Here's the journal article the infographic cites
JayDee
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We're nowhere near having the infrastructure or tech for a generation ship. At minimum, we need a moon base and breakthroughs it zero-construction to build one. This is in order to allow us the ability to make a structure that's shielded from radiation enough to avoid adverse health effects to the occupants.
Having a cheap means for sending materials up to space like a space elevator or a kinetic belt would also be powerful for constructing one.
That would be innovation, which I'm convinced no company can do anymore.
It feels like I learn that one of our modern innovations was already thought up and written down into a book in the 1950s, and just wasn't possible at that time due to some limitation in memory, precision, or some other metric. All we did was do 5 decades of marginal improvement to get to it, while not innovating much at all.
Jewelery making I think? The round tooth life is often used for winding metal wire and the toothed side is for actually grabbing things, so using the multipliers you could quickly switch between which type of work you're doing.
That's my guess.
Thank god
I think it is spoof-resistant from the sound of it? You giving a valid proof-of-region via one of their circuit designs provides proof of your region but does not give your exact location, from the sounds of it.
I'll get back to you after I've read through it.
We had a similar experience here in the spring. Pretty ominous vibes out there.
Really not the right take to say "we lost the Election because of Muslims not voting for Kamala".
- It was not just Muslims who did not turn out to vote. It was a large list of different demographics. Some demographics were explicitly shown to having turned out more in order to vote for trump. Of any demographic, Muslims and Arabs were the groups who had probably the best reasons not to vote (islamophobia on both sides and our nation actively propagating a genocide of Arabs regardless of the political party in power)
- While we're focusing on the demographics which did or didn't show, it's still a massive issue that the majority of Americans don't vote, period.
- focusing on this failure as a point of anger and choosing only to blame a group you have no control over has zero value. You either need to either put your eyes forward to prepare for what comes next, or analyze what you could have done better in order to improve your own actions for next time. If there is ever a time for stoicism, it is now, right before the oncoming crisis.
I agree that the Lost Cause myth is romantic, and I'd say that Whedon used it very effectively as a theme.
I can't really agree with Feral Historian's take that this myth was 'kinda true' for the south as that seems to suggest that southern fighters are somewhat absolved of guilt. "They were just trying to preserve their way of life!" When that life revolved around assisting plantations in maintaining control over their slave populations, often by hunting down slaves, or acting as overseers of their work, rings hollow to me.
It reads the same as anyone who's kept their head down to get by in an unjust system. You are culpable. And then fighting to try and preserve that unjust system makes you even more culpable.
That is why state government elections are so important right now.
- States all need a representative voting system implemented. Ranked Choice, STAR, it doesn't matter, just get something that's not a single ballot practice.
- Each state also needs it's electoral college distributed to top candidates proportionally, by either direct vote count or by counties won. This at least somewhat neutralizes the effects of gerrymandering.
Better systems can come later, this should be a top priority for going forward. As it stands the American public doesn't stand a chance at being represented and that needs to change first before other fixes can actually come about.
I bet they're related.
Yeah, that tracks.