Most of the solid bodies in the solar system are literally a bunch of airless, irradiated, toxic rocks, with either no life at all or potentially some rare bacteria-like stuff hidden somewhere we haven’t been able to conclusively examine yet. They already are in a more “fucked up” state than even the most polluted wasteland we’ve created on earth. What could we possibly do to them to mess them up further?

Depends on the time frame. In the period immediately following such a venture, sure, but if you actually properly establish settlement off earth, the total resource base and thus carrying capacity of civilization as a whole increases and continues to increase until we either hit the limits of that part of the universe one can theoretically reach (which is so big as to make the entire earth less than a speck of dust by comparison), you decide to just stop space colonization (which gets more difficult the further on you go, because the number of potential polities to launch a new mission increases the more space is populated), or you find yourself boxed in by alien civilizations in all directions (since we haven’t seen any, they’re most likely far enough apart on average for this to still leave an extremely vast chunk of space). A hypothetical spacefairing civilization should be able to reach sizes so vast that it would be physically impossible to create enough jobs on just one planet to equal it, even with just this solar system even.

Job creation by itself is not exactly the best motivation to pursue this though, since the jobs created will after the initial period be generally far away and therefore not likely to be worked by anyone except the people that end up in those colonies, who wouldn’t even exist otherwise.

I used to love grapefruit, more than any other citrus fruit. Then I learned about pomelos. I still generally like grapefruit, but don’t get them so much anymore because they always seem vaguely disappointing by comparison.

The trouble is, the people doing the studies and the people in charge of deciding where public money is spent and acquired, are different groups.

Plot twist; they cancelled because their convention had to be rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Surely that’d depend on the Muslim? Like, Islam is a very large religion and religious people rarely follow or consider valid all their stated rules to the letter, and disagree with eachother over the interpretation of those they do. I don’t know what exactly the Koran says on the matter, but given the terminology and understanding around gender (and available technology for transition) has changed a fair bit since the time it was written, I’d be fairly surprised if it said anything as clear as “you must not be trans” that didn’t leave room for interpretation and disagreement.

Kinda looks like a kiwi tbh

I don’t imagine that would be enough time for someone to even process the various stimuli enough to realize that what just happened was a gunshot, tbh, let alone consider the implications of that.

Assuming the time wasn’t an exaggeration that is, I’m fairly squeamish so I don’t think I’ll be watching that video to see how long it really was.

They do that anyway tbh, it’s not like they’ll just be nice if nothing ever happens during their time in power

The only instance that I’m banned on (at least as far as I’m aware of, I don’t think you actually get notifications for that so maybe there’s more I don’t know about) I just asked an admin of if I could request a ban, where does that fit?

To be fair, I don’t think I’ve seen most geoengineering techniques, especially the sulfur reflective particles one, presented as not being ecologically disastrous (though the particular damage I’ve previously seen it suggested as likely to cause was different). I’ve usually seen that presented in a “thing to consider if the consequences of warming becomes worse than the consequences of simulating a long term volcanic winter” context, in which case, pointing out that these ideas cause other damage and that their effect isn’t to just revert the climate to what it was isn’t really “debunking” them, it’s just presenting a better picture of what the potential costs and benefits actually are.

Using it to claim that all states are and must be equally authoritarian, as a way to deflect criticism of authoritarians in a specific country, somewhat destroys the truth value of it. It’s like claiming that all substances are toxic; technically true, too much of literally any substance will kill you, but if I then tell someone that because water and cyanide both have a lethal dose, it doesn’t matter which they take because both are potentially deadly, I’d be attempting to deceive and therefore lying even if I use only technically true statements to imply a false conclusion.

I don’t know the reason behind this whole deal as I don’t follow nepali politics, so I’ve got no idea if there are fascists in Nepal or not, but the presence of fascists in the west does not imply that politicians outside of the west must or cannot be fascists. The world doesn’t work in such a way that there must be exactly one group of them out there such that everyone not aligned to them cannot be one.

I feel like a nerdy werewolf in an underused idea. Jock werewolves are a dime a dozen. A scrawny bookish werewolf with glasses or something would be different and kinda cute.

As an asexual atheist with both grandmothers still alive, I can’t say I ever have, no. Were those things not the case, I’d say anything they saw would be down to them using their ghost powers to violate my privacy anyway.

Was it even the rights, in a legal sense? I thought it was just a digital receipt of sorts that just links to the jpeg, which isn’t necessary the same thing as including control of the IP?

What happens if Simon says to disobey Simon?

It’s just not good at room temperature, it’s decent enough if it’s a fair bit warmer than that.

Technically any human was already capable of doing that, the pill doesn’t say that it’s necessarily something you can just instantly do at a distance with your mind.

There was a reasonably popular musical made about his wife at one point, so its possible Trump might have heard of him through general pop culture at some point in his life.