It's not really that, it's just that we are a seriously huge country and there isn't much drive to replace century old infrastructure if it still mostly works.

I have run into Europeans more than once that think they can take a day trip from NYC to the Grand Canyon.

Elon Musk is busy fucking his way through the female population (and only buys companies, he doesn't innovate anything himself), Carnegie was a rapacious capitalist that felt bad at the end of his life and built a few libraries, Jobs was a famous micromanaging asshole that took woowoo juice instead of listening to science for his cancer, and Henry Ford was an anti-Semite that thought a certain German leader had some good ideas.

Big heroes, big deal.

And then the cop shoots you for resisting arrest if you don't happen to be white, and then the bodycam footage goes "missing".

Cops suck.

You probably clutched your pearls when Kirk kissed Lt. Uhura, too.

I am so glad your Russian Vodka stipend is continuing unabated, comrade. For Mother Russia!

Mail order companies don't host a significant fraction of the internet on their in-house servers.

His company is built entirely on exploitative labor practices and endless, infinite consumerism. Bezos giving $10 billion of that profit back to the world after it's been paved with Amazon Warehouses does not mean he deserves a medal.

He should have stayed in near-space.

Except in this example, the "horseless carriage" is in fact just a rabid horse with a rocket painted on its side and a guy in an ill-fitting suit slapping it on the back screaming about how it's the "horse of the future".

Crypto is useless.

Southern Democrats were not Liberals or Progressives. This may surprise you, but parties change over time.

Pretty sure covid vaccination was started under Trump, who is allegedly a Republican.

In a war? For sure. We didn't firebomb German cities for fun: we did it to wipe out munitions and other factory production crtiical to the German war effort in WW2. A building of scientists building tomorrow's murder drone is no different.

From your literal linked wikipedia article:

"Many experiments to directly detect and study dark matter particles are being actively undertaken, but none have yet succeeded."

Does your country not have the concept of street photography? I think you're massively simplifying the rights photographers have.

Why is this modded informative? It's climate-denying trolling.
The glaciers ARE melting. Severe weather IS increasing. Extinctions ARE accelerating. People ARE dying.

If you're so sure of your beliefs, by all means, buy as much land on the Florida coast as you can afford.

Yeah, any hobbies you don't see any benefit for are useless wastes of time. Photography? What, you don't like GIMP? Stupid noob, I hope you suffer with Windows!

Get bent.

Let's rename it the ISS Theseus.