• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    Rocket science is really cool. Rocket scientists are huge geeks about rocket science. If there are really only a handful of organizations hiring rocket scientists (and most of them are run by megalomaniacs or deeply entwined with the MIC), you’re faced with the prospect of working for a bad company, or not working on your passion that you specialized in.

    I remember some AMAs from The Site That Shall Not Be Named by SpaceX employees, and a common comment was that they do their best to keep him distracted so they can do their actual work because his ideas are stupid.

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      15 hours ago

      Somehow we have to restructure our society so that no one has to be beholden to men like Musk. We have to end this plutocracy. We need to replace it with a meritocracy. Or, we could be really radical and replace it with >gasp< democracy.

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        12 hours ago

        TBF, I’m not confident he is human. I mean, if it went public that he’s not, would anyone be surprised? Ofc, Zuck’s more likely to sprout that leak, but still. Would we?

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      12 hours ago

      Rocket surgery, even more so.

      Also, can we start referring to ridderp as “TSTSNBN” or “tstsnbn”? 🤣

      (or, “ts2nbn”?)