If Starship can be made to work reliably, then it's good. In the meantime we have another manned spacecraft beyond LEO, which is good. As good as crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

I'd have preferred the mission to include a LOI and TEI as in Apollo 8, but testing the hardware with people on board even on a purely circumlunar trajectory accomplished a test of the craft and equipment in a safe way while at the same time bringing public attention to the program. Apollo 8 ran a lot of risks that today would be difficult to justify. So far, I have followed the mission a bit at a distance - not seen anything live - but I like what I see. As for the comparisons with Apollo 13, Jim Lovell recorded a message for the Artemis II crew before his passing and he was obviously happy to have more astronauts following in his footsteps. I'd say with 500% accuracy that his feelings in the matter beat any opinion anyone else could have about it, because he was a Space Jock and you are not.

No, spazzes. Like you.

I can barely imagine the harsh, brutal and totally deserved beatings and brown-swirlings a pedantic geek like you were subjected to.

Good, the Spice would have mutated them over generations.

Bomb them. Bomb them into submission. Pound them into the ground, then piss on the ground. What can the frunch/franch/french people do? Oh yeah, right. They can show up to our shores and gloriously SURRENDER so we'll have to feed them. Darn.

Good news! Someone hacked it into existence.

It's done wonders for my addiction to Win 3.x games.

Fraud. I'm talking about fraud.

When I say "destroyed the market for that model" I mean "the short-seller spread misinformation that severely and permanently reduced the value of the vehicles, such as falsifying evidence they were dangerous, from which the brand never recovered."—even if such deception were prosecuted (which, increasingly, under the current administration, it isn't) there is a massive temptation to attempt it, which is amplified by leveraging debt.

That is ideal. Economic growth is not an unqualified net positive for society, and lending is the root cause of most of its ills. With borrowing as it is practised by hegemons today, there are only two endings: either they must close the loop, using the dirty money to architect a revenue-extracting monster that milks non-borrowed money to pay off the debts, or the system collapses under its own weight, like Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme in the 2008 financial crisis. Debt creates its own incentives to abuse the commons and impoverish the public.

Of course, not being content with abusing the commons, there are also implications for abuse of single wealthy lenders, too. It would also effectively outlaw short-selling, since that consists of borrowing assets—the items being traded—then destroying the price, and pocketing the difference. If you think about it, this isn't even adding value to the economy; it's just skimming value off the inventory of whomever you're borrowing from.

If anyone tried this with a physical asset the lender would be apoplectic: "You borrowed 50 cars from me, sold them, destroyed the market for that model, and bought them back at a pittance. Now my inventory of 1,000 cars of the same model is worth a thousand pittances! Why would I ever do business with you ever again?!"—it only works as a system if the lender assumes that the assets will recover value over time, but the degenerate gambler doing the borrowing is incentivised to outright ruin the assets they're borrowing beyond any hope of recovery. In a sense they're even less ethical than corporate raiders, since both the company who issued the stock and the lender are being abused.

In theory slippery slopes are a fallacy, but it's really something else when there are people out there actively looking for slanted surfaces and applying experimental lubricants to every single one they can find.

Yes, Polymarket is the most degenerate, nihilistic, accelerationist bullshit imaginable. At best its creators are willfully in denial about this, since they have tried to ban assassination bets, but more likely they are just trying to maintain a facade of plausible deniability.

In a healthy society, the case of Polymarket would be studied as precedent in an ongoing debate about the possibility of criminalizing the very concept of financial speculation, especially placing a bid with borrowed assets.

"Scathing execration" comes to mind as a possible first step on the evolutionary chain from the latter to the former.

Do you prefer "spazz", "windowlicker" or "mongo bongo"?

Suicide! Suicide! Suicide NOW!

How does it feel, nerdinhos? Hunh? The FBI and all of law enforcement have a red-hot rusty knife held to your zit-ridden faces ready to slice and explode your festering pustules! You though you were so clever, now you'll pay the price! All of your filthy pedocompulsions shall be made public! Your game is through, pedo-nerds! You'll be detected, found, snatched, exposed and punished! You will be beaten, your limbs twisted and pulled until they lose shape, your fat bellies jumped upon until they distend and your very essence is defecated out of your bruised carcasses! Your faces will be shitted upon, aye, your faces will be shitted upon until your last flatulent breath is finally exhaled through layers of feces! Such is your fate, nerdinhos!