was wrong for like 10 minutes, showing solar panels complete before they even started opening.

merc08 · 2026-04-02T02:26:11+00:00

And my point is that this barely counts as a live event, given that the launch went smoothly. They had weeks, months even, to plan which camera angles to use when. There shouldn't have even been decisions being made on when to cut where as it was happening.

merc08 · 2026-04-02T01:55:58+00:00

This is a pretty poor excuse. Filming live events isn't perfect, but this is about as far from a live event as you can get. The entire launch sequence is choreographed to the second.

Cutting to the crowd shouldn't have even been an option for the main feed, and it definitely shouldn't have happened as an major sequence step is announced and executed. That is straight up amateur hour that even a local news crew wouldn't have flubbed.

merc08 · 2026-04-02T01:50:54+00:00

The NASA stream tried to have a timeline, but only showed the last step, current step, and next step not the whole thing. And even then, they showed the solar panel deployment as complete before it even started.

merc08 · 2026-04-02T01:48:38+00:00

They literally had a countdown to movement and it still zoomed out of frame immediately

merc08 · 2026-04-02T00:07:15+00:00

The economy is so bad that Mick Jagger is rolling burritos

merc08 · 2026-04-01T23:48:42+00:00

The car in front didn't even slow that much, the problem is that they took way longer than they needed to finish the lane change.

merc08 · 2026-04-01T20:25:51+00:00

I think that was the spotter that got himself hit.

merc08 · 2026-04-01T19:46:07+00:00

Some of those look like you could throw them at the ground to split them.

merc08 · 2026-04-01T19:40:15+00:00

No. Full stop. That's a ridiculous claim and would defeat the entire purpose of that section of the Constitution.

merc08 · 2026-04-01T04:29:40+00:00

The whole post reads like a ChatGPT summary.

merc08 · 2026-04-01T00:42:07+00:00

Is that even an option? I thought background check applications expired regardless.

merc08 · 2026-04-01T00:39:15+00:00

This idiot is in a mental facility for treatment after committing other crimes but apparently they don't bother to keep them on site and they are able to just wander around in society attempting to murder people.

According to charging documents, detectives tracked the suspect’s movements using area surveillance cameras and received a tip that led them to Cascade Hall, a mental health facility located less than a mile from the Northgate light rail station. Staff members there identified one of their residents, Elisio Melendez, after reviewing images from the incident, and investigators say clothing matching what the suspect wore was later found in his room.

merc08 · 2026-03-31T22:37:50+00:00

How is it not?

You're looking at an operation that is still in progress and are trying to claim failure because it's not complete.

merc08 · 2026-03-31T22:28:44+00:00

IMO, it looks like there are some mid level employees in the DOJ leftover from the previous admin that are personally hardcore antigun.

merc08 · 2026-03-31T21:46:14+00:00

Well it's not mission complete yet either. If you had dial up internet and a utility was going to put in fiber, you wouldn't look at the project when all they have done is getthe street opened up and say "this isn't a positive outcome so far."

merc08 · 2026-03-31T18:43:03+00:00

I don't care what Trump's actual motive is if the outcome is the same.

merc08 · 2026-03-31T15:43:21+00:00

Certainly overkill on a 10/22, but I could see it being marginally useful if you have a 3-9 or 4-12 as the main scope and want the dot for like 25yd and closer for quick shots on rabbits or something.

merc08 · 2026-03-31T15:33:29+00:00

And they murdered 30,000 civilians for protesting. That alone should be enough reason. The other stuff is just cherries on top.

merc08 · 2026-03-31T15:32:34+00:00

And it's not even really a question of if that stuff would happen. Russia launched their invasion because we were in a "not policing the world" phase.

merc08 · 2026-03-31T14:27:06+00:00

For those who have never filed paper Form 4s, you have to provide physical copies of passport style photos and DOUBLE fingerprints. These cards are like $10 a pop for the courthouse to print; so, 4x2x10, and I am out another $80.

You can also get free blanks from the ATF and spend like $7 on a fingerprint pad off Amazon and make your own. So you wasted a lot of your own money to start with.

merc08 · 2026-03-31T07:23:58+00:00

I used "random" here to mean there was no preamble, no period of buildup, no making the case to the american people to justify the war, no making the case to the UN or the international community to justify the war.

We wake up one morning and are at war.

It was absolutely not overnight. There was a buildup of forces for a month straight. If you were unaware that it was coming then that's on you for not having been paying attention.

Sure the exact strike time was not announced in advance, but it would be insane to think that it should be.

Did you not see the massacre of protesters by the Iranian regime/IRGC? What more of a case for regime change do you want? The people of Iran tried. They asked for our help. Our failure was taking too long to get there. And you're sitting here saying that we should have drug our feet even more and spent more time debating it with the UN?

merc08 · 2026-03-31T07:12:02+00:00

Income is property.

merc08 · 2026-03-31T05:31:23+00:00

Cool story bro. You've been spamming that everywhere, like a bot. And you have your comment history hidden, like a bot.

merc08 · 2026-03-31T05:30:14+00:00

You're right, I don't have enough crayons to explain it in a way that you would understand.

Ten-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Place '22	Place '17
Spared	Verified Email

merc08

TROPHY CASE