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Pneumus

@rajtsai

Sometimes there is no point in a substantive rebuttal and you just gotta go for the sick burn.

Xyla is great. She is an engineer, a pilot, and she even won a beauty pageant.

And then she shot her tiara into space.

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thefrogman

Xyla just posted the build video of her rocket, Spite. It's pretty cool.

Meanwhile, I'm sure Mr. Tech Deals is adding another drop shadow to some graphic design monstrosity and telling more people at NASA to wear khakis or something.

I'm sure Bobak, a flight engineer, would have something to say about that.

Anonymous asked:

...what is the "sex is just rock climbing" category

It was kind of a joke between me and a friend ("you wouldn't judge someone for having gone rock climbing with a bunch of different people") but honestly the more I thought about it the more I bought into it unironically because:

  • It is a physical activity done with one or more partners
  • You should only go rock climbing with people you trust not to let you fall
  • You should not go rock climbing with someone who is drunk or currently incapable of rational decision-making
  • Some people get super super super into rock climbing and do not shut up about all the places they have climbed and how many are left on their bucket list and these people are usually men between the ages of 20 and 35 and like it's fine dude I'm glad you're happy but I don't know what most of those mountains even are
  • While many consider it a fun activity, pressuring someone into climbing when they don't want to (or ignoring their feelings and just dangling them off a cliff,) could cause both psychological and physical trauma
  • There is no moral value to it whatsoever. Who you have gone rock climbing with (or whether you have rock climbed at all) has no bearing on who you are as a person. Imagine telling someone "it's not that heights make you nauseous, it's just that you haven't found the right person to belay you!" or "you need to save your first time rock climbing for someone special." That would be absurd.
  • historically I have not asked myself "will this aggravate my hip flexer injury" before participating when perhaps I should have 😔
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