WrongOnTheInternet [none/use name]

their delicate stealth coating is not particularly especially of the warm, salty sea air

Four decades and they’ve still got problems with the stealth coating

More food, more weapons, more men, more horses, bigger house, bigger fortifications etc

There is at least the idea that one could eventually have enough material needs met to relax - the profit motive has no limit

a nation of temporarily embarrassed dukes

Musk no, the other thing!

probably their most inexcusable geopolitical offence

Supporting Islamists to own the Soviets in Afghanistan was pretty bad

wow almost half a single percent of China’s annual national income

Fortunately the US system of government is weird and the executive branch doesn’t set the budget. This is a proposal to Congress so time will tell whether it happens.

Incredibly damaging to make deep cuts that wouldn’t even allow an agency to mothball assets and keep on the best staff.

absurd reactionary things which are mostly inconsequential

Unfortunately there is not a clear demarcation and I don’t see much value in trying to seperate them

Yesterday’s steamer calling for fascism is tomorrow’s US political leader, and the absurb reactionary things being posted will be used to justify crimes against humanity

The only thing I care less about than whether something is directly consequential or indirectly and possibly not consequential is the allocation of those posts to two seperate communities created because of some bizarre mod clique about shit that doesn’t matter (not the name, which matters in a symbolic way, but having two communities)

And now I should disengage because I’ve written too much about something I ostensibly don’t care about

Yeah it’s a stupid community title, you reckon the gossip one is better?

Is there any evidence of educational benefit? I don’t think there is (still put it on though)

I don’t doubt this is AI generated but honestly in any journal article, every one in five citations will be inappropriate.

they’re completely dead, did you not see the pictures?

(They were evacuated in advance)

maybe you can get hired by the PRC to balance their budgets

Maybe you can join a reading group here before using some thought terminating cliche like “balance budgets”.

in 2023 the total healthcare cost in China was 1,249,253,919,000.00 USD compare that to around 11-14 billion in Cuba.

This is the same amount per person.

I think you’ve defaulted to defensiveness because AES are often attacked by leftcoms but that’s not necessary here

Yeah it should be a lot fucking easier to do as China than Cuba, they can barely import enough fuel to keep the lights on

I reread the article, I reckon it’s about satellites in general deorbiting faster to avoid a Kessler syndrome scenario

Sean Elvidge at the University of Birmingham, UK, says this effect could benefit satellite operators like SpaceX by removing dead satellites from orbit more quickly that could otherwise pose a danger to other satellites. “It’s speeding up that process,” he says. However, it could limit our ability to operate satellites in orbits below 400 kilometres, known as very low Earth orbit. “It shows that could be challenging,” he says.

this is beneficial to SpaceX as it means the end of life satellites will re-enter faster, getting them out of the way for their replacements

They can deorbit them at any time though?

Nah, it’s pretty crap compared to say, Cuba

E.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7388505/

For context the Chinese healthcare system is basically run on neoliberal brainworms (except competently).

You’d rip out the entire system instead of doing these little top up fixes to expand access and coverage.

We did that before too.

Although the US is going pretty hard on trying to undo what weak protections already existed, and flint didn’t have clean water for at least a decade (to name the most notable example). remarkable country to have such a sustained decline in life expectancy