Increasingly likely? Clicking on the profile of the poster, they self-described as a professional shit poster.
It was clearly fake from the beginning. Of course it needs to be verified, we need to be thorough, but no trust should have ever been put into it in the first place.
There are a good number of people that actually take the whole “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law” thing all the way to its extreme. Even with glaringly obvious public evidence before that.
It is the foundation of our justice system, as much as some groups are trying to tear it apart, even from within in some cases.
It’s been made painfully clear this last decade or so that a lot of people are plain fucking stupid or incapable of making their own informed decisions, relying on paid media to tell them what to think following a specific narrative.
We’ve seen a lot of cases where people were villified by the media and then evidence turns up proving their innocence, or that the evidence we originally were presented was faked, out of context, or otherwise the opposite of what was claimed.
Just look at the recent back and forth both on social media and in “news” articles with that guy in Michigan and the suspended drivers license. It’s went from a guy in Zoom court while driving on a suspended license, which seems to be pretty clear, and had people viewing the situation a certain way. Oh but then it was just a State clerical error from something that was supposed to be cleared 2 years ago, to maybe he never actually had a driver’s license. So then what was actually suspended in the first place? And all that within just a couple days for a viral video.
We cannot simply trust the information we’re given blindly online, we as individuals need to keep in mind that even though things may look one way, that there is a possibility we are getting incorrect info, even from a trusted source.
While this article does a decent job explaining the differences, it again avoids pointing out the real apples to oranges here. The two programs are nothing alike.
Starliner is akin to Crew Dragon. These were part of the same batch of contracts from NASA for a crew capsule that could reach the ISS and deliver payloads. Boeing was given nearly double the budget to make it happen compared to SpaceX ($4.2B vs $2.6B). Starliner is 8 years behind schedule and barely making their first crewed rendezvous now, while being over budget, meanwhile Crew Dragon has already made 13 crewed launches since 2020. It’s been past the testing and development phase and into regular operation for a while now.
That’s the comparison that these articles should be making. Starship is an entirely different beast, with completely different goals. Starship is designed to go to Mars, not just Low Earth Orbit. The only reason they are being talked about together is because they are both being tested around the same time. SpaceX fulfilled their similar contract and has moved onto the next big thing after making it Crew Dragon a stable launch design, while Boeing is still working on replicating the capabilities of the Apollo capsule, just modern.
No it’s even worse. We taught the rock how to think, and now force it to think what we want it to think. Millions of thoughts that we want, every second.
Most fruits and veg don’t need any packaging at all. At most for a few, a sticker with a segment to show the best ripeness color if they insist on branding that sum bitch.
A little surprising considering there was a helium valve leak they detected like a month ago that caused a scrub, but decided it wasn’t worth taking it apart to fix, just send it and it will probably be fine.
Oh I’m aware of how small the issue is in comparison. It’s just ridiculous that there is an issue like this at this point. They’re almost a decade behind schedule, and received nearly double the funding of their direct competitor who has launched their comparable system nearly 30 times, with 13 crewed launches. They were supposed" to be the faster and more reliable option because of their legacy history, instead they’ve just shown that they really cannot compete in the modern launch market.
We need multiple options for redundancy, safety, and lowering or removing reliance on foreign launch capabilities… and this is just a terrible option in comparison.
So it should launch as good as a modern game 7 months post launch. I’m not even going to think it will be a proper launch, but I’ll begrudgingly accept a minimum of the quality of a modern game 7 months after they’ve had time to fix issues at launch.
It’s because the average person has no real knowledge of anything nuclear beyond accidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima, and only get misinformation drip fed to them from the entrenched power providers, who spend a lot of money keeping it that way.
Solar is great, during the day, and when it’s clear. The drop offs are pretty big outside that though, and things like battery storage are good but not a full solution, so it cannot be used as a reliable base load source. That’s where nuclear can replace the coal and gas plants that produce that current base load, with dramatically less pollution.
No one ever talks about all the shit being thrown into the atmosphere around those burning plants, including radioactive material, because it’s not as intuitive to the average person. Obviously nuclear is related to radiation, it’s less obvious that burning things like coal does too.
I’ve been going through updating all of my accounts (passwords, 2FA, etc.), and I’ve noticed that there are a lot of sites that don’t offer any form of MFA....
Text based MFA is the least secure option, and shouldn’t be used. Apps or a dedicated hardware token are the options you want, and those are pretty easy to setup.
That also doesn’t even take into account that mobile makes up more than 50% of global web traffic now. So “going to find your phone”, you are in the minority. The majority of people are already using their phone when they are logging into something.
A dedicated authenticator app like Authy is easy to set up. And now the most common password managers also allow generating those MFA app codes directly to login with them alongside your regular username and password. Apple’s Keychain, LastPass, and Bitwarden all support it, just to name a few.
And we have Passkeys being implemented as an alternative to the Password/2FA system, with native support for that via things like iOS and Bitwarden, and I’m sure others as well.
The worst part of those is when they do support 2FA, but it’s text-only. No app authentication or hardware key option.
Like it’s something, but it’s easily the least secure option, and probably the most expensive since it requires operating an additional SMS portal for those codes.
My second paragraph literally points out that the majority of Internet traffic now is mobile, around 58%. More likely than not, any given person is already on their phone. No need to find your phone when it’s in your hand and you’re already looking at it.
