I’m not talking about NASA’s budget that pays NASA workers here. Im very well aware that they get peanuts and do amazing things. But if we are launching parts for a permeant moon base, we are going to be paying for launches through spacex, since nasa doesn’t maintain shuttles or anything anymore. That’s millions more into the pockets of the most obscenely rich person on earth, who has zero concern for literally anyone but himself, and cuts every single corner he can. And there are always other manufacturing contracts that go out for this sort of thing and guess who is going to get all of those? That’s right, other rich assholes who cut corners and support facism. For a project with dubious usefulness. There is very little we can gain from a manned moon base, that can’t be accomplished in existing research facilities, or done more easily and cheaply by rovers.

Im aware that starlink is worse. Its owned by the same rich asshole who’s gunna be adding more debris from the launches for moon base parts. Funny how that works, isn’t it? But if you think building a permanent moon base is only gunna take a few launches, you are sorely mistaken. Each launch can only send up so much material, and even pre-made modules require work to actually assemble. The ISS, for example, required 40 assembly flights. Then we’ll be sending regular supply missions.

Thats a huge amount of pollution and littering for a stunt. And yeah, we can work on multiple things at once, but we aren’t. I addressed that in my original comment.

Omg its an umbrella hat but LESS useful and also somehow sillier!!!

Amazing!

I love the guy who’s just given up laying on the ground like whatever. My eyes are still burning. This kinda sucks. How long is this drawing gunna take?

Thats a vertigo-inducing perspective, well done.

I’m aware of that and don’t care, that’s the problem of whomever is poorly and impersonally doing hiring.

If they don’t want thousands of applicants, there are tons of recruitment strategies that avoid that problem, like job fairs, employee referral bonuses, direct recruitment, and working with agencies for placements, to name only four off the top of my head.

If they want to send their ad to the wolves, they won’t get good results, but they will get a lot of them. They are also probably an exceptionally shit place to work because they can’t even recruit talent because they are “suffering from abundance” without resorting to screening out people who can’t do data entry or have better things to do than jumping through hoops.

Yeah cool. Good for them. Easily fixed problem, but everyone wants unicorn workers, so they don’t need any training, and that requires casting a very wide net and screening out the catch they don’t want.

Fuck ‘em.

Why cant they just warehouse the books until the copyright expires, then? Why don’t they go slower? Because they don’t want to and don’t care about the damage.

Don’t stick up for them, they aren’t gunna pay you for that year you spent trying to hold water for them. Nobody is cuz we don’t want that either way.

According to my game stats, I’m a much better survivor than any of my ancestors.

Checkmate, dead people who probably don’t even know how to play chess!

I could see that being the case I suppose. The anus is full of blood vessels, and boofing gets it straight to the blood stream instead of breaking down into metabolites in the digestive system. Just very different than any hormone therapy I’ve heard of, for like menopause and stuff. Tho that could just be that old rich white women won’t stick fingers up the bum…

Now I wonder if ftm have something similar that gets vaginally inserted (only non-oral hole with more blood vessels than the anus is the vagina!)

Thanks for the info, I feel more informed :)

Ok, thank you! so as an afab I’m familiar with progesterone, is there a reason it gets boofed? (Anal insertion, as it sounds like from the post, or is this a shot to the glutes and I’m misreading it?)

Heyyyyyy I wasn’t gunna ask but you used the word, too, and… I like knowing things so I don’t make an ass of myself.

What does prog mean? Please and thank you in advance 😊

Genuinely we should invalidate everything this admin has done and set the clock back to… what year is it these days…? feels so long ago? To 2024.

All the pardons he sold? Unpardoned. All the eos he proclaimed? Invalidated. Every law he signed or vetod? Reversed, or at least undone to be voted on again.

Its just wild that we don’t have any real mechanism to undo this kind of damage. I know they thought it wouldn’t happen, but fuck me, they didn’t even “what if…?”

But also, he’s a selfish grifter, why would he help anyone if he doesn’t get anything for it?

The only book I have that might be worth scanning is Knight’s Modern Seamanship 13th edition from ~1960 (was provided to my mom as part of a record-finding request regarding my grandpa’s WW2 deployments, I have no idea why), but if my time in the Navy is any indication, its one of those things that was given during basic to all going through basic (I have a modern copy from 2007 as well), so idk if its a valuable contribution. Probably already in the archive.

I also have a copy of the joy of cooking from the 70s, and a Betty Crocker cookbook from the 50s, but I assume that’s also already in there. Plus some language textbooks and the like, some bird and geology books, some limnology books, etc. the sort of thing that’s definitely already there.

