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I've got a fairly large body of art that straddles the line between NSFW and SFW.

Overall, my content is photography of women and my audience trends mostly female. I view this as a version of success - I'm a straight male person and I feel like if my audience was more male-trending, they'd just be appreciating the boobies instead of the human form, often times nude or scantily clad, artistically presented.

The nude in art is something we've had for a long long time, we've never really gotten tired of it. I haven't run out of new and interesting things to do with it. Photographers of nudes in days past didn't have access to the latest LED technologies, at the very least. And. likewise, genetic variation is always turning out a new face.

And, dono, I get that just because I'm fairly unbothered by nudity that some people might be uncomfortable and thusly my art is NSFW. You wouldn't want it as your desktop pattern on a work PC, right? But it's still art and people find joy in it and I've spent a lot of time developing it.

Okay, but then there's everything else! Pretty girls get away with more than chubby girls who get away with more than trans girls, so it's always been a version of policing and it thusly leads to the thin end of the wedge where more things, important things like how to understand when you are actually being groomed or that LGBTQ people have always existed or how to not get a disease, get lumped into the same category, so I'm annoyed because people want to make porn go away, then my art go away and then do a bunch of other dastardly deeds, none of which any of us really want to have happen.

Not really, although that was clearly a popular impression created by the 1980s Right Stuff movie.

Both the US and USSR had the A4/V-2 rocket and both the US Redstone and USSR R-11/SS-1 "Scud" were grown-up and bug-fixed versions thereof.

The US kept the Operation Paperclip folks going throughout the program, leading to Von Braun's team designing the Saturn V rocket, even though the Redstone Arsenal / Marshall Space Flight Center folks didn't design some of the other rockets.

The USSR kept their Germans under a tight leash and every time they designed a rocket, they'd have the Soviet team design the same thing, they'd compare, and then after a few years, they sent back their Germans to live in obscurity because the Soviet team had gotten good enough.

Thus big rockets ended up being a German ex-Nazi party member, Von Braun and his Saturn V vs a Ukranian, Korolev and his N-1.

Thus, an astonishing number of rockets are based off of the A-4 design, many of them with the Scud as the middle step. And neither America nor Russia gets to really take credit for their chief designer, where obviously both men were mostly acting to provide structure to the giant armies of engineers who did the actual work (but doing it well, the USSR program really screwed things up after Korolev passed away). But there was a bunch of really neat bits of rocket science that the USSR did in the 70s-80s that was well above where the US was specifically because while Korolev was Von Braun's generation, most of the newly taught Soviet scientists were not. Where, again, the real problem was that Korolev didn't have any good successor leaders and the USSR was in a state of stagflation.

And you can say many things about the USSR space program, but they were significantly less "nazi" than the US program.

So, one thing I did note is that a lot of the PETG vendors these days have been ratcheting up the speed that their normal non-rapid PETG filaments are printable at as well.

For example, Prusament PETG is good up to 200 mm/s and Elegoo's Pro PETG is good up to 270 mm/s.

1. A sex thing
2. Las Vegas or similar places
3. An adult-size playground where everything's built for a larger person and all of the climbing toys that got removed sometime in the 80s-90s timeframe because of legal liability are back, too.

This can get very expensive very fast. Okay, so 20 years ago concert photographers shot on 800 film pushed to 1600 or 3200 and shot on f/2.8 constant lenses, sometimes f/1.8 primes and then walked naked through the snow to milk the developer rodent for the C-41 chemicals. And now 6400 looks pretty darn good on a small sensor even. But it just means that concert photographers want more more more more!

200mm at f/5.6 is going to be really really hard to work with. Or whatever the Sony is at the same zoom setting.

I shoot a lot of smaller dance and circus shows and I use the Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro, which is about 24-80 in full-frame terms. If I wanted to do larger arenas where I'd be farther away ... I'd probably get the longer brother of my 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro and put it on a second body or just swap lenses regularly. If you are going to be fairly far from the stage in an arena, I'd probably suggest you get something that's got a shorter zoom range but is faster and then use even just the kit lens for the wide shots because the longer the lens, the more problems you will have both with your hands shaking the lens and the subject moving.

Taking a step back, what they've kinda done is taken wattle and daub (but not really) and worked it to industrial standards. And wattle and daub got used in all kinds of ways all over the world.

