Where will we run when the whole world burns?

Sic Semper Tyrannis

Maxwell is living it up at what amounts to a college dorm room instead of where she should be, which is front and center on the gallows.

Yeah Scott Adams was a dumb bastard that tried to treat his prostate cancer (I think) with Ivermectin. Then tried to get actual help when it was too late.

The interesting pattern I have seen with this type of parent, is that they often behave more like a cruel older sibling, bullying their child. They have a teenager’s mentality and often a child’s fear of accountability.

The unfortunate children that have to struggle with this kind of “support structure” grow up to be hyper independent, to the point that it becomes a socialization problem, or become a wreck just like their parent.

It always baffled me how people could become their child’s first bully. Like, how are you going to bring someone into existence itself just to fuckin torture them?

Funnily enough, I’m one of the few Americans that gets socialized healthcare because I served in the Navy.

I’ve been pushing for everyone to get it over here

“It’s because you are fat”

“That will be $5900”.

I already know that if I die and go to hell, my punishment will be IT helpdesk for hangry boomers.

Best of luck, you are gonna need it.

I guess we are just going to have to fight about it then

Me. Now digging through init=/bin/bash/ to fix my non booting zimaboard. All because I lost my root password and proceeded to continue to fuck up my media server

It will definitely not be a walk in the park, but the newest ships and landers as well as the tech is so much more than I had on the USS Ohio. The longest we went underwater was 3 months. It definitely wears on you, but you work so much that exhaustion keeps you from any serious cabin fever. This is also helped along by the fact that we keep the oxygen percentage on the sub a little lower than surface air to lower the risk of fires.

To me, the biggest challenge won’t be comfort, necessarily, but zero Gs and being able to hold off the deterioration of the body in hypotension. Humans can live in some pretty shitty conditions and space will necessitate them for now, but having the best view money can buy probably helps morale some.

I think that humanity is on the cusp of its next big jump into a new era. The old ways of doing things are no longer working, and new paths to the future will have to be charted. We are still very much in the veery early days of space colonization, kind of like the build up to the mercury program back in the 50s.

Tech is advancing so rapidly that even at 30, I’ve seen some technology I couldn’t even dream of being real is now just in everyday use, so I remain hopeful about humans in space. Our drive to discover is so ingrained in to what we are that I see it as inevitable (if we don’t destroy ourselves first) It is a compulsion that spread our species to the farthest reaches of our world and I have no reason to believe our world would be the last boundary.

Its a matter of abundance and where the government decides that abundance can go. Desal is expensive, but you have all the energy you need to power it flowing out of the ground, the cost is somewhat defrayed.

The Gulf states chose to hoard the wealth at the top and build major hubs without reliable public transit. Which is reflective of a policy decision. Its also a matter of what refineries are where and what grade of oil they will process.

I suppose my time as a submariner may skew my view of life out there some.

I think we could be seeing a shift in the economics if humans can reliably live off world anyway.

I think NASAs SR-1 can show a reliable link to mars via what amounts to automated space trucks, but really only time will tell if we can kick off a new age of humanity or just keep letting neo-aristocrats take over again and again.

That is a policy decision. In places like Saudi Arabia, gas is cheaper than water.

Norway, correctly, invested more into public transit and EVs, and high gas prices encourage that.

I was in the navy, and many of the people I went through basic with struggled with the big stuff like “Following clearly defined orders” and “not doing obviously stupid shit”.

Because the US is the largest exporter of petroleum products in the world.

I think I heard the best explanation as a generation of people being devoid of hope for the future being told that their actually wrong and really just being selfish and life isn’t that bad. Like truly dead inside and just going thorough the motions on autopilot.

Because fertility rates everywhere are going down, and it’s not just an economic consideration. North Korea is racing South Korea to the bottom in terms of who can go extinct first, and they are the most disparate case that could possibly be presented.

I imagine the Ukrainian government has more pressing issues than copyright law at the moment.