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But there was a time when the system worked during the cold war, because it was tied to "national security" and the military. I just find it ironic that in a world that is so dependent on spatial products that interest seems to be taken so lightly when compared with the past.

Looks like outsourcing good management of public resources to "greed" to fix inefficiencies. Why is some greedy fuck with delusions of grandeur needed here?

PS: ok, ok, you need an outsider asshole who is unafraid to go against installed parasites in the system to streamline processes...so...you end up with one giant parasite that interferes with elections and manipulates markets...:/

Can't they delay usual ~~collection~~ scanning for a day or a week in "blue" areas? I think that's the hack here, from what I understood. Especially if the postmaster general is loyal to tramp

I used to respect his opinion...now he's just another blathering head who is always "right about everything" in hindsight.

Space used to be inspiring when it was the playground of scientists and engineers. What made it all vomit was the privatization of astronautics (and the associated place in our imaginations) to the worst possible assholes and their cult of personality.

Depends on your attack profile and what you're biting: do you want slash, stab or crush damage?

Isn't it birth rate times population (normalized to world total births)? Then you draw the borders where you want...

Dating and jobhunting are surprisingly similar, no? (and flathunting)

"Geological cycle" I always thought was measured in millions of years, when the waste has a half-life of 1000 years to 10 million years...

So much could happen in 1000 years...and it would barely make a difference for anything below 1My.

Vacuum is a perfect thermal insulator. The only real losses are radiative.

Edit: From Stefan-Boltzmann: up to (not sure about emissivities, but could be down to 10% of this) 100kW for a black body of 1m diameter at 1000C.

If there’s going to be fact checkers, they themselves need to be routinely checked and their biases listed.

Isn't this what editors used to do?

It is not user experience, it is user manipulation. We are so so far beyond Stallman's warnings about enslavement through corporate software design.

I just expected poles to be more resistent to self-harm narratives from russia...even if they are not explicitly about russia. So much for "russophobia".

this is the way: NCD waifus demonstrate it.

That is because the MAGA/P2025/neofascist plan is not to maintain hegemony against near-peers (which is expensive on the citizen), it is to return to the mythologized post-war boom by letting the rest of the world go to shit again and then to swoop in to "save" everyone (again) while selling them weapons and industrial stuff (but not to let them reindustrialize again, like during the cold war).

What is preverse is that it was the reindustrialization and social state of Japan, Germany/EU that was the poster child that helped keep these blocks from turning fully socialist and win hearts and minds abroad during the cold war. I guess that was too successful and is making russia/US look bad.

PS: btw, this "strategy" is risky, because there is no way to guarantee that WW3 won't reach US soil this time, you can't just sit it out.

Apparently this was a real strategy on twitter for the 2024 election: videos of hot women followed by trump messages aimed at young men...and it seems to have worked to at least get them off the couch...just be aware of it ffs (fucking monkey brains)