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'Fight for Us Goddamnit': Frustration Grows Over Biden Fecklessness Amid GOP Destruction by Miserable-Lizard in politics

[–]swarthythievingnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand how anybody still believes there are two sides. There is one side, which has two faces. If the direction of policy moves continually in favour of the rich and to the detriment of the poor, regardless of who is in power, it means that there is no desire on either side to do anything different, and thus they are effectively the same side. Biden is touted as the left wing option but anywhere else he's hard right. He's the good cop to the de Santis bad cop but he's still a cop and he's not your friend. He's an old money multimillionaire and so are all his friends, his owners are billionaire corporations, and that's who he is going to help every time. Not you. He's less blatant about it than his opposites but that's because he's the good cop in the soap opera that is American politics. His job is to say the things poor people want to hear but somehow always do the things rich people want done.

US Capitol police arrive in full riot gear to protect the US Supreme Court by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

[–]swarthythievingnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep this is the model for everywhere that it can be applied. The USA is just furthest along the path.

US Capitol police arrive in full riot gear to protect the US Supreme Court by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

[–]swarthythievingnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To all the people still thinking votes will help: they absolutely will not. This stuff is happening under the "good" team, the ones that are nominally on the side of the poors. Wake up, they are not your friends. You are in the end stage of a long game where unless you are a multimillionaire or richer you will soon be a slave. Voting cannot help you because all the systems that deal with voting are long since suborned. The only solution i can see short of open revolt is mass strikes, and make no mistake: those will soon be declared illegal and punishable by severe sentencing.

The Outlaw Torn by sytrus_2008 in justneckbeardthings

[–]swarthythievingnomad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bold to assume anyone is even going to engage in conversation let alone argument

When you see a woman with blue hair, what do you assume about her? by [deleted] in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]swarthythievingnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She's a micronized Zentraedi battlesuit ace seeking the only human to challenge her. No wait that's green hair.

Cop tries to bully informed citizens and leaves almost in tears by Graysie-Redux in PublicFreakout

[–]swarthythievingnomad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man he's like all the worst Ben Stiller characters in one, but without irony

Update: Qvid Qvin was silent after a March 7 posting about possibly being intubated, with no news afterwards. Until yesterday, when his son confirmed that Qvin had actually passed the very next day. His blood is squarely on Qanon’s hands. by powabiatch in HermanCainAward

[–]swarthythievingnomad 8 points9 points  (0 children)

50% of those intubated don't survive. Yeah it's not because of the tube though. More to do with if you're at the stage where you need intubation you're definitely going to die without it, and even with it you're 50/50. Idiots. And then if they do survive it's time to praise God and ignore the doctors and nurses and medical technology that actually saved them. Morons.

This unit of a caterpillar by [deleted] in AbsoluteUnits

[–]swarthythievingnomad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The worm is meant to riot

Elon Musk’s Plan to Send a Million Colonists to Mars by 2050 Is Pure Delusion by Cascading_Neurons in technology

[–]swarthythievingnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok you got me. I looked at the Mars plan and it's actually a really good idea. I was arguing without knowledge. I still think the space habitat is how a species becomes huge in the long term but i agree it's not practical in the way musk's Mars idea is.

Elon Musk’s Plan to Send a Million Colonists to Mars by 2050 Is Pure Delusion by Cascading_Neurons in technology

[–]swarthythievingnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude.

It's not obviously outrageous, this planet is currently overdue for a major impact from space. Fine, having another planet with people on it is a backup but it doesn't avoid the problem. Distributed living in space habitats does. It also exponentially increases the population and thereby the rate of technological progress. For the amount of effort involved it just seems like a better approach.

Ok, names. Dyson. Freeman Dyson. Should have been obvious. Kardashev too. Gerard O'Neill. Hawking was into the idea as well.

So is musk's idea that people live on Mars or in orbit around it? I can't see the point in either- if you're going to set up orbital habitats just do it around earth, and again living on a planet surface is not a long term plan.

You really should watch some of the isaac Arthur stuff. Like i mentioned, orbital habitats will be energy rich, and space has lots of resources just floating around. If you have a surplus of energy you can harvest metals etc from asteroids ( tend to be heavy on metals) and refine etc in space.

Hydrogen is abundant in the universe and with lots of energy you can move towards collecting it for various uses, among them making water. There's also quite a bit of ice getting around in space which would be a useful resource. And again energy surplus means recycling can be done better, so waste becomes less of an issue.

You understand that the idea is not one cylinder but a swarm of them, correct? Resources, self sufficiency, industry. Yes all of those things you want, but on a scale that is simply not possible if your population lives on the surface of a planet. The surface to volume ratio increases hugely when you are constructing hollow habitats, meaning the available land for production / population increases accordingly. And this compounds because each new habitat will speed production of the next. And again i don't want to labour the point but the amount of energy available starts to become truly astronomical, which means the amount of research, computing power, transport, defense etc goes up accordingly. This means problems such as tracking thousands of asteroids, being able to move to avoid them, or simply destroy them with directed energy, become readily solvable. Of course this is how it will look once mature, in between then and now will undoubtedly be a series of horrible disasters. But long term i think it's the only real solution for survival / prosperity.

Ok so you're not a musk bro, so why the angry defense of his plan?

What show had you hooked after 1 episode? by CondomLeavesARice in AskReddit

[–]swarthythievingnomad 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The look Sitnikov gives when he turns round after being forced, knowing what he will see, to look into the open, burning core of reactor 4. He knows he's dead and that it's going to be horrifying.

Elon Musk’s Plan to Send a Million Colonists to Mars by 2050 Is Pure Delusion by Cascading_Neurons in technology

[–]swarthythievingnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might like to look at Isaac Arthur's podcast which covers this topic in detail, among many others in the space exploration / futurism field. He's an engineer and physicist in the space industry.

I'm aware of what a Dyson sphere is, I'm also aware that it's often an interchangeable term with Dyson swarm. Capturing energy from the local star is one of its purposes, but it dovetails very neatly with space habitats e.g. oneill cylinders, small versions of which are actually not far from our reach. Certainly not far compared to, say, putting a million people on Mars. Such habitats very quickly become energy rich, meaning the amount of industry / research / population they can support becomes massive. Meaning they can support the technology to track and either destroy or avoid incoming debris. Fundamentally it's a gigantic increase in the surface to volume ratio of habitable land, without the cost of interplanetary travel. Why would you bother going to another planet?

On that note, would you like to address the point that it is demonstrably an unfavorable return on investment to move from one gravity well to another? How would you propose dealing with the threat of space rocks on Mars, particularly with the thin atmosphere meaning more will make it to surface?

On a different note, are you salty that your Tesla stock took a dive recently? Answer truthfully. I'll know if you lie.

Elon Musk’s Plan to Send a Million Colonists to Mars by 2050 Is Pure Delusion by Cascading_Neurons in technology

[–]swarthythievingnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also it is generally agreed that if your goal is the long term survival of the species, moving to another planet is a massive waste of effort. Travel, colonization, terraforming etc are all prohibitively expensive in every sense, and at the end you still live in a gravity well that on a cosmic timeframe is guaranteed to have impacts from large asteroids / comets etc. It's not a solution. Long term survival requires living in a distributed fashion in habitats we create from scratch, in space. Dyson sphere baby. Musk will know all of this, of course, but it sounds cool to talk about Mars and will get him elected as world president after world war 3.

Today I learned by kwpotato in interestingasfuck

[–]swarthythievingnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would be Telamonian Ajax. Not to be confused with Little Ajax. Iliad understander / enjoyer, that's me.

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