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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[โ€“] Shikadi@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reflects a lack of understanding of the good that comes out of space research. SpaceX exists because Republicans defunded NASA. Space experiments help us solve problems on earth. Not to mention we depend on satellites for everything in our daily lives from weather predictions to communications. Not all of space is "hurr durr I'm Elon musk let's go to Mars!" In fact most of it isn't.

[โ€“] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 1 year ago

No, it doesn't. It speaks directly to it when it mentions the things it supports about space research. It then goes on to say what it doesn't like, which is space imperialism, space warfare, and space privatization for profits. Learn to read.