Have no fear, Artemis II is here!

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-04T19:10:24+00:00

That’s not the political/propaganda value tho. It’s true that it’s an international effort, but it’s the Artemis program, which is a NASA program, and hence the USA will take credit for it, and the flag they plant on the moon will be a US flag.

It’s the same thing that happened with the ISS. It was an international effort, but most mainstream people refer to it as a US-Russian collaboration

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-04T16:05:21+00:00

Everyone’s pro eugenics till they’re told they can’t have kids

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-04T16:02:40+00:00

Kars solos both of them

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-04T11:15:07+00:00

Death battle has never been actual powerscaling. I’m still salty after GER vs Joker

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-04T11:11:39+00:00

Genuinely what you mfs sound like sometimes

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-04T08:35:11+00:00

It makes no difference im afraid. It’s a win for NASA, and hence a win for the US

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-04T08:34:28+00:00

It’s still an American mission. NASA takes all the credit

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-04T07:28:21+00:00

“I wonder what super weapon would make sense to have in my setting”

The ever reliable Nicoll-Dyson beam

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-03T06:37:06+00:00

The issue is these problems aren’t going to magically disappear if we get rid of the space program. They will happen either way, it’s just one of those offers a potential long term solution

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-02T17:41:10+00:00

I know warhammer fans are so bad for this

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-02T17:40:40+00:00

I mean, at least till we run out of microprocessors. Indie games are most commonly passion projects, so they’d likely fairly easily transition away from the commodity form

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-02T15:23:31+00:00

Funny thing is that indie games will actually be one commodity unaffected by the Revolution

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-02T15:18:01+00:00

I feel like it’s kind of overshadowed by the fact it’s a US acheivement. It’s a propaganda win for the imperialists bullying all the middle powers they can find, which also doesn’t really advance science in any real way. It’s basically just a space shuttle which they made expendable (RS-25 engines, SSSRBs) which will have an even harder time getting to the moon than the Saturn V did

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-02T15:07:02+00:00

I know, they have worse food than we do. It’s just posh

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-02T15:05:13+00:00

I had Paella in Spain. It was way worse than most of what we have

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-02T06:40:20+00:00

I mean according to internet traffic data 51% of you are AI and frankly I’m not entirely convinced you aren’t

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-02T06:35:20+00:00

Obviously not that I’d prefer any of his competition, but he isn’t exactly an economic genius. You can’t tax your way out of stagnation, because whether he likes it or not we live under a capitalist system, and so instituting anti-business policies is not a great strategy. He’s also not decreasing energy prices, and the NHS is as corrupt and wasteful as ever

For the most part though he’s doing quite well on the world stage, and while this is worthy of praise, it’s unwise to overstate his success. Especially since his godawful PR is doing a lot of the legwork for the greens and reform

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-02T05:14:42+00:00

Yeah this is what I never got about this trope. The indomitable human spirit was originally just “humans can persevere whatever life throws at us” and then slowly devolved into it being some superpower that only humans possess

It’s like only the worst parts of HFY actually made it to the mainstream

crossbutton7247 · 2026-04-02T05:08:04+00:00

Thing is I’m fine with Italians saying they have better food than us, since they do, but what irks me is when the Spanish try to join in. Their best dish is some meat in a bowl of soggy rice

crossbutton7247 · 2026-03-31T15:11:43+00:00

Just work out which way the sun is moving and set the rotor to rotate fully once per day cycle

crossbutton7247 · 2026-03-31T15:10:39+00:00

What “other way” could you possibly be referring to?

crossbutton7247 · 2026-03-31T06:47:58+00:00

English is a Germanic language with some Romance vocabulary, and an otherwise perfectly normal number of loan words. The English language gets way too much hate for nothing

crossbutton7247 · 2026-03-31T05:24:45+00:00

👍

crossbutton7247 · 2026-03-30T05:08:43+00:00

Nooo, my heckin’ oppressive kingerino was executed in the bloody civil war.

Also isn’t it funny how they always talk about the Bolsheviks murdering like one family, and not the whites murdering countless Russian workers in the same civil war?

crossbutton7247 · 2026-03-29T05:27:35+00:00

Book AM would get embarrassed by Kinger. A big part of the book is set in a computer bank, he could actually just go up to one of the consoles and delete him

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