ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
7hr ago
No, it was sexism. "Binders" was used to imply that he wants to "bind" women.
Didn't get a lot done regarding Substack integration, but addressed a few bugs that were bothering me:
- Apparently Twitter avatar URLs expire after some time. Either that, or some people I follow changed them (though I haven't noticed any difference), so I had to update them if any difference is detected.
- "Starring" / adding a Tweet to favorites also cascaded to all it's responses, kinda defeating the purpose. Fixed, but introduced a new bug where "starred" quotes and retweets aren't rendered properly.
- Paragraphs / endlines failed to render properly when viewing Twitter directly over the API.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
You're welcome, but it's not entirely to my credit. I reserve the right to keep giving you shit about "three years AFTER" from now until the end of time
Feel free. Like I said the first time, my bets / opinions on Musk are not based on expertise, and I hope I didn't come off as pretending that they are. In fact, part of my shtick nowadays is proving the superiority of Vibe Analysis over deliberate reasoning, so I suppose my ignorance only works to prove my point here.
I'd put maybe 33% odds on them sending an unmanned (save for Optimus androids) one-way ship or two in the 2029 launch window, albeit probably to crash on arrival.
Well, if you want to bet, I'll be more than happy to give you 3:1 odds on this one. Even if it's smooth sailing from here on out, I don't know if they'll make a go for it. No one asked him to go to Mars, it's Elon's own personal dream, there's no money in it. OTOH he does have a contract for going to the moon, and his investors might want to see a better return on Starlink, and the things that have to be achieved before he gets beyond LEO make it so that "smooth sailing" is far from guaranteed. I want to see how that orbital refuelling works out, and if it handles boil-off well enough that it doesn't turn out they underestimated the amount of necessary launches by a factor of 2-3x.
Finally, there's the competition and the political risks. If Bezos swipes the moon from under Elon, the investors could very well say they're done here. If the competition can provide a tolerable alternative for Starlink, at least for the Pentagon, and the Dems win the next election, they'll stop at nothing to fuck him over.
Thanks for the detailed response!
When I watched, it looked like it cleared the pad pretty quickly
Yeah, I take it back. When I was watching a livestream, someone commented on it taking it's time (probably it being held, as you say), but what really gave me the impression was a post-launch commentary video, which, looking at the original stream again, must have shown the takeoff in slowmo.
But, unless they can do upper stage reuse, that still doesn't put a colony on Mars
Eh, it would be awesome, but unless some rabbits get pulled out of several hats, Mars feels like a distant dream.
I don't know how things are in the US, but in Europe companies pay premium for non-third-worlders. Now, the "premium" might still add up to chump change, but it might still be worth it depending on your situation.
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