incredible how techbros invented the only way to make a less hierarchical structure more oppressive than the alternative. Libertarianism is a sham.

Not entirely sure about that, Valve is still working on the Deckard headset and have continued filing patents on it.

Valve’s biggest problem is, as always, its industrial scale ADHD. They just can’t focus and organize enough to complete projects or to follow up on them. Literally everything that comes out of there requires a miracle and a well-respected senior employee just entirely refusing to give up on it for years.

Extremely do not do this.

Yemen has hypersonic missiles before the US does?

multipolar world let’s goooo

Yes.

I really like my Kindle Oasis. Picked it up eBay, looks like a lot of them are over $100, but you can check a few times and sort by price. Try doing some bidding or making an offer. Might take a little bit to find one, but it’s a good one. 6 or 7 inch screen, really consistent backlighting, and you can message support and they’ll just remove ads for you.

It’s the strategy of naming your cult “The Being Good and Correct Movement” in order to mask your unhinged beliefs as sensible.

Yeah, their whole thing is just creep shit.

The upcoming “replacements” are the Artemis IV lunar space station and a bunch of proposals from different private companies who all want to be landlords of a future space station. All of these, including Artemis IV are in the “artist interpretation only” CGI picture phase, are attached to projects plagued by delays and problems, and set to launch “no sooner than” the end of 2028. Very likely, none of these will ever get off the ground.

The only project beyond this stage is the private Axiom Station, an upcoming series of modules set to launch to the ISS to allow corporate astronauts to live and work on the ISS, then detach and become a private leave-behind when the ISS deorbits. Fucking grim.

The West’s only functional space station is said to be going to be decommissioned in the next few decades at some point too.

Try less than a decade. Decommissioning is currently set for 2031.