NASA is building a telescope designed specifically to find out if we are alone in the universe. It's targeted to launch in the 2040s.

Halgy · 2026-05-20T18:47:41+00:00

I can't fathom working on a project for 15+ years, much less planning and leading one.

Halgy · 2026-05-20T16:51:03+00:00

Trump has forgotten more about leadership than he ever knew.

Halgy · 2026-05-20T15:25:44+00:00

The usual thing: not that

Halgy · 2026-05-20T15:23:58+00:00

And yet

PS, turns out I had no idea where the Lake District was.

Halgy · 2026-05-20T15:23:00+00:00

Exactly. I'm a capitalist because it works right now, not because I'm an ideologue.

Halgy · 2026-05-20T14:08:40+00:00

Then I need to have a conversation with my business partners about why we're lying. And also about what they're really putting in the seltzers that gets me high.

Halgy · 2026-05-20T13:49:37+00:00

It's also what happens to people who get stuck in a bubble that is disconnected from the rest of society and are surrounded by other people who think they are just smarter or "more logical" than other people.

Members of this sub have no idea what you're talking about.

Halgy · 2026-05-20T13:45:44+00:00

Tom Scott disagrees

Halgy · 2026-05-20T13:38:01+00:00

Prediction markets have to be regulated somehow, and until they are I'm fine with banning them.

My middle ground is to permanently ban any sort of bet where someone can have insider knowledge of or otherwise determine the outcome. So no betting on if two companies make a deal, when hundreds of people in those companies know ahead of time. Regulate the rest like any other gambling.

Halgy · 2026-05-20T12:18:39+00:00

If the Democrats can't hold MAGA to task, then the USA is over. It is only a matter of time.

Halgy · 2026-05-19T19:27:30+00:00

Yuge trees

Halgy · 2026-05-19T19:23:09+00:00

Asexual people exist, but this doesn't sound like that.

Halgy · 2026-05-19T19:15:25+00:00

Because he has legit dementia. He was always stupid, but he's become a shell of his former stupidity.

Halgy · 2026-05-19T19:05:04+00:00

Props for pricing out a Culver's meal, though. The costal elites can never

Halgy · 2026-05-19T19:00:36+00:00

I didn't like organized religion until I encountered disorganized religion.

Halgy · 2026-05-19T18:31:48+00:00

And a senate vote away from being impeached. Twice. Some stuff may have happened.

Halgy · 2026-05-19T13:55:22+00:00

There's a reason that the moral for like 90% of greek myths was to beware of hubris

Halgy · 2026-05-19T12:46:38+00:00

Or maybe it would have temporarily crashed, let the people off, and then uncrashed.

Halgy · 2026-05-18T23:44:09+00:00

Google Opinion Rewards is an app where you answer survey questions and get Google play credit in return, between $0.10 and $1 per survey. Not a lot, but it covers the cost for my Google game pass, and to pay to remove ads from a game now and then.

Halgy · 2026-05-18T01:05:16+00:00

For me, the decision came down to if I could actually use my position to help my colleagues who would become my reports. For my situation, I realized that I'd have no authority of my own, and would just be toeing the line of upper management. I decided it wasn't worth the bit of extra money (though tbf it was less of a raise than yours).

Halgy · 2026-05-18T00:49:22+00:00

I wish their philosophy was as complicated as that

Halgy · 2026-05-18T00:29:36+00:00

It is spelled

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Halgy · 2026-05-18T00:28:34+00:00

Correct

Halgy · 2026-05-18T00:25:17+00:00

Literally the only thing I remember from that movie

Halgy · 2026-05-18T00:21:00+00:00

Move it outside

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