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World War Two still casts a long shadow,” Kraaijvanger told Wired.

Got to say, I grew up thinking that space exploration was just the coolest thing ever. But now that all these smarmy, greasy billionaires have got their grubby little paws all over it - it’s started to feel pretty lame.

It’s a lot harder to exploit the space industry than it is to exploit mom & pop book shops and flea markets.

YOU CANT SAY TRANSPORTATION WITHOUT TRANS!

A movie about unrestricted breeding is about eugenics? Gerrymandering affects Senators?

“And yet, Texas is still so gerrymandered, even voting harder probably won’t be enough to get him out of office.”

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

It’s the third part that goes over what could potentially happen in 200 million years.

Sadly, this one doesn’t look like it has the potential to end our miserable civilization.

I say give the asteroid a chance, we haven’t even heard about its economic policy yet.

We had a good run. Maybe Mother Nature can do something less self destructive when the squids crawl out of the ocean and take over when we’re gone.

I guess we went too easy on the robber barons last time by just trust busting their companies and creating some social safety nets and worker protections.  

Anyone else reminded of this?

I’ve heard “rare earth minerals” bandied about as an explanation for Trump’s creepy lust for both Greenland and Canada. But you know where else has rare earth minerals? The US. We just abandoned the infrastructure to extract them when China started selling them.

The things just do not look good. They aren’t offensive, but when you stand next to a Lucid and a Taycan, why would you choose an EQS? Then you have Tesla which the Model S still looks good, is cheaper, and faster, with a better charging network. EVs have levelled the playing field to where these companies need to be…

Trump: “We did it! We got Mexico to send troops to the border!”

Unlike half of America, most Germans can easily recognize a Nazi shit ass.

Killing the XTerra right when the whole world was getting super into off-road-adjacent SUVs is all you need to say to show Nissan’s management is incompetent.

USAID was a form of soft power not unlike the diplomatic services. It was the US doing things that were, at first glance, “merely” charity and aid, but also gave us a lot of less obvious benefits. Once again, we shoot ourselves in the foot for short-term gain, but long-term losses. The world is more chaotic and less…