One of the most profound feelings I had was being in the middle of nowhere at night and looking at the sky.

Majority of people my generation are able to experience what once was very common only few times in their lifetime due to light pollution.

It feels dreadful to realize that even that experience will be taken away forever.

I tried to set up Bluetti solar panel on my balcony in a similar way, but the efficiency was abysmal because of the angle to the sun.

I wonder for how many people it will work in practice?

Putting panels on the roof should be much more efficient…

> Putting panels on the roof should be much more efficient

Yes, but it's also much more expensive.

Please tell your latitude or location.

There is a phenomenon I observe with people being fascinated by russian/soviet things even when in reality the subject of interest is pure shit.

Being it either a low quality lenses in which people see a artistic quality of manufacturing defects or text from Dostoevsky which ruminates in extended length the inner thought process of a moronic character which some mistake for a mysterious russian soul.

I own Helios lenses with Zenit camera I inherited from my father which is of the sentimental value as it was a first significant purchase after my parents wedding, and most of my childhood photos are done with it, but even my dad will trade it for a good Nikon lenses without a second thought.

i find your dostoievski example amusing. notes from underground serves a functional purpose, not one of aesthetics.

How have you came to such conclusions?

If anything it proves the opposite.

Look at how laws are passed in russia for example for comparison and let me know what similarities you see.

A lot of people hate seeing the EU succeed at anything, simply because they are envious or it does not validate their world view.

The alternative is a dictatorship.

While watching the second video, Futurama theme song started playing in my head :-)

Poe's law at its best!

Yes, please close it!

Ah, oh, decision makers are shareholders themselves and are benefiting from this too.

> Starlink just shut off all of Russia

What are you talking about? Starlink never worked in russia. It worked in Ukraine, and it was shutdown in Ukraine by using a white list for which any Ukrainian can easily apply.

The goal was to shutdown Starlink usage by russian drones in Ukraine and by anyone on the occupied Ukrainian territories.

These are literally _the same people_.

Musk was hanging out with child sex trafficker and is allowing kids to create porn with grok on X.

He is allowing a lot worse version. Allowing adults to create child porn with grok on X.

Did Musk really hang out with Epstein? I only saw email conversations between the two.

By contrast, Bill Gates and Reid Hofmann hung out with Epstein A LOT.

And Hofmann was Epstein's primary connection into the Silicon Valley scene.

Funny how all of you guys focus on Musk but no mention of Reid Hoffman anywhere who was far more involved with Epstein.

He sucks too. Not everyone is working backwards from their team sports fandoms.

Indeed, _so_ strange that a lot of attention goes out to the wealthiest individual in the world.

Didn't know that Reid Hoffman knowingly released a CP generator on a platform with hundreds of millions of users either.

But is there proof Elon actually hung out with Epstein as the poster asserted?

Look, I would really like to mention everyone every time, but it is so tiresome to be honest, all of these guys are awful and all of them are connected if not through epstein, then through some other private club.