If that was a typo for America, and you are trying to say you’re American, you’ve got at least one thing in a prior comment that’s a dead giveaway that you are not.

Some people are workaholics, especially people who think like that.

“how do you plan to counter the inevitable contraction of your workforce to achieve your expansion goals?”

Also, he’s probably a shit person. If he actually implements this plan I’d start inviting him to stuff on his extra work day (maybe pull in other mutual friends). Bonus points if you can make the first extra day such an awesome thing that it either eats him up inside on that day, or if you manage to get him to accept all of his employees revolt over it

That’s… What I said?

The ISS is in space.

Then again, so is planet earth so I can answer from that perspective: yeah, it’s pretty easy. We have gravity and don’t usually have monitors on so just whip it out and have fun

Also, how many different ways can we record a podcast with people in other places without being there physically? Even the official story screams “publicity stunt”

For sure. And Elon would just shit talk the aliens, pass along misinformation about them on Xitter, and we’d get zapped after finding it it was possible when we first learned of them.

We went from first flight to landing on the moon in less than 70 years, and are worlds ahead of where we were then. I totally get that we wouldn’t be able to leave tomorrow, but in the “could be minutes, could be centuries” scenario it’s hard to imagine the answer being more than 70 years starting now, and that’s what I’m curious about

One thing I’ve always wondered: let’s say we NEEDED to go to the moon right away, even if it meant taking a few safety shortcuts. Like, aliens landed there and demanded a face-to-face meeting before they destroy our planet and we don’t know how long they’ll wait for us (could be minutes, could be centuries, but who wants to find out?)… What’s the fastest we could, in theory, get there?

Kinda related, I studied in Spain for a semester. Was taking with my fellow American roommate about the debate of if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. Our host mom’s daughter’s boyfriend (Cuban, fwiw) overheard, and we told him about the “controversy” in the US but all 3 of us agreed it was a fruit. Host mom overheard us and asked what we were talking about, and the Cuban told her. “Well yeah, of course it’s a vegetable”

I couldn’t understand every word but when I could tell they were arguing about some vegetables having seeds or something like that I knew I spread something.

He was probably thinking of the Bombe, which broke Enigma’s encoding.

Lycos.

I’d be curious to know for funsies, but do you really expect it to be anything that would make one rethink solar?

That Uber driver was not amused

That would be a problem… If it were a thing. At least here in the US, it’s not. Can you tell me where you’re not allowed to fix your own car, assuming no specialty tools are needed?

I mean, I’m pretty sure cars’ lifespans have generally increased over the years, despite not being able to easily tweak valves or what have you. So many older cars don’t have a 6th digit on the odometer because it was so common for a car to die after about 100,000 miles anyway. Now you might hit some issues, but that kind of mileage is basically your car’s equivalent of a person’s 40th birthday.

I mean, it’s not like people would check that dedicated webpage on their own, and they are less likely to click on that webpage to get the additional details. Just put it on the platform most people are using and don’t add extra steps to see what’s needed.

If they’re looking to Xitter it could be copy/pasted instead, but then updates get harder to manage.

Very well said. I think at the end of the day, the human element is too easy to overlook and that’s a problem. We have one bot, a search engine, keeping an eye open for content. SEO wants to stand out for that bot, so it demands content (and in a certain way) be created so the search engine picks it up… But that takes effort, so we have another bot creating content to get the attention of another. And the thing a person wants just becomes an afterthought and dead Internet theory is that much more real

It’s not exactly difficult to fire employees who are citizens either

Or you can tell me why my examples are different than yours, or that they really are all the same.