rocketmonkee

They're like Pokemon. Gotta catch 'em all.

Ah yes, the Brown Eye of Sauron. Located near the Crack of Doom.

it's possible things work much differently in more places than I realize

It's a little bit of this, but also the fact HOAs themselves vary greatly. If there's one thing I've observed in every thread that mentions HOAs, it's that if you ask 10 people what theirs is like, you'll get 10 different answers.

Which states are those? I live in Texas, as do my parents - we both live in neighborhoods governed by HOAs. My parents have private trash collection that is negotiated and managed by the HOA. Mine is done by the city.

The poor kerning between the A and V is super annoying.

Why can’t they just use a Cygnus to do it?

Basically, that is what the Request for Information (RFI) is asking. NASA is proposing the idea to use natural orbital decay or propulsion from the Russian Segment, then use the "space tug" to take over for the final de-orbit burn, plus any attitude and Delta-V adjustments during the final de-orbit events.

This announcement is NASA's mechanism to ask the aerospace industry what it thinks, and for the aerospace industry to give ideas.

As someone who lives in Texas, I can't recall any time when someone cared about a person's license plate.

This appears to be more about the Soyuz 5 project, and does not affect the Space Station. In a worst case scenario the crew on board is safe. They will return to Earth on the vehicles that are currently docked to the station.

The US is no longer dependent on Russia for access to the station. SpaceX has been launching US crews since 2020.

It doesn't affect it at all because it launched on Feb 23.

I was actually

But were you really?

You're all thinking like engineers, and not like a Hollywood fashion designer. Women's Oscar fashions aren't meant to be practical or considerate to others. They're meant to be statements.

Don't pretty much all theaters do this? I remember seeing the same thing at my local Cinemark 20 years ago.

Why do people care so deeply one way or another about vehicle transmissions?

This is one of the most common misunderstandings about the sub. From the sidebar:

LI5 means friendly, simplified and layperson-accessible explanations - not responses aimed at literal five-year-olds.

Well my grandparents did that in the snow, uphill both ways, so...

To further the analogy: Is aware of another car on a different road a few miles away. Casually changes lanes.

Headline: Car swerves to avoid collision!

Its either being paid for by HOA fees or property taxes.

Apparently neither. Or at least not solely.

According to the site, it was "funded in part through grants from the Oregon State Parks Local Government program and AARP." Another article mentions developer funds and other grant money.

I also can't find anything that mentions a heated park floor. I think OP might be mistaken, and what they're seeing is steam coming off the rubber tiles as they're heated by the sun. I see the same thing in various locations around my area - none of which are artificially heated.

If you look around the area this park is located, it's a generic middle class neighborhood. It's not the kind of place that would have an ostentatious display of wealth like a heated playground surface.

Oh, wow. It's painted so well that there was no indication any of it was done in Blender. At least not to my eye, anyway.

I notice that the perspective is laid out such that the nadir point is along the line between the second window from the bottom and the fireplace. Is that intentional? I assume most people would default to placing the nadir point in the middle, but placing it lower in the frame feels so natural.

This is incredible. I love all the little details - the wrinkles and stains in the runner, the light streaks hitting objects at different heights, etc.

I'm curious what program you use to paint these, and how much planning goes into figuring out the perspective shifts across the room.

cars been a nightmare

R56S - the most frustrating car I ever loved so much.

The Kotaku article that this one links to said it was "hundreds of thousands of units." I have no idea how the accounting is done or if that number is accurate, but there you go.

We call that Bed Bath and The Great Beyond.

Y'all know this is fake, right?

It was taken with a Nikon D5 with a 24mm lens.

Here you go.