Those fuel taxes pay for essential services directly related to their use of our airspace. If they can't run a profitable company without tax payers directly or indirectly subsidizing them, then the free market says they should die to make room for someone who can.

If you want more spaceflights, fund NASA. Private companies that depend on public money are nothing but parasites. Elmo and Bozo burn their own money on their silly vanity space companies.

Public private partnerships are theft. Every dollar they profit is a dollar that didn't go to providing the service we're paying for. This isn't complicated.

That's just reality, kid. Turn off NewsMax and open a book.

Don't be stupid. Taxes are paid on profits, not on revenues. It is mathematically impossible to "tax an industry to death".

We should be funding NASA, not these private-sector leeches. Let Elmo and Bozo fund their own stupid pissing match.

LOL! All that cope won't change reality, sunshine. Cry harder.

Exactly this. Still, like the post office, I think they do surprisingly well given that they're actively being sabotaged.

It's true that Libertarians are simple and have a very childlike understanding of the world, but this is just a bit too much. I'm all for poking fun at their anti-government silliness, but try to make it seem at least a little believable!

Honestly, not even Elon could take that laughable idea seriously.

You do understand that all of this is happening exclusively in your imagination, right? There is no well-meaning researcher being attacked by your imaginary "hate mob".

Here in reality, anyone who would use this image is guaranteed to be fully aware of the history as well as the controversy. Get real and get fucking clue.

Get real. If you're unaware of the problem, then you haven't been paying attention for at least the last 25 years.

Cry harder, troll. Your tears are delicious.

You could, but only if you're completely delusional.

As reality has clearly demonstrated, those are decidedly not the consequences of her voicing her objections. That's a disgusting little fantasy you've cooked up all on your own.

Aside from a few pockets of backwards bigots, the world has agreed that they should move on from the image and have taken steps to that end. I suggest you get over it.

If you don't like the natural social consequences of acting like a bigoted asshole, you should stop acting like a bigoted asshole.

That you don't think the image is problematic doesn't mean it's not, only that you're unwilling, or incapable, of understanding the issue.

You can try to understand that perspective and grow as a person, or you can wallow in your own ignorance. The choice is yours.

Just because we fucked up in the past doesn't mean we can't take corrective action now.

If we honored some scumbag by naming a bird after him, we're under no obligation to continue to honor that scumbag. We can change the name of the bird.

The same is true for the Lenna image. Not using that image is trivial, so there's no reason to continue using it.