It’s the democrats fault for not going after child molesters, and for BEING child molesters. Also of course it happened in California because no one there knows how the real world works. And then additional orders of magnitude of cognitive dissonance along those lines.
I’m with you, but they’re hard to find on this side of the pond.
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I’ll see myself out
I was intrigued and read some. I think I irrevocably damaged my psyche.
Well, they do hate their customers after all
Because I asked it to make that statement in post form and gave it links?
I feel so validated!
Excuse me, I need to go buy some more mechanical keyboard switch springs
I’m sorry, what were you saying?
I’m pretty sure with the correct treatment when I was younger I would be ruling a small country by now. That said, I am pleased with killing it at work and being able to finally afford a house and not living in a hoarder mess.
I’m in the second one, but instead of the first one, I joined the My Parents thought I was just lazy and worthless and did everything they could to make me feel bad about it, and when that clearly didn’t work, they doubled down on the same strategy even harder, and now I am triggered just being in the same room with them from the PTSD they gave me Club. It’s honestly not a great club? I do not recommend joining.
What about accordingly?
Wait, I want to read the propaganda!
We are pretty stupid, after all. Gestures broadly at the ecosystem
It must be very depressing to view the world with the amount of negativity that these cats do.
Hey friend. Calling the Venera probes “junk” is selling them short. The Soviet Venus program pulled off some genuinely insane feats between the ’60s and early ’80s—basically the punch-card era of spaceflight.
All of this was done with computers running at 100–200 kHz and 8 KB of memory. For comparison, modern smartphones have 3–6 GB of RAM, multi-core CPUs clocking in at 2.5+ GHz, and literally millions of times the processing power. Your phone wouldn’t last five seconds on Venus. Venera 13 lasted 127 minutes.
Despite the harshest planetary environment we’ve ever targeted—900°F surface temps, atmospheric pressure like 3,000 feet underwater, and clouds of sulfuric fucking acid—the Venera program still racked up a list of milestones:
Here’s how their success rate compares to other space programs:
| Program | Missions | Successes | Failures | Success Rate | Notes |
| Soviet Venera | 28 | 15 | 13 | ~54% | First landings, first photos, audio, and soil data from Venus |
| NASA Venus (Mariner) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% | All flybys—no landings |
| NASA (modern planetary) | Many | ~75–85% | Varies | ~75–85% | Achieved after decades of experience and tech refinement |
| SpaceX (Falcon era) | 300+ | ~98% | Few | ~98% | Mostly low Earth orbit and ISS missions, not planetary landings |
SpaceX has incredible reliability, but they’re launching commsats and resupply capsules—not trying to drop hardware onto a planet that eats spacecraft for breakfast. NASA has never returned data from the surface of Venus, not ever, despite multiple attempts. Mars is a far easier target in every possible way, and it still took decades to achieve consistent success.
Lest you think Venera’s 54% success rate was a sign of failure — it wasn’t — it was a sign of pushing the boundaries of what was possible. They were first. They were bold. And they made history with kilobyte-level hardware and pressure vessels tougher than your car’s engine block.
This wasn’t junk. It was triumph.
Visual and audio proof:
Unfortunate when they suck though. I’m looking at you Maggie Q Bosch Legacy spin off. Your tie-in episode of the last season of Legacy was SO bad that it irrevocably tarnished that whole season for me in retrospect. And that’s saying something, because the rest of the season was phenomenal.