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And don’t forget that a big part of the shuttle sucking was caused by the military who forced nasa to make major design changes so that the shuttle could fulfill military tasks. Tasks which the shuttle never even wound up being used for because the military simply created their own separate rockets to do those tasks.

It’s more than that. The thought of us doing something incredible like establishing a permanent moon base feels more depressing than inspiring these days because enshitification will be baked into it right from the planning stages

Been better been worse

Eh you know

I’ve been I’ve been

Nonsense, your definitions of these trait label categories is entirely black and white, when in reality close to no one fits 100% into a category completely

Lots of places don’t have taxis that you can call to your house. And in the areas that do, often times the taxis are unreliable. And yeah they can get quite expensive.

Taxi driver isn’t one of those jobs that we should protect from automation. There’s no creative theft in a self driving car.

Mamalarkey their song Big Trouble is such a goddamn banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tNxl2Q2hzw

Which show?

Love, sweet love. It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of

Hah, there was no bitching, you don’t need to take everything personally. Life is absurd and fleeting, enjoy it when you can

No I’m taking about OP’s quote of the article right here on this lemmy page

The article quoted in this post seems to be unrelated to the title

Yeah even for this person’s selfish thought process i don’t see how they feel comfortable doing this. The whole time it’s there they should be constantly worried that their car will get keyed

Bad Santa

All measures are imperfect, that doesn’t mean it’s totally meaningless and should be disregarded. And it also seems like you’re referencing outdated data, as the cost of battery storage seriously decreased in 2025. But by any measure i can find, nuclear is significantly more expensive than renewables+storage. Regarding China, their data is generally not trustworthy on any topic, but yes I’m sure nuclear can cost a lot less there than elsewhere when you can steamroll over the citizens that would be effected by a powerplant’s construction, operation, and waste storage.

I’m not an expert in this at all, but I believe that private capital isn’t investing their own money in new nuclear construction, and that tells the whole story about the cost per watt of nuclear. If nuclear was cheaper per watt after all costs were considered then private capital would be building new nuclear, but they aren’t, so that means it clearly isn’t.

EDIT

I just looked at your link and it pretty clearly says the opposite of everything you said. Quote from the intro of your article:

[renewable energy] largely prevails over nuclear in China, the United States, and Europe – the world’s three largest power systems, as well as in Japan.

And

New wind and solar projects are much cheaper than new reactors.

The main problem with nuclear power is that it’s the most expensive form of electricity. People who say otherwise are only looking at the cost of running the generator, rather than including all the true costs involved in generating each watt, which is called the “Levelized Cost Of Electricity” (LCOE)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity

So there’s no reason to build any new nuclear generators now that renewables+storage are the cheapest form of electricity, and are also the easiest and fastest to build.

Sounds slightly like a similar experience to how people describe seeing the new color olo

https://www.science.org/content/article/superprecise-lasers-show-people-whole-new-color

Signal is great for texting and chats

https://signal.org/

Strong gun laws doesn’t mean a test of political views for gun ownership. Strong gun laws means things like for example to have access to a gun a person must not have a recent conviction of initiating physical violence. Calling these things “strong gun laws” is really a purposely misleading term, because what we’re actually talking about is truly dirt-basic levels of obviously warranted restrictions.

But imo if you meet these extremely reasonable precaution requirements then after that you should be able to own basically any type of weapon you want short of WMDs. As long as you can meet increasingly tighter training and ownership restrictions then imo you should even be able to own the top of lethality weapons like a tank, rpg, or jet fighter

But you can’t start your scenario from after there’s already a fully situated authoritarian government in place. If you’re starting from there then there’s no actual law about anything at all anyway, guns or otherwise.

And secondly, you’re arguing as if strong gun control laws means a gun ban, which aren’t at all the same thing.

Not OP, but my position has always been the constitutional position of “a well regulated militia”. Like imo you shouldn’t be able to have guns in your home, but it would be fine if there was a single gun locker on literally every block where you could store an entire personally-owned arsenal, as long as the locker met strict security rules and the gun users met strict and recurring training requirements.