He had kind of a shit take after Kirk got murked tbh

This is a really bad take

Only thing is that table salt contains iodine which is something our body needs and generally we don’t get from a lot of other sources. So if you completely switch over to pink salt you might see problems with iodine deficiency.

Copy that, my knowledge of the specifics of digital vs analog is about exhausted just from what i posted so i appreciate the added information!

Well the second pic is also at night with a high iso and long exposure plus it’s digiral so there’s a lot more noise going on.

I don’t disagree with the grossness of the American exceptionalism propaganda that they always include, but you have to remember they have to get all of their funding from congress and also to a certain extent have to keep the approval of the American people. So honestly a certain amount of patriotism circle jerk is unfortunately to be expected/necessary.

This reads as someone who isn’t really that familiar with the aims/goals of Artemis. This about a stepping stone to a lunar base and then ofc to Mars and beyond. There’s a TON we still need to learn about and obstacles to overcome if we’re ever going to make it any further than the moon. Affects of deep space travel on the human body including radiation (check out AVATAR), immune systems, activity/sleep patterns are just a few of the experiments that will be performed. All of these have the potential to have huge impacts on healthcare on Earth as well, just as spaceflight science has in the past. So many technologies we use today came from NASA or spaceflight research. Here is a just a small list. I could go on, theres a large portion of NASA that does Earth-based science (weather/climate change research), but the point is NASA research has long had a positive impact on both our daily lives and economic output.

This is not even to mention, it’s been 50 years of technological change and growth since the last moon trip. This means thousands of new systems and technology that are yet to be tested by humans in deep space. The bigger the goal (Mars etc), the more incremental the testing steps need to be in order to proceed safely.

As for the politics, this isn’t some Blue Origin Jeff Bezos dick rocket going up on a very low suborbital flight just so he could say "i’M aN aStRoNaUt’. This is a program for entirely scientific purposes. You can definitely argue that it is still political, and I don’t disagree. Exploration and especially space exploration has always been inextricably linked with politics. But hell, I’d argue the original moon landing was WAY more political than Artemis; the whole reason the Apollo program had the timeline it did was because we wanted to beat the Soviets to the punch. And compared to the Apollo days, NASA now operates on a shoestring budget if you account for inflation.

I agree there’s a lot the US spends money on that should be going to better the lives of it’s citizens, but NASA funding isn’t one of them imo. As of 2018, NASA funding accounted for only 0.5% of the federal budget. That’s not a lot to take from in comparison to the many other areas where there is bloated federal spending.

Conceptually, it’s always supposed to have been something akin to Patreon, where creators can be supported by fans via a subscription model. A combination of lax rules around nudity and probably sheer inertia meant that “creators” ended up being pretty much only sex workers. OF then tried to pivot away from that and we all knows how well that went.

It still is that way, it just depends on what kind of content you engage with. People on reddit/lemmy LOVE to hate on short form video content but it isn’t inherently destructive or evil IMO., it just depends on how you interact with it.