I don’t think I would call Buzz Aldrin “boring.”
Or the common cold!
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Metostopholes@midwest.social 1 day ago
Nightlight17776@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I would call him anything. He’s got a mean right hook
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
And that’s sober. The rest of him gets mean when he isn’t.
Neil was boring by most standards though. He was a boy scout with a death wish. Later on he got interesting by his hometown’s standards and painted his barn purple.
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
He gets to live life being known as “Buzz”.
How does life get better than that?aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Watch out, he’s a fighter.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Jokes aside I don’t like the “boring men” part NASA was THE example of “women in STEM.”
silasmariner@programming.dev 10 hours ago
How many women have been to the moon though?
astutemural@midwest.social 15 hours ago
Allergy desensitization therapy was invented in 1911. It’s just that your insurance company doesn’t consider it a ‘necessary procedure’, so they don’t pay for it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
What kind of success rates does it have?
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I wish we would fund both. And socialized medicine.
And end hunger and homelessness.
And
And
And
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We could. But think of the shareholders.
SARGE@startrek.website 1 day ago
I think of the shareholders, board, c-suites, and all of their friends every time I gaze upon my Guillotine.
relativestranger@feddit.nl 1 day ago
we would all be ‘shareholders’ of public services for public good.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Wish granted. Instead giving 3% the annual military budget to nasa we give 4% now. The new research in physics helps everyone and advances our society.
But just like with every monkey’s wish there is an unexpected side and it’s that even tho shareholder profit didn’t increase in short-term, in long-term they got better lives too now due to trickle-up economics.
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
When’s the pollen season on the moon?
I think you are missing the obvious cure handed right to you. Funding should be increased so you too can be free of airborne plant reproduction via the most sensible and straight forward method.
If you are unhappy with the scenery, I am sure the technology developed for lunar habitation will also prove helpful for polar habitation, where similarly few natural particulates are dispersed.onslaught545@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Allergy immunotherapy is absolutely a thing.
Ougie@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Reeks of toxic desperation.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Of course we should care for the vulnerable in our society. Of course.
But may^yyybeee^ if touching grass kills you, you’re supposed to die.
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s a Louis CK bit for those who don’t know the reference: youtu.be/XLGzFQg_1xc
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
if touching grass kills you, you’re supposed to die
So like, inspire of the fact they need it, your saying 2/3rds of Lemmy needs to die?
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
If you are so greedy you could be a billionaire, then you SHOULD have died already.
There should NOT be billionaires, it is a deep moral failing. Likewise, even governments officials and party leaders, should never be allowed to touch such powers.
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
They’re joking by referencing a bit: youtu.be/XLGzFQg_1xc
It’s not clear that they are so I can see the confusion.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
But mayyyybeee if touching grass kills you, you’re supposed to die.
like, i don’t know this, but maaaybe a lot of allergies are symptoms of us living in a modern society, instead of in the woods. that makes a whole lot of differences and actually does some changes to our immune systems somehow. don’t ask me the details though, they’re nasty and hardly comprehensible.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You can get sprays to completely alleviate symptoms. And if it’s a severe case you can take injection. There’s also inmune therapy to permanently cure it.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well that would require us to be in a society that values scientific research and investing in the public interest.
Unfortunately we are living in an age of deception and greed.
LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 1 day ago
down here chokin’ on grass, (but Whitey’s on the Moon)
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am pretty confident that mRNA vaccine research is going to lead to the cure for the common cold along with cancer, Parkinson’s, MS, etc.
We already have an effective AIDS vaccine now. We are getting really close to stopping a lot of human suffering. This is probably why the current administration is trying to pump the brakes.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
the current administration is pumping the brakes not because they’re trying to stop cancer from being cured, but because they’re dumbasses who have no idea what they’re doing. don’t suggest they’re intelligent enough to actually understand the outcomes of their own choices.
SL3wvmnas@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
I do not think they are dumbasses. They understand very well that “pumping the brakes” can start negotiations with people who have infinite deep pockets and are willing to let them have a little extra so the infinitely deep pockets stay that way.
Like Nixon, when he helped privatize healthcare. Playing Dumb (and a little crazy) has been a schtick for republicans for 60 years. I wish there was a website with all the crazy shit republicans said and did in public, maybe I need to start one…
T156@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
But they’re also not completely ignorant either. They’re just greedy, and don’t care about much else.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I mean… I wish I could blame the guy for not going to the doctor (Americans will do anything but try going to the doctor), but we’d also rather put people on the moon than give free at the point of care Healthcare to people…
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What a stupid example of false equivalence. The opposite is true. The Apollo program led to huge technological advances that also led to advances in medicine.
Nythos@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yes but you see, funny tweet go haha facts irrelevant
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Imagine if we actually tried to improve things without doing stupid space shit for nazi missile nerds ?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Doing “stupid space stuff” in no way prevents us from improving things. The NASA budget is not even a rounding error in the grand scheme of things. And getting rid of the nazi nerds is an entirely different conversation.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
We spend on space research that advances our understanding of physics and world about 2% the money we spend on military. Is this really the priority?
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The money spent on the Apollo program wasn’t all packed into a suitcase and taken to the moon, it was spent and reinjected into the economy. In particular, some of it went to the wages of some of the most highly-skilled, best-paying jobs that women and black people could get in the fifties and sixties, and that did a lot of good directly, before we even get onto indirect effects like inspiring generations of people to pursue a career in STEM subjects or developing technologies that would be used elsewhere.