On the Internet, no one knows you're a cat

INFP, Aries, reader, gamer, baker

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[what-even-is-thiss]

im so confused about the artemis thing because theres that post going around about how its propoganda and they make a lot of good points but people i care about a lot are really excited about it and i dont want to hurt them and honeslty im tired of things that look good being bad

Hey.

The fascists don’t like NASA.

They don’t want stuff like this to happen.

They want to give NASA’s budget to the already bloated military.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s fine to celebrate a massive peaceful scientific achievement that’s a collaboration between the US and Canada space programs during a time when there’s so much bad news elsewhere.

I personally hope that this encourages a lot of kids to grow up and defend our space agencies.

[indigo-brainspark]

but DO techbros like nasa? a lot of techbros i see are super into the idea of privatized space travel industry and colonizing mars, the first of which nasa is directly opposed to, and the second which nasa isn't really focused on.

the techbros i see really aren't into the type of science nasa does focus on researching, which is far less glamorous than what they want.

[scrungledwung]

Not only do tech bros generally hate the quiet kind of science that NASA does alongside the flashy launches (NASA is a primary reason why we have literally any weather data in the US), but tech bros REALLY hate the other half of the Artemis Program that I don't really hear people talk about much

The Artemis Accords are one of the first large-scale civil policies about space and related activities to come about since the Outer Space Treaty in 1967. NASA wants to hold people (at least a little) accountable for the junk they're leaving in our orbit, and not enough people talked about this shit back when it got signed, so I wanna talk about it now

Artemis Accords - NASA

NASA, in coordination with the U.S. Department of State and seven other initial signatory nations, established the Artemis Accords in 2020.

[thunderboltsortofapenny]

You really need to identify the differences between people in technology fields and techbros. It's actually sort of vital to our continued survival

[pusheen]

[larimar]

tracyverdugo

[galileosballs]

"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

[galileosballs]

"oh, but this course is just a distribution requirement, it's not for my major"

Does saying things that are true and that you know are true only matter when someone is giving you a little prize for it?

[galileosballs]

Tumblr doesn't like to do this kind of ethics, so I have to phrase this carefully, but it's a question of character. And a person's character is clearest when they're being asked to do the right thing even when it doesn't matter to them.

I don't want to live in a world in which doctors and lawyers and politicians just ignore the responsibility to research and verify when it's inconvenient for them. When they're busy. When they have something they'd rather be doing. The world I live in is already too full of those people in positions of power. I'll be damned if I let there be more of them.

[paralisisvirtual]

Is2g this was funny at 4 am

[intelligentchristianlady]

A bus may have only a couple of passengers, especially at the beginning or end of its route. But let's also take fuel efficiency into account.

[foxoftheasterisk]

If there's one person on a bus because that person cannot or doesn't want to drive, the bus is succeeding.

[luckyladylily]

I read a study once on the fuel efficiency of various types of commuter vehicles (car, bus, train) on a per person basis and the number of people needed riding public transit to match the "efficiency" of cars is shockingly low. A bus needs to carry like 3-4 people to be fuel efficient, and trains require 2-3 per train car. Both often carry two dozen or more during peak hours, more than justifying any perceived requirements for efficiency for the train or bus to provide service the entire day.

[brightlotusmoon]

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[titsay]

[pepsiprophecy]

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[montygreen]

LEILA’S 11K CELEBRATION: @kalaadandekar asked The Good Place + Favourite Quotes Per Character

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[whatcoloristhatcat]

red mackerel tabby with low white spotting

[shamebats]

This paints such a beautiful picture

[chibird]

Chibird had the right idea but didn’t check the direction! 😆 That’s why we have friends to help.

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[flommus]

flommus

Frank X. Leyendecker, Harlequin and Ballet Dancer Embracing, circa 1914.

Haggin Museum, Stockton, California, USA

[rongzhi]

A woman performing as a 天女 tiannü (celestial maiden) during events for the Luoyang Peony Cultural Festival, an annual spring festival celebrating history and folk customs related to the flower blooming season.

天女散花, "tiannü scattering flowers" is an idiom used often to describe things being poured, heavy snow, etc, and comes from a Buddhist tale of a tiannü who sprinkled flowers over a bodhisattva and disciple to test them, with the flowers only falling over the bodhisattva's body.

[enki2]

[raimagnolia]

How short are people's memories for them to forget that Airbnb, streaming, Uber used to all be cheap

Mobile services used to also be cheap.

[apas-95]

this isn't some new invention of amazon and silicon valley, by the way, it's just how the capitalist market operates. supermarkets originally undercut local groceries in the same way, because they had more weight to throw around, and could take a loss in one spot that was made up in another. it's a general tendency towards monopolisation.

[pragnificent]

This is how Walmart literally destroyed hundreds and hundreds of small towns.

[threezoz]

the people who don't know this shit are new adults. they were kids or not born yet when the early switches happened.

there are people born after blockbuster went down, who grew up with netflix and amazon. these are people who don't know that the reason youtube has copyright strikes can be traced back to metallica.