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George, Dick, Condoleeza and etc will be along to join him soon enough (just not soon enough to have, you know, not taken thousands of lives).
 

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NASA is predicting it will cause flooding and other things to be several multiples worse than it would have been otherwise.
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As far as the billionaires in space stuff, I hate it too but it should be said the government is getting some things back for all the subsidizing. Whether it balances out longterm I don't know. But the appetite in government for spending on space exploration doesn't seem to be there sadly so working with these guys is kind of where we are now. Space exploration is extremely important for the future of humanity IMO. So much of the technology we have now has come about from the space programs and that will continue to be true. I also think we need to expand off earth. The fact that billionaires are likely going to control that is awful but frankly unsurprising.
 

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Not sure I get the hate. The video is not offensive in the least and Twitter and FB auto play vids too.
What does "offensive" have to do with it? I was listening to something else, and then, this noise came out of nowhere, and started playing over the top of it.

To quote the great American philosopher Red Foreman, "You know the best thing about whistling? You can stop whistling." You can stop Twitter and Facebook from auto-playing videos. TTBOMK, you can't stop an embedded reddit video from auto-playing on a message board.
 

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Esquire removed the paywall for this article for 9/11 (so don't yell at me if you try to read this in a week and it's back behind the paywall, guys!!!). One of the best pieces on 9/11/01 I've ever read.
 

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Yeah, good luck enforcing that, dumbass.
I mean, the wording outright says that it would require them to be neutral on disagreeable but lawful content, and also equates social media services (and ISPs) with telephone providers (which opens up a valid argument for internet becoming the proper Type II service that it always should have been). This is one of those things that was blatantly designed to protect shitty pro-GOP "hot take" types, but can be positively applied to every possible user.
 
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