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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • They’re planning everything from mining to the rapture

    They’re also idiots that don’t understand basic physics

    Its the same mental deficiency of people going on about asteroid mining. Yeah, sure, lots of minerals in those asteroids but until you find a safe, cheap, and reliable way to shift those asteroids into earth’s orbit it’s literally the same as those guys jerking off over AI porn: vapid and empty.

    I’m not saying that its impossible, I know that one day we’ll get there. I also know that “one day” is at the very least 20 years in the future, still, just to get a simple base. Getting a production base that pulls out minerals, with a reliable way to move said minerals to earth is more likely some 50 years away

    I know, musk says we can do all that today, bit musk hasn’t been able to speak a single truth in 2-3 decades at least. He’s full of shit and constantly makes stupid lying claims about mars bases. His starship rockets have spent billions of US tax payer money and still haven’t been able to clear the first easy 1% of the work; getting in yo a stable earth orbit. They managed to roast a banana over the Indian ocean, and to obliterate a launch pad. I suppose those are impressive feats perhaps, but not on the way to the moon, or worse, mars.

    Seriously, humanity is at best 1% on the way to a mars base. There are so many known issues that we don’t have solutions for, and there are even more unknown issues that also still need solutions. Yet the moon and mars bro’s can stop talking about how next year bro, next year will be the year bro, musk promised it bro, that is as good as any truth bro…



  • The world doesn’t suck

    The world is awesome

    There are a few handfuls of expansionist narcissistic oligarchs, dictators and uber rich that ruin the experience for everyone else.

    Seriously, we hang a few dozen very specific guys from the gallows and literally the world would be saved the next day. All of the sudden genocides are over, we can focus fully on stopping climate change, we can form a UN that can enforce peace, we can implement wealth caps where nobody gets crazy rich anymore… Can you imagine?

    Seriously… That is the weirdness of the problem. We have a few people with so much power that 8 billion of us have their lives ruined by at most a few hundred

    I would change John Lenno’s “imagine” to “imagine we hang the parasite class and implemented wealth caps, it isn’t hard to do”










  • I can’t speak for other countries but so far in the Netherlands the rules are open, but extremely strict

    Quite recently they allowed a teenager with mental issues to end her life with dignity because she was suffering for years with no view on any type of recovery. Yes, that is possible, but its also really difficult to get. No doctor would allow euthenasia on a child just because they are a bother to the parents, and IIRC, any and all of these requests have to pass panels of people who decided if it will be allowed or not.

    The goal here always is to stop needless suffering