Hemingways_Shotgun

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  • Ah yes. Nothing like a little gross oversimplification to generate headlines.

    If the shuttle didn’t exist, there are still a thousand things that would have had to go in a different direction to get a viable Mars program in the 80s and 90s. Not the least of which being that without the shuttle, and before the ISS, we would have no CLUE how to actually live in space for long periods of time.

    So if we take it that we can’t go to Mars without learning how to live in space for extended durations. And we take it that in order to learn how to live in space we need to have a long duration presence there, like the ISS.

    What exactly do people think was necessary to build the ISS…

    You’re right boys and girls…it was the SPACE SHUTTLE.


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    29 days ago

    There’s no such thing as a “non-harmful” pedofile.

    Either you’re actively molesting children (yes…even teens), or you’re consuming the CP that is the result of OTHER people abusing children by forcing them to participate and worse.

    You don’t get to say “its not repulsive to consume the product as long as youre not a creator of it”. Consuming the end result is still participating in it.

    I can’t believe that even has to be pointed out.



  • I’m far far far from a younger consumer, and I find that I too have moved almost entirely to online content, mostly in the form of True Crime podcasts and YT channels, History Documentaries, etc…

    Especially in non-fiction content, there’s pretty much nothing that paid TV can offer that Social Platforms cannot. It’s the only place where I think this whole internet experiment is actually working as intended; the democratization of knowledge.





  • As a country that has largely abandoned it’s own industries and become a net importer of goods, Pumpkin Putin doesn’t have the leverage he thinks he does.

    America needs the rest of the worlds products more than the rest of the world need them buying it. Will it hurt to lose that many consumers of your product? You bet it will. It’ll suck ass and economies will suffer greatly. But not nearly as much as the U.S. will when they can’t get their raw materials for the small amount of manufacturing they still DO do.

    The only leverage the U.S has is it’s military. And militaries run off of fuel, food and oil. It would be crippled within a month if everyone pulls a Norway and stops refueling them.