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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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You choose to ignore the externalities and opportunity costs of such resource expenditure. You choose to ignore and actively worsen the suffering of your fellow man in order to indulge yourself in unscientific fantasies of space colonization.

  I choose to focus on helping those who need it.

  Somehow, your arguments from the supposed moral high ground fall flat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Stewards of life? That is delusional.

  How many species have we extincted? How many are bred in excess to live short and miserable lives purely to be slaughtered for food?

  We aren’t stewards or guardians of anything, we’re just animals that seek pleasure and procreation and evolved an asymmetric advantage over the competition.

  But there is no convincing a zealot, and this is your religion. A creed that dictates we sacrifice millions of lives to enrich dozens, demanding to be praised all the while.

  Grow up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The OP:

  Is it really necessary to send humans to those places just to get the knock-on benefits?

  … But sure, this is exclusively a thread to circle-jerk about how cool you are for wanting to burn mountains of resources to feel good about something.

  Advancement is not unidimensional, and it is not synonymous with space exploration. If you don’t get it, that’s a you problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is only a “problem” if you consider space exploration a moral imperative.

  I don’t. There isn’t anything up there that we can’t get easier down here. The resource expenditure is a poor investment. Not to mention how much this would further inequality.

  If there will always be problems on Earth, then it sounds like we’ll never be bored staying here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wanting to improve the lives of others is ‘obsessing over the bad’ and being a ‘misanthropic troll’?

  Go read this chain again, which of us brought out the insults first?

  You don’t have arguments, and are upset the platitudes you’ve swallowed don’t stand up to scrutiny.

  Even if I concede ‘exploration is in our DNA’ (I do not, but let’s test the argument [btw the Chinese first came to Taiwan in the 17th century at the urging of the Dutch - but I digress]).

  Isn’t war also in our DNA? We’ve had a few of those, should we have another? After all, they brought great advancements in technology.

  What about genocide? Or whaling?

  Doing something ‘because it is in our DNA’ is not noble. It is, in fact, the behavior of beasts and other animals we as a society consider less valuable than ourselves.

  Why did the Spaniards and Portuguese colonize the new world? Gold, silver, and cash crops. All economic. The average Iberian peasant wasn’t sitting around pining for a new horizon - the monarchies wanted power and needed funds. It was a top-down effort that tremendously benefited the societal elites for two centuries. The average peasant was no better off until much later, following industrialization.

  Why did the English settle North America? In the Caribbean, cash crops plantations. In New England, they were driven from their old life by religious persecution. In the mid Atlantic, the Crown wanted tobacco plantations to finance the State.

  Nowhere in here is the story of the Everyman deciding to drop everything and run for the furthest hills. It is economics and the desire of the powerful to enhance their own position.

  And here you are, spouting their bullshit, beating on others and airing your superiority like a gilded peacock because you want to hand every bit of what’s up there to the very people making everything worse for those down here.

  No thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot comprehend

  I believe you find yourself thinking that a lot if you don’t understand why people disagree with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Say we put in all that effort, expend all those resources - what do we get for it?

  Another place to put strip malls and parking lots. With the added benefits of brain swelling, heart atrophy due to the reduce gravity, and shortened lifespans from the increased radiation.

  Or we could just, idk, make Earth a better place to live. If we have all these resources, surely it would be easier to make Earth more habitable given the much better starting conditions than to go to dead dust ball months to years away and try to live in an ant farm.

  Just a thought

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And then he got back and they dismantled all the boats and never did it again. Definitely had exploration in the DNA.

  And meanwhile the peoples of modern-day India, southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc. never did this. Curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If that one corner of Eastern Africa was the only habitable place on the planet, and getting to the next valley over required generations to live in suffering while available resources are used to make mountaineering gear, and settling that valley would represent a constant resource drain for centuries at a minimum…

  Sure, same thing.

  People didn’t leave Africa due to the moral imperative to explore, they did not have the resources to support large scale migration on a whim. They left Africa for food.

  There’s no food on Mars, or the Moon.

• ⁨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:

  European exploration across the Atlantic was driven by a desire for trade routes with Asia that did not pass through the intervening Islamic civilizations that were often in conflict with the explorers, it was an economic motive. After the European discovery of the American continents, they were, in fact, largely ignored for about a century.

  If exploration is so core to the human experience, why did the people of Asia - much more numerous than the Europeans even back then - not undertake any large exploration or colonization efforts? Or those of Africa?

  The economic motive for space exploration is rather weak. There are asteroids full of valuable metals, but they are very far away and recovery would be more difficult and expensive than expanding Earth extraction efforts. We evolved to live here, life elsewhere disagrees with our biology - reduced gravity is great for your back and terrible for your heart and brain.

  We don’t need the living space, and the population looks set to decline by the end of the century anyway.

  While I understand you want to ascribe some kind of moral imperative to exploration, it is a large and completely unnecessary expenditure of resources that could be better deployed to make life here better for far more people.

• ⁨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:

  They were grown cell by cell in a fleshy vat

• ⁨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:

  This just pushes the question out one ring. What do we need to do on other planets that we can’t do on Earth?

  The sad answer is there isn’t really anything. Go live on Mars and it will suck compared to Earth - no nature to enjoy, instrument limited variety of food, largely cut off from the rest of human culture and experience. After hundreds of years, it might be developed to look like suburban Ohio - you’ll have some iron mines and some Applebee’s and maybe enough people that the martian memes are fire … but you still won’t have a beach, or anything to see outside, or a blue sky.

