For them it is a positive. They make money.

I had the same hope the last time this clown was president (welp, there goes my US visa). It didn’t happen. Maybe this time it’ll be different but as long as conservatives have any saying in EU politics I’m very much sceptical.

I’d like NASA to speak up but it’s of course in their best financial interest to remain nonpartisan. Why should they alienate the Republicans and risk funding to expose an obvious lie? What good would it do? Many Americans don’t care about the truth or are unable to grasp it, even when presented with facts.

I prefer if you refer to procrastination as “working in mysterious ways”. That’s what I’ll do from now on.

I agree with you on that, late stage capitalism in full bloom. I was thinking about the time multiple decades ago, at the beginning of the last century.

It is really sad to see that we as a society are past our prime in multiple areas. At least when looking at it from a “western” perspective. And when I consider the political climate it seems that things have to get a whole lot worse before they can get better. I resonate with the shower thought.

That has always been the case. I’d even say it got easier in the last decades, in general. That does not mean people are no longer struggling, of course.