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I doubt I ran into that, and I think a lot of it is just moderators removing things

Have you confirmed moderator deletions from the modlog or is it just a sense you have?

The Fragmentation Trap If you try to do everything yourself (the “solopreneur” route), you theoretically need a “tech stack” of 4-5 different subscriptions.

I’m not sure you appreciate how amazing it is today that a single “solopreneur” can actually perform all those roles all by themselves with software and skills of their own. Each one of those used to be an entire profession that required years of school and tens of thousands of dollars of tools and materials.

That said, there are good free open source tools that do most of those big things you cited. Examples include

• photo editor - GIMP
• Kdenlive - video editor

Would love to hear your thoughts on navigating this expensive landscape.

Starting any business requires money and time. You can “buy” shortcuts in time by spending money on more expensive tools. Alternatively if you have more time, you can do things more manually.

While those are cool, none of them help an average person, except maybe the trains, and definitely not in the US lol.

mRNA vaccines largely ended the most widespread global pandemic in human history just 5 years ago.

Cars were perfect in 05

Climate change would disagree.

Electric cars existed before gasoline cars… And you know what still doesn’t exist? A repairable, mostly analog electric car thats affordable. Doesn’t exist.

What’s stopping you from buying a used 2012 Nissan Leaf for about $6k? Or how about a 2014 BMW i3 for about the same price? Neither of those are Cell network connected or touchscreen heavy cars.

After you finish the last of the 3 novels, make sure you seek out the additional short stories. They fill in some nice gaps in the before, during, and after.

For rich people, it’s not about using it or making a practical purchase. Its a way to show others how much you care about them (none).

I was thinking about this topic just a few days ago. I have another theory. Yes, yacht ownership is a method of communication, but they’re not trying to communicate with the common people, but instead indicating to each other of their level of wealth so they can find equal peers or greater peers to associate with, or greater to avoid.

A rich person with $10M net worth has almost nothing in common with a rich person with a $1B net worth.

Considering OP has a Taiwanese flag in his username as well as a Japansese anime character name (with the kanji as well as the romaji, and a Chinese name (the hanzi as well as the pinyin), I’m guessing OP is at least moderately aware of non-Western cultures practices on the topic and I don’t immediately suspect OP is judging people for their answers either way.

At 40 your dad is probably relying on you for many basic life needs. You’re no longer living with your dad. He’s living with you.

In this case, I’m a spaceflight fan, so I like talking about the topic. Also, I don’t do it for this specific poster, its clear they didn’t even read the article or understand it, but for other that may be thinking the same vague question (because of a flawed premise) that this poster did.

Wouldn’t it make more sense for Brazil to send up their own satellites with rockets that are already capable

I’m assuming you mean “rockets that are already capable” from other nations? Brazil already does this.

than to waste time, money, energy and

Brazil isn’t wasting any money. This is a South Korean company launching a South Korean satellite from Brazil. In fact, Brazil is benefiting financially, which could, to your original point, feed more people because they have the money from these launches.

hurt the environment by trying to launch their own?

Funny enough, launching from places like Brazil is actually less environmentally damaging than launching from the USA, China, or Russia because this Brazilian launch site is on the equator, meaning less fuel is needed to launch from here than other nations with spaceflight programs. This geography is why Europe’s launch site is also pretty close by in French Guiana.

So if your concern is less environment impact, you would want MORE of the worlds rockets to come from here.

I’m not saying Brazil doesn’t need to launch a satellite, I’m saying they don’t need their own rocket program.

As already stated, this isn’t a Brazilian rocket, nor a Brazilian rocket program.

I already addressed that. There are more problems that humanity needs to solve that spaceflight can address.

I like a California roll, and I like that its all veg and grain, so I’ll choose it when thats what I’m looking for, but there are many other rolls I like more. The avocado isn’t a selling point except that its not meat or dairy and there are times I’d don’t want to eat either of those.

Guac is still “meh” for me. Again, I’ll eat it if its there, but I don’t seek it out.

Guac is still “meh” for me. Again, I’ll eat it if its there, but I don’t seek it out.

They don’t need more.

How do you know? Feeding people isn’t the only problem facing humanity, and its not only problem spaceflight can address.

On the downside, Energy Dome’s facility takes up about twice as much land as a comparable capacity lithium-ion battery would. And the domes themselves, which are about the height of a sports stadium at their apex, and longer, might stand out on a landscape and draw some NIMBY pushback.

This is surprisingly good! I would have figured it would have taken far more than twice the land than a Lithium battery solution.

yeah, sure thing buddy. the CO2 will be in a closed loop until it won’t. just like Fukushima and Chernobyl were supposed to be closed loop systems, until they weren’t. disasters happen, no matter how much the techbro mindset insists that they’re impossible.

So you concern is the ecological impact should this bubble fail and the entirety of the CO2 is released to the atmosphere as pollution? Did you even read the article? They discuss that.

First, a full on failure would be rare. Then, a full on failure of 100% loss of the closed loop CO2 is equivalent to 15 round trip flights of a jet flying from New York to London. To put it in perspective there about 250+ flights of this length per day from London, with many being much much farther.

So you’re comparing the impacts of a once in a lifetime nuclear power plant failure to the impacts of another source 1/16th of something that already happens every in one airport. Your logic is why out of whack on this if this is your concern with the bubble.

I was thinking about much larger scale bubbles in “unwanted” geological depressions such as old open pit mines or rock quarries. The depression in the ground might offer more protection allowing it to scale up higher in volume.

Your internet traffic is already encrypted in transit, that what the “s” in https means.

You don’t get the “s” until you have the “https”. Your DNS request which turns www.TheWebsiteYouDoNotWantKnown.com into its IP address happens before you have the “s” in “https”. By default, that request is sent in plaintext, and frequently by default, to your internet service provider. So an outside monitor may not be able to see the contents of the website once you establish your https connection, they likely know that you went there and have a good idea how long you stayed on it.

While its also possible to encrypt the DNS request with DoH or DoT, its not on by default and requires the user to take configuration actions in their browser. If they’re looking at VPNs for the first time, they likely don’t know this and are sending their DNS requests in the clear.

Spaceflight helps feed people.

Why Satellite Imagery is a Game-Changer for Agriculture

another source

So no, then. Because even if they were told that (and I don’t doubt you that happens), that recruit knows they’re talking to a uniformed US military recruiter and is actively engaging they are discussing joining the US military. They also know the US military has a long history of fighting hot wars. Any possible recruit the recruiters are talking to grew up with 14 years of Afghanistan war on the news.

This is nothing like being told you’re going to be a body guard of an oil company exec or pop star engaging in civilian activities in another country, which is how it sounds like these folks were sold on joining.

You must be fun at parties…