• nifty@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Defense manufacturers can easily repurpose their entire industry for space travel, especially if we’re concerned about traveling anywhere at a speed reasonable for a human life span. The profit motive for war and conflict is unjustifiable.

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      1 year ago

      Sadly, there isn’t much demand for space travel, but a whole lot demand to want to kill each other.

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        1 year ago

        No one knew there was a demand for smartphones before we had them. I want to believe!

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    1 year ago

    Look. I’m making millions doing what I do, and I don’t ever experience these “ravages of war” or whatever that nonsense is, so clearly 7.99 billion other people are just like me in these regards. It’s just a few hundred bad people (lol if that) getting a little mad at each other, so let’s stop this racist wealth-shaming, shall we? Okay then.

    (sips kopi luwak)