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If you have a brilliant technical solution that requires throwing out all conventional economics, you don't have a brilliant technical solution. Bitcoin is rotten to its core and every excuse you make for it proves the point.

>For most of human history the money was stable.

Absolutely ridiculous. People have been counterfeiting and debasing money for as long as there has been money.


"Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group" "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" is part of the definition of genocide. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted in 1951, so it is strange to claim this idea comes from modern leftists.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/...

You can look over the commission's report here:

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies...

The commission mentions the attack only briefly, does not seem to rely on the notion that embryos have rights, and finds that the IDF deliberately targeted the clinic. This event is irrelevant to discussion of abortion in the USA and the commission did not say what you claim it said.



Thanks for giving me an article of something I know about and think is terrible. That unfortunately wasn't the comparison and if it was I wouldn't have made my comment. The comparison was with removing citizenship.


>reusable rockets would never work

I am so fucking tired of people acting like we haven't had reusable rockets since the 1980s. Do you think I was hallucinating when my parents drove me to Florida to see Columbia?


Fine, let's be more clear: reusable rocket boosters that land themselves.

Experts said it wouldn't work. Then they said okay maybe it works, but the economics won't. Now they say nothing.


The shuttle had reusable boosters, but if you are talking about something reusable that takes off and lands vertically you are correct that it isn't 1980s technology.

It's 1990s technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X?useskin...

No one denies that SpaceX has done good work. But claiming that they have done anything others considered impossible is just wrong. The basic principles had been demonstrated decades before.

You are correct that people criticized the economics. Seeing as SpaceX's prospectus shows their rocketry business loses money, I am not convinced they're winning that argument.


The DC-X was incredible for its time, but it failed.

> but if you are talking about something reusable that takes off and lands vertically

No, I am talking about something that takes off and lands vertically after boosting a first stage to orbit.

Suborbital is 100x easier.


Who said that? NASA had plans for reusable boosters if they were ever to get funding for it before spaceX was even an idea.


Having the idea is not the hard part! Making it work is.


Look at this picture:

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5kYm!,f_auto,q_auto:...

Which side is modern and which is traditional? The examples on the right are clearly more modern than the examples on the left to my eye: the left looks like it's from the '70s while the right is unmistakably 21st century. But the examples on the left are run-down, plain, and feature advertisements and bricked-up windows and steel shutters and security doors, while the examples on the right are brand new and shiny and walkable. There's graffiti in the first example and in the last one they replaced the asphalt with pavers!

Hard to take the conclusions seriously when the authors have their thumbs on the scale.


There are some rules to classical architecture styles regarding windows and window size going upwards that the ones on the right do follow more.


This is kind of a fool's errand given that sample sizes are small and there are large exogenous causes. But the pattern is consistent and agrees with theory, so I think the comparison is worth making anyway.


Even if you think a space industry is useful in general, there is no reason for humans to be involved. Robots are superior to humans for this application today and will only become more superior in the future.


Why pursue space exploration if all we can do is send robots there? The only meaningful thing for humanity is sending Humans to places.

Gathering more resources so the overlords can have more humans enslaved with shinier golden handcuffs, who can consume more so number line goes up is not a meaningful goal to pursuit, and robotic-only commercially rationalized spaceflight has only this to offer.

Scientific discovery, so we can have better simulations about things of no use or effect on us? Why? Taking people to places and utilizing the resources there, and building a more resilient humanity is a worthy endeavor, and while robots are useful for that, ultimately human spaceflight (or interplanetary/interstellar travel) is he goal, not having only a space industry.


What is the point in having a colony of maybe dozens of people completely dependent on shipments from Earth? Building a self-sustaining colony is so far outside the realm of possibility that it isn't worth thinking about, and building a symbolic outpost serves no practical purpose.


> What is the point in having a colony of maybe dozens of people completely dependent on shipments from Earth?

The Jamestown colony relied on shipments from England.

> Building a self-sustaining colony is so far outside the realm of possibility that it isn't worth thinking about

And look at what America became.


Jamestown went to a place where humans had lived for thousands of years. They used shipments from England, but they didn't need them at any time.


The colony would have failed without those shipments. They desperately needed them.


And yet other people were managing to live there just fine without shipments from Europe.


You have to starting somewhere.


Would not surprise me if people & robots did end up merging together in the long term for easier living in space.


> Gathering more resources so the overlords can have more humans enslaved with shinier golden handcuffs

Very funny!


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