verzali's comments

On: NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

[verzali]

I doubt they set out to launch eleven times without reaching orbit.

[ThrowawayTestr → verzali]

They very explicitly were not setting out for orbit for most of them.

[verzali → ThrowawayTestr]

Yes, but if you asked someone at SpaceX before flight 1 where they would be by flight 11, I doubt they would have been happy about the reality.

[ThrowawayTestr → verzali]

And?

[bpodgursky → ThrowawayTestr]

Not a single one of them had reaching stable orbit in the flight plan.

On: NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

[verzali]

Well the SLS has already sent a capsule around the Moon. And it has kept a lot of people employed. That's pretty much what it was intended to do.

[readthenotes1 → verzali]

Only the latter achievement was a real intention. The former is just the malarkey useful to sell it

On: Why Europe Doesn't Have a Tesla

[verzali]

Tesla seems like a terrible example. The obvious answer would be because Europe doesn't have meme stocks.

On: How Stupid Would It Be to Put Data Centers in Space?

[verzali]

When do the shipments from the asteroid mines start arriving?

On: You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account

[verzali]

Citizens don't need an ETA. Only non-citizens are affected.

On: Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov

[verzali]

How much dangerous censorship does your Asian nation carry out? India, for example, blocks thousands of websites - no sex work for them - and regularly shuts down the Internet entirely.

[blell → verzali]

Why is the response to all of this a giant ad hominem. “Oh but <region> does it too!” - how does this help me as an European?

[lenkite → verzali]

Why else do you think I mentioned that the EU is on a dangerous path ? I utterly stand against govt censorship.

[hdgvhicv → lenkite]

But corporate censorship by companies larger and more powerful than most countries with no democratic accountability is ok?

[lenkite → hdgvhicv]

Govt is far worse since Corporates can't throw you in jail for social media posts - which is what is happening.

On: Spain’s LaLiga has blocked access to freedom.gov

[verzali]

The US.

On: I guess I kinda get why people hate AI

[verzali]

What about the reverse? If China announces a unilateral pause, would the US follow?

On: Why I don't think AGI is imminent

[verzali]

We weren't that far away from ATMs refusing to hand out cash, banks limiting withdrawals from accounts (if your bank hadn't already gone under), and a subsequent complete collapse of the financial system. The only thing that saved us from that was an extraordinary intervention by governments, something I am not sure they would be capable of doing today.

On: The missing digit of Stela C

[verzali]

The source seems to be here: https://bsky.app/profile/gro-tsen.bsky.social/post/3meiqswj7...

It is a weird error, true.

[MarkusQ → verzali]

That's not only the source of "Scalier" but, from the looks of it, a significant chunk of the embedded e-mail thing. So it was maybe just copied from a bluesky thread?