I think it is important in its own right but the sheer focus seems to be a much bigger fire next to the genius act with which the crypto bros are going to implode the economy
I have been touching grass lately and realising how bad the situation really is. Too many people don't just hate the marginalised, they also love the rich. Like truely adore them and emapthise with them in ways that they are incapable of with their own kind or poorer.
I have only ever watched three seconds or his videos but I hate his whole motif with a passion. Pretending to be a jaded drunk is like anti funny and just embarrassing.
He also made a really crap boring 40 minute pilot for a spy/operator tv pilot based on nine books he wrote that must be dog shit too. Had a lot of the cliches that supposedly infuriate him in his reviews.
Reading people say "I lost it when..." really made me question my humanity. Why does this do nothing for me and someone else gets to enjoy it. I am starting to think nobody really laughs at it. We've culturally renforced the notion with one another that these hacks are funny because the open bigotry on tv made some people comfy.
Yeah nobody is really proposing launching them in the atmosphere. I hope lol
And I further agree the thing is a pointless waste. Robots with a few solar panels and RTGs do the job. Sending people into space has been an aerospace scam since the 70s.
Doubt it would really. We've already had nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers and Arctic icebreakers, which are just niche use cases that justify the cost of the nuclear bit.
The bourgeois aren't afraid of new technologies. As long as they control infrastructure and policy, their fossil fuel rents are secure and will seize the opportunity for new rents. They permitted states to spend several billion on nuclear R&D as a centralised rentier-friendly fallback for the inevitable drop in fossil fuel resource quality. Unless we're talking about urban myths like cold fusion or perpetual motion, several approaches and technologies have been exhaustively attempted. Items like MSRs or hybrid fusion, which were previously mothballed, are being revisited worldwide.
Renewables have outpaced nuclear in the meantime when it comes to the sole goal of curtailing fossil fuel demand. No steam islands, low O&M, and turnaround time short enough for a learning effect to drive down costs. China are breaking emissions records year on year because of the ability to scale up solar in a fraction of the time of new nuclear builds. It's not technology suppression; there is just no technology that adequately displaces fossil fuels in a time frame that actually matters. Only curtailing demand with sane socialist planning.
It’s extra funny and tragic considering that he is actually enjoys a lot of aspects of USasians and has shown incredible tolerance so far. He has two wolfs and one just wanted to grill.
I choose to believe Pete Buttgieg only has one playist and one song that he listens to all day.