And now it’s running about 12mph/19kph

Train’s supposed to run every 30 minutes. Today it was 25 minutes late.

This is typical on-time performance for RTD.

Unlimited geese upon golferSS

This is how I already feel about it happening with W and Cheney since I actually remember the 2000s at all.

Honestly, just in terms of technical spaceflight challenge, landing an uncrewed probe on the lunar far side is harder than a near side crewed landing. You’re controlling the craft not only from several light seconds away, but also through a relay, and there’s no fallback to Armstrong pulling some steely eyed missile man shit and doing the final approach manually, you have to get the math and programming right the first time.

China’s been doing some really impressive stuff already. They’ve got a lunar satellite constellation for communication and navigation, they’ve got landers and rovers on the lunar farside surface forever beyond earth line of sight that they need those satellites to control, they’ve brought back the first lunar samples since Apollo. And the western media has largely been ignoring it all.

What step is going to be the breaking point? ISRU? Human landing? Permanent human outpost?

Milo Rossi, fun youtube archaeology guy, is on some podcast I’ve never heard of

It’s Destiny’s podcast

I will yap about serial webnovel trash now.

The latest chapter of What Little Remains of Terpsichore Ironheart just released and I was cackling all the way through it. This is the latest fiction from HorizonTheTransient, one of my favorite serial webnovel authors, whose signature thing is Extremely Horny Trans Lesbians Changing The World Through Materialist Analysis And Sufficient Application Of Firepower. Both worldbuilding and character writing are particular strengths.

The setup this time is that five hundred years ago humans genocided almost all the elves because both the humans and the humans’ actually existing gods are bigots. And because elves are biologically immortal, this is still in living memory for the remaining elves who now live in racialized ghettos in human cities, but not the humans. Our main character is a young elf man whose parents survived the genocide, and also an egg. The latter I claim because of the way he is and also from having read this author’s other fictions. This is also complicated by his defensiveness about being seen as feminine because elf men are bishounen so he reads any perception of femininity as anti-elf racism.

In those five hundred years the world has developed things like industry and magitek but our MC was raised on stories of heroic elven mage-knights riding now-absent unicorns and so has decided to tear down this world of human supremacy astride a sweet magitek motorcycle of his own manufacture.

It fucking rules, and you, yes you, the person reading this right now, should give it a try.

I thought the Atlantic coast automotive manufacturing was mostly a way to union bust the last dregs of Detroit manufacturing

Art

:waltuh: kill Neelix too

The words “turned violent” in news reports are interesting because they always refer to a response to violent action rather than the actual inciting violent action.

Strikes “turn violent” when the workers respond to somebody trying to run them over.

Protests “turn violent” when the protesters respond to cops teargassing and beating them.

Calling Japan 日本 in English but pronouncing it Rìběn

A tariff on cell phones, just like the 1890s

Snakes are cute, not scary

Cop really by merely harassing the guy over the phone for ten months instead of fabricating charges against him or killing his dog or some shit.

The period of history where “party tricks” and “criticality incidents” overlapped was pretty wild

Also, a lot of what’s counted as China’s carbon footprint is actually amerikkka’s outsourced footprint

Almost got hit by a car today because buddy thought stop signs and looking both ways didn’t apply to him

I hate cars

hazel vids are so