turmacar

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

If I say "It's a shame that conservative policies are being implemented as promised" and someone quotes that as

conservative policies are being implemented as promised

That's not a joke. That's mockery from the people glad it's happening.

We're past Poe's law.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world -4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Your reading comprehension is so low that you can't parse a whole sentence?

No wonder Trump won the election.

There's a reason they're calling these "resignations".

It's unlikely to hold up in court, but that doesn't matter much to people who aren't being paid while the legal ramifications are being worked out.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago (7 children)

They should, but government positions are to a PayScale. You get hired "as" a GS-9 or whatever. You can go and lookup what the location pay adjustment is for your city if you're curious.

Contractors are generally paid at least double digit percentages more for the same job but can be fired/not renewed much easier. In theory.

The tradeoff was that it's pretty hard to fire a full time employee without cause, and the pension / student loan forgiveness / etc.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Regan is a monster, that was at least while the roof was being resurfaced and they just didn't put them back. They were just water heaters anyway, not photovoltaics.

This is solely spending more money to remove freshly installed government equipment for no reason.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's always Tasker.

It's stupidly powerful once you get used to how it works, even without root, and it can definitely patch into the default "share" functionality.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Are you looking for something like Pocket?

There are self-hosted things a lot like it. Vivaldi and some other browsers have similar functionality. Not sure about downloading the videos, but there are other tools for that.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Cans are actually recyclable. That's the benefit. The rest is marketing.

Red Bull doesn't give you wings either.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

👈😎👈

The one about Peter Jackson making They Shall Not Grow Old is also neat.

Apparently he collects WWI artillery and they used his private collection for the sound recording.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This is the most "um acktually" of um actualities but...

For the Apollo 11 documentary that uses only 1969 audio/video they built a custom scanner to digitally scan the 70mm film with the intention that the originals will never need to be touched again at least in their lifetime and its ~16k resolution.

Granted I don't think you can get that version anywhere? But it exists.

Super cool doc by the way. Really surreal seeing footage that old at modern film quality. The documentary about the documentary is also really interesting.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Terribly sorry, arguments are over in room 3B.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Switching to Starship, which is designed to get to space as fast as possible to beat their competition, is not better. Even if there weren't a conflict of interest the size of Jupiter.

The NASA moonshot has been choosing hardware that will do what is asked of it every time and has known failure modes and fixes. Not the shiny new thing. That's a good thing.

Starship or it's successors may in the future be a good option. For the first experimental mission(s) it's a ship designed for LEO and should not be pointed at the moon just because it is also rocket shaped.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Going to the moon should use technology that is tried and tested.

Another "Apollo 13" happening because the new strategy is "move fast and break things" won't have the same happy ending.

You shouldn't throw out all your hammers just because they were designed a "too long" ago. Some tools are fit for purpose.

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