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  • @StJohnMcCrae@slrpnk.nettoYUROP@lemm.eeEU_irl
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    6 days ago

    Tell that to northern Ireland, Scotland, Gibraltar, French Guiana or Polynesia.

    Both countries still have overseas territories all over the world. It doesn’t matter how hard you, they or anyone else tries to legitimize those colonies, that’s still what they are.

    Why were the French using the Polynesian islands as nuclear testing grounds up through 1996? Would the French government be so lax with testing in their own country? No - that’s why they did it in a colony with 200,000 brown people instead.







  • I like my smartwatch. I’m extremely ADHD as well as hypoglycemic. I have a lifelong history of not eating, then working/playing/exercising until i get woozy or pass out. I’m a terrible judge of what I actually need to stay functional. Always have been. I’m stubborn and will just try to power through things when I actually can’t.

    The watch helps me track my sleep/rem cycles and lets me know when I’ve been neglecting my health. It lets me know when I’m getting stressed and need to take it easy, and it estimates how many calories I’ve expended on a given day.

    The watch and pager functions are nice for reducing screen time when I should be working, but as a health monitor I find it indispensable in keeping me honest with myself.






  • It doesn’t really matter what kind of engine it is if it’s going fast enough.

    Anything with enough mass and acceleration to move a human being from planet to planet in a reasonable timeframe has the kinetic energy required to wipe out a city. Once you start reaching relativistic speeds, you can take out entire planets by simply not slowing down on approach.



  • The fact is that any manned vehicle capable of interplanetary travel is by the nature of the energies involved, also a weapon of mass destruction. A spaceship is a weapon in the same way a car can be a weapon.

    So either you massively restrict access to this technology, or you create a system of surveillance and defense that is so pervasive and effective that it makes 1984 look benign, OR you just say fuck everyone else and use that weapon to remove yourself from range of everybody else’s weapons.

    Proliferation is an existential problem for anyone in range.