#Elon Musk Is A Terrorist

[maaltajik]

Oh the Amtrak CEO is stepping down? Oh I’m sure this is inconsequential. I’m sure there was no external pressure from a private “government” agency whose leader Does Not Like Trains. At least the head of that weird agency doesn’t have vested interest in selling his own cars versus funding national railroad development. Good thing that that isn’t the case rn

[vlovann]

Man, Nikola Tesla, in his grave, didn’t give permission for this dumbass to use his name.

Apparently, he perfectly predicted the government doing shit like this.

He wanted less government control and perfectly predicted that we would all become dependent on it and that we would pay the taxes meant for the rich.

His name is being slandered by a fascist.

[surviving-the-next-4-years]

[pillsquad]

via @coldwarsteve

[notlemoncello]

[dontlikeit-toobad]

Without government funded NASA, we wouldn't have so many innovations, breakthroughs and understanding of the world and universe.

The Elon Musks of this world are trying to privatize and steal what we as taxes payers own. Don't fall for his tactics, he is raiding the work of amazing engineers from the governmental agencies. He then will charge us billions to use the same innovations that we paid to create.

Spinoffs: Space Station Innovations in Your Cart (and Heart!)

You might think NASA technology is just spaceships and telescopes, but did you know the camera in your cell phone is, too? It’s one of many NASA innovations now found everywhere on Earth.

The International Space Station has had crew living on it for 25 years straight. In that time, the space station has enabled a tremendous amount of research, helping NASA and scientists better understand long-term living in space – but it’s not just knowledge coming back down to Earth! Technologies developed for the space station and experiments conducted aboard the orbiting lab also benefit people on the planet below. Here are a few of these inventions, or spinoffs, you can find in your everyday life.

A Sunscreen That Blocks Radiation in Space – and on Your Face

After surviving for 18 months outside the International Space Station, an extremely hardy organism is now improving sunscreens and face cream products from a cosmetics company, which licensed use of the organism from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Build Muscle With or Without Gravity

Muscles atrophy quickly in space, so when astronauts began long stays on the International Space Station, they needed some specialized exercise equipment. A resistance mechanism made of a coiled metal spring formed the basis of the first way for astronauts to “lift weights” in space. Soon after, that same design became the heart of compact home gym equipment.

Fresh Greens Every Day of the Year

The need to grow fresh food in space pushed NASA to develop indoor agriculture techniques. Thanks to the agency’s research, private companies are building on NASA’s vertical farm structure, plant-growth “recipes,” and environmental-control data to create indoor farms, resulting in higher crop yields and better-quality produce while conserving water and energy and eliminating the need for pesticides.

Cultivating Hearts and Knees in Space

Gravity is a significant obstacle to bioprinting cells and growing human tissue on Earth because heavier components settle to the bottoms of petri dishes. In the absence of gravity, each cell layer stays in place, which is how it’s possible to grow heart and knee tissue on the space station. The same principle also allows mixing of complex pharmaceuticals on orbit.

Storing Oodles of Energy

NASA chose nickel-hydrogen batteries to power the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station because the technology is safe, reliable in extreme temperatures, and long-lived. NASA’s improvements brought down the cost of the technology, which is now used by large-scale utilities and renewable power plants that need to store energy generated by intermittent sources.

You can read about many more products sourced from the ISS on spinoff.nasa.gov.

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[nando161mando]

This has to be one of the well thought out tweet I have seen in some time

[milverton]

[maaltajik]

Elon Musk pulling up in a (most likely) armored Cadillac is really funny considering that he had Daddy 47 shilling us Teslas not too long ago, why doesn’t he arrive in style in a Cybertruck? I thought it was bulletproof.

[ngdrb]

In 1923 Adolf Hitler incited an insurrection against the German government. He was tried, given a slap on the wrist, and became a convicted felon. Despite being treated charitably by the judge, Hitler claimed the trial was political persecution and successfully portrayed himself as a victim of the “corrupt" Social Democrats.

Hitler cleverly positioned himself as the voice of the "common man," railing against the "elites," cultural "degeneracy," and the establishment, who he all labeled as "Marxists." He claimed the education system was indoctrinating children to hate Germany, and promised to return Germany to greatness.

To solidify his base, Hitler masterfully scapegoated minorities for the nation's problems, exploiting societal divisions with an "us vs. them" narrative. Many Germans took the bait. Hitler's Nazi Party continued to gain traction, until he became Chancellor in 1933.

Hitler appointed German oligarchs as his economic advisors. He proceeded to privatize government run utilities, solidifying support of the economic elite.

With the working class divided along cultural and ethnic lines, the Nazis shut down workers unions and abolished strikes.

Progressives and trade unionists were imprisoned and sent to concentration camps. Corporate profits skyrocketed while working class Germans lived paycheck to paycheck.

Hitler, who became a billionaire while in office, knew he and his clan of oligarchs could get away with the scam if they constantly had an "enemy within" to blame while the corporatocracy robbed the country blind.

An easy target was one of the smallest minorities. Hitler removed birthright citizenship rights of Jews and started rounding them up for mass deportations for being "illegally" in the country.

The German press under Nazi rule highlighted instances of violence by Jews to convince the public that Jewish immigrants were a danger to the "real Germans."

Hitler wasted no time dismantling democratic institutions. Loyalty wasn't just encouraged; it was demanded. Opponents were silenced. Media that dared to questioned[sic] him were vilified as "the enemy" and "Marxists."

Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, bragged about how the Nazis were able to intimidate the media into giving them favorable coverage, and didn't need to give direct orders.

The Nazi regime and its followers collected all books they saw as promoting "degeneracy" or what would be considered "woke" today, and burned them in large bonfires. They also burned books that promoted class consciousness.

Berlin had a thriving LGBTQ community in the 1920s, and even had the first transgender clinic. The Nazis burned it to the ground. LGBTQ people were sent to concentration camps and forced to wear triangle badges. Many were killed in the Holocaust.

The Nazis also saw manhood as under threat by independent women who didn't rely on men. In 1934, Hitler proclaimed, “A women’s world is her her husband, her family, her children, her house." Laws that had protected women's rights were repealed and new laws were introduced to restrict women to the home and in their roles as wives and mothers.

Reproductive rights were severely rolled back, and doctors who performed abortions could face the death penalty.

Despite all of this, the German people didn't have a similar historical parallel to look upon as a warning.

Most Germans never acted like the sky was falling.

Most just went along with their lives as usual, until many of their lives were snuffed out. By the time Hitler's reign was forced to an end by the Allied Powers, 11 million people were murdered in the Holocaust, and 70-85 million were killed in WW2 .

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

"Get your hustle right. Learn the game tight. Ain't no spectatin'--you up in this fight. And, you know, pick a bigger weapon."

(Pt. 2)

[xoheisse]

…can we just chip in and launch a missile at this guy i’m so serious

[in4newz]

[t-grey-writing]

This side blog is posting a lot about politics when it was originally meant to be a writing/reading blog. While I am a bit disheartened that it’s grown into something else, it would be irresponsible of me not to spread information where I can, and I’m here to remind everyone that reading is political.

If you are capable of reading, it is political. Pay attention to what they’re planning to restrict in book bans and read that. There’s a reason they want to keep you from consuming said media. So read it. Consume it anyway. Give them the big fuck you and read what they want you to avoid.

I’m a queer disabled person in the US and I refuse to be silent. Please refuse to be silenced. I am genuinely begging you to stand up and organize with others. Listen to people of color who have been doing this for years and build community with your neighbors. It’s so so important not to be isolationists right now.

[notlemoncello]

That’s some decent news

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