It's just a matter of priorities. In order to build a spaceship and get it out of the atmosphere, you have to do a colossal amount of ecological damage, which is the last thing we can afford right now. Space ships are made with lots of lithium and cobalt and fun stuff like that.
I'm not saying forever, I'm saying that we're in the ER for internal bleeding and you're talking about doing an operation to fix our scoliosis.
Colonizing other planets is way, way, way beyond our current abilities. It would be easier to colonize the ocean first, because at least that has water and a biosphere, or even Antarctica, because at least that has breathable air. Counting on flight to another planet is a bad idea: it's infinitely harder than fixing things at home.
Who is your hero from history?
Abso-goddamn-lutely.
Who is your hero from history?
John Brown. The man stood up for what was right, even at the cost of his own life.
Say you need to go west. There's two buses on offer: one goes east, and the other goes further east. Do you get on the bus that goes less east, or do you just start walking west?
You know what it doesn't offer? Dex save bonuses. 🔥
I didn't make a silly mistake, you did.
(thanks, lol)
The right one will be twice as willing as the left one!!
0*2 is 0, you see
At 400F it would no longer be a chicken but a pile of glowing cinders. A chicken is cooked at 165F.
Oh wow just switch employers, is that all
Beyond that, you missed my point. Even if I were being paid more, I still wouldn't have any incentive to make myself dispensable. Unless I'm vested in the company profits, then the profits don't matter to me.
Lmao fuck integrity I'm trying to make rent
It's not like the company has any integrity in their dealings, like when they lay off entire departments with no notice. One of my current coworkers worked for Dell for 17 years before being laid off. According to you, if she were confident in her abilities, she shouldn't have worried.
Companies don't care about integrity. They don't care about people. All companies would replace you with someone cheaper if they could. Why should we care about them?
Then they should pay me based on that—giving me partial ownership, for example, would incentivize me to do better for the company. As it stands, I get paid the same no matter how the company is doing. I only have an incentive not to get fired... which is easier if I'm indispensable.
Capitalism offers a perverse incentive in this regard. I have no motive to keep the company healthy, only to get paid. Ensuring I can be replaced benefits the company while harming me.
This is the most devastating insult I've ever read
If only. Things would go a little different.
No, my point is that unless you're day trading, chances are you just use an index fund and have virtually no control over what you're investing in.
Yeah as much as I'd like to hate on the American justice system this is a nothingburger. My retirement account probably has Boeing in it too considering I set it to buy the S&P 500 and never thought about it again.
He's also wrong about which conflict this quote shows up in—it wasn't sent to the Persians but to the Macedonians under Philip II.
Not relevant really, just a fun fact.
The thing that drives me nuts about the "if" quote is that the Spartans lost. Hard. Cool quote, but loses some of its punch when you realize they were talking a big game they couldn't follow up.
That's literally exactly how voting works. You can't put an asterisk on your vote. An exuberant, wholehearted vote counts exactly the same as one where you feel dirty for a week after.