The Strait of Hormuz is clopen.

However, in this age of gen AI, would your career really be ruined?

Bigots aren’t reasonable people interested in the truth. Even if someone’s nudes are AI generated, it’s still a risk to their career because bigots just want a pretense to oppress people.

Yeah I got a better R-word for ya: rude. You’re being super rude.

Unsuccessful capitalists are still capitalists and still need to be smashed. 🏴

Countertop ice machine. I keep mine on a table right next to my bed for infinite cold drinks whenever I want without getting out of bed.

I fucking hope so 🏴🏴🏴🏴

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Just twice? Those are ROOKIE NUMBERS!

I mean if we’re replacing the government with robots

The Artemis mission cost four billion dollars.

The FY-2027 defense budget will be 1.5 trillion. could cut billions of dollars without seriously affecting the function of the military (although fuck the military, they deserve exactly $0.00 and all need to be put on trial for their part in this horrible Empire).

It’s not because of the Artemis mission specifically that we “cannot” feed people and heal the sick. Like the cost of ending world hunger and poverty, the cost of this mission in comparison to the resources the capitalists control is trivial.

It’s because the system is deliberately designed to be unwilling (antagonistic, in fact!) to do these things no matter how much money or resources are ever actually available.

And it’s happening now as a fucking distraction from the casualties of the war on Iran, and I don’t even have words for how monstrous that is, or how angry I am at the people embracing this propaganda campaign as an “apolitical triumph of the human species”.

It’s probably a coincidence that it’s happening now. This mission has been years in the making. The media is using the event as propaganda to distract from the Iran war. That being said, I will not argue that it’s apolitical, nor will I argue that it’s not propaganda at all. Generically, the point of televising it is to make look good, i.e. to paper over the sins of Empire.

I honestly don’t disagree with the rest of what you wrote and I’m even skeptical of the scientific utility of this particular mission, but I believe that a blanket opposition to spaceflight and space research generically is reactionary.

Nah the answer is pay your people enough to live and hire enough people to comfortably manage the skies. I know, wild shit.

Maybe should try thinking about something else

Off topic, but as a math nerd I love that the upside-down circle-A looks like a circled universal quantifier, which is usually pronounced “for all” (also typed as \forall in LaTeX).

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Nah, it’s the liberals too. It’s almost all of us, probably myself included despite my efforts to counter the liberalism I was raised under.

Liberals (i.e., ideological descendants of Enlightenment liberalism, including both Republicans and Democrats) don’t like the cosmetic vulgarity of Empire, but they aren’t against Empire generically.

AmeriKKKan’s like the violence, they just think its current iteration is too icky.

Until liberals openly reject Empire, openly rebuke the liberal monoculture, openly and militantly oppose capitalism, openly scream "No more instead of just “No More Trump”, only then would s even begin to make good on our bellyaching about freedom and rebellion.

BOIL NEOLIBERALS

Honestly my first Destiny jumpscare on Lemmy 😭

We don’t need millions of factories across the planet spewing countless shit into the ecosystem.

I mean the italicized portion, 1000% agree. And honestly, we can definitely cut down the number of factories by cannibalizing defense factories (i.e., rip them apart for useful stuff and burn the rest), although I honestly don’t know what number of factories is reasonable, or if the number of factories is even a helpful metric.

Anti-Civ/Green Anarchy isn’t AnPrim where we go live as cave men with nothing, it’s reassessing our relationship with production and choosing sensible uses focused on minimising harm.

That’s awesome and I agree we should do that, and thank you for making the distinction explicit. Honestly, I just want to see more anarchists in my engineering courses. Like I 1000% recognize that the big problems today (capitalism, racism, the State, colonialism, climate change) are social problems that don’t have pure technological fixes…but technology is certainly gonna be a part of the social solutions.