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[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago
[–] Econode@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

The Atari 800XL was far superior to the C64.

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago

r/AnythingButMetric

or whatever the Lemmy Syntax would be

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 hours ago

Watch out, It's the trickle down economics ^tm^

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 29 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

How awesome would it be for Donald Trump, Joe Rogan, Dana White, and Elon Musk himself to get smashed by a Musk satellite during a photo op in the octagon at the White House UFC fight.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

As an atheist that would legitimately make me turn Christian.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I don't think you're doing atheist correctly.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I mean, if we're going to go with retribution-by-improbable events, I have to stick with the classics. There's nothing quite like an evil leader being smote by lightning bolt. It just has that "wrath of an angry God" effect like nothing else.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If that happened, you could not convince me that we aren’t all extras in Idiocracy 2.

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 54 points 20 hours ago (17 children)

falling from the the sky and burning is a good thing, bigger concern is them staying up there for too long

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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 141 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (26 children)

What the fuck is "half a pickup truck" for a measure

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

American or European pickup trucks?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 25 seconds ago

This is SpaceX so I assume they meant cybertruck

[–] PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

About 0.000000281 Saarländer

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

And are we talking a reasonable work truck, or one of those American abominations referred to as 'pickup trucks.'

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 154 points 23 hours ago (18 children)

Americans will use anything other than the metric system.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

As an american, I am 100% onboard on switching entirely to measuring things in terms of pickup trucks.

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 50 points 23 hours ago (13 children)

As was always the plan for these satellites.

The article raises a vague concern about Kessler syndrome. This is exactly why these satellites are designed to deorbit once their useful lifespan is finished. I don't see what the point of this article is at all.

Fear mongering for ad money is the point

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago (14 children)

I don't understand what kind of capitalist pig you need to be to allow private companies access to low orbit.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago


just some random capitalist here

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