MeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them]

“I’ll just have it make a Hello World to validate my workflow”

“Oh no”

Larry Ellison? More like Go To Hellison.

They know they have to do something to make sure the rest of Europe doesn’t follow suit and heavy handed aggression is the only tool in their toolbox

1. The amount of money spent on NASA is negligible compared to the MIC
2. Human intuition about what STEM stuff is useful is very poor. The basis for your ability to securely do online banking is a quirky little number theory equation that was useless for centuries. Or think about the reactionary complaints about “they’re paying scientists to study cat urine” or whatever. Those studies typically have a practical reason for getting some and practical implications once they’re finished. Even the stuff that is practical looks impractical to the layperson. Space travel is very similar in that the technology it enables can have other uses.
3. Whoever figures out asteroid mining first is going to make a lot of fucking money

Imagine if we had a centrally planned economy. We could throw the puzzle demons at logistics

There’s a handful of trans specific ones on Know Your Meme. Here’s one: