oh shit, great shot of Orion, too!

I get the feeling that Ricky is the kind of person who believes he is uniquely smart, or at least that everyone else is very stupid, and gets quietly offended about it if you challenge that idea.

excellent job with this

How the hell did he do a long term bet against the market? Aren’t shorts short-term and they’re forced to pay after a set period of time? Even the inverse indexes will steadily make your money simply vanish.

it’s not a compelling argument for the likes of you or me, but for the poor ultra-wealthy and powerful of the world, it often makes the spark of compassion in a judge’s heart flare brightly.

OTOH, speaking as someone who worked in EMS for over a decade, the number of firefighters and EMS workers that radiate 3.6 Roentgen of Hitler particles is unnervingly high. I’m guessing this is shock that the leopard would eat THEIR face.

Golly, this is fuckin bleak.

At last, zero self awareness, wow.

mantises must, because I’ve seen them in my squash, as well as mantises, and got a squash harvest just fine.

Amazing. This picture improved my day. Great work. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

… for dinner? Where’s the rest of the sentence?

stop removing bike lanes, start removing car lanes

yeah. I’m wondering if GPT-5 being a wet fart is going to be the thing that pops the bubble.

I mean, tools are tools. Their value, good or bad, is in how they’re used. If you do something like hit your own hand with a hammer, it’s really not the hammer’s fault. LLMs are 95% gizmos, with a few actually useful cases accounting for the other 5%, at least while they’re still priced way under cost anyway.

Dear God, I keep expecting this to run out of gas and it just won’t quit!

Reminds me of that 4chan post where anon gets stopped by a stranger who tries to explain that Aluminum is the best metal. Anon tries to stay calm and explain the iron is the best metal, but the guy just kept going off about Aluminum and started talking about rust and ruined Anon’s whole day.

okay, report:

• good lord, Antares and Vega are offensively bright once you adjust to the dark.

• M4!! HOLY GUACAMOLE WOW! M4 by itself made being out tonight worth it!

• M80: cool, felt cool to find it, but it looks like any of the other tighter globs and I didn’t want to mess with switching to one of my narrow AFOV higher power eyepieces on my manual dob. May revisit once I invest in a higher power eyepiece with a decent AFOV.

• Epsilon Lyrae: hmm, am I maybe just not using enough mag? looks like a regular double star to me.

• Took the telescope for a slew through Sagittarius, for a laugh, was not disappointed. Breathtaking amount of stars there.

• Was all aboard the strugglebus making sense of Hercules’s constellation. Didn’t help that he was at the zenith, which made using the dob weird when looking for M13 and made looking at the constellation annoying after staring straight up like a turkey for minutes.

• Took some time to re-acquaint myself with Draco, Cygnus, and Aquila.

• Didn’t pick out any more DSOs, in part because I got annoyed with blowing out my night vision, even with the red light, on my charts.

• I’ve been fairly serious about the hobby for about 9 months now, and it seems like I saw way more satellites out tonight than I did when I stopped back in May. Bruh, the little bastards were everywhere.

I love this!

I really like this! I’m a fan of the style, and you’ve done it well!

Honestly, this is my favorite kind of stranger to encounter; the kind that’s very generous with their opinion, but every time you think you’ve got them figured out, they pull a hard left on you. 10/10