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  • Texas killing this child for losing a pregnancy is akin to them having you roll a 5 sided dice and shooting anyone who lands on a “4” between the eyes.

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    Texas killing this child for losing a pregnancy is very similar to having you roll a 5 sided dice and shooting anyone who lands on a “4” between the eyes.

    Your equating the 1 in 5 miscarriages to having a 1 in 5 chance of death but 1 in 5 miscarriages do not have a chance of death very similar to being shot if you roll a 4 on a 5 sided dice which is a 1 in 5 chance of death.

    Edit: Just cleaning this up as what I wrote got confusing…

    Your saying that 1 in 5 pregencies have a miscarriage (20%) and equate a miscarriage that happens 1/5 times, to being shot 1/5 times which would be death. But an (edit untreated) miscarriage doesn’t mean death. So it is not very similar to having a 1/5 chance of death by being shot.

    Maybe you don’t know what you wrote?



  • The Android OS is very hostile to background processes running.

    The rules around what’s okay and what’s not is constantly changing, so apps that need to run things in the background are constantly having to update things so they can work properly and sometimes they don’t, or they do it wrong, and then certain features don’t work properly like push notifications or schedules events.

    Then, even if the developer does everything perfectly you get OEMs like Samsung that ignore the rules and fuck with your app anyway, and the literal only way to stop it is to go into the OS setting and disable a lot of things, which puts the onus on the user, and not the developer to make the app work.

    But Samsung is such a bitch that even then they don’t honor your settings and sometimes revert them, or add new ones that fuck with it again in a constantly changing hard to find nested settings menu.

    I actually do like my Samsung phone, but god damn fuck you Samsung for doing this.

    If you want a phone that at least follows the ever changing rules properly, get a pixel.









  • The vast majority of starlink are launched on their own flights.

    They get a few freebies here and there but it’s not the defining factor of their success.

    The success is their reusable rockets and turning satellites into a smaller mass manufactured item amd getting economies of scale, not a giant super expensive item.

    Edit: also they made reusable rockets then had to figure out a use for them as there wasn’t enough global launch demand. They made their own demand. Then they used their own flights to test riskier things like the rockets with the most launches to fine tune the system without risking customer payloads.

    Edit: Also for reference launch masses and dish costs

    • Hughesnet JUPITER 3 (EchoStar XXIV) has a launch mass of 9200kg. ($445 million)
    • Starlink V1 is 260kg (200k USD)
    • Starlink V2 Mini (current) 740kg (800k USD)
    • Starlink V2 (future satellites for starship) 1250kg (??? USD)

    And obviously the Jupiter 3 will stay up there forever so they can recoup costs if starlink doesn’t kill them, but thats a lot higher up front cost and they aren’t making a lot of them so they don’t get efficiencies of scale. Instead they’re made with very custom stuff meant to last forever which costs big $$$.






  • The idea of don’t swerve for deer is very common and is taught in driving schools. If you’ve never heard it until today, well you were let down and today you learn. You don’t know dismiss it because you haven’t heard it.

    Swerving is dangerous and even if you think you can do it safely, having a deer appear while travelling at high speeds is risky, even more so at night.

    You’re supposed to slow down but stay in lane.

    The reason you’re supposed to swerve for things like Moose is because moose are big as fuck and tall, and if you hit one head on, you will cut the legs out from under it, and it’s massive body will roll through the windshield and crush you, killing you or causing massive bodily harm.

    This is from the Virginia DMV for example (emphasis mine). Them not having something about moose is actually bad as well.

    https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/sites/default/files/forms/dmv39d.pdf

    Deer/Large Animal Hazards Tens of thousands of crashes with deer, elk, and bears take place in Virginia each year, resulting in fatalities, injuries and costly vehicle damage. To avoid hitting a deer or other large animal:

    • Be alert at dusk and dawn especially in the fall.
    • Slow down if you see a large animal near or crossing the road. Large animals frequently travel in groups; there are likely others nearby.
    • Use the horn to scare the animal away.
    • If a collision with a deer or other animal is unavoidable, do not swerve. Brake firmly, stay in your lane, and come to a controlled stop.