LastYearsIrritant

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They're calling Canada the 51st state, not the 51st-55th state.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You have to be correct TWICE in order to make money off that bet though. Unless you buy back in right now, the chances you'll get back in at the right time are very low.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 days ago

https://youtu.be/ffsNCeSMC2k?t=174

Pneumatic car jack with a spike on the end of it. Slide it under the middle of the car where the batteries are. Apply compressed air from a high pressure nitrogen tank. Release pressure, move on to next car.

That's also true of airplanes.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

But why is there a... rock? donut hole? geode? hush puppy? Next to the woolly mouse? I feel like it's a pun I'm missing.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 days ago (6 children)

9/10 times you'll miss the dip and get behind the curve. You have no idea how the market is going to react in the next 6 weeks, much less in the next 6 years.

Trump could have just as easily not implemented the two days of tariffs and the market could have gone up.

Now that the tariffs are off again, the market might bounce back higher than ever on Monday and you're going to miss the bounce.

Of course he might say something incredibly stupid tonight and the market crashes, but again, 9/10 times pulling money out of the market means opportunities lost, not bullets dodged.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Same as every other time in the US's existence.

Invest in an index fund, let money sit. Repeat.

The US has been through turmoil before. Nearly every country in the world has had similar experiences. Unless you think the concept of capitalism is ending, just prepare for the future the way that's been done for the last 100 years.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 days ago

If you lived 1900 miles West or East, you would see the same sky, just at different times. In this case, the difference in timezones would approximately be the difference in the sky you see. So if your husband is 3 hours ahead, he'd see the same sky about 3 hours before you.

If you lived 1900 miles north or south of each other, your horizon could be pretty different. But the stars directly overhead would be pretty similar.

If you lived on opposite sides of the equator, you might start to see different angles of the sky such that things directly overhead look flipped upside down. People in the southern hemesphere see the moon as upside down to people in the northern hemesphere.

You're looking at it with hindsight. Sure it feels like spending another million $ designing, testing, and adding additional weight, along with removing weight from other parts looks like the right decision now.

Every design makes compromises, and every failure looks stupid when looking at the end result. The team had decisions to make and if they had the extra time and money, then making the existing design more robust with more testing and reliability would have been the better solution.

Good explanation. People that design space missions have a lot of restrictions, and things that seem obvious on the surface can cause a lot of problems in practice.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Weight. That's the only actual answer.

It's extremely expensive to send weight to the moon, everything you list is more weight.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 91 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Don't give her sudo permission then.

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