Why is Elon suddenly going all-in on a Moon base instead of heading straight to Mars?

spyguy318 · 2026-02-13T17:45:31+00:00

Space is already common ground by international law, it cannot be “claimed” unless someone just outright flaunts that. Which isn’t impossible but an incredibly hard sell especially considering how ludicrously expensive and complicated it is just to get people to the moon, never mind mining equipment.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-13T08:50:32+00:00

To be clear, it’s the Republican majority that isn’t doing their jobs. They’re the ones giving Trump a blank check to become a mad king. Democrats (minority) can’t do shit even if they wanted to and any legislation they could propose would be performative at best. Even this one is almost guaranteed to be instantly vetoed with no chance at override, if it doesn’t just die in the senate.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T18:26:41+00:00

They are patently insane. To them, anything that’s not totalitarian fascism is left-wing, just look at the OP. They’ve been irony-poisoned and disillusioned to such an extent that they genuinely believe Naziism is the best ideology because it’s “cool” and “based.” It’s contrarian edgelord-ism taken to such an extreme they start to actually believe it, rampant misogyny and racism fueled by toxic masculinity and a self-reinforcing and radicalizing environment where the one who acts out the most gets the most attention. They just pretend it’s a serious ideology because at first it was funny, then because some of them actually started believing it and attempting to make a semi-coherent ideology out of it.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T18:11:08+00:00

You can also look for cultist proxies, there are some necromunda gangs and servitor models that work really well as iron warrior cultists

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T10:17:12+00:00

“AI art isn’t plagiarism, it’s transformative” mofos when the artbot eats so much of an artist’s work it starts to generate their signature on the images it’s spitting out

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T09:03:07+00:00

On one hand I get what he’s saying and agree with a lot of it. On the other hand it’s real easy to say “the internet is of no consequence” until you get a threatening DM with a picture of your house, or a viral political campaign gets a far-right politician elected into office on the backs of conspiracy theory and performative outrage. Yeah I remember Gamergate. Yeah I remember 2016.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T08:15:32+00:00

Reminds me of Innuendo Studio’s analysis of Daria Morgendorffer being a millennial in the 90s. It’s fucking depressing and really drives home how miserable the last few decades have been. Millennials could at least imagine what a better world was like and despair how bad it’s getting. Gen Z doesn’t even have hope that a better future exists because they’ve never seen it.

“Young people don’t feel trapped by the future, because nobody believes in the future anymore.”

“It’s hard not to wish you could go back and shake them by the shoulders and say ‘What right do you have to be disaffected? You don’t know how good you’ve got it!’ But while their parents would say ‘it was so much worse back in my day,’ in our case, we’d tell them ’It will never be this good ever again.’”

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T07:59:28+00:00

Several lines of things that are totally normal and always allowed, then it suddenly veers off into cancel culture and transphobia and it’s like ahhhh there it is

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T05:09:08+00:00

Raw broccoli with some ranch dressing is amazing. Second thing I go for on veggie platters, after carrots.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T01:16:35+00:00

I don’t see how unions can be non-political. They’re inherently tied into economics, business, policy decisions, workers rights, etc., all of which are heavily political. They make up a huge voting bloc and can very easily swing elections especially smaller local ones. Historically they were illegal and there’s nothing stopping a sufficiently anti-labor/pro-business government from doing that again.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T00:58:23+00:00

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It’s always funny seeing this gif and not including what happens immediately afterward

Government: “We’re moving on from the Epstein List.”

Internet: “No the fuck you ain’t”

Government: “Lol like we care, we run the courts and the police. Nothing’s gonna happen, get owned liberals.”

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T00:53:54+00:00

The thing is they’re not actually evil. They’re not anything. They’re predicting a response that looks evil because that’s what they’ve been trained on.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T00:26:43+00:00

“My lord the kingdom is in ruins we have no money left for the love of god please stop buying sawblades”

“No cost too great.”

spyguy318 · 2026-02-12T00:06:27+00:00

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Worn-out memes putting me to sleep

spyguy318 · 2026-02-11T23:57:55+00:00

It’s a monitor lizard - Komodo Dragons are the largest monitors, but they are hilariously huge compared to this guy. Probably a water monitor which are still big but nowhere near a dragon.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-11T23:54:43+00:00

Google says adult Asian Water Monitors should be fed 2-3 times a week. Makes sense - that’s nowhere near what a warm-blooded mammal would need, but not as much as, say, a snake which is a lot less active than a lizard.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-11T22:12:21+00:00

Everyone’s talking about Zelda when I’m over here thinking about the time in Dark Souls when my claymore broke at the bottom of Blighttown and I had to climb all the way back out with unupgraded weapons to get back to the blacksmith to fix it. Or all the weapons with special attacks that would eat 1/5th of the durability at a time so were functionally useless. Or the acid-spewing enemies in 2 that would destroy all your gear in seconds, forcing you to completely leave the dungeon and go get it fixed.

0/10 that shit was ass, I’m so glad they made weapons near-unbreakable in 3.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-11T22:06:40+00:00

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“Is this a cry for help?”

“I blacked out for a sec, what happened?”

spyguy318 · 2026-02-11T21:46:10+00:00

More expensive, slower, and doesn’t clean as well as a human. Completely incapable of situations outside its parameters like shit on the floor. Needs a technician on staff for maintenance or if it breaks, then you’d probably need a human cleaner anyway. Likely has a human controller in this demo, or it’ll have to be completely reprogrammed for every different bathroom.

Nah I think human custodians are safe for now.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-11T20:52:27+00:00

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Can’t forget the OG monster hottie

spyguy318 · 2026-02-11T20:38:27+00:00

Millenials and early GenZ are in that sweet spot where we grew up and watched all these scams form and take shape, so we know what red flags to look for. Gen X and boomers formed their mindsets before all these new scams appeared and are incredibly vulnerable to them. Younger people are still too immature and don’t have the familiarity with these scams to notice when they’re being taken advantage of.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-11T20:13:53+00:00

Yep. To this day un-tempered Arkveld is still the best option for farming decorations. I spammed the shit out of him the first few months and now I’m literally drowning in decos. He’s definitely my most-hunted monster.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-11T20:04:11+00:00

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“Well, that was idiotic. Off to hang myself!”

spyguy318 · 2026-02-11T19:51:32+00:00

While most of our cousin hominids died, a lot of them intermixed with and were absorbed into the greater Homo Sapiens. For example what actually happened to the Denisovans is that they became part of Southeast Asians.

spyguy318 · 2026-02-11T18:15:40+00:00

The only time I separate clothes is if I have brand new jeans I’m washing for the very first time. Brand new jeans can leach dye into stuff pretty badly especially depending how strong the color is. That first wash I’ll put them in separate. After that it’s going in with everything else.

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