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As a 90s kid I definitely feel like there’s such a huge generational gap in the past 20 years though, so much changed so rapidly since then.

Like watching MP3 players come and go. And the transition of videotapes to discs to streaming. Or watching nobody own a cellphone to the entire world not being able to go anywhere without one. As well as throwaway cameras to everyone having one in their pockets.

Pre 00s and after is such a difference in just about everything. I wonder what the pre 10s and after will be like.

I feel like US has a store chain with every conceivable name at this point.

And hearing about chains called like Five Guys just sounds weird to be honest.

Leave it to religions to get insanely mad about characters and beliefs they made up. It’s such a dumb fucking thing. Then blame everything on “demons”. Big talk for someone coming from the one country that literally committed warcrimes with nuclear technology.

Hey you, my eyes are up here!

Reminds me how annoying it is when English speakers use “ain’t no” in a sentence.

Which is just a double negative that practically almost always means the opposite of what they mean.

Yeah I don’t think it’s entirely useless, it’s mostly useful for filtering out spam posts and unrelated stuff from communities.

Just on a comment/discussion level it feels like it’s not that great.

What annoys me about Reddit-like communities (yes including Lemmy) is that there’s this downvote feature.

The whole idea of these discussion boards is to have… discussions. Well, perhaps not so much this particular sub lol. So it’s annoying when you make a post or reply to someone with a constructive reply or argument, and then people can’t be arsed to actually reply, they just downvote to disagree and move on. It’s like the equivalent of people just going like “lol no” and then walk away.

Frankly it’s a feature that feels like it completely contradicts the point of online forums.

One can always research multiple options extensively, looking at different kinds of possible research on the moon and what they’d get out of it and whether or not it’s worth the effort, and then conclude that it would be too expensive. Research itself costs time and money too, and NASA has been tight on the money for a while I believe.

While SpaceX and China can practically burn money just for the sake of it.

Man, I had recently spent a lot of time designing advertisement stuff around an established brand identity, that was pretty much going for a classy/luxury aesthetic. So I was basing all my designs around that identity. Made lots of variations, took many hours perfecting it.

Then was told they didn’t like it. They wanted something entirely different that “screamed” budget and flashy colors and shapes.

Got it just perfect on the second attempt after being briefed properly, but it did really hurt when my first attempt was shot down so easily.

You don’t think that a space agency specifically focusing on space flight, travel and expansion hasn’t been extensively researched all of the options? I’m almost certain in the case of NASA it’s more a financial issue and less of not wanting to do it, and that the financial cost is not worth what they expect to get out it anyway.

As for the others, it remains to be seen what Musk will do. He’s got a lot of money to realise what he’s done so far, but I’m not sure if off-world facilities are within his budget (right now).

Not sure what China’s goal is though, they say it’s aimed at scientific research, but I’m not sure what they’re expecting to get out of it that hasn’t been done already. They could do similar research on a much cheaper and easier to maintain space station.

I’m sure the researchers at NASA, ESA and other space agencies have done extensive work to look at the viability of all that.

I’m thinking if it ever was a viable option they would’ve long done it by now. Same reason why there’ve been no people on the moon for such a long time, there’s practically no reason to go there. Even back when they first did, it was because of the space race and the achievement of it.

I thought the moon wasn’t an option because of a bunch of reasons?

Like no resources, no gravity, no atmosphere, can’t grow/harvest anyting, and the ground isn’t good to build on or something. It would be too dependent on resources coming from Earth. Not that Mars is that great, but apparently it has a lot more options.

Free Switch Hack!

(As the kids call it these days)

It already happened 😔

Definitely works.

I tried TikTok once, it really felt like brianrot taking root within minutes.

Reminds me of the meme of someone making a website with AI and then said to a bro his programming days were over.

And then proceeds to send the localhost address to the guy.

Why?

I don’t think the “average household” has a dishwashing machine lol, at least not where I live.