Its not Pork and its not science. Its a strategically costly land grab rather than a political vain-glorious stunt.

Same as Mercury/Gemini/Apollo except this time China instead of Russia.

> its not science. Its a strategically costly land grab

Step away from your screens. Framing everything exclusively in these hard terms isn’t healthy (or true).

Jumping in late here. I think both can be true, that it's an inspirational moment and the idea of humans exploring and visiting other worlds is amazing. That a society's ability to do so implies its scientific prowess. And that we are in competition with other top nations to "have a seat at the table" if/when those nations start trying to put controls on the use of those celestial bodies.

Tar based, (anti)Dandruff Shampoo is still a thing

Yeah, works great but may cause cancer…

And so this Easter day a new oxymoron is born: the coalition of the unwilling.

Do with that, in terms of foreign policy, what you will.

Why is that oxymoron? You can, in fact, have a coalition focused on not doing something.

Yeah, its called home owners associations, NIMBY etc.

The unwilling don’t particularly coalise.

Those are not matter-of-fact saving, but rather significant savings

Almost 6 decades later, Omega still has a firm hold on NASA by the wrist. https://www.gearpatrol.com/watches/omega-speedmaster-artemis...

X33 Gen2 certainly looks better than gen1

Looks more MCM than FLW to me

Does it generate enough revenue to match the google/roku tv hardware cost subsidies? If so, how, if not Titan TVs cost more?

Large Pension Funds have significant exposure to private credit... https://www.calpers.ca.gov/documents/202603-invest-agenda-it...

Also the makings of a pretty decent RAG server?

Modern refrigerators are designed for browsing. A chest fridge could save a person a lot of calories over time

By that logic, best fridge is no fridge at all ;)

Cup Noodles FTW