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  • Let me rewrite your question, and correct me if I’m misrepresenting it:

    “Why should we spend resources on X instead of Y?”

    Well, for this kind of question, I would prefer to choose a “high value” X and an “important” Y.

    Space exploration, and science as a whole, is extremely cheap and good for humanity.

    Let’s talk about other expensive “X” first:

    • Unnecessary war efforts.
    • ICE (if we are taking about US)
    • Saving banks when they screw up on their bets.
    • Incentives to coal and gas when solar is already more viable …

    Maybe you started to think about it because that’s an amazing subject, and it is. That alone should be reason enough for us to want to do it. But it is not the only reason. Space exploration already gave us a lot of tech we rely on today. And still, is a very difficult field that will require more tech advancements, that will benefit us in the future.






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    Valve is solving the chicken-and-egg problem. For a developer, it is costly to maintain a separate build for Linux without the consumer base to justify the effort. And without games, most people will not leave windows.

    Proton offers Valve independence from windows without effort and cost for the developers. And without penalties for the gamers as well.







  • Out of curiosity I checked some big news sites here, it’s relevant in the International section, but not the headline in any of them. And none of news had the name of the victim in the title.

    I knew ICE executed someone (again) in broad daylight, but the video on social media was the source, not the news.

    The authoritarian escalation inside the US may be less relevant for me than it’s escalation outside; like the kidnapping of the venezuelan president by US forces and it’s repercussions in south-america.

    Maybe I’m cuban, colombian, brazilian or mexican, and I’m more concerned with Trump’s threatening interventions in my country like he did with Venezuela, knowing that the International community is ignoring his imperialistic moves on latin-america (as always).

    … Or even violence cases in my own country are more relevant because they are a bigger risk for me. The world is bigger than the white western hemisphere.

    Edit: But I get why everyone is very reactive right now, the situation is very fucked-up.