It is _wild_ seeing how the US is deliberately reducing state capacity in every area that would result in improvements to everyone, even the capitalist class it would be supposedly benefiting.
The American Dream looks more and more like being a temperate, humid petrostate.
By increasing the gap between have and have-not, and making most things shittier (and escape from the shit more costly), the privilege of money increases. Amazing that everyone is so peaceful. One group just takes it all.
This is the state equivalent of a human gouging out their own eyes to avoid dealing with the fact that a train is barrelling towards them instead of stepping off the tracks.
The data this satellite collects is used to promote climate regulation and legislation. The authors of the article can’t even come up with other ostensible uses for it. Farmers care about carbon dioxide levels? Good one.
The equivalent would be a democrat administration using government force to shut down data collection they don’t like because it will be used to promote policies they don’t want. Kind of like how the Biden admin’s FAA restricted drone use at the southern border during the migrant crisis.
I think the word you’re looking for is “like” instead of “equivalent”.
I'm starting to think that the most effective form of protest might be to make it clear to the billionaires that we know about their bunkers and they won't be safe in them following a climate cataclysm.
Hopefully China will invest even more into climate science to compensate for his madness. For a while I thought China might lose to America, but now it's clear we're living the age of Chinese golden age. They will win in all sciences, there's no question about it.
Here's a fantastic chance for a tech mega-billionaire or company to step up to the plate and take on the $15M p.a. commitment to keep the satellite orbiting.
For example, for Google $15M is probably less than they spend on stocking their fridges with fizzy drinks. The PR benefits would be huge and they could probably sell the data to the current users of that info.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 55.4 ms ] threadThe American Dream looks more and more like being a temperate, humid petrostate.
Thanks Marc, Peter, Elon, Jeff, Mark!
We're suffering from unusually poor governance, but it'll hardly be the first time.
The equivalent would be a democrat administration using government force to shut down data collection they don’t like because it will be used to promote policies they don’t want. Kind of like how the Biden admin’s FAA restricted drone use at the southern border during the migrant crisis.
I think the word you’re looking for is “like” instead of “equivalent”.
For example, for Google $15M is probably less than they spend on stocking their fridges with fizzy drinks. The PR benefits would be huge and they could probably sell the data to the current users of that info.