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    1. Zeke.‏ @IsaacBetty Feb 18
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      I really like the space program, but the whole "they give us crumple zones, Tang, and coffee machines" argument never really made that much sense to me. If your goal is a kind of multipurpose Bell Labs, shooting stuff into space seems like an inefficient way of going about it.

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

      The best argument for the Space Race is that it was an accidental -- or, for some of the people in it, quite deliberate -- offshoot of the Cold War Arms Race to try to have the same effect without pushing the Doomsday Clock forward so enthusiastically

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

      Like yeah, could we do blue-sky research just for its own sake without some big cool project designed to publicly own other countries at its heart? Absolutely Should we do it? Most definitely Do we do it? No Will we do it? Almost certainly never

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

      It is this extremely played-out joke in the world of Big Tech that if you want federal funding for something you have to phrase it in a way where it could be used to kill communists (or, after the end of the Cold War, terrorists) It's an incredibly well-known political truth

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

      It's actually cool @Nymphomachy brought up sports because sports is a very powerful analogy here when it comes to "human irrationality" It's very hard to say what some alien observer would find beneficial about playing high school sports

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

      People say sports are good because they get people to exercise Okay, but exercising could be much more easily accomplished by just, like, jogging and doing push-ups

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

      *Good* exercise is supposed to be about pushing your body to its natural personal best, and then gradually pushing past that threshold to expand your capacities *Sports* is a *competitive* process where you push your body to do whatever it needs to do to beat that other fucker

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

      This frequently leads to *injury*, which is very *bad* for your body in a very direct way that counteracts the ways exercise is good Sometimes the injury leads to *permanent disability and death*

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

      You could ask -- is this a necessary price to pay to get people to exercise? And for tons of people the answer is fuck no -- tons of people hate sports and only get into exercise by getting into it in a non-competitive context

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

      But for plenty of other people if you try to ban sports they will fucking fight you They will actively destroy their health with PEDs to get better at sports and beat the other fucker The sports wasn't to enable the exercise, the exercise was to enable the sports

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
      Replying to @arthur_affect @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

      Fundamental human drive and all that People who have, themselves, never worked out in years will pay tons of money to watch "their guys" own those other guys on the field and it has nothing to do with abstractly wanting more people to exercise

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
          Replying to @arthur_affect @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

          And I really do feel like at least in our benighted world international competition of various kinds -- actual war, and the military-industrial complex buildup that serves as saber-rattling proxy for war, and performative fake stuff like the Space Race -- is the sports

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 18
          Replying to @arthur_affect @IsaacBetty @Nymphomachy

          And actual scientific advances are the exercise WWII did in fact get a very flabby American economy mired in depression back in shape, and hey that's good I guess Same war gave a ton of other countries around the world "career-ending injuries", and that's bad

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