Posts by isaackuo@spacey.space
(DIR) Post #Ax8IjEoi34inyxPa3E by isaackuo@spacey.space
2025-08-13T16:44:13Z
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@johnhattan @fribbledom "You know what a mouse is, Leon?""Of course""Same thing. The rat is baking in the sun, upside down. But your not helping it, Leon. Why is that?""Cause I'm charging it.""..."
(DIR) Post #AxT82yyBeu2NRsDPsm by isaackuo@spacey.space
2025-08-23T16:43:01Z
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@nyrath There's the unusual bomber inspired downward facing glass cockpit of the ships from The Armageddon Factor (Doctor Who).It's vaguely bird-like, which fits in with the Atrios themes. And it's one of the more distinctive of Doctor Who space ship designs, which tend to be ... meh.#DoctorWho
(DIR) Post #Axw4nNWHwvWCg3s6yW by isaackuo@spacey.space
2025-09-06T17:03:40Z
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@johnhattan See, your problem is that you got plastic chairs that were too thick and heavy. If you got super light weight inflatables then that Texas wind would have literally blown that problem away into the next county years ago.
(DIR) Post #AyNI1KjBoVlcybf6Ya by isaackuo@spacey.space
2025-09-19T17:19:31Z
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@benroyce @McD1979 I know you like to talk about how many psyops fake left trolls/bots are out there, but there's also ...There's also an absolute ton of left wing true believers who have internalized the psyop pushed world view. They can't just stop attacking Democrats. It's a core part of their identity now (and by "now" I mean like since the turn of the century or even earlier).I don't have any insights on what to do about this problem. Just ... lamenting.
(DIR) Post #AyNI1Nf2uNEe4ckL0y by isaackuo@spacey.space
2025-09-19T17:56:45Z
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@mike805 @benroyce @McD1979 Problem is you're working from a false premise. Right-populists did NOT take over the Republican party. The Tea Party was created and funded by big Republican donor money. It wasn't organic, it was created by big money from the top, and it did EXACTLY what the big money donors wanted.Who is benefiting from all the stuff that Trump and all the other elected Republicans are doing? Not the Tea Party rubes. The big money donors that used them are the big winners.
(DIR) Post #AzM0JYjPLgmwV9UKUi by isaackuo@spacey.space
2025-10-18T22:16:56Z
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I didn't get a photos that really show the scale of the crowd here in Baton Rouge, but this was easily the biggest protest crowd I've seen here.#NoKings
(DIR) Post #AzToUFSjgaYrjwhSds by isaackuo@spacey.space
2025-10-22T21:33:10Z
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@futurebird What you say is the "whole pretext" might be true, but the reason the pretext exists is, quintessentially, to lure us dupes out of our money so the Mr Moneybags can make even more money than they already have, off the backs of the dupes.What laws and enforcement exists, exists to get us dupes to "invest" in a scheme that is deeply rigged against us.
(DIR) Post #AzwoMt6w7aYr6ZzAbQ by isaackuo@spacey.space
2025-11-05T16:19:19Z
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@TonyStark I so much hate hot takes which are like, "This proves Democrats need to X nationwide." (And these bad hot takes are all on one particular direction, not coincidentally.)I'm like, "No. Stop that. Different races in different locations with different voter bases with different concerns need different approaches. We don't win with a one size fits all approach."
(DIR) Post #B0A3sZ0glz0a9EgLHU by isaackuo@spacey.space
2025-11-12T06:28:10Z
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @ChrisMayLA6 I like the idea of anti-trust, but I also don't really know what "winning" looks like. Has there been an anti-trust action success in my lifetime?Off the top of my head, I remember the break up of breakup of Ma Bell, but I don't really know whether or not that was "successful", and what the practical consequences were.I'm far more familiar with the utter failure of anti-trust with Microsoft.
(DIR) Post #B1JDVFkUjEQ8WGoyZc by isaackuo@spacey.space
2025-12-16T14:35:53Z
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@johnhattan No, they'll see the images of their ancestors and wonder at our ability to miniaturize entire galaxy sized brains into our craniums.The bucket brains will lament the lost knowledge, as they painfully waste away and die from scurvy as they uselessly try to water their plants with Brawndo (75% lemon juice). It's what plants crave.
