As often as not they were chasing Americans’ empty promises (and occasionally achieving the impossible as a result).
The hydrogen bomb, the probe into Venus, the Mirr Space Station… all launched in response to American campaigns.
But the USSR of the 60s/70s was a wildly different place from post collapse Nationalist Russia. They scraped much of their R&D infrastructure for parts under Yeltsin.
Russia’s got more of a space program than the US at this point. And they’ve continued to build and modernize their nuclear infrastructure, with the youngest plant coming online as recently as 2020 and seven in the pipe.
They’re two industries the country has keep in relative working order while the rest of the economy was scrapped for parts back in the '90s/'00s.
Insane to think they are in a position to colonize the moon when they’re quagmired in Ukraine and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of young men to keep at it. But they have the kit to try in a way no other county - except maybe China or India - could hope to.
Market saturation reduces incentive to import, which leads to a decay in quality
That’s just crack.
Falling price of cocaine more often than not means you’re getting it stepped on a lot more. You’re not getting high quality for cheap.
Enshitification came for the narcotics industry ages ago.
You joke, but nothing screams “bad days ahead for the American finance/real estate/tech sectors” like a sharp contraction in demand for nose candy
Requires a fully funded and staffed public postal service in a county that’s dismantling, privatizing, and outsourcing core components of public sector package shipping
Lab rat quality of life has never been higher
Going to gouge all the midstream businesses in the long run. Hardware retailers, PC assemblers, all those little companies selling custom cases and overclock kits and fancy cooling appliances.
The lack of cheap but crucial components will have some ugly coat tails for the rest of the industry.
You mean West Canada?
The Emancipated and Fully Independent People’s Republics of Iowa and Illinois continue to be unrecognized by the UN. But the revolution marches on, comrades.
It’s actually a curved line
I’m more annoyed at how a mod ban removes your ability to “block community” on the current front end. So I’m forced to go into settings and add them to my block list manually.
I don’t particularly like a default policy that lets a community fill up your feed with content you’re not allowed to participate in.
It’s a vast improvement over the black box of Reddit. But a big stretch to claim its transparent in a material sense. Most people don’t have the time or background to figure out the what and why of a mod action. And once something is removed, it’s dead to time.
Reddit felt smug, but not unfriendly.
No shortage of outright nail-chewing psychos on Reddit, depending on your instance. But I’ve found the subs with mods who swing the ban hammer the hardest tend to cultivate a community of folks who love sniffing their own farts more than butting heads.
Fortunately, its a message board not a military tribunal. You’re not going to kill anyone by posting at them.
I’ve seen a number of accounts that seem to harp on a single topic, grow increasingly adversarial if you dispute or refute anything posted, and eventually just start screaming insults until you block them.
This feels like very old-school early '10s era Reddit, where the Admins don’t do more than the high level stuff to keep the site operational, the Mods are as overworked as they are short-tempered, and a handful of power users dictate the content of any given channel by spamming it with whatever media supports their personal grudges.
The difference is the Modlog, which means everyone can see the receipt
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor