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Topic: OT-Politics Thread: please TRY to keep it civil, you damned dirty apes

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Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #42210 on: February 24, 2025, 09:16:20 AM »
even as a kid watching Apollo 11 land on the moon........ I thought it silly and nearly impossible to expect a decent return on investment

space exploration and travel seems a huge waste of resources IMO
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« Reply #42211 on: February 24, 2025, 09:28:42 AM »
U RAH RAH! WIS CON SIN!

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« Reply #42212 on: February 24, 2025, 09:33:40 AM »
well luckily, you're not from Florida
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« Reply #42213 on: February 24, 2025, 09:36:16 AM »
I am now.

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« Reply #42214 on: February 24, 2025, 09:42:00 AM »
53 is gonna be WARM this afternoon!
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« Reply #42215 on: February 24, 2025, 09:46:20 AM »

What is the secret with the love bugs? (And yes, always soda)

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« Reply #42216 on: February 24, 2025, 09:50:57 AM »
Vinegar and lemon juice. 2/3 to 1/3.
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« Reply #42217 on: February 24, 2025, 09:53:50 AM »
even as a kid watching Apollo 11 land on the moon........ I thought it silly and nearly impossible to expect a decent return on investment

space exploration and travel seems a huge waste of resources IMO
ummm....we kind of need spy, weather, & communication satellites and GPS bro....

we don't spend nearly enough on space exploration....it's pretty god damn important to the present and future of the human race.

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« Reply #42218 on: February 24, 2025, 10:01:32 AM »
we didn't kinda need that stuff back in the day

spy satellites???
we have weather records from hundreds of years ago - weather apparently worse today and kills more folks today
GPS for targeting weapons to kill folks around the globe??
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« Reply #42219 on: February 24, 2025, 10:21:54 AM »
If you have a good business, you don't need government handouts, but hes just another welfare bitch.  He's taking pictures with a chainsaw, to compensate for,.well we all know.

I will say it's nice for all the small dick people to finally have their King.  He has a bunch of kids that he ignores, and he's contingent on government handouts, he is a welfare b****
this is a mind numbingly ignorant post. Tesla and SpaceX are not contingent on government handouts- that is just a flat out inaccurate statement. The EV subsidy hand out put in place by the Obama administration and extended by the Biden administration is hurting Tesla as it gives their competitors room to lower their sale price points and invest more capital into production to lower their production costs. Tesla is decade plus ahead of them in EV production- they only produce EV- and they manufacture their own batteries. They flat out can just build them cheaper and therefore sell them cheaper. Tesla accounts for around half of all EV sales in the US, it's production costs on EV's are far lower than any other manufacturer and it makes more profit per car than any of the other EV manufacturers- which means: removing the tax incentives would be disproportionately felt by other EV manufacturers. And those other EV manufacturers are already scrapping future EV models, shutting down EV production lines, and re-tooling them to hybrid- after spending hundreds of millions if not billions trying to play the catch up game. Remove the tax credits those other US auto manufacturers would be fucked. Remove the EV tax credit and Tesla will keep chugging along except they'll have even less competition and more wiggle room to withstand a decrease in overall EV market size.

SpaceX receives no hand outs- they get awarded government contracts- and the vast majority of SpaceX's revenue does not come from government contracts. Oh yeah, SpaceX also just happens to be the world leader in rocket technology and fucking EATS it's competitors ULA & BlueOrigin for lunch- NASA/DoD's other contractors for rocket launches. ULA's rocket launches cost the US gov't government 2.5-3x what SpaceX's do. ULA is around $160-$200 million per launch. SpaceX? $62.5 million. Yet ULA has been given more contracts than SpaceX. Lol. Gee I wonder if that's because Boeing & Lockheed have been greasing the machine for 60-70 years and have US elected officials and unelected government bureaucrats their pockets. SpaceX has literally saved the US government billions of dollars- and would have saved them even more money if it wasn't corrupt as shit and handing launch contracts to Boeing & Lockheed's joint venture ULA- which is an inferior company with an inferior product which charges the US government A LOT more than SpaceX does.

you want to talk about government hand outs....let's talk about the bailouts given to General Motors and Chrysler. the bail outs of the big investment banks & insurance companies on Wall Street. Let's talk about the hundreds of billions in subsidies the US gov't has given the oil industry over the years. Or how about the US federal gov't giving pharmaceutical criminal drug cartels liability shield and immunity for vaccine products - and then forcing people to take said experimental vaccines effectively giving a $100 billion profit handout to Pfizer and a couple of the other big druggies a few years back. ONE HUNDRED BILLION IN PROFIT. Lulz.

this eLoN iS a WeLfAre b*tch nonsense....talk about small dick energy. jesus. 

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Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #42220 on: February 24, 2025, 10:23:54 AM »
we didn't kinda need that stuff back in the day

spy satellites???
we have weather records from hundreds of years ago - weather apparently worse today and kills more folks today
GPS for targeting weapons to kill folks around the globe??
it's kind of important to know what other countries are doing....I'd say the spy sats help.

yeah but could you see satellite imaging of weather in real time on your iphone back then....it's pretty cool.

last one you got me there- but I do like Google Maps on road trips.....

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Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #42221 on: February 24, 2025, 10:39:29 AM »
I'm still quite dubious as to the actual size of his spending cuts.  Congress controls the purse, you really can't cut billions in spending authorized by Congress.  You can spend it more efficiently and with less waste of course.  A President lacks the authority to impound major spending.

I would guess that will be a big part of the forthcoming reconciliation bill (or two), but that's just a guess.  

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« Reply #42222 on: February 24, 2025, 10:41:26 AM »
Apple is the most valuable company on planet earth by market cap and 2nd most profitable as well. would be great if they actually made things here in America. let's see if this really happens...


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Re: OT-Catch all thread - Personal attacks will result in a time out
« Reply #42223 on: February 24, 2025, 10:44:59 AM »
it's kind of important to know what other countries are doing....I'd say the spy sats help.

yeah but could you see satellite imaging of weather in real time on your iphone back then....it's pretty cool.

last one you got me there- but I do like Google Maps on road trips.....
we had spy planes like the SR-71 blackbird
weather in real time?  cool but ROI?  I mean I do appreciate a tornado warning
I'm on the road sales guy with 3 states - I use Google maps all the time

yes, I can see some money spent on satellites
Going to the moon?  Space stations?  Mars missions?  exploring  outside the universe???
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