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almost caused a panic attack for myself by breathing manually this week
almost caused a panic attack for myself by breathing manually this week
I can say for a fact that some of them do, but it’s definitely a lower percentage of the total when compared to average working class folk that support socialism.
I try not to be that guy, but I have a lot of friends like this (will literally venmo charge you in the moment). It just makes the relationship feel transactional.
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Interesting. I’ll have to give it a try!
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I thought it was solid. I agree with some of the criticisms about the acting and lack of mystery/intrigue, but you can blame the book for that. I think the characters had to be split up because IIRC there is a lot of internal thinking and strategy that happens in the book that works better as dialogue in a TV show. Overall, the more interesting ideas and scenes come the further off the rails the trilogy goes, so I’m glad they got through a lot of the early wallfacer stuff in this first season.
I love a slow burn but 3BP (the book) isn’t a slow burn. Would be odd to make a TV show version that is.
if you like bergamot the adagio earl greys are fantastic but a lil pricey
The part about only having the worker work enough hours to achieve the desired amount of surplus value, and not enough to sustain their livelihood, really struck a nerve with me. My brother is constantly let go early at his job even though the guy knows he’s trying to save to afford upcoming grad school expenses. He can absolutely afford paying the extra hours but cuts my brother short any chance he can.
Right. Basically if you’re in a position to max other retirement accounts and are relatively healthy, it’s a great option. Think tech bros and engineers in their 20s-30s making $100k-200k per year, not hedge fund managers with families.
It’s worth reading Messiah to (mostly) conclude Paul’s character arc.
no I’m being completely serious. we’re talking about the place that builds Mars rovers, not weapons. unless just working for the US govt qualifies, in which case, sure.
agreed
i don’t see how working for JPL is “working for the MIC” in even the most generous of interpretations.
probably the hundreds of workers that just lost their jobs because our congress prioritizes weapons and “border security” over space exploration
You’re not getting paid $115k as an early career hire there for most roles. Have several friends there and, compared to the rest of the LA aersopace market, it’s probably a $10-20k cut.
As someone in the industry, you missed the forest for the trees. There’s a lot more to space exploration than just launch vehicle development. SpaceX isn’t going to be doing bespoke Mars rover missions anytime soon unless it has a profit motive. JPL offers a very unique product in these one-off science-driven missions that the private industry has yet to be able to replicate and may never have the incentive to do so. Further gutting JPL just means losing out on those missions, which offer valuable scientific returns to the world. JPL is the reason we have rovers driving and a helicopter flying on Mars, oribters around the gas giants, satellites in interstellar space. The list goes on.
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