Obv wattle and daub to structural standards and firecode and such so that your building can meet modern specifications is actually quite a handy thing? But yeah there's an overall myopia to steampunk-leaning researchers to focus on a singular feedstock instead of working to create a spectrum of materials based on local availability.

My theory is that they are shooting with the spoons and then some team of poor schmucks gets the lucky assignment of burning 12+ hour days 7 days a week to make the spoons look less spoon.

"lucky" assignment.

It kinda makes sense? Spiderman and Deadpool both they spent a lot of time fixing the mask to make the body language work.

There really aren't any simple counterfactual historical arguments to be made.

I have a fairly strong feeling that, of the various shuttle variants studied, the majority of them would have at least been vulnerable to a Columbia level disaster.

Plus, the shuttle was very much overweight and there were a lot of nasty compromises there, so I kinda wonder that if they'd gone for broke with the two stage reusable designs that they'd have ended up just getting cancelled because the more reusable things are, the colder the equations. So you can't even really treat the earlier proposals as something that might have worked out better. There are things that no amount of money can make work. Like faster-than-light travel without a fundamental reassessment of physics.

And then a lot of the things in the late-70s-early-80s vision wouldn't have worked out. There was a giant Microwave Radiometer Satellite project that they were cooking on with a giant antenna with a radius of 1150m. Eventually that survey was completed with a much smaller synthetic aperture radio that sat in the shuttle's cargo bay and today there are lots of tiny SAR survey satellites.

There was another giant geosynchronous dish antenna that was supposed to be a single cell phone satellite for all of the continental US. That was overall a bad idea, Iridium did a better version with less lag in lower orbits, and now we've got Starlink and some new competitors coming online and, overall, cell coverage is actually pretty great with conventional towers.

Then again, here's this paper from 1973. See, the shuttle ended up with a reusable second stage the conventional wisdom was that the second stage is always the expensive one so therefore make that reusable and the first stage can basically be a steel pipe with propellant poured into it and everything's fine and the bulk doesn't matter. Thus, only a madman would reuse the first stage. Which is why they were proposing putting parachutes on the Redstone rockets that Mercury used for reuse but never bothered. But, see, they were going to build this two-stage reusable rocket but wanted to preserve the option of launching large bulky cargo... yeah.

The more I think about it, it'd ruin the magic of the story if "Max" got outed. If "Max" goes public and takes credit and maybe talks through how it worked (especially understanding that you could not pull off the same trick today) that would be cool but ... even ignoring any sort of potential harm it just ruins the spirit of the thing.

I don't know what you are talking about. I can't find it on IMDB.

Yah, I think that using LLM's while ignoring all of the externalities involved is ... everything Solarpunk is in opposition to? There's a rejection of the idea that this thing that looks bad now might pay off down the road because mumble mumble mumble progress.

Take a bicycle. A bicycle allows a person to transport themselves using overall less energy than walking. You can even work through the externalities and maybe make bamboo bikes and stuff and maybe try to carefully optimize the externalities better. But it looks pretty darn good at the start, gets better.

That's not LLMs.

Yah, out here, there's one set of frequencies on the government bands for the officials to use and then ARES/RACES has a set of frequencies in the ham band that we'd plan on using. And, yah, the whole thing about all of community resilience is that it lets them focus more closely on fighting the problem where presumably the more interesting things we'd do is windshield surveys from a car or communications between the ARK's (caches) and POD's (points of distribution).

All of this depends on your geography? There's one the need to have a communicator in a neighborhood, and there's a separate need, maybe, for within the neighborhood.

So, for anything of medium density up, if you have a person or two in a park or other public space with a radio and a clipboard and a yellow vest, people will assume that's the communicator? The case where either FRS/GPRS radios or T-Decks (or both) come in handy is when you can't assume people are going to hit up the public space. And, again, having a trained communicator helps prevent the official and community services from getting overwhelmed. The local ARES/RACES has a defined standard way of using the Modified Mercali scale to collect information quickly in the aftermath of an earthquake, if everybody's telling their stories there's not necessarily actionable information.

Depending on geography, height does play a role. The higher-level better-trained communicators have extendable fiberglass tower thingies to get the antenna 25 feet up in the air. So you might be able to have a solar-battery meshtastic relay on a boom? Couple that with potentially some number of regular meshtastic nodes with fixed installs on buildings...?

And, on the lines of the formwork being something Meshtastic is good at, things like making it easy to collect M-M earthquake values is another potential thing?