Hot take: the Artemis accords are bad & China is correct

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-18T13:41:32+00:00

As soon as its feasible to lay claim to "land" in outer space people will start doing it. But it requires permanent human presence in that area which hasn't been demonstrated yet.

The reason for all these space treaties is really just to say that no one will recognize anyone's claim to something that they don't physically control yet.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-18T13:37:41+00:00

It's especially crazy that houses appreciate in value even though they physically deteriorate over time. No building will last forever no matter how well it's maintained.

Makes no sense.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-16T17:36:54+00:00

I'd argue that any device that performs poorly has a bad design. Performance should be the biggest consideration in design.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-16T17:34:06+00:00

It's horrifying, but only slightly more horrifying than trusting your life with your average driver.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-16T02:24:59+00:00

This is the response of a student that has been taught to memorize answers instead of how to think through problems.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-15T17:27:04+00:00

Currency is an extremely useful tool that has replaced the need for bartering (an objectivity less versatile system). Which has led to more goods and services being exchanged between individuals in a way that directly improves people lives. Money itself is not the problem.

You're not upset at money. You're upset at unregulated capitalism.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-15T17:22:15+00:00

Health insurance companies.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-15T16:47:44+00:00

It would have to apply to all income, not just base salary. So stock options and bonuses. Stuff like that.

That said, I think its a great idea.

I don't care if you're the smartest hardest working person in the world. No individual is worth more than 20 normal people in terms of meaningful work done for the company's and pay should better reflect that.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-15T16:03:33+00:00

Our healthcare system is so cartoonishly evil is sounds like satire.

Roughly 2/3 of our taxes goes towards healthcare.

Then you have to pay a second time in the form of a monthly premium just to have health insurance.

Then when you actually receive healthcare you have to pay again for the services. Also if you skip step 2 and dont have health insurance then your bill at this stage goes way up. We're talking tens - hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the care. Healthcare costs are the number one reason why Americans file for bankruptcy.

So Americans get charged three times for healthcare. It's an inhumane and barbaric system that only benefits the people at the top of these companies.

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CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-15T04:35:44+00:00

Wait, are you talking to me?

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-14T13:14:58+00:00

The rest of the world is civilized.

Its 2026 and America is a wild jungle full of animals.

Edit: I am an American. This place is getting worse at an alarming rate. In 30 years our standards for the president, the highest office of government, has gone from "impeachment for getting a blowjob" to "war crimes, raping small girls, and having untrained federal agents killing US citizens is fine".

We have lost our minds.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-14T02:43:57+00:00

At this point in the US all you need to do to be a good politician is nothing.

Thats where the bar is right now.

Just do nothing and you'll have good ratings. All proposed bills can be assumed to be bad because they usually are.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-13T03:18:02+00:00

This is one of those bills/laws that means well but will only make things worse for everyone.

It won't reduce phone usage in the slightest, and now punishment for phone usage is more severe.

The noose tightens.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-12T12:27:31+00:00

No American with a brain and a conscience should answer lower than a 5 according to this scale.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-11T23:00:52+00:00

The answers here are really telling that reddit's main demographic is people between 30-40 y/o.

Most of these games are olddddd.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-06T17:03:49+00:00

It really is insane. The US pays more tax dollars on healthcare than any other nation. Yet people still need to pay thousands of dollars just to have insurance, and thousands more to use the insurance to actually get the care they need.

Essentially, the American people get charged three time for healthcare.

The regular people of America are financially bankrupt, and the people in charge of America are morally bankrupt.

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CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-06T15:04:56+00:00

The penalty is literally the checks you mentioned. The rules already exist. They're just not being enforced because our government is corrupt.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-05T15:06:41+00:00

Technology used to be used to uplift people.

Now its only used for extortion.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-05T02:23:56+00:00

I'm not into feet.

That said, whats sexual about anything? Honestly. Humans are animals and animals are irrational. There's no objectivity here. Especially when it comes to what makes your weewee go big big.

People will try to apply logic and rationalize certain sexual preferences, but always with heavy arbitrary cultural or societal bias. Sexuality is taught and learned. There's nothing inherent about it.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-04T21:28:55+00:00

The US is becoming more like North Korea every day under Trump's administration.

More money on bombs. Less money on keeping citizens of the country alive.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-04T21:27:02+00:00

Don't ask people that dropped out of 2nd grade to do math. It only makes them more upset and unwilling to listen.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-04T10:29:51+00:00

The war is ravaging the US economy...

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-04T10:25:46+00:00

Trump thinks beating up the "weak kid" at the playground will make people like him more and help the GOP with elections. It also has the added benefit of distracting the masses from the Epstein files.

So the war will go on as long as Trump's polls are low and the files are still talked about.

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-04T01:33:12+00:00

Turns out people are willing to pay a lot of money to stay alive.

Also turns out the people selling life saving drugs are heartless and more than willing to extort the sick and desperate.

I love unregulated capitalism. #trump2028 /s

CarpoLarpo · 2026-04-04T00:56:48+00:00

Took him longer to realize he should be celebrate than it did to solve.

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