Ugh. As much as I didn’t use Mixer, like, at all, and rarely watch game livestreams anywhere but Twitch, I do like giving Bezos some competition on that front to keep them honest.

I just...don’t understand. I couldn’t even finish the article because I just don’t understand the central conceit.

Just a quick point on the booster animation, Jason.

Well, it does drop the boosters and eventually the fuel tank, along the way. Most of what’s on the launch pad never makes it to orbit. The tank is the only single-use component though—both the boosters and the shuttle itself were reusable, not bad for something designed in the 1970s.

That’s almost definitely what would happen, because it’s exactly what happened with HOTS. They realized their esports league for that was bleeding money, so they abandoned the entire game.

if you run the numbers reported by China against all predictions and models that we have for the virus spread and virulence, they line up.

I will never believe any number that comes out of China regarding this. There is no way they have the low amount of numbers they reported with their dense population.

Chinese officials said on Sunday that Wuhan, the city that recorded the first cases of the coronavirus in December, has no hospitalized covid-19 patients

I trust China completely.

Satisfactory also has an arachnophobia mode where they just stick pngs of cats on top of the spiders.

You may not care for musk’s personality. But he has done more to

“Breakneck speed” is the key here. They’ve had a goal of failing forward quickly, and it’s likely that the data they’ve been able to gather will be a bonanza, not just for this project, but for so many other projects as well. There will be a lot of ‘this is what we tried, and this is what happened and why’ data sets…

Manufacturing generally is considered essential in all the states I’ve seen. SpaceX has DOD contracts, so especially in that case.

Disappointing, but at the relative breakneck speed they’ve been developing this thing, hardly unsurprising -- just  gotta plow through and learn from the failures ...

I enjoyed it but thought it could have been done better. I really disliked the ending. Either kill him off or don’t. Don’t emotionally manipulate us into thinking he’s dead and then pull something off at the end to show us “Hey, everyone! Jean-Luc is OK!” I hate those type of endings. It’s fucking lazy.

I was under the impression that this system proved difficult and unreliable and they switched back to old fashioned pneumatic pistons.

Rule #1. Nothing is ever like how Trump describes it.

Wiping shitty butts with paper is just so fucking gross.

I have a special loathing in my heart for Pete Buttigieg. I just dislike him on instinctual level. He’s every teachers pet. He’s every gradegrubber. He’s every shithead son of the manager who Thinks he’s in charge of you.

how do you pronounce jpeg (the p is for “photographic” btw)?