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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

That’s what he said when he got arrested for drunk driving. Not concern over the fact that he was seriously endangering innocent people’s lives, just concern that the arrest was gonna be a problem for his tour

This is gonna ruin the tour

OP’s concept seemed to be about buoyancy. In the same way that a hot air balloon weighs more when it releases hot gas, so too should a human weigh more when they release hot gas. So the question comes down to, is the decrease of buoyancy force more or less than the weight of the ejected gas molecules?

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.

That’s totally besides the point. The reason humans get to say when a pet should be euthanized is just because animals aren’t capable of deciding it and communicating it.