• _stranger_@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Hear me out: They’re planning to lose.

        Promise ridiculous prosperity will happen when they win.

        Lose.

        No matter how successful the winner might eventually be, they can always point to the ridiculous prosperity that never happened, letting them rob their base of even enjoying the basic joy of any progress, keeping them mad, hateful, and controlled.

        • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          That actually happened in Hungary with Fidesz, in 2006. They even organized the riots that happened in the autumn.

          Of course the MSZP-SZDSZ government had a lot of issues, like planning to privatize the health care, but was sabotaged by Fidesz, a lot. Fidesz even helped the far-right as long as they didn’t deny the Holocaust too much (which is still technically a felony in Hungary, except no longer prosecuted to my knowledge), and pushed the “free speech for all, except for those damn gays and Romani” alignment, while also helping to suppress any news about the anti-communism paranoia of SZDSZ. There was a now infamous political ad of theirs that was pushed during the call for the health-care privatization debates which framed state-owned health care as the last remaining element of communism, except almost no one saw them as most outlets tried to frame the moderate-libertarian party as “communist”, especially the then up and coming kuruc info, a far-right “news” website known for doxxing and holocaust denial. Funnily enough, Fidesz is quietly supporting health-care privatization.

      • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I mean the technical hurdles aren’t insurmountable. But we lack the political will power to put resources needed into it.

        It would take 60s moon landing level of commitment for 10-15 years to do any sooner.

        • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          It’s a stupid idea, and a massive waste of resources that could be used here. There are multiple articles from real scientific sites, and YouTube videos from real scientists why it’s a stupid idea.

          • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            I wasn’t commenting on whether we “should” go, only that I felt we had the resources/ability to go…

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          It’s technically feasible in the bare minimum “Got there” sense. Bringing someone and getting them back. But we learned a lot by the moon exploration, and that is that we aren’t ready for colonization. Living there, for a long time, let alone indefinitely, that is where the million details are still unresolved. I think that’s the problem that is worth tackling. We already know we can live in space for a long time as long as there are continuous shipments of resources from Earth. We could just flood the logistics problem with money and get to mars next year if we wanted to. Other than the psychologically horrifyingly long distances involved, of course.

          • chaogomu@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            I’ll say that Andy Weir got most of it right on how to do manned missions to Mars.

            You build a huge space station, and then use that as the ship that goes to and from Mars.

            Then the actual mission on the surface lasting a month or three before the astronauts pack up and head home.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Even better was the r/photoshopbattles version of them dancing:

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Elon Musk is what happens when that middle school kid that says shit like “How fortuitous” gets money.

  • RogueBanana@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Was wondering why this is on musk spam and who this guy is… Still having a hard time recognising the cunt in this pic.

  • Anderenortsfalsch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Trump: “Jump!”
    Musk: “How high?”
    Trump: “Get as high as you can!”
    Musk: “I am already as high as I can, I wanted to know how high I should jump!”

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Sadly, I think it’s Musk doing the commanding. Knowing as much as I do about Musk’s philosophy, that’s not a good thing. If Trump wasn’t fascist enough, Musk certainly isn’t going to help.

      • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I have no doubt they are empowering each other in a sick feedback loop.

        I had a friend that was always into guns but was normal about it. Then he started hanging out with this other gun guy. Within a couple years they were both psycho gun nuts. He started sleeping with a loaded the gun under his pillow. Even though he had a five year old son. To quote “He isn’t strong enough to cycle the slide so it’s ok …”

        I noped out of the friendship after that.

        • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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          1 month ago

          Sleeping with a loaded gun under the pillow. If somebody wants to kill you, and is in your bedroom while you’re sleeping, then you’re going to wake up to a bullet going through your brain, before you go back to sleep permanently. A gun under the pillow doesn’t even make sense in the gun nuts paranoid delusions.

        • Illuminostro@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          One my old friends became a cop. He would leave his service Glock in it’s holster on his belt, hanging from his computer chair. While his then 7 year old daughter and 9 year old son ran wild, with no supervision.

          “They know not to touch it.”

          • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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            1 month ago

            Did he forget that kids will go out of their way to touch it. I remember when I was a little shit, I did a lot of things I wasnt supposed to do. I only got caught for the worst ones.

            • P00ptart@lemmy.world
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              1 month ago

              Shit, I only got caught on the lamest shit I did lol. If my parents knew 20% of the shit I did…

                • P00ptart@lemmy.world
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                  1 month ago

                  I’ve cause numerous fires. Never a dumpster though. Back in the day, when my uncle was in HS he accidentally caught his hs library on fire after breaking in to smoke pot and return a book. So he’s got me beat by quite a lot. But my mother was a neglectful narcissist, so I became a master of illusion.

                  Edit: honestly, most of the times I fucked up was when I was trying to be helpful. Parents had a wall they started to paint and let go for 2 weeks, they went out one night when I was like 13. So I finished it as a surprise while they were out. Got paint all over the carpet. Bonehead shit but otherwise innocent. Other than the porn, that’s all I was ever caught with. I’ve ran from the cops too many times to count from ~14-24. Never anything real bad that harmed anyone, just general mischief.