astro-cowboy.bsky.social
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and in this case not only is Schumer soulless but also has horribly ineffective and empty messaging
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“Protein make muscle, muscle good for big, want moar and moar protein for extra big”
I fear that captures 80% of it but I could be wrong
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Like if you include the entire internet and billions of connected devices with advanced storage and compute, as the underlying infrastructure which contributes to Wikipedia, then sure maybe.
But pretty sure people would care about medicine and landing on the fucking moon.
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You might be able to argue for Wikipedia being the “crowning achievement” (whatever that means) but to say anyone from the centuries ago would be indifferent to the accomplishments you listed is pretty silly
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In-flight missions Europa Clipper, Psyche, and Lucy collectively get $130M in FY26 to keep them flying. All three are at space and travelling to their destinations.
And the Mars Sample Return program is cancelled. Gone. Done. No more.
(Never mind that we have samples ready for collection on Mars.)
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So they'll keep the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers going. There's also talk of standing up some sort of CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)-like program for Mars. (That in itself isn't a bad idea.)
The Dragonfly mission gets the equivalent of a Discovery mission for FY26: $494M.
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i continue to think it is newsworthy that the vice president is at the absolute best nazi-adjacent in his view of humanity
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The thing in the NYT story about he gets tipped off about federal drug tests ahead of time is eyebrow raising, not because it's surprising, but it's surprising they have that sourced well enough to actually print it. It's a very serious accusation that implicates many others in serious crime
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pretty sure he was planning on backing off after a few months, but never expected this level of negative public reaction or damage to the Tesla/spacex brands
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like, let canada make cool sport coats and we can continue doing other stuff? not that hard of a concept
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targeted voter registration ground game and local ads weren't done nationally
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"incumbent backlash" was probably too large a category, bc I definitely meant it to include things like inflation and an information environment full of propaganda
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even if I *did* want to buy domestically, everyone else is making this same decision, which means domestic prices will *also* skyrocket
this is what happens when you let people who don't understand trade policy, make trade policy
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any discussion about campaign effectiveness should start with this table
the campaign was good, the question is what caused the overall trend she was fighting against. my money is on incumbent backlash, sexism, and racism
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no ted, musk set up doge and it is running according to his direction, with his input, just like the companies he runs
you should know by now it's dumb to believe liars
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Yup. I have my own theory about why Harris struggled (the wealthy in the country control the information environment and all opposed her and Biden so buried her under a deluge of hostile stories and helped Trump win): bsky.app/profile/astr...
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any discussion about campaign effectiveness should start with this table
the campaign was good, the question is what caused the overall trend she was fighting against. my money is on incumbent backlash, sexism, and racism
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everything is posting now and bc of that the world will fall apart