SkavarSharraddas

I’m unconvinced that pulling back from space programs will make Earth’s ecosystem thrive.

My point was more or less the opposite: Anyone interested in space exploration should also be interested in keeping Earth well livable, because that is needed for its success.

If we can’t manage to keep Earth’s ecosystem thriving to support us, we certainly won’t be able to create a new self-sustaining ecosystem elsewhere. And without that, there’s no chance of any non-Earth settlement being able to sustain a healthy human society and culture long-term.

Without some serious (currently impossible) terraforming, Mars colonies are limited to deep caves or heavily shielded buildings, no outside to relax, nowhere else to go. Have a look at the list of crimes in Antarctica, a similar situation where people are stuck together, that’s not a good environment for mental health, and it will be worse farther away. A Mars colony (edit: or space station) owned by a private company will be a corporate prison, the inhabitants are 100% dependent on that company - who would voluntarily put their lives into the hands of the whims of some narcissistic hoarder with no empathy or regard for workers?

“Free speech” just means “I want to spout garbage without pushback (like fact checking) or consequences.”

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist is supposed to remove AI slop from the results of various search engines. Wants the uBlacklist browser addon though.

You mean they’re whining for the taxpayer to pay the price for their complacency.

How does that help disempower the fossil fuel mafia?

Since they don’t seem to care about it, start using “tweet” for every social media post to devalue them further.

We haven’t solved the “disposal” question of using fossil fuels, and those turned out (or were known along) to cause much bigger problems.

In other words, lack of accountability leads to bad behaviour. He might be onto something there…

“To be successful, a European citizens’ initiative has to reach one million statements of support as well as minimum thresholds in at least 7 countries.”

Sounds to me like all votes count, but only if it goes over 1.000.000. And that is the big hurdle here, if you multiply the current votes by 4 to get over a million you automatically have seven countries over the threshold.

That’s a stupid chart. The “100%” implies that those countries are “done”, while the petition needs at least 1.000.000 participants (regardless of their country) and it’s missing over 700.000 to reach the goal.

Move your lightly cupped, relaxed hand behind the fly. Then suddenly accelerate and grab the fly that got startled into flying into your hand by the movement.