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Cake day: October 20th, 2023

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  • Rhetorical: Omg again? With same exact picture? In not really political comm?

    (Disclaimer: not US citizen)

    Go and vote in primaries for candidates you want, so maybe you get someone decent (so “no matter who” part is eliminated), apply pressure to them right now. Until you have enough power and support to create new party from scratch (and have it catch third of population instantly somehow, including republicans) or overthrow current system altogether, you have to work within it.

    Also: in famous thought experiment, named Trolley problem, do you call yourself murderer (genocider) if you decide to push the lever?

    I myself had different and conflicted opinions during those years, arguments for voting blue and third party (or abstaining) both look quite convincing, at least for not well versed in politics me. Ugh.

    Looking forward to mod award on this post.




  • As much as I’d like to shit on him, I believe he talks about building energy generation capacity (aka GW or TW) in a certain time period (i.e. one year). Like building 1000 100MW power stations every year, but in space.

    Can’t tell if it makes any sense economically though, getting anything in scale to space is still kinda very expensive.

    And if you try to make whatever you need to get to space light, compact and efficient, it usually quickly becomes very expensive itself.

    So “solve other parts of equation” probably means “give me money”.

    Later edit: if you ever played Factorio, this is equivalent of amount of solar panels crafted and delivered to space platform per hour.