a nation of temporarily embarrassed dukes
WrongOnTheInternet
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Fortunately the US system of government is weird and the executive branch doesn't set the budget. This is a proposal to Congress so time will tell whether it happens.
Incredibly damaging to make deep cuts that wouldn't even allow an agency to mothball assets and keep on the best staff.
absurd reactionary things which are mostly inconsequential
Unfortunately there is not a clear demarcation and I don't see much value in trying to seperate them
Yesterday's steamer calling for fascism is tomorrow's US political leader, and the absurb reactionary things being posted will be used to justify crimes against humanity
The only thing I care less about than whether something is directly consequential or indirectly and possibly not consequential is the allocation of those posts to two seperate communities created because of some bizarre mod clique about shit that doesn't matter (not the name, which matters in a symbolic way, but having two communities)
And now I should disengage because I've written too much about something I ostensibly don't care about
Yeah it's a stupid community title, you reckon the gossip one is better?
I reread the article, I reckon it's about satellites in general deorbiting faster to avoid a Kessler syndrome scenario
Sean Elvidge at the University of Birmingham, UK, says this effect could benefit satellite operators like SpaceX by removing dead satellites from orbit more quickly that could otherwise pose a danger to other satellites. “It’s speeding up that process,” he says. However, it could limit our ability to operate satellites in orbits below 400 kilometres, known as very low Earth orbit. “It shows that could be challenging,” he says.
this is beneficial to SpaceX as it means the end of life satellites will re-enter faster, getting them out of the way for their replacements
They can deorbit them at any time though?
content maker
We generate more content in a single day than anyone could consume in a lifetime
Shout out to my content creators who don't use ads or seek subscription dollars though
We do have them here, named either as donut holes, unnamed samplers or as loukoumades (or the five other different ways to say it as you move further east from Greece, but loukoumades is definitely the most common)