I personally like movies I don't think trying to divert money away from the film industry specifically by saying movies are mostly garbage (and the majority of movies that are made do suck) is going to be a winning PR move There's other places to find that $30 billion
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
The problem of course is that lots of people have their special interest (hence the term "special interest groups") and when they argue with each other they all say it's obvious someone else has too much money and you should take it from that guy over there and leave them alone
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I think there's a lot of billionaires who need taxing, and I think there's a whole military-industrial complex that could use defunding Lots of people agree with me on that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
The problem being the billionaires have trained attack dogs that fight viciously in their defense and the national security people have half the country convinced that relaxing the Pentagon budget even by a few percentage points will lead to their kids all speaking Mandarin
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
So we are where we are The problem is that I think very visible stuff like NASA, whose "practical benefit" is hard to articulate, becomes a lightning rod during hard times But I continue to maintain whether you love or hate space stuff it is not that big a deal
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I'm absolutely fucking disgusted by NASA because it epitomizes the fascist "cells of the body" view of humanity by justifying all current world suffering as a necessary down payment for some hypothetical glorious future for a handful of hypothetical people we will never be
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and
Whom we are not, whom we will never get to be The Bidenist neoliberal view of "look, buddy, progress comes in increments", while *we literally do not have the fucking luxury of increments* This idea that the years of our lives are fungible—that what we need now is fine tomorrow
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Well that's any kind of big-picture research then isn't it Do you feel the same way about the Large Hadron Collider, and the even more abstract study of very tiny particles to try to figure out how the universe started billions of years ago
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
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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I mean, why is there a PS5? Did we actually need one? Was the PS4 just not good enough? Is the benefit of having one even in the same ballpark of importance as curing cancer?
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I mean I was being glib with my PS5 comment but considering that we're all basically on hospice and there's very little hope for anyone, I do think that it's better to invest in bread and circuses than, say, real estate development
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And maybe science is circus enough for some people?
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