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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • It’s having problems with its RCS system

    The thrusters that turn the craft around and allow precise movement aren’t working properly, they barely got the thing to dock with the ISS.

    Despite what nasa says publicly, I’m sure there’s a lot of internal debate about if it’s even safe to undock the thing from the station. If it loses orientation control while still close to the ISS, it could easily damage the station and kill people. That’s if some of the damaged thrusters aren’t the ones that allow the craft to go backwards, kind of important if you want to leave the station.


  • The US navy has almost as many aircraft as all of Russia.

    The US Army has more aircraft than all of Russia.

    The US Airforce has more aircraft than the US navy and army.

    That’s just planes and helicopters.

    If you think any of the countries you talked about are a serious threat to the US outside of nuclear war, then you’re sorely mistaken about how truly insane US defense spending is.


  • More an Anti-computer-system-that-happens-to-have-wheels narrative.

    I want a car. I want it to turn on, take me from point A to B, and maybe play some music or an audio book while I’m driving. It should tell me how fast I’m going, and how much further I can go before it needs to recharge or refuel. Give me a few buttons for basics like turning on the heat, AC, lights, and the windshield wipers.

    That’s it. I just want an affordable car that can take me somewhere. None of these EV manufacturers are doing that. They all focus on software packages to set them apart from the rest, when if they just focused on making a usable, affordable car, they’d corner the market.

    Let them fail until someone makes something that actually does what it’s supposed to.


  • What how? Update faster.

    Probably some routing failure caused by ancient infrastructure

    Does anyone understand how 911 lines are different >than regular phone lines that they could go down?

    They are the same phone lines, 911 just has its own routing system.

    Could it be a Cyber attack?

    Definitely could, but never attribute to malice that which can be explained first by stupidity.

    Where’s all the phone people at?

    Retired. Everyone has cell phones, and has told all the kids to not take trades jobs for the past 30 years. Every trade is hurting for new workers, including phone line technicians. There’s not enough bodies to do the work anymore.


  • “Sorry we killed most of you in a series of brutal wars and plagues that we started, kicked the survivors out of your countries, systematically erased huge swaths of your culture and heritage, and then made the scraps of land we did give you unusable through mining and water extraction, but stealing your water turns out to be good for an entirely different problem we helped create that will ultimately destroy even more people and land.”

    Yeah I don’t know if that checks out. Bad thing still looks bad.