On the other hand, the film industry reports that the total US box office take every year has been $40 billion or so and rising for the past ten years
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I mean you seem to be arguing that conditions the developing world make "idealistic" projects like NASA offensive but that just openly selfish shit -- spending billions a year on the purely idle amusements of rich Americans -- is less offensive It feels perverse
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Sony spent quite a bit more money in less time developing the PS5 than the Perseverance project will take And the asking price for a PS5 is substantially more than 1/3 of the world's population makes in a year (the global poverty line is $370/yr or "a dollar a day")
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The Large Hadron Collider seemed cool in the naughts when I had no idea that I was going to live through a pandemic ravaging civilization almost completely unchecked and now I'm disappointed both in what it delivered and what people feared it would deliver, that it did not
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So yeah I'd rather we'd not have built it It confirmed the Higgs boson was real, right—we already pretty much thought it was, didn't we I'd rather that money had gone towards preventing the likes of Bolsonaro, Xi Jinping, Duterte, Erdogan et al from coming into power
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