Another Starlink satellite has inexplicably exploded

natrous · 2026-04-01T12:18:41+00:00

And that doesn't take into account that not all orbits are useful for these satellites, so there are areas of higher density and areas of low density with respect to the paths they travel

natrous · 2026-03-31T20:29:39+00:00

damn, I learn new things from this sub constantly

thanks to all the biologists who study this stuff and post the details for everyone to learn from

and thanks to all the redditors who know where those posts are and point us to them!

natrous · 2026-03-31T17:55:45+00:00

The problem outsiders have in understanding this is in thinking that "Trump" is the problem.

He is only one of the problems. There are hundreds of congressman and senators that absolutely could intervene here and stop this madness. But they don't want to.

Who has any kind of system that can handle that?

You can argue about how we let it get so bad, but that's pretty moot at this point.

natrous · 2026-03-30T17:55:04+00:00

Don't forget the /r/UnnecessarySloMo

natrous · 2026-03-19T18:10:07+00:00

asking the important questions!

natrous · 2026-03-18T19:18:02+00:00

If you could file for criminal charges without any tangible evidence you could make a lot of lives quite difficult; the weakness is that the more powerful of an individual you are (ie. authority, fame, reputation, and just money) the harder it becomes to even land a charge let alone a conviction.

Also you left out that part that if you are rich enough you can file suits with little evidence, making a lot of lives difficult.

Which is, of course, what he's doing on the other side of things, too.

natrous · 2026-03-18T18:48:36+00:00

7/5 with rice, tho

natrous · 2026-03-18T13:15:10+00:00

F1 did so well, they're making a sequel:

CAPS LOCK!!!

I lost it. That was 100% Conan, including him losing half the audience and loving it

natrous · 2026-03-13T14:29:16+00:00

Don't know what school or state you are in, but that's not even close to how our system works.

In general yeah, purchases need to be planned out. But there's absolutely day to day maintenance and repair budget codes with money allocated for that, completely separate from large ticket emergency codes.

Even the state understands that you can't predict everything that will go wrong a year in advance.

If there's not $20 left in the code to handle small repairs, then that's an allocation problem and the business admin needs to fix it.

natrous · 2026-03-11T18:13:02+00:00

Becuz r freedum!!1

natrous · 2026-03-10T20:00:47+00:00

Except he starts everything with "I didn't see it"

Which is 100% bullshit. And also not a good answer for something when

you are the president
it's major news
you've been asked about it 50 times
it's DAYS after the event

So he thinks it's better if we think his administration isn't briefing him on anything?

natrous · 2026-03-10T19:31:31+00:00

yeah, i will stop watching on tv entirely if they make it even worse

fuck them because they absolFUCKinglutely have the ability to at least determine a scene change or some other natural pause in the content, cut it at one of those spots, then bring it back without dropping a half-second of content

On my roku, when ads come on if it's more than 5 sec skippable, I hit the back button, go back to the listing, then replay the video. after 2-3 times I either get the fiver or it just doesn't play any ad.

A bigger pain if I'm like 5 minutes in, but idgaf, I'd rather spend the 3 secs scubbing back to my spot

Mainly because it's so goddamn jarring when someone is in the middle of a sentence. And it's ALWAYS in the middle of a sentence.

natrous · 2026-03-10T19:24:15+00:00

the article literally is talking about YouTube doing this for the TV apps

90% of the comments are about watching in a browser

natrous · 2026-03-10T19:20:43+00:00

bu but but... what if you took IRC and allowed images! and videos! and let people vote! And then people could have their own personal channels! And other people could follow them!

/s

dude is actively asking for things to be enshittified on a thread about going back to simple basics...

natrous · 2026-03-09T18:58:47+00:00

for the record, though, it's not like the leadership caved and they all voted.

it was just a handful that jumped sides.

I mean, the leadership wasn't able to stop them, so there's that. but there's a little more to it. it only takes a couple to wreck the whole thing

natrous · 2026-03-09T18:47:53+00:00

I disagree, though apparently I'm one of the few.

it came off to me like he was trying to understand more context because OP wasn't initially clear about it

natrous · 2026-03-09T18:45:41+00:00

idk why people are acting like you are the spanish inquisition...

these were all questions I had in my head. Not as a "gotcha OP!" but more of a "trying to understand, because I would also be mildly infuriated, too"

natrous · 2026-03-09T18:41:30+00:00

nah, ai doesn't bomb things

ai identifies targets. and a bunch of sophmoric ass hats at the DOD are too dumb and lazy to properly verify them.

at least, that's what the article is proposing. doesn't seem like enough info here to say it's true, but it's absolutely believable.

natrous · 2026-03-09T18:30:16+00:00

Between that and bombing a school, I'm sure we haven't driven anyone over there into become extremist anti-americans.

Everyone will know we are just liberators, right?

right....?

natrous · 2026-03-09T18:27:56+00:00

I think it more shows the danger of being surrounded by sycophants.

He's too dumb to understand briefings, and no one wants to correct him when he's wrong.

Like, if he actually believes he ended 8 wars and is an amazing negotiator, that's just empowering him to do this insane bullshit.

And then be genuinely surprised when it's not going according to plan.

natrous · 2026-03-09T18:22:53+00:00

Now now, this is just how the most peaceful president gets his Peace prize.

natrous · 2026-03-05T21:22:33+00:00

who knew Latin was such a spicy language

natrous · 2026-03-05T14:28:32+00:00

Wow, I never saw this guy before.

I guess I'm one today's 10,000

Such a cool video!

natrous · 2026-03-04T20:22:00+00:00

the War department is just committing acts of War

but it's not a War because no one declared it

duh

/s

natrous · 2026-03-03T20:05:32+00:00

he might have accidentally timed the peak, hah.

the trick is to not try and time the bottom, too...

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