  It will just be Earth, but worse.

• ⁨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:

  If organs can’t grow in Earth gravity then what the fuck am I

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm right and the other vegans are wrong⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you are recommending synthesizing food from base chemicals, there isn’t another option. All life, excepting that which can photosynthesize, consumes other life for energy and materials.

  The best we can do is mitigate suffering and environmental harm - factory farming is abhorrent - but until we have the Star Trek replicator pumping out TV dinners from the ether, we have to eat something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Many states have similar laws for things you can inhale to get high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the moon tied up in the earth's gravitational pull at the very least? Or do both pulls match at some point to circle the earth?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The moon is receding from the Earth and would eventually roughly double its orbital period, while Earth’s rotation would nearly stop (one rotation every 47 days), and both would be tidally locked to the other. The same side of the Earth would always face the moon, and the same side of the moon would always face the Earth (as happens currently).

  This is all assuming the system would continue unperturbed forever, however, it won’t. Before the above happens, the sun will turn into a red giant and the drag from the expanded atmosphere will slow down the orbits of both the Earth and Moon, eventually leading to them both ceasing to exist - the moon from reaching the Roche limit above the Earth, and the the Earth from entering the Sun’s photosphere and eventually spiraling into the core.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Okay but like the light has been green for 0.3 seconds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Massachusetts is fucking empty. Boston is dense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anything like a strategy version of KSP?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a Linux build.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seahorses aren’t a great example here imo. Their biology is just different from ours, the sex that fertilizes is the sex that carries the eggs to term - that doesn’t make them trans that is just how male and female work for seahorses, different than humans.

  A seahorse could make this meme calling cis women trans men because they carry the fetus…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to understand credit scores⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily a shitty dealership, just one with low margins.

  Cars are generally sold by sellers with incredibly low margins (talking like a few hundred dollars, max). They make their money through the financing. They probably didn’t want to sell the car in cash, because some other chud will come along and buy it on credit and get them a higher margin.

  Pro tip - always get your own financing when purchasing a car, don’t get it through the dealer. But don’t let them know that, look over their finance package when signing the paperwork, try to negotiate out any origination charges, etc. then simply pay the loan off immediately with your private financing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything with -chen/-klein (a diminutive) is neuter.

  E.g. in addition to Mädchen there is Jungchen (~“youngster”) that is also neuter rather than masculine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do plants in a green house get enough co2?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To put some math around CO2 usage:

  The entire structure of plants is built primarily from CO2. A tomato plant and fruit grows from seeding to maturity in about 60 days, and will yield about a kilogram of dry plant mass.

  That mass will be about 20% carbon, meaning each plant would need to uptake a net 3.3 grams of carbon - 12.3 grams of CO2 per day. A person exhales around 1Kg of CO2 per day, or about as much as would be needed to supply 81 tomato plants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WHAT IF WHAT IF⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And it is a terrible thing for science and contributes greatly to the crisis of irreproducibility plaguing multiple fields.

  If 1000 researchers study the same thing, and 950 of them find insignificant results and don’t publish, and 50 of them publish their significant (95% confidence) results - we have collectively deluded ourselves into accepting spurious conclusions.

  This is a massive problem that is rarely acknowledged and even more rarely discussed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uses GOG⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lutris communicates with GoG through their API, which is heavily throttled for downloading games. CP2077 was going to take almost an entire day to install using Lutris alone.

  Going to the website and downloading the pieces myself was much faster, but then of course I needed to manage the rest of the install.

  Small games are fine since you won’t feel as much pain on the download step.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uses GOG⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lutris downloads files from GoG using their API, which has heavily throttled download speeds. It was going to take 19 hours for CP2077 to download using Lutris.

  Downloading the 50 pieces individually from GoG through the browser took under and hour, but was quite annoying.

  If you don’t play any large games, you might not have noticed, but Lutris and GoG do not work very well together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon uses GOG⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love having to individually download all 50 parts to a game and write my own install script (the GOG experience on Linux).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most games (pre-ai at least) would use a brush for this and manually tweak the result if it ended up weird.

  E.g. if you were building a desert landscape you might use a rock brush to randomly sprinkle the boulder assets around the area. Then the bush brush to sprinkle some dry bushes.

  Very rare for someone to spend the time to individually place something like a rock or a tree, unless it is designed to be used in gameplay or a cutscene (e.g. a climable tree to get into a building through a window).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water addiction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest factor is diet - a large portion of ingested water comes from food.

  Someone who snacks on carrots is going to need to drink a very different amount of water to stay hydrated as someone who eats jerky and crackers.

  There’s also obviously differences in kidney function, salt retention, even just body size. Current medical advice is to just drink when you are thirsty, which works for just about everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PhD ain't no MD⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely correct. There is also a (much rather in the US) ScD degree - Doctor of science.

  In the US, it is often identical to a PhD. If your institution offers it, you just check a box at the end of your program on whether you want a PhD or ScD. In Europe, an ScD is a higher degree than a PhD and requires some extra work to obtain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So I cut my wrist and black my eyes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it kind of bussin’, I find it kind of cap. The dreams in which I’m dying are the ones that kinda slap.