Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Defector: Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars
My heuristic is basically: until we can easily control the environment of earth, terraforming will not be on the horizon. Given that we are hell-bent on driving off of as many cliffs as we can, Iām pretty happy to continue thinking that weāll never get off this rock proper within the olā lifespan
this is a fun read
another I ran into earlier (via an outfit from these parts) is this piece from The Conversation. I wish I could get as irked about linear extrapolation as I usually do, but in lieu of guardrails arresting (and clawing back!) all that shit from all these ghoulsā¦
You could build a whole library of articles like this: hereās one from early last year
(Edit: I based parts of this post on misremembered/misinterpreted tweet from musk, so reader beware, Iām being wrong about Musks stated plans here, see my later reply in the thread. Not sure if I should leave the post up, edit it (eurgh effort), or just delete)
Made a decision for the donāt waste time common good.
@Soyweiser Youāre assuming the first Starship to Mars has a cargo of canned primates. Rest assured, it canāt and it wonāt. (Also, I doubt Starship will be ready for Marsāextended duration in space, rememberāin time for the 2026 launch window. Although a robot probe as a payload launched atop Starship is entirely possible in that time frame: you donāt need reusability, just a bloody big payload bay and the ability to reach orbit once, which Starship achieved as of OFT-3.)
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