…

… but Albert.

I am very hungry.

[>:D]

You don’t need to suspect that, you need to be 1000% sure of that.

Even in good economic times, what is it, like 90% of newly started businesses fail in a year or two?

Yeah, the ‘start your own business!’ advice is yet another laughable boomerism, easily dismissed by a casual glance at any data from the last 50 years, but no, no, they know better than reality, donchaknow?

Just… yeah, I’m sure all the banks are really just itching to give out a $250,000 business startup loan right about now.

Not like bank failures have been steadily climbing, not like the credit markets are seizing up, bond markets going fucking haywire.

No no no, everything’s just fine.

… I suspect people are going to very shocked to discover the differences between a recession and a depression.

History is apparently stupid though, learning from it is evidently a social faux pas… we just love continuously having to learn what mistakes look like by slamming our faces into them with reckless abandon.

Ok, so you admit the scenario I describe is possible, just not ‘likely’ in your view… after initially dismissing it.

Did you read the article?

What happened was not that the whole main rocket zoomed right past a Starlink Sat, while still doing the initial burn sequence.

What happened was:

“If confirmed, this incident occurred nearly 48 hours after payload separation, by which time the launch mission had long concluded. CAS Space will coordinate with satellite operators to proceed. This calls for re-establishing collaborations between the two New Space ecosystems,” the company added in another X post a few hours later.

… One of the sats released by Kinetica 1 whizzed by SL6709 at a 200m distance. 48 hours after the Kinetica 1 launch.

So… that would have occurred during when said K1 deployed sat… was doing some kind of orbital stabilization manuever, most likely, no?

Either that, or, even worse… it wasn’t, it doesn’t have much of its own ability to trim and adjust its own orbit… which would mean it is just stuck, on an eccentric orbit, possibly stable, possibly not… that crosses above and below the altitude Starlink sats are at… and there’s like ten thousand of them…

… which CAS Space does not seem to either have accounted for, or have the ability to account for.

So yeah the situation that is currently occuring, that is from the article we are talking about, yeah, that does not to me seem like an unlikely thing, given that it is, or something pretty close to it, seems to be currently happening.

Given that CAS Space said:

“CAS Space will coordinate with satellite operators to proceed. This calls for re-establishing collaborations between the two New Space ecosystems,” the company added in another X post a few hours later.

That would seem to me to imply that they had previously been in contact with SpaceX, to be able to coordinate launches and do trajectory deconfliction… but that this coordination ceased… for some reason.

https://payloadspace.com/china-calls-nasa-on-orbital-conjunction/

Looks like China’s been asking for help from NASA with this sorta stuff in the last few months… I guess SpaceX didn’t get the memo?

Nobody’s sure what the … correct procedure or chain of command is here?

… Does Starlink actually publish and make all its Sat locations snd trajectories, in highly accurate detail, available to Chinese space companies/agencies?

Thats a legitimate question, I don’t know.

You’d have to have basically a real time syncronizhed data sharing operation going on, given how many Starlink sats there are, how often they make orbital adjustments or fail.

Yup yup, best find those bootstraps and start pullin’, reaaal hard.

Oh what, you’re obese and crippled and old and tired?

… did I stutter …?

Well it sure is a good thing SNAP basically doesn’t exist anymore, otherwise these brain dead morons, these wayward souls, they’d have a chance to be tempted into becoming profligate hypocrites in another way!

You see, God, Trump, they’re the same thing, and this is all a good thing, because now they’ll have a chance to prove themselves before the sacrificial altar of capitalism, just as Jesus wanted.

Just uh, start a business or something, in the midst of a rapidly worsening economic depression, can’t be that hard, right?

And then the fourth type of guy: Oh hi Mark!

Yeah… he’s… the kind of person who is popular because he is popular, people laugh because other people are laughing, so thats what ‘funny’ is, right?

Not trying to say he’s a bad person, he’s probably a good dude, but as far as looks and talent go?

Average, but popular with people who decide which people will become popular.

