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Sci-fi nerd, learning to live and love better than I did yesterday.
You can find me with leather boots and an audiobook. Or cooking.
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European space Agency regularly struggles to complete the technical requirements for its own missions. It is the height of ridiculousness to suggest it could also try and replace NASA's contributions but it can't. Purely a fantasy.
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"The European Space Agency’s Director of Science, Carole Mundell, has explained that Europe has the technical capabilities to replace NASA contributions to its science missions should the White House go ahead with budget."
First sentence. Is flatly ridiculous. It's not long.
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Is she an idiot? Or does she think we're idiots? There is no possible way that can be true.
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You are criticizing random nostalgia food posts and you're calling them childish? Are going through your awkward teen years and feeling the need to lash out at others?
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You are implying a causation not supported by your link which only states a correlation and it makes no effort to investigate further.
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What about the space tourism that's already happening? I'm guessing you mean affordable space tourism. Lots of things have started out just for the ultra rich. I don't think anyone thinks it's happening for everyone this decade, but eventually it will.
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Asian grocery stores are more than just shops they're cultural anchors.
Tariffs could make essentials unaffordable for many families.
This hits communities hard
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What are you advocating for?
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I'm not sure I see your confusion. There are a lot more people living in the United States than there were 20 or 30 years ago and we pretty much stopped building houses in 2008 at anything under $350,000. No real policy changes have been made to decrease construction costs or increase construction.
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NDAs to protect client list information or proprietary practices I don't have a problem with, but anti-disparagement clauses and anything that restricts communication of culture or general doesn't benefit society to protect.
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bookshop.org/p/books/care...
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We should still look in to banning them. We can't let corporations use the mechanism of society to harm society. It's important to let employees speak freely about their former employers for the health of our society. Corporate behavior has to be policed by the public.
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Have you really not seen Nicholas Cage steal the declaration of Independence?
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It's laser printers.
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It turns out they are all the bad guys! The Republic isn't all sunshine and rainbows, and the Jedi literally created the sith by exiling members after a civil war, before the creation of the Republic. The Jedi do all sorts of dumb and fucked up shit.
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Yoda was right when he said only the Sith deal in absolutes. The Jedi are Sith. The Sith are Jedi. It has always been so, since the founding. They are one order locked in civil war, both with a flawed understanding of themselves, each other and the force.
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Under this logic, If you fly a direct Ascent trajectory to another world and land without ever orbiting anything other than the sun, have you gone to space?
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Humans make all the best stuff, have all the best food, the best ways to get around. We have so much beauty. We are awesome.
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There are no regular guys in real life. Everyone has a deep and complex backstory and lives a life just as complex and rich as your own. You just don't get to read it. Steve has a feud with the girl at the sandwich shop and always picks up pennies because of a whole thing with his dad who has cancer
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Second Thursday of October, 2 years after your first love is discovered to have embezzled a small fortune in Maple syrup.
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If you have two metrics that are saying different things, there is probably a third thing you aren't thinking about.