“Jared will drive NASA’s mission of discovery and inspiration, paving the way for groundbreaking achievements in Space science, technology, and exploration,” Trump wrote in a post on social media.
Yeah, so all those astronauts who used to say that they needed politicians to go to space so they could be in awe of the Earth and come back feeling like it’s important to protect can be lumped in with all the idiots who say the world would be better if everyone took hallucinogens.
I think this guy and Musk prove both of those things to be fucking fantasies and copium, because for folks like this, nothing can shatter their worldview. They simply don’t see the same earth or the same problems we do.
“Back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world,” Isaacman said during the spacewalk after emerging from the capsule.
The kind of people for whom a total perspective vortex would have nil effect.
“everyone should take hallucinogens” is a way more legitimate take, backed by science
Possibly…the counterexample is tech CEOs jetting off to Burning Man, tripping balls for a week, and coming up with app ideas for things nobody actually needs.
Musk has used a lot of drugs, including psychedelics.
Currently I’m in the middle of what’s apparently one of his favorite book series…communism, post-scarcity, and frequent gender changing are featured front and center.
The “everybody should take psychedelics” argument maybe carried some weight in the 60s when the “squares” were the ones in the way. (Though I still kinda doubt that because look who so many of those “free love” boomers turned into).
But the Republicans of today are not the same as they were then. They are partying, smoking weed, and doing a whole lot of other drugs including psychedelics. It’s possible to eat drugs, realize some profound things, become incredibly self-actualized, and be so addicted to power that it doesn’t really matter anyways.
Or just be so narcissistic that you just ignore the things you read in a book or think about on your acid trip and just carry on…
I don’t doubt the research into psychedelics, and their power on an individual level to help people work through things in a therapeutic way. I am starting to doubt the idea that “if everyone just tripped one time the world would be a better place”.
Musk has used a lot of drugs, including psychedelics.
Do did Charles Manson.
Anyone who thinks that psychedelics have magic powers to reform humanity is delusional. They can provide useful insight in some people who are already so inclined, they can trigger psychotic episodes in people already at risk, and assholes who take psychedelics almost always revert to being assholes soon after the comedown.
And to declare an interest: psychedelics did me a lot of good. But I’ve known literally hundreds of people who have taken them, and the end results are all over the map. They’ll pick you up, often they’ll put you down somewhere else, but in most people, they don’t cause lasting change, except perhaps a compulsion to tell everyone about their visit to the clockwork elves.
Not sure how far you are through the Culture books yet, but: Musk thinks he is Zakalwe or something, but he’s really Veppers.
Currently I’m in the middle of what’s apparently one of his favorite book series…
What’s the book series? I’m very curious because it seems like Phony Stark just gets an assistant to give him cliff notes on a lot of sci-fi given how many bad ideas he pitches.
Who did he rape?
No one, but he did pay Musk to go to space aboard Crew Dragon, and to do a spacewalk in a SpaceX EVA suit.
Not great, not terrible
Yea, but he going to be really enthusiastic while he is shoveling money to both musk and perhaps himself. And he believes the moon landings are real.
It could have been a moon landing denier or even a flat earther.
There is a non zero chance he may actually be good for the space program in general? In the meantime the bar is lowered enough that this may be the best in a bad lot, even if this nomination redefines the term “industry capture”
I mean, the dude loves space so much he paid out of pocket to go there. He’s a real pilot and real astronaut. Not a bad sign at all.
On the other hand we should always be wary of putting the rich in charge of things.
There is a non zero chance he may actually be good for the space program in general?
He does nothing but criticize NASA long-term plans as they stand and is fine with the privatization of space?
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that non-zero chance is something like 0.0000001% chance. Sure, it’s not zero, but it still ain’t a real fucking good chance.
Non-title-gore version:
Trump nominates Jared Isaacman—Shift4 CEO, commercial astronaut, and Musk friend—to be next NASA administrator.
The bar is so low, the fact I could name whole groups of dumb fucks that would be worse in that position means this is one of Trump’s better picks. Not that this guy’s any good and won’t try to funnel federal money towards himself and Musk.
Trump’s best is so far worse than anyone else’s worst that there’s no point ranking Trump’s picks at all. It’s like asking you which flavor of dogshit you prefer to be force-fed.
