MentalEdge

Don’t be obtuse.

There are other concerns with developing space tech besides ones concerning competence and expertise.

Even that is worth questioning, as Russia is suffering historical levels of brain-drain for obvious reasons.

As an infrastructure project its conceptually pretty sick. A nuclear power plant would be fairly ideal for the first long-term human presence on the moon.

The problem is that it’s Russia and China doing it.

It’s to serve as a power source for a potential moon base, apparently.

The universe doesn’t care, so we have to. If you want humanity to be something that’s worthy of existing, then it’s not optional.

Fine, you don’t have the stamina to care about this because you can’t personally do something about it. That’s ok.

But care about something. Care about not running the water while brushing your teeth for no reason, or about repairing some things you’d normally throw away. Care about being good company for the people you know. Care about doing things better when you spot an opportunity for improvement. Care about not making the lives of your colleagues harder if you can help it. Care about answering the questions of a child with mindfulness and consideration.

You don’t have to care about everything. Everything matters, everything needs improving, but no-one can fix everything so that it’s perfect.

But improve something. Take pleasure in doing it. Not everyone will do the same, but you’ll be one more among millions making the world a little better, instead of worse.

Not to mention that if you’re running a country, someone is going insult you.

Making everyone happy is an impossible ask, so if you can’t settle for the majority being content, and probably not even being that vocal about it, then you should not be governing.

Uuuh, pretty sure you’re still allowed to read your work email off-hours, or get some shit done if you feel like it.

This just means you can’t be fired for, you know, having a life.

Oh I don’t think nestle would give Putin shit. I just want Putin to try, and by doing so burn that particular bridge. Nestle isn’t gonna stop doing business in Russia any other way.

For real.

Putin, please do nestle next.

I don’t know about you guys but even as a straigh dude, especially glorious beards can also have me staring and acting unwise…

I say ban all beards.

Obviously. How else would they protect them from their uncontrollable male urges?

/S in case anyone gets confused…

Technically yes.

But I wasn’t commenting on whether this given situation, or whether modern copyright laws, are reasonable.

In this case the extradition is extending the reach of shitty laws, but that is not an arguement against extraditions being a thing.

They are a good thing. They allow for laws to reach across borders, because otherwise a state of anarchy would exist between countries, where all crime would be fair game, as long as you only victimized foreigners. That would be extremely fucked.

It’s why contries like Russia and India have online scam industries, because there exists no international agreement that would enforce some consequences for robbing people on the other side of the world.

You know countries with extradition agreements can request extraditions in the other direction, as well?

If an american does a crime in Australia, but makes it back to the states, Australias government can also go “yeah so uuuh that guy killed a dude over here, gonna need him back for trial”.

It’s what makes it less likely people will just do crime all over other countries and then return home to escape punishment.

Apparently.

It looks to be aimed at the type of people who see their own generation as selfish trash, and would be receptive to the “we’re looking for the real ones, join and find your peers” type message that the poster goes for.

But I doubt that lands with a lot of people. That younger generations are lazy, selfish, penny pinchers is not a view held by a lot of the people who actually are of those generations.

Might work if they were recruiting boomers, tho.

It makes sense that that culture attracted the exact type of people who treated this woman like shit.