@DolphinMath “look what I made you do to myself!”

@silence7 Mecca, you say?

In Saudi, you say?

Fossil fuel HQ? That Saudi?

@gAlienLifeform this is what much of the EU public is voting for, cheered on by the media which finds the extreme right irresistibly sexy.

They are voting for murdering desperate people.

And they’re going to keep doing it, because it’s easy to push the narrative that these people aren’t human beings with hopes and fears and desires, but some amorphous threat that “must be stopped”.

We can be better than this, but we never see to chose to be.

@Stopthatgirl7 if they paid attention to the opt out, they wouldn’t have asked me three times, when I said to opt out the first time.

@uriel238 @cyu Realistically, I can't see it being cheaper than implants, and will probably need lots of orthodontic treatment when the new tooth comes through.

I have an implant, with bone regeneration, and honestly, it's just a tooth. Even with the bone regeneration, my total time in the chair was probably less than 90 minutes.

And, bonus, I can't get toothache in it, and if it breaks, it's 2 weeks to replace it like nothing happened.

The only way I see this competing with implants if it's cheaper (honestly can't see that happening) or less hassle (again, seems unlikely).

Implants are that good, and they're gonna be hard to displace as the "gold standard" to replace missing teeth.

@yogthos I understood some of those words!

@MicroWave “We would like to join your alliance, which has a prominent member with whom we have a major territorial dispute, and who consequentially has an arms embargo against us. Please ignore the elephant in the room”

@emmie @Zerush It surely has the profound smell of bullshit.

@azimir @Zerush Especially when MacOS is literally Unix(tm), and every iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Apple TV and HomePod runs it.

@SpaceNoodle Well, there's the fact that for the entire time my reddit account has been in existence I have literally not once ever connected from a US IP address.

@ylai I got a long spiel as a “Reddit power user” inviting me to take part in the IPO. At the bottom it said, “you must be resident in the US”.

They know I’m not, but they sent the mail anyway. Not inspiring confidence there, guys.

@heluecht Yeah, without the whole centrifuge thing.

I think, reading between the lines, someone is daydreaming about some pointless nonsense and a journalist added 2 and 2 and came up with 10000

“Could soon” is doing an awful lot of work there.

I could soon have an pony.

It smells like tech bro nonsense, doesn’t it?

Save fuel is it? Ok, put it on a train. Water in the way? Put it on a boat. They’re super efficient.

@yogthos also, how much fuel are you using transporting shit to your yeeter, driving past a few dozen perfectly good airports en route?

@yogthos Not when you then have to expend shit tonnes of delta V turning the plane to face the right way because you can’t just take off from a normal runway and turn to face the right direction at a normal speed, like normal planes can.

This is the aviation equivalent of a gadgetbahn. Someone saw Top Gun and got stupid ideas about scaling up steam catapults, didn’t they?

Yeeting planes is not new. The reasons we don’t do it in civil aviation have not changed.

@yogthos So not “launching hypersonic planes into space” then, but a horizontal catapult for feeble rockets.

Assume this is just to save an SST having to spend fuel getting up to low supersonic speed, and then it lands as a glider.

There are lots of designs for engines that work from stationary to hypersonic speed, which are air breathing, and have the advantage of being able to take off from runways.

@yogthos article says Mach 7.

This is not a serious space launch proposal. Nowhere near fast enough. It’s the sort of suborbital malarkey that Branson is doing.

Orbit or GTFO.

@nutomic ok, but did anyone think to test this on an iPhone before making it live?

@Sanctus All well and good as long as you have a guillotine.