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by trompetenaccoun 7mo ago
Apollo 11 (which included actually landing on the Moon for the first time in human history!) cost only $355 million* in 1969. That's a little over 3 billion in 2025 dollars. How has a comperatively "simple" flyby become so ex
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by trompetenaccoun 7mo ago
Artemis has a budget of over 90 billion dollars, it's more than 4 billion for that Artemis II launch (as estimated by NASA, possibly more because they don't even know exactly how much they're spending). For that price one mig
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The entire 1941 Japanese film Kanzashi can be watched on its Wikipedia page(en.wikipedia.org)
13 points by trompetenaccoun 1y ago|1 comments
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by trompetenaccoun 1y ago
The blog post is unclear on if they will only be allowed to verify accounts as being part of NYT or if they will be allowed to give out blue checks to anyone in general. It sounds like it's the latter. If not it shouldn't be a blu
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Brits are well-known romantics even today but 19th century society was on a whole different level.
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Interesting, that's not what they teach these days from what I've seen. The economic aspect is a side note and the focus is on the politics, racism, Holocaust, etc. Which imo doesn't really how teach the kids the root cause.
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
There is a lot of confusion around finance and economics in the the general population. The average person does not even understand what money is and how it's created. This includes many journalists. I think people who're into eco
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
The German love for authoritarianism did that. And WW1 Allies who bled the country dry with reparations as the article mentions. Which lead to desperation in the population and hatred for the establishment. You can see it play out in leadin
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
>The older they are, the better they are Everyone agrees the build quality used to be better (my grandpa already said this about appliances from his youth). But one thing I almost never see discussed is the power consumption of these old
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Is there? Or is that just his Youtube channel on a loop?
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
To be clear I'm not saying Kerala is particularly bad by regional standards, it's not. But compare Kerala and India as a whole with other parts of Asia, they're not doing well. Look at China vs India in the 1970s vs 50 years
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Users of popular apps are not in control, the people tweaking the models are. GenAI is not an artist.
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
You're fine with being mislead a little? I'm not a materials scientist so I can't comment on this specific topic but based on my experience with pop science reporting errors and misinformation often come in multiples. The aut
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
That may be but the topic of the thread is how rich Kerala supposedly is, not how super awesome their public train announcements are. The claim is not just false, the article is outright propaganda given how one of the co-authors works for
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Have you read the Communist Manifesto? It also makes Communism sound like a good idea. Nevermind that Kerala doesn't have a particularly high GDP per capita even by southern Indian standards. It's not rich by any rational measure,
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
What "blatant lies" though? The question hasn't really been answered. The user wrote: >Exploiting and lying about the monumental efforts of a pioneering industry for cheap political points I don't know what this means
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
As you said they're incompetent so it would be Russia more like. Imagine the bizarre situation that the US would be in while fighting a proxy war against them at the same time. Also in that alternative timeline, I wonder what that woul
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
>not insert him self too much in the process of rocket science to cause catastrophe The fact that many believe all these companies thrive despite the leadership is fascinating. I've heard this same take over and over. One can&#x27
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
With all other recent news from Mozilla (large scale firings, multiple leadership changes, the new ToS and removal of the promise to never sell our data...), I won't read too much into it but simply add it to the list. https:/&#x
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Yes but no, post WW2 the UK was one of the most liberal places in the world. Somehow things took a turn in the past two decades or so. And then around the 2020s the decline started to rapidly accelerate. The stories that have come out latel
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
It's crazy that they were informed about this months ago and still have not fixed it yet. They're going to have to now that it's public but why would that pressure even be needed. I naively assumed if Apple still gets one thi
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
One way some companies and merchants deal with high inflation and increasing price pressure seems to be declining quality. I've seen similar things happening more frequently in different markets, not just tech. If you notice something
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
I live in Kenya and have not heard of a single person who got "long covid", or knows someone who does. It has nothing to do with working oneself to death as you imagine, this is a phenomenon that does not exist outside a certain s
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
What else do they give us choice over? What we put into our bodies? You can't, the government and "experts" decide in case it's a substance they don't like or which would reduce big pharma profits. Where you're
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
>although back then there would be far less reason to do any swapping Why?
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Not to start a big discussion about WW2 but the US was passive until they were attacked. Over 2000 Americans were killed in Pearl Harbor. For a nation of its size and power, the US was decidedly un-imperialist up until then. Even after they
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
What does that have to do with rockets? The main resources you need for spaceflight are intellectual capacity and engineering skills. Plus a government that allows it to happen. Besides the US, China and Russia, the 4th place for number of
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
Like straight out of a Mitchell and Webb sketch. I bet there will be people on this site as well who don't understand why you can't solve poverty by simply giving out cash. Although cash is what humans crave, it's got purchas
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
The way this looks it could be more dangerous than having no bike lane at all. Drivers will see this as a sign that the big lane belongs to them. Bike riders must expect someone in the parked car to unexpectedly open the door at any time an
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by trompetenaccoun 2y ago
I just used the exact prompt they give as an example and got the very spam they claimed to have removed. Vice, The Independent, Healthline, etc... all advertising those gummies in ads disguised as news articles. So yeah, probably not actual

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