Comment on: Your Book Review: Where's My Flying Car? (The Great Stagnation was caused by energy usage flatlining, which was caused by our failure to switch to nuclear energy, which was caused by excessive regulation, which was caused by "green fundamentalism".)
Not just energy either. Ma Bell strangled the communications industry for decades, preventing new tech from breaching into mainstream. We should have had smart phones in the 1980s or the 90s at the latest. The idea of a futuristic Year 2000 was perfrctly achievable.
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06 Jun 2021 18:28
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Comment on: Wikipedia Endowment: The Site Is Rich. Why Is It Fundraising?
gib mone
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31 May 2021 06:31
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Comment on: Google accused of tracking users in 'Incognito' mode, lawsuit pending
This case will go nowhere, they literally TELL YOU that when you open the tab.
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14 Mar 2021 18:17
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Comment on: Subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa deemed potentially 'habitable'
This space shit gets me so fuckin HYPED. I mean this is basically just a hypothesis and I'm still like "WOOOO JUPITER COLONY YEEEEAH"
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26 Jun 2020 22:04
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