It’s also a crock of shit that we use to control people. If you’re luck enough to get out of your small town and away from you family like I was, you can deprogram.

Basically, he has marked us as the bad neighborhood on his map.

When you put it that way, it sounds ridicluous.

I will never understand the thought behind weaponizing diseases. They kill indiscriminately, even you, the developer or the president who orders it’s release. Anybody who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.

I swear to all that is holy if there’s another pandemic I will have a bitch fit

We have a thing in the constitution about this. It’s called"unreasonable searches and seizures". But cops don’t care about that.

I don’t want government run companies unless they are utilities, and even then, I still want them to be owned by the population, not a handful of people.

So <insert name of different politician> then

Well, LLMs don’t have sentience. That was kind of my point.

This is also true

They argue that AIs may deserve rights and protections similar to those that we provide other conscious beings

What protections? We treat some people worse than cattle.

The Moon and Mars are not a distraction. It’s been a Nasa goal for a long time to go to Mars. Politics has stopped us from doing it for a very long time. We’re lucky we got to put probes around it and rovers on the ground.

There are so many reason we do these things as engineers. For me, it used to be about having all our marbles in one basket on Earth. But, as I get older, I find the science and engineering are just the better parts of humanity. There’s so much nasty stuff happening in the world out there

We launched The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope at the end of August, and I literally cried watching it separate from the rocket. 5 years of my life, and a president who tried to cancel the program, not once, not twice, but three times. All of the work we did at the end of last year under duress of the OMB crap, and NASA cutting 25% of the workforce, trying go defund Goddard.

So, yeah, this stuff isn’t just something I do for money, or the challenge. I do it bcz it’s my life, it’s what makes the bestof humanity, all of the knowledge and hope we have as a species.

Edit: To answer your actual question, the moon is a great jumping point to other parts of the solar system. Launching from the moon has so many benefits over the earth due to our gravity well being so large. As for why we’d do any of this at all. It’s a great place to test out living in space, and the technologies we need to do it. If we stay on this rock, we are dooming ourselves eventually. (Whether it’s climate change, or a cosmic event, or something else). Right or wrong, people want to go into space, and this is the best way to test out our ability to do that. All the politics aside, we have the technology to go to Mars now. The issue is logistics, and political will stopping us.

Not anymore, we all know Trump takes the cake by miles.

I’m juat incredulous that you think BlueMaga is a real thing.

It’s actually impressive that every other comment or two of yours comment history has double digit downvotes.

Bit of a mouthful to say, but I’ll go with it.

Can you give me your private key so I can understand it better?

Tha fuk, Am I having a stroke?

I would tell the “system” to get bent. Ed Sheeran doesn’t have to do anything. It’s his tour, if they don’t want to allow him to perform over human rights, that’s on them.

If this is true, I’m going to remove every Ed Sheeran song from my music library.