Yes. For those who consider it wasteful spending, consider that a lot of problems are not fixable by just throwing more money at them. There’s a saying that “9 women can’t make a baby in one month” even though 1 woman can in 9. Many ills of society are as much about political/social motivation, entrenched opponents/regulatory capture, NIMBYism, etc and not problems that you can fix just by spending more. There’s also the concept of a “marginal dollar” - spending one more dollar in an important area that already has a lot of money (and has problems that aren’t really addressed by just having more money) may not be as impactful as a less important area where that dollar would go a lot further.

Thats because apple adds 30% if you buy through the ios app.

Viewers are so far from those that 8k is not helpful. Also the cameras in the arena would not be able to make 8k video.

Russia today on Russia invading Ukraine: look what you made me do!

longer missions

The length of missions is not currently and will not in the short or medium term be limited by the lifespan of plutonium.

We’re not in a recession because imports are subtracted from GDP. Since Imports have plummeted with tariffs, gdp data gives the false impression of a growing economy. Had imports been unchanged we would’ve had negative GDP reported.

All valid concerns. I’d argue all also manageable with some education, experience, and common sense.

crypto bullshit

Boom! Thats what I was going for. Lemmy seems so anti-crypto when it has real use cases like this. Even here stumbling into where it’s useful you call it bullshit, why?

What about the face scans through TSA and customs? I assumed those were going into every 3 letter agencies databases.

See reply to another poster - I meant to point out that if governments move to censor sites the payment processors will move in lockstep to the govt in censoring payments.

I should have been more direct - if a site accepts credit card payments then they are working with a payment processor that will absolutely 100% cooperate with the govt in choking off sites access to revenue. So to answer your question did cc’s stop working on websites - yes! on many that a govt has decided needs to be shut down, for legitimate or illegitimate reasons. Wikileaks donations being a famous example but if a site doesn’t comply with Texas you bet they can snap their fingers and all payment processors will jump from that site.

Not a single one of those (collected over years) is as grandiose as those mentioned in the article from a single speech Trump made. If you had any desire to participate in good faith you’d acknowledge there is a 2 orders of magnitude difference between total false/misleading claims and a cursory review of the worst statements differ to the point of insanity.

I was going to say vimeo but checked the dates to make sure I remembered right - looks like it was up even before youtube 2004 vs 2005.

What about payments?