While the moon has basically no atmosphere, I don’t think it would matter much. Plenty of lunar dust would get blown around by the force of the engines, and the mass or that dust could potentially be enough. That, and the exhaust itself has a lot of force, and is probably plenty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs
Look at the Apollo missions taking off, it’s quite violent for the surround area.
That’s exactly the first thing that crossed my mind. Whenever I get a depressive episode, the last thing I want to do is cook. So the least effort, quickest meal is the meal I have. And meals like that are generally processed, terrible foods.
But how are their parents going to get them to work? /s
That is basically what is going on. We do technically have representation in the same way La Croix has taste.
More or less, yeah
People have tried with minimal success to do something like this IIRC.
The biggest problem is that corporate America has shit loads of cash. So much so that even if Americans were to pull the money together, it just wouldn’t compete.
The solution is to vote politicians into power that don’t accept bribes and are willing to criminalize them.
Gotta love a bribery based legislature system.
That, and ending the apartheid.
Eventually they’ll just shut down the APIs that allow that to happen just like reddit did. There will still be workarounds to that, but it will make things harder.
The thing I worry about is if they go so far as to ban people’s google accounts for violating the TOS like this. I’m sure they can find out exactly who is doing it through an IP lookup even if you are using a front-end client.
It’s best to migrate everything off google accounts now before that happens. Google has too much power.
They’re capitalists. It’s what they do.
One more time… It. Will. Never. Happen.
That’s what people said about landing on the moon and airplanes.
All the downvotes in the world aren’t going to change that.
No. It’s the NPVIC that’ll do it.
So either learn to win elections with it, or shut the fuck up and go away.
Nope. I’m always going to advocate for an electoral system that makes sense instead of the abomination we have now.
People want something better, telling the majority of Americans to shut the fuck up and go away is childish. We need reform.
Approval/STAR would be even better, but I’d take RCV over FPTP
politicians can safely ignore rural areas that provide all of the food to the cities because they don’t matter votes-wise
They already do. Politicians only focus on swing states, and the cities within those swing states.
They may on occasion visit rural areas, but 9 times out of 10 they are in a city when they are campaigning.
All votes should count equally. Anything less is bullshit.
Oh for fucks sakes, it isn’t going away, so you can stop fantasizing about something that won’t happen.
Every day we get closer to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact getting triggered, effectively killing the electoral college. Doomerism isn’t going to get us anywhere.
If one side is gaming the system, then find a way to work around it.
If the system is gamed then it needs fixed. Which it is and does. Our elections should not be gamed.
Americans will find any excuse not to vote.
That’s not really what’s happening here. Americans are frustrated that their votes are essentially meaningless if they are not in a swing state, and that the value of your vote is dependent on where you live.
All votes should be equal.
https://investors.yum.com/news-events/financial-releases/news-details/2023/Yum-Brands-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results-and-Increases-Dividend/default.aspx
They are just greedy. They have the money, but giving the money to the rich is evidently more important.
https://cwa-union.org/stock-buybacks-hurt-workers