I think there are a variety of benefits to having people there but I think people are getting a bit too radicalized against Musk vaporware lol

not just read only anymore!

weather forecasting that save thousands of lives every year? GPS? telecommunications? agriculture?

space exploration has had huge impacts on fixing infra and inequality

I mean I don’t think either will solve our problems and I still think we should do both anyway

so true

anyway, it's funny that this is describing the exact location OP lives. Guess if you live in the Sahara your planet just sucks

"the place I live, which actually just refers to a narrow strip of the west coast US, is better than all possible others" is indeed some pretty uncomfy reactionary territory yeah

it does get into some uncomfy when it's like "my place better because xyz. your place bad because sand" or whatever

and probably more poised to benefit from people retreating to reactionary beliefs about our world and others :)

lol

billionaire space colonization shit is like actually 2 people lol

I think we should explore other worlds and through doing so learn a shit ton about not destroying our own. I don't think our world is intrinsically better than other worlds, I don't understand why you would retreat to weird...earth nativism about this.

our solar system is one of thousands. this is like never leaving your block and convincing yourself there's nothing to learn outside of it.

yeah it absolutely is lmao

nevermind the number of incredible scientific achievements we've made simply because we tried things in space.

"better options" I mean we actually don't know that. we don't know that because we haven't been there.

I think being wholly anti-space anti-exploration anti-science in this way is really weird and reactionary actually?

fine I'll do it myself alternativeproto.net/project/did:...

I need to rewrite it to use Quart instead of Flask so it’s not wack

omg yay we did it thank you

it is bc you unfollowed me

"Under Bondi, in the first six months of Trump’s administration, DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, fraud, and drugs..."

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

it's not that difficult to pull off! I actually did a lot of the basic groundwork with @morsels.blue

eventually I want to have not just a ban list but an allow list so you could create properly segmented communities

all the GPL licensed software you can get

rn I just have a list of banned DIDs that the app filters out lmao

basically rn I am working on a read-only web app that works as a bbs archive of sorts...but the eventual goal is to have a r/w terminal tui you can use to 'connect' to your friend's bbs

bsky.app/profile/aly....

moderation is for pussies