Soot [none/use name]

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Cake day: March 28th, 2023

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  • Soot [none/use name]tothe_dunk_tankIncredible
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    2 years ago

    Again, old forums and boards were actual communities, which were community moderated, so you naturally tended to act like a real human being or eventually get booted.


  • Soot [none/use name]tochapotraphouse#BlastOff
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    2 years ago

    It's not about not testing prototypes, it's about doing your proper precautionary checks, research and initial engineering so that you don't pointlessly blow up rockets. Yes, sometimes things will go wrong whatever you do, but that should be limited only to stuff that could not have been reasonably foreseen, and after so many failures it's obvious that this is not the only kind of cause.



  • Soot [none/use name]tothe_dunk_tankIncredible
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    2 years ago

    Starbucks provides the service of coffee, Streaming services provide the service of shows to watch, nobody in their life spends $50/day on weed but if they did they're still getting something for their money. I'm not saying any of these things are great but at least it is an exchange of money for SOMETHING.

    Twitter will put a tiny .jpg next to your name on the free website that provides a service literally hundreds of thousands of websites will provide for free, what a service.


  • Soot [none/use name]tochapotraphouse#BlastOff
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    2 years ago

    Sure? We masted normal rocket launches 50 years ago, an inability to do a standard rocket launch would be a truly insane level of incompetency.

    Rocket failures do happen in prototypes, sure, but this rocket wasn't doing anything that special, failing after four minutes is not a success nor a great data gathering event, it's a failure in basic process. And yeah, a lack of precaution is incompetency.


  • Soot [none/use name]tochapotraphouse#BlastOff
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    2 years ago

    The PR is 'anything past the launch pad is a bonus'. They've very successfully spun from the start that they're happy for a giant rocket to explode so they 'gather data', and not as if it's evidence of incompetency.



  • Soot [none/use name]toaskchapoWhich developed country to move to?
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    2 years ago

    the British are by and large less racist than the rest of Europe

    Citation extremely needed. The British are very racist. Proportionally, their record for taking in refugees is one of the lowest in Europe (and not due to a lack of people trying).


  • Soot [none/use name]toaskchapoWhich developed country to move to?
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    2 years ago

    While the UK does have a decently sized Indian population, be aware it has become a significantly more xenophobic and openly racist place, especially since Brexit racist hate crimes have spiked. It wouldn't be my first choice.


  • As a European, Germany would be my first destination to look at - Good QoL, good rights, they're consistently in need of immigration to fill out workforces, and they're efficiently expanding housing for immigrants. They obviously have plenty of challenges too, but nothing really exclusive.