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- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 5 days ago:
It sort of dies out before the first 1.58^-5^ of a lightyear. But be my guest, consign your offspring’s offspring’s offspring to the consequences of your wanderlust.
Moreover, there’s a humongous range of possible radiations, temperatures, elemental combinations, gravitys, pressures. The range necessary to keep a human alive is a one dimensional sliver on the pie chart.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 5 days ago:
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 week ago:
The practical universe ends where the solar wind meets the interstellar medium. Baring scifi plot contrivance extra-luminality, this is it for us.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 week ago:
The first step to keep eggs in multiple baskets is to start with the cataclysmic greenhouse effect in the first basket.
Wanna colonize space? It’s a centuries long undertaking, and you should start from a stable foundation. Especially considering, any long term habitation is gonna be fostering an ecosystem from scratch, so you kinda really wanna model that on a stable ecosystem.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 week ago:
What is the motivation behind the money? Why are they really doing this?
We want to colonize Mars and maybe the Moon, not because it is easy, but because we have a mistaken belief that it is easy!
Asking “Cui bono?” will get you most of the way to an understanding of what’s going on… but sometimes there is no benefit, and rich powerful people are just acting on mistaken assumptions. Like, the assumption that a Mars (or any other body in the solar system) will take anything less then slow grueling highly sophisticated intricately organized staggeringly terribly carefully coordinated work for like 12 human generations.
- Comment on never forget 3 weeks ago:
Since we’re all fighting about it, the version of WTC 7 I heard:
Buildings above a certain height tend to have magnesium charges installed, so that in the even of catastrophe (like say two hijacked airplanes), they can be brought down in a controlled manner with as little collateral as possible. I’ve heard WTC 7 was accidentally wired up alongside the twin towers, so when the call was made, it came down as well.
Is that true? No fucking clue.
- Comment on great to know! 3 weeks ago:
The purpose of a system is what it does, not what it’s intended to do!
Gotta give credit, I stole this insight from Cory Doctorow.
- Comment on great to know! 3 weeks ago:
AI is a tool to do mass layoffs without making your stocks devalue. What happens after all the major companies do mass layoffs? Not a question investors are interested in, so it must be an externality with no barring on economics.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 3 weeks ago:
Careful, that almost sounds like something a competent opposition party would do.
- Comment on We ain't happy anymore... 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard Pharrell agrees with this read. From what I’ve heard, he was contracted to write a song for something and the execs kept turning him down, so in his frustration he wrote the most shallow cheerful song he could. He thought they’d recognize that and reject it to, but they loved it.
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s Big Money Is About to Get a Lot Bigger 4 weeks ago:
I plugged the URL into an archive site, but this works too, thank you
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s Big Money Is About to Get a Lot Bigger 4 weeks ago:
🫠 haha oops
in my defense, clicking on it still didn’t let me read the article
- Comment on Deans are so yesterday 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Silicon Valley’s Big Money Is About to Get a Lot Bigger 4 weeks ago:
Everything after the ? in the URL can be removed. That’s all trackers so they can follow who shared what.
- Comment on A reminder 5 weeks ago:
You are saying that capitalists own the means of production, while “little capitalists” don’t.
I don’t think its useful to lump in high-income professional work with the low end of capital accumulation. The sums may overlap, but the actual class interests don’t, at least not entirely. Good analysis should recognize the distinctions here.
- Comment on Flat earthers 1 month ago:
I’ve always wanted to ask a flat earther why I only ever see full moons in the eastern sky at night and never the western sky. I don’t suppose they’d have a canned answer, so I’m curious the to the response.
- Comment on How to get attention around here. 1 month ago:
I was using “markets” interchangeably with “capital”. I do agree with what you, I don’t think you can escape markets as a social phenomenon, and at the same time they cannot be allowed to decide our political future. Our current setup is tantamount to ductaping the lever down on a lawnmower, and declaring that the “wisdom of the engine” knows what needs trimming.
- Comment on How to get attention around here. 1 month ago:
Markets incentivize and reward selfish behavior. A different system would incentivize different behaviors.
I swear, it’s like we’re stuck in the 20th century when it comes to this. It’s like designing a multiplayer game. Throw a thousand people in a RUST server, they’ll behave one way. Throw that same thousand into Deep Rock Galactic, they behave completely differently.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 month ago:
Gotta disagree here. You can have capitalists without them being in control of the state. That’s what most of Europe was during the early modern period. Capital existed, but political institutions were mostly still geared around the aristocracy and the Catholic church.
- Comment on Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country? 1 month ago:
I believe the thinking is that you can’t really have the state wither away while capitalist states remain predominant on the planet.
- Comment on Google joins the party 1 month ago:
Tried
So it spat out some text that said “I’m now connecting to ChatGPT beep boop beep beep that’s me dialing for realsies” and now we get to pretend something newsworthy has occured
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 1 month ago:
what else is the scroll wheel for?
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 months ago:
Suppose someone in that era became def and blind as an infant/toddler. Do you suppose they’d ever be able to learn to communicate?
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 2 months ago:
I’d love to hear someone who thinks Helen Keller wasn’t real describe what they think the late 1800s was like.
- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 2 months ago:
B. this is because of Galilean relativity i think maybe
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 2 months ago:
I’ve heard the Wachowskis said it was inspired by it, yes.
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 2 months ago:
I was disappointed by The Way of Water. For a guy who’s spent more time undersea than… basically anyone who isn’t a navy soldier in a submarine… it doesn’t really come across in the movie. I mean, we didn’t even see coral bleaching! In what is supposed to be an anti-colonial environmental movie!
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 2 months ago:
If we’re being nitpicky and technical, stick to the moons of Jupiter. Anything outside our solar system is practically inaccessible. Information that can’t be discovered with telescopes is gonna stay undiscovered. The deep ocean and the little shoal of our planetary neighbors at least has the potential for further study.
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 2 months ago:
I think red estrogen was a late nineties / early 2000s thing
- Comment on Valid point 2 months ago:
I agree, Gen X deserves some of the inter-generational posting spat.
I’ll start: the “Mtv generation” is largely freaking out over people breaking gender norms. Guess its only ok when Prince does it.
