TC_209

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[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

I'm playing Civilization 4 with the mod Realism Invictus, which includes a variety of new leaders for each civilization as well as a "Civs Randomly Pick New Leaders Each Era" option. In my current game as Rome, I'm in the Classical Era and just finished a war against the Saxon Empire lead by Adolf Hitler. So, I guess I'm killing Iron Age Nazis...?

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

A better turn of events: Nazis in Cincinnati got ~~their swastika flags~~ taken and burned today

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can clap with one hand. In fact, I can one-hand clap with both hands at the same time!

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

The revolutionary potential of the American people.

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

THIS IS WHAT YOU WAAAAAANTED!!!

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The guy in the backwards hat looks older than me, and I was born in the late 80s. Talk about pre-watching a video!

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I voted for a woman! PSL

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I looks like it has random greeblies glued onto it, like a prop in a low-budget sci-fi movie.

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Dick Swift — DEX +3, WIS -1

Perfect, no notes.

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

"When they go low, we triangulate precisely how low we can go without going as low as them, but not so high that we actually have to do anything other than give them everything they want!"

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Removed by mod

Is this, like, your catchphrase?

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

Instead of speculating on how it could be done, show us how it actually is done.

 

As originally posted here (cw: lemm.ee), you can see that American tax dollars are helping large-language mod-- I mean, pop-sci article authors really hit their stride. Rather than copy my post from the linked thread, I'll summarize: China's Qianfan satellite constellation is about as bright as Starlink's first satellite constellation, and significantly dimmer when low in the sky. The paper cited by the SpaceNews article (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.20432v1) at no point says "significantly brighter than those of Western systems" as the article claims in the first sentence. In fact, the ArXiv paper's conclusion is as follows:

  1. Conclusions
    The brightness of Qianfan spacecraft ranges from magnitude 4 when they are near zenith to 8 when low in the sky. Nearly all of the observations can be modeled with a nadir-facing flat antenna panel and the underside of a zenith-facing solar array, both with Lambertian reflection properties. These satellites will impact astronomical research and aesthetic appreciation of the night sky unless their brightness is mitigated.

This is the same conclusion that scientists reached about Starlink years ago, and it's still true today.

You might also be wondering who Jeff Foust, the author of this article, is. Prior to writing for SpaceNews, he was a "senior aerospace analyst with the Futron Corporation" (not to be confused with Futron Inc., as I nearly did), which as far as I can tell, was just some dime-a-dozen consulting firm that got bought out by another consulting firm that got bought out by another consulting firm. Folks, the imperialists aren't sending their best.

 

From this comment... it's just so much: "I hope you and the other commenter both someday achieve the maturity to look back on this conversation and be embarrassed. I further hope you'll move beyond embarrassment and realize that it's part of growing up to make mistakes like that."

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