Ya I suppose my wording wasn’t great. I compared it to tiangong 2 to point out how small it is, and followed that up with saying China will probably be doing the majority of science in space for a while because I agree with you.

I’m just happy the USA is doing something at all, we’ve gone stale and stagnant in space development. I am just excited that this will hopefully spark as much competition and price decreases in the space station market over the next 20 years as commercial crew has with launch vehicles. Its not the best outcome at all, but its something thats happening.

Whoa now, putting words into my mouth. That’s not something I ever said or believed. I’m just reflecting on the reality of our current existence, NASA spent a lot of money on rockets, It would have been the best possible outcome if NASA “offered things at the lowest possible cost”. But they didn’t, and our timeline missed the miracle where they did that.

They did give contracts to private industry to develop rockets In the hopes of driving down launch costs for themselves and their plan worked, that’s what happened.

I’m a pretty big space enthusiast and I like to fantasize that I may someday be able to go to space before I die, I’m fairly young, but I know probably not. However because of that I’m happy about the reality we got, even if it’s not the best one. It’s certainly not the worst reality we could’ve had. Plus (if NASAs budget wasn’t getting gutted) NASA can now allocate more money to science missions like landers, probes, telescopes, and orbiters and that is just as exciting.

Alright

Well there are plans just not directly from governments, NASA awarded contracts in 2023 to commercial providers to develop stations. Vast plans to launch their Haven-1 station in May 2026, it’s a similar size to the Tiangong 2 but a meter wider. Smaller than the current Tiangong station though.

But ya, China will probably be doing the majority of science in space for a while. I’m glad they’re doing it for humanity!

I know this is Hexbear, so probably an unpopular opinion, but I’m hopeful the commercial aspect will be as successful In lowering costs as the NASA commercial resupply /crew programs were in lowering cost to orbit.

Braindrain, and low funding

Best guess

Seems built In speakers will be optional

I don’t think the joker hated women at all in Joker. As far as I remember his attitude to both genders is the same.

How is the joker an incel reference? Great movie

The comeback. I paid for a teamsorak server when I was a teen and used it extensively with friends for many years. As I got older I have only used discord a handful of times to talk to other people already on that platform. Discord has always sucked Imo, if it’s free you’re the product. That’s how it always has been.

I hope it gets even more shit so people will leave the platform.

Yes I do want the best, suppose I’m a child.

I’d rather spend pennies and send technical logs to a 3rd party inference provider than run a cut down model at still quite slow speeds on my own hardware.

True, although I lack the 768 GB of RAM to run the full model.

While technically correct for deepseek also incorrect. I use deepseek through open router and I specifically use providers that do not collect chat logs.

Open source babbbbyyy

The gamers would take up arms

Plus, doing that would put a significant hamper on scientific progress given science uses a lot of compute.

True, I suppose I’m fairly niche in that regard. I mostly made scans of environments using photogrammetry. Basically just documenting a space in time. Like my room, or house, or place I work. It’s cool having a 3d environment, it hits different than a photo. I will be able to explore my old spaces I use to be in everyday in the future if I want to reminisce.

What? Safe sex solves a significant amount of issues like sexually transmitted diseases and underage pregnancy. What In the world are you trying to say?

There probably wouldn’t be much religion, how nice that would be. Religion would mostly cease to exists if children were not indoctrinated before they developed critical thinking skills.

Religion relies on naive children being brought into the fold, and to a lesser degree damaged and desperate adults needing hope or something to believe in.

Thats a fun thought, thanks for sharing

Dawg for real, I don’t even know what a tankie is but I guess your last paragraph described what it could be. I feel the bitcoin thing, I was in 9th grade and one coin was ~$30. I wanted to buy some but didn’t bother wasting my allowance on it. Ops, guess I should have