Uh…

I’m afraid you’re going to have to explain that meme to me a bit more, before I can have what I’d call a potentially defensible ‘fan canon’ opinion on that.

If its literally just ‘escape the matrix by poisoning yourself to death, via eating dessicant pouches’…

… then no, thats just suicide by way of being an idiot, I would not think that would … mesh with what the matrix world would seem to define as a viable means of transcending ‘reality’.

Unless there is some kind of…extremely strong, or kind of extremely ‘deep’ belief structure that goes along with this, then probably not, no.

… However…

IIRC… if we expand to include MxO’s character archetypes as potentially valid canon…

Well, one of those archetypes more or less is: you are a paranoid schizophrenic.

So… maybe? Kind of? … ???

… Unless they functionally constitute a massive, fast moving, kind of net, that anything trying to climb to a higher orbit has to pass through, and hope to not collide with, as showcased by this article we are commenting on.

Anything that’s trying to break through VLEO, well, if a collision happens on its way to LEO, or beyond, some of those debris will be headed to LEO or beyond.

Yes, I would say that a kind of… immense spiritual awareness, or contemplative understanding of the interconnected nature of reality (and yourself) constitutes a kind of very strong belief.

Though I don’t think its explicitly stated in the movies that the ‘spoon kid’ … literally pulls himself out of the matrix…

In MxO, which is I guess roughly ‘secondary canon’, one of the kinds of character archetypes you can play as, is basically ‘zen master’, so yeah I would tend to agree that thats probably another reasonably valid ‘canonical’ way by which someone could escape the matrix on their own, transcend ‘reality’.

Thats true, that is also a thing.

But… usually … the style shift… contextually makes sense, to… emphasize something. A mood shift, a perspective shift, a time shift, etc.

Or sometimes you get a sort of… clipshow type format, but its not actually a clipshow, its … the style is bouncing around all over the place, basically as both an artistic tour de force, and as a sort of meta joke, for that whole episode.

I guess I’m just not seeing anything like that here.

I mean, a decade ago I would have laughed at the idea of this becoming real…

… but a decade ago, I also thought it was a ludicrously absurd notion that an RGB ‘gamer’ catheter would exist.

And they actually do now.

So fuck it, why not?

The US’s only real remaning cultural attribute is ‘utter depravity/shamelessness’, seems like a good fit to me.

I await my Dunkin Stacking test lol, maybe they can do varying flavors and kinds of filling or jam, like a lipstick party that’s edible.

I’m honestly tempted to think this is some kind of edit.

The art style for both characters, not just the woman, completely changes for the last two panels.

Everything is different, more simplistic faces and facial features, more swoopy, less angular, less detail, both characters become basically ovals or rounded rectangles, when they were first basically polygons… eyes for both characters are now totally different…

Honestly its pretty big femcel vibes, in the sense of the ‘woman who cannot attract a mate to save her life’ meaning of femcel.

Don’t forget how hundreds to thousands of them routinely fail and/or otherwise deorbit themselves, thus necessitating constant replenishment.

Its basically the least sustainable, most insane space paradigm currently actually possible with our tech and resources.

After all, I’m sure we can just undo a Kessler Syndrome cascade effect.

Right?

Sounds good to me, lol!

Economists have used the uh, “BigMac Index” with an increasing level of seriousness, over the last decades… so why not?

gotta somehow also make it involve matrix transforms, maybe use quaternions, and randomly compare a random array of them, until they result they result in a 10 degree rotation in one realspace vector.

Hah, uh, that kind of behavior is actually a gigantic red flag, not cute in any way.

“I’m either extremely insecure, or need you to worship me, or both!”

Fucking run.

Dodge the bullet, literally and figuratively.

And this goes for any persons of any gender or whatever, mixed into this scenario.

This is not cute.

Yep, pretty insane if taken at face value.

My guess would be the gun is meant as a visual metaphor/joke, but uh… yeah, its not actually a wholly implausible literal scenario.

Probably the author/artist has very little real world experience with firearms, would be my guess.