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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneGeorge Rule
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    2 hours ago

    Of all of his failings, I don’t think you can really blame that one on him. His time had to balance an alliance of states that had really wanted to be a confederacy with reestablishing (small r) republicanism for the first meaningful time beyond the city-state level in two thousand years.

    There’s going to be some misses.


  • People are generally under the impression that NASA was actually making the equipment that put astronauts on the moon, for some reason.

    They didn’t, but they would tell manufacturers what they needed and then they’d compete to make it (in theory) and modify existing technology.

    In that sense NASA is just doing what it’s always done when it buys a rocket from SpaceX or whoever, the problem is the corporate expression of neoliberalism (See The Man Who Broke Capitalism) has devastated the competency of their competitors.