(DIR) Post #B1kALIvtFZOVN6OAHw by isaackuo@spacey.space
2025-12-29T14:37:02Z
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@aral Sadly, one of the things I do ponder is to inform of the cure to scurvy. This would directly save millions of lives, but I think a side effect would have been to accelerate colonialism.
(DIR) Post #B25U1WC0zqQHA3FRvE by isaackuo@spacey.space
2026-01-08T21:27:09Z
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@Nonilex Even on a pure greed level, accepting a payment of $100,000 would be eaten up quickly in USA health insurance costs.
(DIR) Post #B2MduMCw1bHDOWDmG8 by isaackuo@spacey.space
2026-01-17T04:07:54Z
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@futurebird Mercury fillings. Braces, perhaps. Hip replacement composition/technology. Spine shaping due to osteoporosis. Spaceflight osteopenia bone texture patterns.
(DIR) Post #B2TgjTIogivVv0k8Tg by isaackuo@spacey.space
2026-01-20T13:41:53Z
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@Nonilex You are correct.I wish I could say with any confidence that there are any Republicans in Congress who don't actively WANT this.If there's any consistent Republican theory of governance since the Nixon era, it's to just go around breaking everything everywhere, on the theory that when the Democrats have power they'll spend too much time just trying to repair things to be able to actually enact any progress.Breaking the USA entirely fits in with this theory of governance.
(DIR) Post #B2kA8HHiEJLoP1JPPs by isaackuo@spacey.space
2026-01-21T18:37:27Z
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@spaceflight My god this is so much stupider than I ever thought. It's just a grift for funneling taxpayer money to billionaire techbros."The goal is to transition NASA from being an owner and operator of orbital infrastructure to being just one of many customers in a new, robust, and commercially-run economy in low Earth orbit."Translation - we are stupid. There aren't any other customers."A “Mixed-Use Business Park” in Space"That's just throwing money at techbros for nothing.Heck,
(DIR) Post #B2kA8HrW5BzUC440Dw by isaackuo@spacey.space
2026-01-21T18:40:27Z
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@spaceflight business parks here on Earth are just throwing money at already wealthy techbros for NOTHING. It's like how taxpayer money is thrown into football stadiums for basically no benefits, but at least in that case a fraction of the taxpayers nevertheless support it because they're sports fans and they don't mind forcing their neighbors to pay for something they don't want.Techbro business parks? The promise everything and deliver nothing, even here on Earth. In space? Forget about it.
(DIR) Post #B2kA8IdNDGGuaUSDom by isaackuo@spacey.space
2026-01-21T22:37:10Z
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@spaceflight I remember back when the big thing was tech business parks for big spam phone call centers. Like they seriously thought this was the big thing that was going to bring lots of great jobs to a city.Like we were going to love all these great jobs randomly calling each other to try and spam and scam each other.And I felt like I was taking crazy pills. How did anyone not see that this was even dumber than turnips?
(DIR) Post #B2kA8KOYfJbq37XQ0G by isaackuo@spacey.space
2026-01-28T02:44:51Z
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@spaceflight No, not a problem with competition, but rather a problem with lack of business potential. We've been hearing the same things about manned space manufacturing and such since the Space Shuttle in the 1970s. The business case simply is not there.There's a case to be made that we want manned spaceflight anyway, and a spin gravity station to study the physiological effects of lunar/martian gravity is worthwhile.But business profit? That's nonsense. Just a grift to bilk taxpayers.
(DIR) Post #B2kA8LldYzfGIzLMcC by isaackuo@spacey.space
2026-01-28T12:20:42Z
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@spaceflight Space Tourism is a dud, and investors are wising up to this. That's why these loser startups have turned to saying they'll get money from NASA and (ha ha ha) "other" paying customers for manned space station space. It's pathetic.They're all chasing a severely limited amount of NASA money, and there isn't enough to keep even one of them afloat, much less several dozen.
(DIR) Post #B2kAVFMZXZM16SXOgy by isaackuo@spacey.space
2026-01-28T12:30:07Z
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@amerika @spaceflight True. And neither commsats nor military sats benefit from being manned.