Copy that, my knowledge of the specifics of digital vs analog is about exhausted just from what i posted so i appreciate the added information!

I don’t think most leftists are looking for an ideologically pure candidate, they’re looking for someone who will actually represent the people. The Israel issue is a great example of this disconnect; amongst Dem voters 90% are against supporting Israel, and yet there’s only a handful of Democrat politicians who have are agaimst sending Israel military aid. It’s really not a high bar for candidates to clear, and yet establishment Dems just keep SPRINTING to the right.

Leftists arent their own enemies, their enemies are neoliberals.

It’s not going to be JD. Mark my words, save my comment, it’s going to be Tucker Carlson. And if that happens and Dems haven’t changed their tune we are absolutely fucked.

Well the second pic is also at night with a high iso and long exposure plus it’s digital so there’s a lot more noise going on.

I don’t disagree with the grossness of the American exceptionalism propaganda that they always include, but you have to remember they have to get all of their funding from congress and also to a certain extent have to keep the approval of the American people. So honestly a certain amount of patriotism circle jerk is unfortunately to be expected/necessary.

This reads as someone who isn’t really that familiar with the aims/goals of Artemis. This about a stepping stone to a lunar base and then ofc to Mars and beyond. There’s a TON we still need to learn about and obstacles to overcome if we’re ever going to make it any further than the moon. Affects of deep space travel on the human body including radiation (check out AVATAR), immune systems, activity/sleep patterns are just a few of the experiments that will be performed. All of these have the potential to have huge impacts on healthcare on Earth as well, just as spaceflight science has in the past. So many technologies we use today came from NASA or spaceflight research. Here is a just a small list. I could go on, theres a large portion of NASA that does Earth-based science (weather/climate change research), but the point is NASA research has long had a positive impact on both our daily lives and economic output.

This is not even to mention, it’s been 50 years of technological change and growth since the last moon trip. This means thousands of new systems and technology that are yet to be tested by humans in deep space. The bigger the goal (Mars etc), the more incremental the testing steps need to be in order to proceed safely.

As for the politics, this isn’t some Blue Origin Jeff Bezos dick rocket going up on a very low suborbital flight just so he could say "i’M aN aStRoNaUt’. This is a program for entirely scientific purposes. You can definitely argue that it is still political, and I don’t disagree. Exploration and especially space exploration has always been inextricably linked with politics. But hell, I’d argue the original moon landing was WAY more political than Artemis; the whole reason the Apollo program had the timeline it did was because we wanted to beat the Soviets to the punch. And compared to the Apollo days, NASA now operates on a shoestring budget if you account for inflation.

I agree there’s a lot the US spends money on that should be going to better the lives of it’s citizens, but NASA funding isn’t one of them imo. As of 2018, NASA funding accounted for only 0.5% of the federal budget. That’s not a lot to take from in comparison to the many other areas where there is bloated federal spending.

do WHAT now?!

This one is mine too. I think for me is that I’m always trying to minmax if not builds on rpgs then outcomes so i can see the most/best content on a single play through. But that is not a good way to experience DE; you really gotta let go and literally let the dice fall as they may.

Yeah, i mean she uses a tablet when doing the actual creating part, but mostly the job these days is moving assets around to fit the necessary sizes for different social media. I still don’t understand how someone can stand to do that using a trackpad, but she’s good at what she does so 🤷‍♂️

My partner is a psycho who does like 90% of her graphic design work on a 13" macbook air using only trackpad

Is it not “class five hurricane”?

Damn. That’s 750,000 miles in Freedom* Units. Too bad they’ll never be allowed to sell to the US.

Pornhub does this in several US states. When you try to connect you get a message about why it’s blocked in your state. So far I don’t know of any state that has changed the law back.

Home owners association. Theoretically they exist for homeowners to collectively make neighborhoods they live in a better place, but in practice they often devolve into orgs led by busybodies drunk on power who harass homeowners just trying to live their lives the way they want.

Holy fuck talk about danger close

To a point that is kind of true, but I would argue that a story without conflict isn’t a story, it’s a setting. It’s the beginning of the movie. Here’s the Shire; hobbits live here. Without difficulty, no grand adventure. I get it though, I struggle with the idea that harder difficulties means a higher chance I lose pawns I’m attached to, or might see destroyed colonies that I’ve worked a long time to create. But at the same time that risk is where the best stories are generated; that raider clan killed our first pawn so now we’re gonna wipe them out with a group wearing their clan mate’s skin as armour led by the clan chief’s ex-wife who we convinced to join us instead.

To be clear, it’s perfectly fine to play it however you want; there is no right or wrong way. But in my experience the best stories are created on higher difficulties because Rimworld isn’t a story creator where you craft an entire narrative, it’s a story generator. You aren’t God; you’re as much a part of the world as the pawns are.

You forgot the most important one: because Israel wants us to.

Of course. The plan is not to get a deal, the plan is to continually move the goalposts so that we can say “welp we tried being reasonable” and then go to war with Iran just like our Israeli overlords want.

Conceptually, it’s always supposed to have been something akin to Patreon, where creators can be supported by fans via a subscription model. A combination of lax rules around nudity and probably sheer inertia meant that “creators” ended up being pretty much only sex workers. OF then tried to pivot away from that and we all knows how well that went.

It still is that way, it just depends on what kind of content you engage with. People on reddit/lemmy LOVE to hate on short form video content but it isn’t inherently destructive or evil IMO., it just depends on how you interact with it.