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I have a deep appreciation for Marx, as should anyone interested in sociology or political economy who isn't married to 'The freer the market the freer the people!' style dreck. I don't know that I would call myself a Marxist.

Doggo look like shrimp

There's a sense of "Caring about nature is effeminate and for wusses" in toxic masculinity.

Spite has kept me alive more than once.

It's not good, but one takes what one can get in those moments.

Look, I'm pretty positive about VOA generally, but when a 'fact checker' marks it as less biased than AP, the fact checker needs to sit down and rethink its life.

Like, I'm fairly sensitive to anti-white prejudice. Not because white people are some oppressed minority, but because it absolutely gets tiring having to justify your own existence for being born. But this? Man, this is the equivalent of "Americans like hamburgers" or "German humor is no laughing matter". It's okay to embrace a little absurdity, as long as it's not taken seriously by you or by your society.

As someone who is partly white, I have pumpkin spice privileges.

Have a drink to go with it

Obviously the investigation should be thorough to rule out alternatives, especially considering the history of such racist crimes, but it may legitimately be a suicide.

Dissipating heat in space is actually one of the major issues that comes up in designs for space applications. It's... not easy.

You’re out of your depth here… Those reasons for affordable solar cells on earth in no way directly translate to applications in completely different environments (planets or moons)

'on earth'

Did you miss the bit where I specified space applications, or did you just ignore it?

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Preparing_for_the_Future/Space_for_Earth/Energy/Helium-3_mining_on_the_lunar_surface

The Apollo programme's own geologist, Harrison Schmidt, has repeatedly made the argument for Helium-3 mining, whilst Gerald Kulcinski at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is another leading proponent. He has created a small reactor at the Fusion Technology Institute, but so far it has not been possible to create the helium fusion reaction with a net power output.

This idea of “well earth has solar, so solar must work just as well on the moon!” doesn’t take into account natural lunar resources (solar needs rare earth metals) , atmospheric conditions, thermal conditions, material transport, etc… Sure, a well-functioning moon settlement would probably have a combination of thermo, solar, and nuclear power,

Holy fucking shit, dude, natural atmospheric and thermal conditions and material transport are exactly why nuclear power seems dubious to me as the basis for a moon base. I'm a proponent of nuclear power here on earth.

but it is strange how you’re writing off one of the most promising forms of energy that excites and interests space scientists most.

"Space scientists" here meaning 'you', apparently, since major investment into space-based nuclear power for earth-orbit and lunar applications has been very slim since the 60s despite niche applications and a small chorus of proponents, not unlike 'Practical fusion in 20 years' types.

These issues you’re having just sound like cope due to the fact that the US is now lagging in space science.

Uh. Okay.

When someone does not like garlic bread, Allah Willing, they shall know no happiness, and shall not live long.