Pretty sure it says “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”

It’s hard to understand without the associated hand gestures though.

(Edit to add in seriousness: yes, the first part says it can’t pop up the integrated flash, second part says try restarting the camera, I think)

The US generates almost stadium-full amounts of trash every day.

They’re called Trump rallies.

Anyone know what they’re saying about this in the MAGA camps?

Yo momma tried reading a book but she so fat she ate it as a snack instead.

Agreed, just making a joke because of the context.

Real men sit to pee so they don’t have to clean their own piss up later.

Whenever I talk about this, some asshat will come along and make a comment about sitting on a tree. No, dumbass, I don’t sit to pee on a tree. Or a urinal. I sit to pee on my toilet at home so I can tell you what an idiot you are while I’m pissing just to prove how manly I am.

it’s almost like we are trying to out-stupid them.

Well I wouldn’t go that far lol

It would still be a dumb article.

Yeah I’m not arguing that. But the point is different… He’s talking about longevity, not acumen.

He’s talking about how long young people will last on the supreme court. Still gross, but this article is click-baity and dumb with its premise.

The “staggering” amount they’re spending is nothing for them. It would be the equivalent of multi-millionaires giving 10s of thousands of dollars.

They’ll save more in taxes in a day.

At least a bunch of ad/marketing execs are going to make big money!

Agreed. As I mentioned elsewhere, Falcon 9 is still revolutionary, but I was just clarifying that the SRBs were recycled, as that is sometimes forgotten.

The Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) from shuttle launched were recycled. They parachuted into the ocean after being jettisoned and were recovered and refused. They just didn’t land themselves. The external fuel tank was not reused.

Yes, but it’s essentially incremental engineering, made possible by ginormous funding, including NASA money, and a private company doing things that NASA can-t politically afford.

NASA spent about 50 Billion today-dollars developing (not launching) the shuttle program and that went to private contractors (Boeing, Lockheed, United Space, etc.) Starship has a long way to go to hit those numbers.

I really don’t find anything SpaceX is doing revolutionary

Really? Nothing? Many people said what Falcon 9 now does on a regular basis could not be done. No one was even trying. The closest plans were still going to land horizontally and went nowhere. Now, you have to explain why you’re not landing your booster, and what your plans are to fix that going forward: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2024/09/11/china-wants-to-replace-jeff-bezos-as-musks-greatest-space-threat/

They quite literally revolutionized the space industry in terms of the cost to launch to orbit.

Imagine NASA crashing 4 Shuttles before getting landing right. There’d be no NASA by now.

Yet another way they’ve revolutionized the industry. Almost everyone is doing expendable tests now so that they can move forward quickly. Columbia started construction in 1975, launched for the first time in 1981. When they launched it, it was a fully decked out space shuttle and they put the whole thing on the line - including two astronauts. Imagine NASA trying to do that now. They’d be grounded so hard they’d be jealous of Mankind having a table to land on.

Good point.

The author of this article, smh…

Wading into the fray here, but is that screenshot supposed to show an attack? I don’t see anything there. Also looking at your history I don’t see anything.

So I’m a bit confused about what’s going on here…

Stop it, I really mean it!

If a random comedian made that joke it would be offensive and slightly funny.

He’s a former president, vying to be the next president, using a very real person’s trauma to set up the punch-line of a joke. It’s inappropriate and shows his lack of empathy.