There’s no evidence that what feels good to you actually reduces the odds of the perpetrator committing crimes again or reduces the rate of those crimes in society in general, and good evidence that what doesn’t feel good to you does those things. So you will have to decide if you would rather feel good about how the person who did something wrong was punished or have less crime in your society.

Isn’t it at meme levels when YouTube games have their screen go black and they mention Nvidia crashing?

This is about rocket launches, not satellites.

…SpaceX is part of the program to get back to the moon.

*Probably typed on a smartphone, one of the most technology-dense products ever created by humanity, currently used by over half of humanity.

Tell that to a bronze age engineer, and they will probably respond that those two are closer to each other than they are to his best efforts. And he would probably be right.

Or an r in wash. Warsh, or Warshington.

It’s generally only l before m, and b after m. So no l sound in salmon or calm, but there is in solve. Oddly, there’s no l sound in salve. Likewise, there is no trailing b sound in bomb, dumb, or lamb. Of course, it’s important to remember this is English, where the exceptions outnumber the rules, which is expected when you mash three languages together with a sprinkling of the rest of the languages.

Who were the Ukrainians killing before Russia came to save them?

While I get that it’s not a small feat, and an unusual finale for space flight, this isn’t much higher than some skydiving packages you can book today. Still pretty ballsy for back then.

I’m sure she suffered, too. He fathered a child on her, after all.

Only partly serious.

Or you could just watch him in interviews over the last 40 years. Very obvious decline.

His casinos lost 90% of their worth before they went bankrupt. Before you come in with the excuse that the economy drastically affected his ability to run a money-making machine, the other casinos in the area only doubled their worth in the same time. It was a difficult time, but you have to be pretty dumb to lose money in a business with the unofficial slogan of “the house always wins.”

But he sure showed those scientists!

I have just enough skill with hardware to get away with it with some swearing.

I don’t disagree, but I think automation is cool, especially if you can keep it local (or have the tools to secure it on the internet). Valetudo can help make that possible. My current robot vacuum is pretty crappy, but it doesn’t have cameras or mapping. My next will be one that has mapping and can be easily flashed with local hosting.

When a state used to have maternal outcomes similar to a developing nation’s, then passed some new laws and it got worse, I’d say shitshow is too mild.

They apparently sold 4 million units of the pico family. Given the product, I’d say that isn’t amazing, but not a failure, either.

Cancer treatments, longevity treatments, regrowing teeth, every fucking mouse trial that has been talked about for the last 20 years, CRISPR saving the world.

And then you hear about immune therapy cancer treatments, using CRISPR and our extensive knowledge of cancer from decades of research. Or our better diagnostics for cancer leading to better cancer treatment outcomes due to early detection. Or regrowing teeth! (In certain circumstances.) Or, yes, new solar panels with 34% efficiency…for 3 months, at which time they’re only slightly better than existing panels. Or two new ways to make blue pigment in the last two DECADES.

Science is hard, and all of it is standing on the shoulders of giants. And when getting money to do that research, which is another way of saying “trying things you think might work in the hopes of something new”, relies on convincing people that this one idea could be the next big thing, hype is built into the system. So, again, if you don’t want hype, look at new products. If you want to hear about what researchers are working on, don’t expect that everything is going to come to fruition. Even the failed ideas help build the foundation that future researchers will be working from.

In the last 30 years, batteries have gotten about 10 times more powerful at a tenth the size for about 1% of the cost. Every advance that got us to this point was just “stuck in the lab” prior to its release. And if you don’t think incremental change can be significant, after hearing those numbers I provided above, perhaps you should read about compound interest.

Also, if you don’t want to be let down by news of developments at the lab stage, which certainly don’t always become viable, why are you reading posts in a technology community? That seems self-destructive.