Yeah, why would anyone come to a discussion thread for relevant or useful information, to ask questions with helpful clarifications and answers?
Clearly it makes more sense to be an obstuse, smarmy asshole, that really helps the community seem welcoming and grow, makes everything seem jovial and friendly.
To give you a minor update, you’re gonna need to add ‘nuke’ and ‘nuclear’ to your blocklist… as well as ‘housing crash’, ‘housing values’ and ‘prices’ and ‘debt’ and ‘default’.
Add in those words and you’ll remain blissfully ignorant for at least another couple months.
Yeah, this is the best explanation for why this ‘controvesy’ happened.
Certain background lighting conditions and colors can significantly alter the color and luminance of certain objects in that lighting environment, which otherwise, in less extreme lighting environments, look different.
Even just understanding basic color theory can show you how to make a color pallette out of either mutually complimentary colors, or highly contrasting colors… and how humans largely, (though apparently to differing extents and by different means), interpret a total color space by comparing and contrasting the colors within that space to each other, as opposed to against some objective reference point of all possible colors.
The other part of this explanation is that…
People were not talking about the same image.
Someone would argue one way, another person argues another way, and then someone else would do some kind of photoshop job to argue for one side, and their explanation and reasoning and justification would get lost, and ok now you have multiple images spreading around and being argued over by the same population that would…
… in 5 years, essentially start a civil war over the idea of whether or not it makes sense to wear a mask during an epidemic of a virus transmitted in the aerosolized spittle from sneezes, coughs, and even just breathing.
But yeah, when this was an ongoing thing, I’d have multiple different people in different camps… sending me actually different images, and it took a while to figure out which one was the actual original origin image.
Which of course I had to do on my own, but critical thinking and basic research skills, an impulse to verify the base assumptions of a claim or argument… many people do not know how to do this, or only selectively do it with things that challenge their pre-existing notions.
I would argue that isn’t corpospeak.
It is just normal speech.
Which would essentially be a faux pas for anyone other than C suite to do, to drop the dialect.
Only those that are very powerful/respected within the org can get away with dropping the dialect, there has to be a power disparity.
Like, a VP could say that in an internal check up meeting on some team or project.
But they could not say that in a quarterly earnings report in front of investors, it would be a faux pas to drop the dialect because the power/respect differential is less.
The corpospeak way to ask for how to say something in corpospeak would be more like…
I want to say/ask “…”, what would be an appropriate way to phrase this in a professional setting?
But yes, phrasing corpospeak is almost always designed such that someone not well versed in it would believe that what is being said is not extremely direct, is not extremely clear, is somewhat ambiguous, a bit more verbose than is necesarry to be concise.
However, if you have worked in a lot of corpojobs… you fairly rapidly learn what phrases actually mean. It just requires some familiarity with the specific situational context, and the way corpo business structure/culture works in general.
The original way the first person asked was polite, if intoned gently.
The recommended response is corpospeak.
Corpospeak is never polite.
It just pretends to be.
Like a sociopath.
Aha, I was mostly just trying to get it as close to ‘big dommy mommy’ as possible, rofl.
I absolutely do not know any Ukrainian at any kind of functional level, hahah.
I did not know that origin of smother, that is interesting!
One thing that I do remember seeing, at one point… I can’t remember if it was a unit, an operation, or a piece of equipment… but somebody had translated it into English as roughly ‘Righteous Gale’…
Which struck me as pretty close to the original meaning in Japanese of ‘kamikaze’: divine wind, a cyclone sent by spirits/deities, or the spirits/deities manifesting themselves as the storm.
‘Big Gun Mommy’
I prefer my translation.
I am spending much less money than what I was spending on cigs, with a vape.
I was a pretty heavy smoker for a good while… been slowly tapering down the nic levels over time.
I guess if you just kept buying disposable vapes, yeah that’d be pricey, but … I spend about $35 a month on pods and juice… vs previously spending that much a week on cigs.
Dang. Yeah, that doesn’t sound like fun.
Now I am making that face, albeit with a vape.
Oi fucking vei, lol
Welp, today I learned what DD/LG stands for.
Uh, yes, I … guess both work.
Personally, I am immensely turned off and weirded out by that kind of dynamic, but uh hey, if its consensual and there’s a safe word, whatever floats your boat lol.
Pedro has been rather public about his embrace and defense of trans and queer folks.
Many trans and queer folks are disowned or actively hated by their families.
So… the ‘joke’ is that Pedro gets all the Happy Father’s Day messages instead… because he accepts them, when their actual dads don’t.
This is immensely depressing, hence the cigarette.
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I also don’t use instagram, but enough stuff that happens on instagram filters through to media I do actually interact with that I can givd you this summary.
I mean… yeah, that is a viable explanation.
Nothing I have personally seen would not work with the dirigible idea… observational high altitude blimps and balloons are real things, disinfo by making people think its aliens is a real thing too.
The scifi / advanced classified tech explanation would be more fun, but at least for me personally, I never saw the thing like… suddenly accelerate to mach fuck you… always stationary, hovering.
Online, on a few forums, I have seen other people claim they have seen craft that match the description of what I saw… they have claimed they saw it suddenly accelerate, and I have seen a very shitty quality video once that seemed to show that.
But those people could be BSing, that video could be fake.
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Oh, I am not proposing that the thing I saw, the black triangle, has any relation to the x33/VentureStar at all.
Yes, an array of aeropspike rockets would indeed be very loud, lol.
I am just ranting about something tangentially related.
