People are still fucking saying that? I thought after literal Nazi salutes they’d finally realize we were right all along

Reddit let trumps subreddit stay up for years, not to mention all the other vile and bigoted places

I do not put much faith in that reddit actually cares about homophobia

And calls for violence has always been selective. Has reddit ever banned anyone for supporting a state to kill people? For example, supporting death penalty, supporting cops shooting people, supporting Ukraine/Russia to kill Russians/Ukrainians, or supporting Israel killing Palestinians?

The whole subject of “calls for violence” has always been biased, because we see state actors being violent as justifiable, but non-state actors as not, so it’s not right to say they don’t support calls for violence, they only don’t support selective ones that they are not entirely clear about. They don’t support the people

Densely populated isn’t a problem for everyone (I like dense), and the pollution isn’t as bad as it used to be, right?

The authoritarian part is a major major issue of course, but my layperson perceptions of the material conditions of China is that it’s not nearly as bad as it used to be, and is getting better

And another upside, good public transit

I don’t even understand what people buy so often. I can easily go a month without buying a new physical item that’s not like, food

Oh I fully get you, and it is a problem, but at least enough of the people I know consider discord’s behaviour problematic already that it would be possible to get things rolling with migrating smaller communities and friends

The big communities though? Yeah no. There’s a reason Facebook is still used, it’s used a lot for organizing things

Don’t worry, once it goes public it will get worse and easier to replace

What do you want the geneticists to do? They are educated in their domain, you can’t just plop them into another field

The applications of their work is likely plenty in medicine and bioengineering

We build the thing on the moon itself

Sure, it’s mostly barren rock, but it still got useful stuff there, like for example water (hydrogen and oxygen, rocket fuel), carbon and oxygen in the rocks (methane, also rocket fuel), metals (building rockets), and various other elements

From what I’ve read we know, it’s relatively poor in nitrogen and carbon, so the moon is not as useful as it could have been, but water is really all you need. If you can produce fuel and rocket parts on the moon, it’s about as useful as it can be for space exploration and development

Since, remember, the alternative is getting those resources either from the surface of the earth (expensive in terms of fuel, and requires powerful rockets, aka bigger ships, also expensive), or from some place further out like the asteroid belt (time consuming). Gravity on the moon is much much smaller, so even if we don’t have a space elevator, it would be far cheaper to use the moon as a starting point, or at least as a refueling point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources?wprov=sfla1

They are also useful for maintaining orbits (like the ISS), and could potentially be useful in long duration missions such as interplanetary transfers. If it takes months to get to Mars anyway, low thrust won’t matter if it means you get more total delta-v, and able to reduce the travel duration anyway, but of course this depends on the specifics

You can still eat junk food and not go up in weight as long as you don’t overeat