Grab the crowbar at the bottom and attack the enemies on the page

Probably doesn’t help that all fish are now chock full of PFAS

I see a connection between elon’s increasingly ‘wacky’ persona with the start of the cozy financial relationship he has with saudi arabia. imo, he’s serving as a captured asset for oil giants to further their influence and interests in the west, in a similar vein to all the recent acquisitions of popular US/UK sports teams by the middle east.

The ‘eccentric’ behavior, to me, is 100% intentional. A layer of security is built when your rivals, regulators, and the general public are unable to predict your next move. A ‘white noise’ is created: for every midnight decision to change your company logo to dogecoin, intentional and sinister actions slip thru, such as the banning of twitter in turkey during their recent elections.

This strategy of wrapping yourself in layers of ambiguity was explored by Adam Curtis in his doc Hypernormalization, describing how this has been the central tactic Putin has used in Russia for decades.

Lenovo has spent the last decade destroying the repairablity of ThinkPads. They’ve only ‘rediscovered’ the ‘innovations’ they stripped from their laptops, like a removable battery, because they are scared of framework.

that’s a great vision, but we don’t have to trade ground-based astronomy for space-based astronomy. that would put us in a ‘dark age’ of astronomy for the rest of my lifetime, until all these yet-to-be-launched telescopes get built.

I started using an under-the-sink water filter once the new PFAS guidelines came out. They are very easy to install, and filters all the water that comes thru the sink’s cold tap.

Gives me peace of mind, but it’s not really a good solution, when nearly all our food now contains these chemicals

The number of telescopes capable of doing astronomy will get smaller, the available hours on that scope will need to be shared among all academic astronomers, and therefore, the number of people able to do astronomy will get reduced.

Having a few telescopes floating in space is not a solution. Not when there is so much space unexplored. Mankind does not own the night sky, only a few billionaires do.