Apollo 11 made it to the moon and back with the computer power of a Dollar Tree hand held calculator
I think it was the rockets doing most of the lifting
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Artemis II never landed on the moon. It was just a flyby. This makes it more equivalent to Apollo 10 and the famous exchange
Stafford: “Oh—who did it? … Give me a napkin quick. There’s a turd floating through the air”.
Young: “I didn’t do it. It ain’t one of mine”.
Cernan: “I don’t think it’s one of mine”.
Stafford: “Mine was a little more sticky than that. Throw that away”.
Cernan (later): “Here’s another goddam turd. What’s the matter with you guys?”
3·1 hour agoYou can give up Harry Potter. It’s the right thing to do, it’s worth it, and it’s the adult decision.
It’s a children’s story. I don’t think you’re asking for people to leap over mountains by giving up childhood things as an adult.
At the same time, people seem to fixate on the consumerist aesthetics and ignore the material realities. If you’ve got transgender friends and family that you support with your time and care and money, and you want to flip through an old dog-eared copy of Philosopher’s Stone (or rewatch The Usual Suspects or throw on an episode of Fat Albert) because of nostalgia, I don’t think you’re committing any kind of grievous sin.
JK Rowling isn’t going to stop being a billionaire because you played a HP themed video game or watched an episode of her rebooted book show on HBO.
Meanwhile, abstaining from all things problematic, without doing anything materially positive for any of the LGBTQ folks in your life isn’t doing anyone any favors. Being a Consumerist Harpy who only knows how to scream at people for their mass media of choice, in the name of LGBTQ, is turning civil advocacy into some kind of branding exercise.
The really weird thing is how many LGBTQ folks latched onto HP in its early releases as what was recognized to be a kind-of pro-queer YA novel.
You had a young boy who was literally in the closet, disowned and disrespected by family, who is spirited away to a magical school where his differences are valued and cultivated. He’s got a bunch of friends who could easily sub in for queer icons. There are gender-bending magical spells, the bad guys are explicitly fascist, most books end with some kind of “The power of friendship and love will triumph!” rejoinder. FFS, Dumbledore is canonically gay.
It is far more a testament to the psychologically corrosive power of plutocracy that JK Rowling went off the rails. I don’t think it’s unfair for people to like the books and hate the author. Just remember not to pay for anything and you’re fine.
26·2 hours agoCombining French snobbery with Linux snobbery could set off some kind of chain reaction.
How soon until Quebec joins the Bloc de L’nux?
13·3 hours agoHe’s just trying to find the shrine that lets him de-age seven years.
61·3 hours agoMelanie looks like she’s being held at gunpoint.
1·3 hours agoReally depends on who you are and where you live.
1·4 hours agoforced rewrite of the constitution
Military dictatorships, famous for their commitment to balance, fairness, and term limits
1·4 hours agoneedless bothsiderism
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
~ Julius Nyerere, a Tanzanian politician, anti-colonial activist, political theorist, and Russian botfarm
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7·16 hours agoIt’s adorable that anyone thought we’d have a political class willing to combat pedophilia, except as a pretext to harass LGBTQ folks, immigrants, and vulnerable minorities.
Europe/UK Politicians: “We ended a human smuggling operation. This is because we value human rights and civil liberties and rule of law”
Vietnamese trafficking victims: “So now what? Are we refugees?”
Europe/UK Politicians: “No. We hate you. We’re sending you back to your shithole county where we hope you’ll die.”
you need 2/3rds of the senate to remove him
Caeser was removed with far less
When will this idea die?
The same day “leftists never vote” does, presumably.
Stop wasting time on idiots and people happily guzzling propaganda.
Politicians chase the voters they want.
Start planning a campaign with SIMPLE SLOGANS
Wow, brilliant. Have you considered doing this for a living?
22·17 hours agoI only take issue with calling them anything other than something like crony capitalism
The fundamental difference between Chinese Socialism and American Capitalism can be summed up in their retirement rates.
In China, white collar men can retire at 63. Blue collar women are out at 55. That upwards of twelve years gap in retirement age is why China has billionaires and America has trillionaires.
If I died right now and was told I was going to be reincarnated but unfortunately I would be born poor and was given a choice of where to go, China would be near the bottom of my list of developed nations.
The real value of a civilization is its infrastructure. And you’re going to find it difficult to name a country more advanced and resilient - particularly to looming climate change.
But if you want to roll the dice on Starmer’s UK or Takaichi’s Japan or Milei’s Argentina? Good luck.
Slovenia - a Yugoslav state - was a major trading partner of the USSR. It’s economy was hollowed out, first after the decline of Russia, and then after a decade of looting, sanctions, and war.
With enough time and a vacuum of marketing dollars, it will. The reboot is already flopping.
Hard to advocate for a boycott without hearing about the things you’re boycotting.
The principle of a boycott is to pressure the business to change it’s policies. The implication is that you’d come back if they reformed.
If you’re really looking to replace a franchise rather than reform it, helps to fill the vacuum.
“I’m a big fan of X over Y, because it’s got all the things I like without the crude” tends to bend more ears than “Stop doing Y without my permission!”