EDIT: Just to be super duper clear about this:
Black triangle thing i saw: horizontally oriented, all major light emmiting areas spaced out on one surface of the ‘dorito’.
VentureStar: vertically oriented, all engines on one ‘edge’ of the ‘dorito’.
Perhaps vaguely similar general body plan, but completely different flight orientation, ‘rocket’ placement, etc.
Also I’m pretty sure from my 2nd sighting, mystery black triangle thing was significantly larger than even the full size VentureStar would have been, if it had ever been built.
Closer to reality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VentureStar
I am still pissed we didn’t just iron out the issues with this and go down this tech tree / alt hist route.
The cited main problem that lead to cancellation was difficulty in making carbon fiber fuel tanks in a non standard shape.
Pretty sure we have the tech to pull that off now… or just, make it out of a better, more well understood and proven material/design, as literally every engineer on the project was screaming at management to do…
…as best I can tell, everything else about the demonstrater worked.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2006/01/x-33venturestar-what-really-happened/
Basically, despite every involved engineer saying: "this new idea for hydrogen tanks based on a composite honeycomb wrapped in carbon fiber is stupid, we already made weird lobe shaped LOX tanks out of a lithium-aluminum alloy, they work, just make the hydrogen tanks out of them too’.
And then NASA Director Ivan Bekey said, to Congress: “we really need to actually focus on this composite wrap fuel tank design because of uh, technical reasons, and also, it will be harder to attract private funding if we uh… use aluminum tanks that are reliably proven to work… because… uh , uh, uh, wacky composite carbon fiber tanks are necessary, fuck you.”
This explanation makes no fucking sense beyond Bekey being incompetent or paid off by someone to intentionally doom the project.
The engineers literally built and tested the hydrogen fuel tanks/mated lobes made out of the aluminum lithium alloy… and it was fucking lighter than the composite honeycomb one that failed, when the whole fucking main idea of using composites was that they would reduce weight.
The linear spike rockets fucking worked. Quite well actually.
But uh nope, instead, all that tech just got mothballed, and now 20 years later we get to watch Elon waste 10s of billions of dollars creating meteor showers with a fundamentally unworkable design.
Its infuriating, and today, almost no one knows this ever even happened, that we’ve been sitting on the ability to do this for 20 years, for no explainable reason.
…
To summarize and repeat:
We know how to make an actually, fully reusable SSTO craft, that can lift more weight to LEO than the partially reusable Falcon 9 can.
The Falcon 9 can only exceed VentureStar’s LEO capacity when it is fully expended, no recovery, no re-use.
We have known how to do this for 20 years.
We just choose not to for nonsense bureaucracy reasons.
I mean, I guess thats also maybe possible, with giant dirigible style balloons inside of some lightweight metal skin?
I absolutely agree that it was/is extremely fucking weird.
It’s been a while since I wrote that comment, but both times I saw this thing… well, its painted (or otherwise colored) basically pitch black, and both times I saw it were at night…
The first time I saw it high overhead, well it has 4 large orangeish/reddish light emmitting areas, 3 near the points of the equilateral triangle, one in its center. There’s also the light pollution from the city that makes any clouds not exactly as pitch black as the craft is, so you can silhouette it.
…
The ‘theory’ on this thing is that the center light is a result of some kind of nonsense scifi bullshit … device, I guess you’d call it, that basically is both the central powerplant of the craft and… emanates a field, or causes the craft itself (potentially by leveraging some exotic effect on the craft’s skin or frame being made of some exotic compound or alloy) to be about 90% less massive than it otherwise would be… and then the 3 lights from the points of the triangle are some kind of rocket (?) thrusters, which are of course now much more potent given the much lower needed TWR.
Thats what I’ve been able to discern from the… least obviously completely insane articles and well written forum posts / websites over the years of occasional looking into it… but again, I have no fucking clue if any of that is legit at all.
I am by no means a Gordon Freeman type theoretical / exotic materials physicist, all the proposed theories I’ve read and described seem… potentially not completely insane, to me, a person who probably understands basic physics better than an average random person, who has experience with implementing basic Newtonian physics in game engines and fucking about with more advanced physics mods for Kerbal Space Program, but by no means has any advanced degree in any relevant field.
…
The second time I saw it (again, at night), well it was so low, it was very easy to see it from being so close to all the ground based lights all over the Boeing Field complex… and I could see that it also had many more smaller running lights, like how aircraft have red and green lights for use when near airports or other aircraft in poor visibility conditions.
The absolutely most baffling thing, especially when seeing it so low to the ground, the second time?
No discernible sound. Nothing on the decibel level of a helicopter or jet aircraft, nothing I could really pick out from the road noise of me, being in a car, crossing a bridge, over an industrial area that has various heavy machinery running nearby.
It can work that way, yes.
Its not as tasty or fluffy as egg washing the bread and then baking or cooking it, but if you … braise the toast lightly, or alter the proportions of your very well stirred mix for immersion… yeah, it can work, and at least some people I grew up with prefferred it that way.
You can also use a heavy cream in additiom to, or even instead of milk, again, gotta change the proportions of your mix to get the desired taste and viscosity from the mix.
Eh, if your toast looks like that, whip up some eggs, milk, a bit of vanilla extract, a bit of sugar, a bit of ground cinammon, and optionally a bit of salt…
Place that toast in your mix bowl for a few seconds, flip it over, few more seconds, then remove…
And now you have some excellent French toast.
The bits of slightly burned parts juat give it a more complex mouthfeel.
I would recommend introducin the son to a literal lemon in real life prior to playing Portal 2.
… probably goes the same for a p0taTo.