Jaytreeman @ Jaytreeman @kbin.social

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I've heard a bunch of takes lately that Hillary would have been better?
How exactly?
Trump was the first president in living memory that didn't start a new war.
I can't even confidently say Bernie would have not done that

In order to colonize mars, having a good space station in orbit would help out immensely. We're talking big enough to stretch out and hold a few hundred people.
The station would need to grow crops and have minor but flexible manufacturing.
At that point, why would you colonize mars vs just make more stations?

In beer brewing there's a point where you want to cool your beer down as quickly as possible.
A chiller is dropped into the just cooked wort. (wort is the beer before fermentation).
It goes from steaming hot to room temperature very quickly.
It's just a spiral pipe that you run cold water through.
Sounds like you need something like that for a potato.

Ears are good at hearing left and right. Not very good at hearing up and down. Tilting the head gives left right and up and down.
FYI owls have ears that are offset so they don't have to tilt their head.

On kbin.social you show up positive with no downvotes

Dude, why the hostility?
Reread my comment. Why are they wearing hard hats?

Looking at the picture again, why are they wearing hard hats?
There's something else going on than 'we can't afford rocket launchers '

I sat reading the comments and nodding along and then realized that all this discourse is essentially 'poor country can't afford nice things '. I'd be really upset at someone that made fun of a person over the junker they drove because it was all they could afford.

They bought the Kool aid?
Genocide is wrong. (wild hot take I know)
Maybe every country should stop it.
If any one country stopped trade with every country that did genocide, they wouldn't have many trading partners.

The article has more to do with the Iranian revolutionary guard, but they somehow sold oil to China.

The antichina people jump on every article that mentions China.

They're talking about China.

Canada doesn't recognize Taiwan as a country. How anyone in Canada's leadership thought this was a good idea, I don't know.
There's an order of operations that should go down before going through.
First recognize Taiwan.
Then acknowledge their territorial waters.
Instead, we get this cosplay of an act

I watched TNG with my daughter. Every time there was a trans episode we felt a little cringe. Expecting a show from the early 90s to have horrible takes, but every time, they did well. Our cringe was misplaced

I find the fediverse has a much nicer feeling about it. At least the instances I've seen.
I scrolled a bit on Reddit yesterday and I immediately saw how negative it was in comparison

It's just eugenics.
Hot take: the philosophy behind eugenics isn't bad.
Real life take: it's impossible to implement without increasing inequality

So yes, I think the federation was right to do that. One of the things they show is that all these cultures are different, but the individual is largely the same. Humans aren't much different from Vulcans, Klingons or ferengi.

But that's also why this is good sci-fi. Because it's supposed to make us think about issues that aren't black and white.

Who thinks that she is an insult? Is being against social justice a good thing?

'it appears that we've lost all sexual attraction'

Canada has a very serious oligarch problem.
New Brunswick is literally owned by one family. (There's circumstantial evidence that they're poisoning a portion of the population in New Brunswick)
Our largest national grocer is owned by one family. (They've raised prices causing inflation that's hurting the entire country)
One of our largest telecom companies? Yep. One family. (Canada has some of the most expensive telecommunications in the world)
Our mining companies commit atrocities all over the world.
Our government fights tooth and nail to ensure there's no real opposition. We've only ever had two parties elected and they do the same things, but talk differently. (If you're American, that probably sounds familiar)

Canada's competition laws are a joke. All Rogers/Shaw had to do was to prove that the merger would be profitable for themselves.

That's it. For the merger to be approved, they had to prove it would be profitable.

Canada's monopoly laws actively encourage monopolies.

The country is a joke

Anyone else experiencing that existential dread today?