Possibly, but the real world is likely nowhere near that. I’d be willing to bet most people in general don’t leave their phone lying around their house randomly while they’re home and actively doing things where they might need to login to accounts. More likely their phone is in a pocket, or on the desk in arms reach, not the other side of the house while they’re on the computer.
And of course all of this assumes a phone only app or a text message while ignoring the systems that let you access your messages from other devices. Like the iOS/Mac support through an Apple ID, Android Messages supports via the web, and Phone Link on Windows will let you do as well over WiFi at home. All of those will let you access your phone messages without needing the phone directly in front of you.
Oh I realize how illiterate most people are with tech. But fully integrated systems like Apple’s Keychain and integration with Mac products make that a much smaller issue than it would otherwise be on the surface for many of those users. At least, until they don’t remember their Apple ID.
Stop trying to mimic meat products, it’s a losing battle and will always be inferior. Stop trying to fit foods into a meat “alternative” product that just sucks in comparison to the original, but you try to justify as being “almost the same”, it’s never even close. It’s easily the main reason so many people won’t even consider vegan options, they’re constantly being lied to and resent that.
Embrace the ingredients and use them in ways that actually make sense. You don’t need to replace meat products for people to try an alternative diet, you just need to have other good options. Many vegan restaurants have absolutely delicious and filling food, it’s never the options that try to replace a burger though. It’s the foods designed from the ground up to be vegan and embracing what the ingredients actually are.
Edit: What a surprise, down voted by the vegan brigade refusing to accept any sort of criticism that their replacements usually suck. Coming to defend poor imitations instead of just acknowledging that some foods don’t need to be replaced, and that attempting to do so just steers people away from alternatives entirely.
I never said that alternatives weren’t good. In fact I said the exact opposite. That the alternatives need to be treated as their own thing, not a replacement for a meat product. But the knee jerk reaction to downvote anything perceives as anti-vegan is just too strong apparently. And you all wonder why people make fun of the vegan culture. It’s almost as bad as Linux fanboys or League of Legends players.
And yet this post is literally trying to replace a hotdog. From the image, not just as a replacement for the role of the meat, but trying to mimic the hotdog in its entirety.
There’s nothing contrarian here. I’m saying a vegan hot dog trying to imitate a regular one will be bad. Make vegan food that’s actually good and embraces what it is made out of instead of trying to replace a regular meat item.
The fact there are responses here literally saying to lie to people about what they’re being fed is insane.
I don’t look at it as flack so much as just more justification that Starliner, and by extension Boeing, is a failed system and a direct indication of legacy space’s inability to compete with the new ideas and ways of development that companies like SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Firefly, etc. are using now.
Boeing talked a lot about how their design and testing processes were inherently better and safer than companies that work through iterative design (like SpaceX). They were given nearly twice the budget ($4.2B) of SpaceX ($2.6B) to develop a similar crewed capsule system. They were expected to have a system up the fastest since their delivery vehicles were already using tested processes and would be essentially coming from previous known effective designs with modern updates.
Yet Starliner’s un-crewed test launches so far have had fundamental issues, including a launch that failed to dock to the ISS entirely, and the crewed launch attempts have all run into issues causing scrubs that realistically should have been caught before launch day. They are 6+ years behind schedule on getting a crew into orbit. Meanwhile, the SpaceX Crew Dragon has made 13 crewed flights already. It’s taken so long that at least one Starliner trained astronaut was taken from their program, cross-trained on Crew Dragon, and has visited the ISS already before Starliner has even launched their first crew.
The flack isn’t about the scrub itself, everyone wants safety, it’s about really everything else in the program. This program just shouldn’t be having flight scrubs at this point for things other than weather. Especially not something ridiculous like this latest scrub, especially since the rocket it’s on is a well-tested mature design. It just makes them look incompetent at this point:
The space agency said the launch was scrubbed “due to the computer ground launch sequencer not loading into the correct operational configuration after proceeding into terminal count.”
United Launch Alliance, which manufactures and operates the rockets that launch the spacecraft into orbit, “is working to understand the cause,” NASA added.
We need a civilian-run national investigation and oversight agency for police and sheriff departments that maintains a database of law enforcement officers and their histories. None of this bullshit local internal investigation shit where the investigation is handled by the same or nearby departments. Don’t want to be in this database? Don’t be a cop. Requirement of the job. Actually hold them to a higher standard.
Wind and solar are great, but they cannot provide consistent 24 hours base load production. Even with massive battery farms, they cannot replace bas load consistently.
That’s where nuclear needs to be, replacing the base load production currently being handled via coal and natural gas.
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The Palm Pre Is The Reason You Love Your Phone (youtu.be)
Why don't more websites/services offer 2FA?
I’ve been going through updating all of my accounts (passwords, 2FA, etc.), and I’ve noticed that there are a lot of sites that don’t offer any form of MFA....
Vegan hotdogs // Veggie "Completo Italiano" (aggregatet.org)
Although it does not mention any vegan variation, there is a wikipedia article about the “completos”.
NASA’s Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test Launch– June 1, 2024 (Official NASA Broadcast) [SCRUB] (www.youtube.com)
So, the Seattle cop who drove 74 mph in a 25 zone, without sirens, killed a woman, and wasn't disciplined ... had *previously* been fired by the Tucson PD, for "failing to meet minimum standards." (publicola.com)
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Georgia governor calls for even more nuclear power despite budget woes (grist.org)