I personally think we’re on the slope of enlightenment - quantum computing no longer attracts as much hype as it used to, but in the background, there’s a lot of interesting developments that genuinely might be very important.

This makes so much sense to me - Iran joining in would give an invitation to USA, EU, etc. to join in with Israel, and take away focus from Israel’s war crimes and genocide to instead focus on the new bad guy.

Look, I understand your point. And to be fair, they genuinely are reading new ground with reusable rockets. But not only are competitors catching up, cost overruns and time delays do matter in the context of NASA, considering how their budgets keeps getting negatively affected and the Artemis project is suffering setbacks. They don’t have the scope to tolerate what’s happening.

I’m referring to the rockets intended for travelling to the moon and beyond (primarily the Starship), which has already failed thrice, has innumerable issues and massive cost overruns.

Considering SpaceX’s track record… I’m very eager for Elon and his other billionaire buddies to get on a rocket headed for Mars.

Honestly? A major breakthrough in fusion, or to a lesser extent, any other clean energy. We’ve decarbonised a decent chunk of the world’s energy profile, but there’s a strong financial incentive that politicians are vulnerable to protecting oil and gas, slowing down further decarbonisation. Batteries and supercapacitors also could do the trick.

An awesome song based on Cult of the Lamb: https://open.spotify.com/track/7etapJllOwS8pDdURBYkJB?si=iApE2ARpSFyFYiabFntzdg

Why do I see numerous suspicious deaths of various government officials in the future? I wonder…

Nonetheless, it is hopefully an excellent Forrest step in tackling the various organised crime syndicates of the world.

For a second, I thought the image was of sweet and sour chicken with chives xD

Shocked, I tell you, shocked

I have to admit, the US’s policies are probably destroying what little credibility it has in the Global South, showing that the so-called “rules based international order” is not worth the air it is spoken with…

It makes sense - even after the inflation numbers go down, it just means that the prices have increased by less compared to before, not that prices went down - people have seen an erosion in spending power, which leads to negative sentiment towards the economy.

And the worst part? The money won’t come out of the police department’s budget, it’ll come out of education, housing, recreation, etc.

The presence of big tech anywhere near something like this is freaking me out, tbh

lol, looks like Elon Fuck’s brown nosing has failed miserably.

To be fair, the Azerbaijani government hates Armenia plenty enough even without Turkey being involved.

Only 300m to fight an invader but 14b to butcher children and civilians in general? Wow Biden, much nice, you’re definitely the better option. Edit: I’m definitely not pro-Trump, I’m just one of many, many fed up people who hoped for something other than a Biden-Trump rematch. But I guess fanatics gonna be fanatics.

These points are all absolutely correct, and generally follow a trend of protectionism sweeping across the globe, but there’s also a genuine concern about how Tiktok shapes public POV based on CCP decisions(for example, suppressing content about the excessive Covid lockdown, the Uyghur and Tibetan genocide, and suppression of Hui Muslims, Hong Kong and other minorities in China).