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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • The program has a “near zero” probability of meeting the existing launch readiness dates and would cost $8-9.6 billion

    That sounds laughingly cheap to me - that’s the price for the James Webb Space Telescope. It isn’t “cheap” compared to science budgets, but compared to the US’ society budget, it’s nothing.

    Also Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos could pay for about 40 of those missions, but instead they’re just sitting on and hoarding that money.

    Reminder that Elon Musk bought Twitter, just to ruin it, for the price of 4 of those Missions.










  • China is communist in name only, in practice they are the definition of State Capitalism.

    Oh, that’s great, because now you are the guy saying “that’s not communism” instead of the people attacking capitalism. Which is great because I think exactly the same!

    See, East Germany or the USSR also weren’t communist, because there were no democratic elections (contrary to communist ideals), independent courts (contrary to communist ideals), free and independent media (contrary to communist ideals) or opposition parties (contrary to communist ideals).

    It’s almost as if all the “communist” countries you know were not communist at all, but authoritarian.

    You know there were socialist/communist success stories, right? But they were always couped and destroyed by conservatives. Noteworthy examples were the Paris Commune or the communist regions during the Occupation of the Ruhr, who resisted the military occupation of the Ruhr region of Germany by France and Belgium.