Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

Hey #astronomy #space #rocketscience folks:

Is there a word to describe atmospheric aero-braking with the intent to disintegrate the object in question?

Like the theories about intentionally destroying ice asteroids in Mars' atmosphere for terraforming.

I feel like "aero-braking" has the connotation of wanting to keep the object in one piece.

Is there a term for intentional aero-disintegration?

Folks. It's 2023. If you're still releasing installers without GUIs, quit your job now.

Nobody should have to go to shell prompts to install shit anymore.

Apparently he just got a stick stuck in his upper palate. I didn't see it last night, so he had to sleep with it, but I was able to extract it this morning and he seems much happier now.

Dummy needs to stop chewing on wood.

Based on his current behaviour, I think my dog tried to eat a fire ant hill.

1.) Tech companies post record profits.
2.) Tech companies lay off tens of thousands of employees.
3.) Wait, where'd those pitchforks come from?

I don't get why haggis has such a worse reputation than regular sausage.

I want a law to say that any elected official who tries to ban the beloved Robin Williams movie Ms. Doubtfire is immediately ejected from office and banned from holding future office.

Really excited to see the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" folks explain why it's bad that Germany is sending tanks to Ukraine.

Just sorting through some old stuff, and this seamless #spacecraft re-entry #animation #video I did a while back was a lot of fun, but it was even better with appropriate background music that I can't afford to license.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwEXbftM8ho

It's incredible how much of a limiting factor "refuse to work for crypto scams" is for independent software engineers.

I could be making crazy money right now if I was just willing to help sheisters convince idiots to part with it.

Once again, the right accuses the left of censoring while trying to pass laws to enact actual censorship.

We're starting to have a real problem with book burning among the American right.

Got progressive bifocals for the first time and its messing with my head. I've got pretty extensive natural peripheral vision too, so that's probably not helping.

I get the feeling I'm gonna be nauseated for a few days until I get used to these...

It's crazy how much variation there is, person-to-person, in our ability to use our #imagination.

It's even crazier how much this affects our #worldview. Especially when it comes to imagining what other people are going through and empathizing with them. I swear there's a direct correlation between ability to #imagine and support of #equality for all.

But it also seems to affect other bizarre things. Ever noticed that more imaginative people love certain types of #comedy (like cringe), but only in short doses? It can be fun to live the embarrassment in your mind from a safe viewing distance, but it overwhelms quickly.

A close friend has a very utilitarian imagination. He can imagine how a bookshelf fits together. He can imagine a lion. He can imagine a fish. But ask him to imagine a fish-lion hybrid and he'll just give you a blank look. The revelation of just how differently our imaginations worked was shocking to me.

As much as I like to exercise my imagination, I can't even imagine the person I would be with a less active imagination.