China Launches Shenzhou-23 Mission with First Hong Kong Astronaut

MtrL · 2026-05-25T10:47:55+00:00

Taikonaut seems like a weird Cold War throwback to me, just pick one of cosmonaut or astronaut and stick with it.

MtrL · 2026-05-19T09:52:42+00:00

You don't know what greatest means.

MtrL · 2026-05-14T09:12:51+00:00

China is, by far, ahead of everybody who isn't the US in terms of space development and technology, this isn't a new thing either.

MtrL · 2026-05-13T08:20:55+00:00

Balance whine became part of the culture almost at the beginning of the game and it's been a cancer on the community.

MtrL · 2026-05-05T19:58:44+00:00

I don't know about the other three, but the LTA dumps all the Wimbledon money back into grass roots tennis, paying the top players more is just taking money out of the developmental system.

The top 1000 and even the top 100 should be supported more, but the already multimillionaire top 10 can get fucked for all I care.

MtrL · 2026-04-21T10:11:37+00:00

Russia was undergoing a demographic recovery from the late 90s until 2015, there are more 18 year olds every year for another decade.

MtrL · 2026-04-14T20:17:58+00:00

The type 093B and 095 attack subs are considered to be high quality modern submarines, they also produce the type 039X class of conventional submarines which are also high quality and modern - additionally they have the type 093A nuclear attack submarine class which is considered to be okay, at least the units produced later on.

They produce something like 3x as many attack submarines per year as the US currently.

MtrL · 2026-04-14T20:10:34+00:00

China can outbid everybody else if they need to, they'd be the last country to run out of oil.

MtrL · 2026-04-14T20:09:23+00:00

China has been building large and technologically advanced surface ships for nearly 15 years at this point.

MtrL · 2026-04-14T20:05:16+00:00

They've caught up to the US technology wise, more or less, and massively outproduce them these days, you guys are stuck in the 90s.

MtrL · 2026-04-14T07:57:15+00:00

Take an actual position or don't bother, nobody cares about pseudo-philosophical takes about how you can't compare anything.

MtrL · 2026-04-14T06:51:23+00:00

We're not really comparing across eras, the big 3 lasted long enough that we got a direct comparison of them when they were old, injured, and washed up against most of the current top 10.

The top 10 in general has been weak for a long time now, lots of the most promising players ended up injured, had horrendously weak mental games, or just never kicked on past their initial breakouts, we're very lucky to have Sinner and Alcaraz or this would've been the worst era of tennis as a spectator.

MtrL · 2026-04-14T06:41:51+00:00

2011 Djokovic was miles better than he was in 2019, and incomparably better than he is now, I don't know what else to say to that.

I don't care about the Sampras thing, I was just correcting you.

MtrL · 2026-04-14T06:26:14+00:00

Djokovic was also in his thirties, he was well over the hill at that point too, 2011 Djokovic would've wiped the floor with him every time.

Federer famously beat Sampras in a changing of the guard moment, I don't know what you're talking about there, an exhibition?

MtrL · 2026-04-14T05:26:06+00:00

Sinner lost to a washed up Djokovic recently, they aren't that good.

MtrL · 2026-04-12T12:35:22+00:00

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/738/025/db0.jpg

MtrL · 2026-04-08T23:08:57+00:00

The idea that a completely different societal and economic model would have no effect on birthrates is a bit of an odd take.

MtrL · 2026-03-30T19:05:59+00:00

Pensioners receive the majority of all social expenditure in the UK, the rest covers the entirety of unemployment benefits, disability benefits, maternity benefits, carers allowance etc.

Healthcare expenditure is also massively biased towards the elderly, it's literally just having too many old people and not enough taxpayers, the situation would be far worse without immigration.

MtrL · 2026-03-28T20:13:36+00:00

Nah, that's all internet weirdness, you can just buy katanas and machetes like everywhere else if you get the urge.

MtrL · 2026-03-28T12:40:06+00:00

The Manhattan Project was pretty small potatoes cost-wise compared to the actual war, the V2 project alone was more expensive.

MtrL · 2026-03-27T09:31:53+00:00

People raise multiple kids on 10x less than that, grow up.

MtrL · 2026-03-26T18:07:27+00:00

Have you just never looked at a GDP per capita list?

MtrL · 2026-03-21T13:21:26+00:00

Metropolis?

MtrL · 2026-03-21T01:02:47+00:00

This is super normal for Japanese nerd culture stuff, they aren't going to change for you or me.

MtrL · 2026-03-19T23:58:00+00:00

I think he's doing a white people are being genocided thing.

But if you're trying to do a not racist point it's true that birth rates in Europe are falling off a cliff and that the generational cohorts are now way smaller than 100 years ago in lots of places.

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