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[–] 1 point 22 hours ago

Yep. Especially if we're all separated in spaceships. Dating's hard enough in the same meat space.

Jesting aside, yup. And space expands faster than we even could fill it. So, at least we're getting billionaires off the idea they need to cull the human population because there's not enough resources here for their squanderous rigged game of manufactured scarcities and coerced dependence on pollution emitting finite resources.

But... Isn't Bezos in the rocket club? "Space is hard", is the idea sold with rockets. We never needed rockets. Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla, and all the less famous innovators of that era, and we can see the start of zero-inertia propulsion had its beginnings on air balloons in the 1800s. Then that's just one step of creating a vessel that can surviva the vacuum of space, and you have a rudimentary space ship. ... From human innovation. But do we get nice things? No. Such tech's secreted, and only used on the wing tips of black stealth fighters to accelerate turns. We could have spaceships for everybody. Even almost a hundred years ago. ... But then other plans were already laid down for us, by the existing power structures, and being followed through. So now we get the likes of Bezos, peddling preposterously implausible placation platitudes, pandering as if he's a good guy, as if he's smart, as if he's a visionary...

... When really it seems like he's the type that does not understand you cannot get 9 women to make a baby in 1 month. But [given Amazon worker treatment] would still keep whipping them harder to try get them to.

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