no. it’s just another thing to make people upset at each other. ignore what they say.

ADHD is the true anarchist spirit.

If somebody owns shares of $company_A, they have to pay 1% of the shares annually, which become public property. This way, the means of production (company shares) slowly become public property over time.

you can never make art again

What the who came up with this?

Even if so, i keep having a dream that humans are the only species capable of developing spaceflight, because no other species has technology of the level necessary for that. So in a sense, humans might not be the only ones to be able to see the stars but we sure are the only species able to reach them.

damn that’s fascinating

here’s a nice video for you: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zPHLojHUCvk

it shows how most animals move through the world: they can only see the trees and stuff next to them; it takes humans to see the stars.

this is just an absolutely amazing image IMHO

Also in case somebody cares, my definition is that reality is time, space, matter and energy.

Everything that is measurable; everything that is subject of laws and that a lord would possess.

Like, i believe the word “real” literally comes from the root “re-” which means something like king-like (latin “rex”), so it describes everything associated with a worldly leader, which is mostly the possession of land areas and the (measurable) things that are thereon, such as kilograms of wheat produced.

Now that is some quality philosophy shitpost.

I mean nobody in their right fucking mind would expect the Iron Dome to be impenetrable. Maybe the Israelis are so high on their own supply (media propaganda) that they actually believe Iron Dome to be 100% safe but it’s not.

Fundamentally, the question is what does it cost to launch a missile and what does it cost to intercept one? If it costs $10k to launch a missile but $30k to intercept one, then the economics is on the side of the attacker; Meanwhile if it costs $100k to launch a missile but only $30k to intercept, then the economics are on the side of the defender. That’s what you have to look at.

And the issue is that even if Iron Dome would catch most missiles, some still make it through, and what is the cost of that? The damage they do.

The US government fundamentally doesn’t give a crap about your wellbeing. In fact if you die at 56 instead of 76 the government can cheap out of approximately 16 years of paying you a retirement.

What happens when you throw an ant out of the window of a skyscraper? Eh, they do just fine actually. These little creatures are surprisingly resilient.

It’s because when you scale things down, the ratio of mechanical strength to body mass gets much better. That’s why beetles can carry like 10x their own weight and stuff, while humans can’t.

It’s not small, it’s comfy sized.

If these creatures existed, they would rule the Earth.

It will be boring eventually like a toy that you’ve played with too much for most people.

i’d rather have him chicken out than continue a pointless war though

and fall asleep afterwards and get a nasty sunburn?

It’s difficult to describe how much Trump is doing for the climate here.

The economics of space settlements are tricky.

When you open a bakery, who do you sell the bread to? To the people in the city. That’s how you make money.

When you build rockets that can reach Mars, who do you sell to? And for what reason would anybody buy that product?

I believe this is where religion comes in. Ironically, religion (despite its very antique air about it) can aid capitalism to create a narrative around “human destiny is to reach for the stars” and “that was god’s plan for us all along” to nourish public sentiment towards spaceflight. This in turn creates a movement that is independent from short-term return-on-investments. Space settlements don’t have to return value as long as you can convince the public that you’re fulfilling the human destiny to spread throughout the cosmos that way.