I’m willing to scan them, however a person does that, but I’m not willing to destroy them. The old books came from my grandparents, through my mom, and all of those people are long dead. Everything else is from my own education and I use them for reference.

I got frustrated and eventually just skipped any that did this. If my resume isn’t sufficient, why do you accept it at all? Just don’t take the resume, or don’t take the form. Pick. Not both.

Not worth it. The places that did this never called me anyway. Never.

At this particular point in time, thats a fucking stupid goal.

Adding more debris to the already-littered low earth orbit, heat and pollution to our home environment while we roast, drown, and get blown away by ultra-powerful storms, and for what? So some rich assholes can make more money. We earth-locked plebs get basically nothing from this, unlike prior missions.

Don’t get me wrong, I love space, I love space exploration and the technological progression that comes with it… I do not love this, and I do not love whats going on with said space exploration. I’m not usually one to say “lets not do xyz because we have bigger problems” but in the case where xyz directly contributes, in a big way, to those bigger problems, at a time when the people doing/supporting xyz are doing absolutely nothing to fix the bigger problem and are in fact trying to make it worse… yeah, now is really not the time for this stunty bullshit. Not from the US.

If JAXA, ESA, ASA, CSA, etc. were the ones proposing this, as a joint venture or some such, I’d be all for it. But it’s not.

Edit to add: I feel like “moon base!!!” Is the next iteration of “rich asshole private island doomsday bunker”. It’s the ultimate private island because normal people can’t even hope to get there to do sabotage, and its completely isolated from all the climate change problems. Very horizon, specifically the far zenith.

Yesterday I used plumbers grease on the flap to stop a tiny annoying drain leak. Is that the right way to fix it? Don’t know, don’t care, that toilet was cheap and its a POS. (I tried acid first, it didn’t help, but it did get rid of all the rust marks!)

Yeah, solving problems with grease! fist bump

I read something a while ago speculating that black holes, and thus the singularity and infinity problems inherent with their existence, may not actually exist.

Rather, they were proposed to be basically this, stars which are super dense, and do cause light to fall back into them, but rather than reaching a point of infinite density, the stars themselves lie just beyond the event horizon, so we can’t see them. Totally normal physics, just super hugely massive objects.

They called them gravetars, I believe.

Edit: gravastar, it turns out. The paper I read was something more recent than 25 years ago, however…

I’ve unironically gone back to carrying and wearing my covid masks (the cute colorful ones, sure) to both normalize it again and because even if they can identify me with the same mask each time, since I no longer carry my phone when I go into businesses, thats all they get.

I recently mentioned it to a friend in relation to conversation about flock cameras, and they were like you know I’d never even thought about all that being part of the same thing…

Personal privacy is a really uphill battle. :( idk where I was really going with this I guess…

So am I!

I can do housework and even some major projects now and then, and it makes me hurt, sometimes to the point I can’t get out of bed, so then I don’t do more work for a few days, until it feels better, rinse and repeat. Amazing!

Jobs with any sort of physical component just constantly aggravate those pains, day after day, until I break down completely. Super fun stuff! Even sitting at a screen all day aggravates the upper back problems after a couple months! No ergonomics or physical therapy have fixed that, yet. If I could find a fully remote job that would probably work for a while, but those are hard to land. So here we are.

How many years did you deal with crappy sock problems before you took the nuclear option?

Cuz the solution part is the easy part when you figure out what works for you. Its getting to that stage that has them labeled “complicated” for so many. For me, it was 35 years until I discovered socks for skiing are exactly what I want. I don’t have sock problems anymore, but for 35 years socks were complicated.

Ive always* liked knee-high socks. Cant stand ankle socks, cant stand regular cut socks, and thigh-highs don’t stay put without garters, so they can fuck off too. Basically I don’t like feeling pants rub against my legs, if the sensation terminates at some distinct point.

If I cant wear knee socks I wont wear socks. If I don’t have to wear shoes (can wear sandals or go barefoot) I don’t because I hate socks, and shoes, and general toe restrictions.

But, similar to your wool solution, I recently found ski socks. High quality, elastic doesn’t degrade quickly leaving them loose, etc. and no toe seam at all. They are a bit tighter than I’d like but thats probably a perk rather than a detriment. Have further to go to wear out.

Alcohol is the one product that seems basically untouched by recent inflation, at least around me… it all costs basically the same as pre-2020.

I realized that the other day and it made me very sad.

(This doesn’t include dining or bars ofc)