from the razor to the rosary

submissive in the way a livestock guardian dog is submissive to the sheep it kills wolves for

Did you know that NASA engineers considered the failure rate of some critical shuttle parts to be about 1 in 100 (significantly greater than what NASA upper-management considered the failure rate to be, and what was considered at all acceptable by the certification process)?

Do you know that NASA engineers currently have no idea how many rocket launches the next mission in the Artemis program (in 2 years!) is meant to involve, because the mission plan relies on SpaceX being contracted to deliver a supply of cryogenic fuel to the crewed Orion (™ Lockheed-Martin) capsule in orbit - a procedure that 1: has never been attempted before on any spacecraft, let alone the Orion™ capsule, not even in uncrewed technology demonstration flights; and 2: would require an as-of-yet unknown number of SpaceX 'Starship' launches, because said vehicle does not actually exist at time of writing?

Did you know they're planning on using this 'starship' as the crewed lander? A design for a lunar ascent vehicle, that is, that does not use hypergolic fuel, that relies on a swing-out crane as the only entry and egress point? During the original moon landings, the LEM had so many redundant methods to make sure it got astronauts off the surface of the moon, that in the most absurd, extreme case, where every single mechanism fails, there's a procedure trained into the astronauts to climb around the outside of the capsule, take a pair of bolt-cutters from the equipment box, physically cut the couplings holding the capsule to the lander stage, and take off to get home. Artemis' proposed lander, on the other hand, is planned to be a vehicle whose design didn't even include heatshields until it was realised it would obviously need heatshields, which are ceramic tiles bolted after-the-fact directly through the steel hull, because SpaceX had decided to mass-produce the original-design hull sections all at once for all the 'starships' first, before doing any integrated testing.

We're seeing the exact attitude that led to the shuttle disasters not being prevented now expressing itself in (and even through) the Artemis program, a project pushed harder and faster through the gates than it should be, by a government (and NASA administration thereby) desperate to advance the eponymous Artemis Accords (that goes unsigned by China, Russia, and much of the world) and reneg on all previous space charters that onsidered ownership, commercial exploitation, and military usage of space forbidden. Something bad is going to happen, and it's going to happen for the sake of SpaceX and the military-industrial complex at large.

Thinking about how when my oldest brother took Japanese classes his professor was like your pronunciation is really good 😊 but you need to watch movies that aren't about the Yakuza because you sound like a criminal

somewhere in this beautiful world there is a man who sounds like Paulie Walnuts because he learned English by watching the Sopranos

Really in love with some of the notes on this post

pig,,

This little butch piggy went to a bar and tried to pull a femme baddie

she succeeded

If only there were some sort of facility where teenagers could be taught new skills.

Anyway, here's a helpful diagram. When I was hit on the temple this was one of the harder things I had to reteach myself. Don't be shamed into not asking questions, and it's alright if it takes you a while to figure it out. Don't let someone make you feel bad for learning new things, or relearning old ones.

Sometimes, unfortunately, you have to teach yourself. YouTube is a valid option.

the other thing is that modern clocks seem to have a trend of hands being way too similar in length

if you're not practiced at reading analogue clocks, seeing this from across a classroom could make it more difficult. older clocks seem to have a more pronounced length difference in their hands:

I grew up thinking I was bad at reading clocks...and then I started working at museums and wearing an antique pocket watch. now it's a breeze because the clocks around me actually put function over sleek, minimalist aesthetics in terms of readabilty

Delicious and dragons

hell yea man flip that mushroom !!!!!

WHO tf keeping pads with no wings in production?? Put it in your draws and by the time you walk out the bathroom it’s down the street buying scratch offs at the corner store. Like girl

me being normal about particle colliders again

Oh I remember when people were praising the first girl for “validating femininity” or whatever and shutting down anyone who critiqued her sexist shallow ass with “so you hate feminine women?” Like it’s not because she’s feminine it’s because she’s reducing femininity to a shallow ditzy stereotype and portraying that as empowering and funny, acting like women can only understand things when you compare them to makeup and clothes. And as you can see here, she’s taken it too far(not like it wasn’t already taken too far to begin with), to the point where she’s outright making fun of genocide. After all how can you expect women to get the concept of ethnic cleansing and mass violence and bombings unless you compare them to shoes and what dress is on sale? Ugh 🙄

Second girl told no lies tho.

was talking to my gf about my fear of dying young for being trans and my mom putting my deadname on my gravestone, and she said "i hope that never happens, but if it does, i will carve your name into your grave myself if i have to." and i think theres something extremely raw about that sentiment and trans community in general. you can kill only our bodies, but you cant kill transsexuality

From The Sandman

My Chemical Romance, Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back // I've Never Been Here Before, They Burnt Her Clothes