It’s way, way worse than. When you spend money at NASA you aren’t just setting it on fire, those salaries support everything that the people who work there spend money on in their personal lives. It pays local taxes. It supports the salaries of workers in the local communities (I don’t mean where NASA buildings are either, that money goes to all 50 states). It also mostly gets spent issuing contracts to the fabricators that make the things for NASA. It pays salaries at Northrup, Lockheed, Boeing etc. There are also all the drivers pushing the advancement of industry and education and their knock-on effects that come from leading the world in aerospace science and engineering.

And the real kick in the pants: all of those things together GENERATE TAX REVENUE. Even if, for some insanely immoral and degenerate reason, you wanted to ignore the ways that NASA makes the world a better place–when viewed through a purely fiscal lens the money spent at NASA generates more in tax revenue downstream than it costs to run NASA. When you cut their budget like this you aren’t reducing the debt/deficit, you’re increasing it.

Do let us know how funny you find it in 3 years when they blame minorities and Democrats for it in the voting booth.

Years ago when I was carrying shingles for a job the guys always had the local ‘top 40’ station on. The station played the same songs in the same order with the same break timings for weeks. This was in the days before computers could run everything so it wasn’t that. All told it came out to around 6.5-7 hours before the loop would start again. Just enough to time shift the part of the loop you heard each day so you wouldn’t notice if you were commuting. But it was enough to make you want to jump off the roof listening all day every day.

It is still possible to discharge student loans in bankruptcy in the US. It does require meeting a more stringent test than other unsecured debt for loans that covered tuition specifically, but the large majority of people who seek relief through bankruptcy get it. Last I looked it was more than 90% get at least some relief.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

This basically the entirety of the hype from the group of people claiming LLMs are going take over the work force. Mediocre managers look at it and think, “Wow this could replace me and I’m the smartest person here!”

Sure, Jan.

Tell me you’ve never applied to medical school without telling me you’ve never applied to medical school.

1000 gigabit

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How many users do you expect this to serve?

/dataisugly

I have no idea how vehicle construction would work with a joystick, but other than that should be basically the same. Flying/landing might even be better on controller. It also has a native Linux client that isn’t just a shitty port.

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Kerbal space program at $4 is such an insane deal.

I find the very idea of being “left on read” ridiculous. I am not entitled to the immediate or even incidental attention of every person whose phone number I happen to posses. Maybe it’s because I started dating at a time and place when not seeing or hearing from your significant other for a week was perfectly normal, but putting an emotional valuation on a read receipt seems well out of the category of mentally healthy.

Define nonpolitical.

If you’ve never had a kidney stone — imagine that lingering post testicle injury pain. The one where your insides hurt in a way that doesn’t even make sense (it does actually, but that is a separate tale) and you almost want to throw up. Or maybe you actually do. Good. Now imagine cranking the dial up on that feeling until it hits the same blinding intensity of the pain in your testicles during the moment of the injury. Now that you have the picture of the degree in your head, stretch that feeling from the minutes to maybe hours of a really nasty ball shot to the days and even weeks it can take to pass a kidney stone.

(Worst guided meditation ever)

Completely unreadable. Fix your shit.

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Wild to see this, living only a few blocks away. For those unaware (likely all of you), Carlisle is the county seat of a deeply red county on the rural/urban divide in Pennsylvania. The borough itself has a population of only 20k.

What you’re seeing here is the town square on the intersection of the two main streets through town out in front of the courthouse. It’s always been a popular ‘soapbox’ spot and most days you’ll see at least a person or two advocating for a cause. I have never seen half as many people for a protest here. This was genuinely bonkers to see.

Those are applicable to this line from the original poster

No, they aren’t. You just read those in based on nothing.

The only thing I am suggesting is that you’re just making shit up up that isn’t there, stop trying to move the goalposts.

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