mild horniness is i think the single engine powering any good thing in the world. think of all the classes you’ve shown up to due to mild horniness. the times you’ve put on a nice shirt. the times you actually bothered to understand some arcane concept. are you sure that mild horniness had nothing to do with it? if we could harness this into energy we would actually solve for the oil & gas crisis.
now think of all the things you’ve ruined with extreme horniness, truly a dichotomy…
Pretty sure I haven’t been even remotely horny for years. How on earth do I manage to do anything? It must be some mysterious cosmic force!
The act of observing a gender alters it. Genders greater than zero now exist in a different capacity than before this post. This, the purest gender exists as gender = 0.
if you set a breakpoint to observe it, gender won’t occur any longer.
it keeps coming up, but censorship isn’t about what you’re not allowed to know it’s about what you’re not allowed to say, and usually you actually have to know about it so you know not to say it!
for example say the war is going badly and everybody knows it: if nobody is allowed to say it then the government can remain in power and everything is fine, but once people openly say “we’re losing the war” then the government is in deep trouble, because voicing that fact is a challenge to authority.
in China everyone knows that the government was paralysed with indecision about how to handle the mass unrest of 1989 and the army performed abysmally when ordered to quell the disturbance, but open discussion of this would raise all kinds of questions about the legitimacy of government both past and present.
you can think what you like, but if you can’t say it then it doesn’t matter!
leaving aside the schedule slip – because as a programmer anything less than a 2x overrun is an achievement – surely the question here is what private investors are supposed to get back from funding the Mars mission.
I think the big investment opportunity for a SpaceX-scale crewed Mars mission isn’t “we paid a billion dollars for our name on the side of the Cock Rocket on Pavonis Mons”, it’s sample return. SpaceX’s rocket can bring back literal tons of samples.
If you’re a firm looking to expand your business into Mars, Phobos, or Deimos (depending on mission profile) mining and refining hardware, having a large quantity of various types of real materials (regolith, rock, atmosphere) is going to be way more valuable than working with simulated materials. Actual samples instead of simulants would let your testing be that much closer to real-world conditions. “Tested using real Mars materials instead of simulants” is going to be a big selling point when you’re talking to NASA or SpaceX or whomever to sell them your billion-dollar water purification machine.
