“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
RoundSparrow
Defend the Great Seal, Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot Skywalkers!
Joy!
they announced it completed. Not sure if it worked as intended.
Starship is supposed to coast for the next 30 minutes, until T+ 40
45 seconds in, amazing all engines look great
It is looking like it might go on first attempt!
Fuel loading has gone well so far!
I think the joke is how a pest exterminator is being called on an extinct species. Play on the mutual concept of extinction.
All the Unity game engine self-destruction choices got to them ;)
current predictions on launch date?
It’s already like that here, friend.
Lemmy didn't take off until well into May 2023, despite being online and open source for over 4 years. The quantity of posts, communities, comments was very small for 4 years online.
Then everyone flocked out of hate and anger of an API money matter with Reddit.Then crowds got hate-filled and angry when Threads was launched by Meta/Instagram/Facebook on July 5. And crowds became hate-filled and angry over Elon Musk rename of Twitter to X on July 23.
Outside big growth in memes and shitposts, there haven't been big numbers of people flocking here out of organic goodness on organized topics. It has largely been a HiveMind of hate as a motivation to come here since May.
Some good seeds have been planted since May, but the atmosphere of hate motivates change is pretty much Mob Mentality / reactionary.
“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business