Zron

joined 2 years ago
[–] Zron@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

The news needs to stop giving these people in masks the benefit of the doubt.

They are wearing masks and bulletproof vests. Anyone with 500 dollars can get those things. Stop calling them “Agents” when they don’t show identification. Start calling them “Armed unidentified men” because thats all those surgical staff members saw. When you have your agency on your uniform and you show a badge and ID, then you’re an agent, otherwise you’re just a random man with a gun and people will treat you accordingly.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

No, it made it a good start.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Counterpoint: we did it to the Nazis and Germany has now gone over 80 years without trying to concur the world.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

It’s legal to be armed on your own property in all of America, provided you can legally own the firearm. Or if you’re a guest of the owner, you have to have their permission to be armed, because it is their property.

You might get looks from the neighbors, but it’s by no means a crime. If you’re in a rural area I doubt anyone would even look twice even in California.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If not gestapo, then why gestapo shaped?

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

You mean the one he has now or the one the government will be paying for?

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, I can’t make you undrink the koolaid.

You want to look like an idiot, be my guest.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It’s not a “so-called conspiracy” it is a conspiracy theory.

Thousands of people worked on the Apollo project. Hundreds of America’s best engineers spent a decade designing and improving the designs for equipment that would go to the moon. If it was really impossible to do it in the 60s, you don’t think some of those people would have come forward by now? And not Bert Sybrils version of “my buddy’s uncle’s friend left his son a confession tape that was destroyed in a fire” version of coming forward. I mean someone from Boeing, or Northrop, or Rocketdyne, or even JPL itself would have said something. You’re talking about keeping thousands of very smart people quiet about something that would have been obvious to them from the start, and asking them to waste a decade of their life designing things that wouldn’t work.

Apollo missions after 11 left scientific instruments on the moon like laser reflectors that let us calculate the moon’s distance from earth more accurately over time. Non-US agencies and universities have used these for lunar observations. Are independent agencies lying for the American government, or are there really reflectors on the moon. If they’re lying, why? What benefit would they gain? If there are reflectors on the moon, how did they get there?

The US government spends millions of dollars every year meticulously preserving lunar rock samples. If it was fake, why would they continue spending that money 50 years later? Why not say “all rocks gone, everyone is fired, go home” 40 years ago? For that matter, those rocks have been sent to thousands of research centers, universities, and labs around the world for analysis and testing. They’re the rarest and most valuable rocks in the world. If NASA shipped some random rock from the Arizona desert to a lab in France or Germany, don’t you think some French or German geologist would go “hold on a minute, this is just ordinary basalt!” And call their local newspaper about how nasa just scammed them and wasted their grant money?

24 astronauts have orbited the moon, and 12 of them walked on it. These are men who dedicated their lives to being the best at what they do, a good chunk of them had doctorates. Again, you’re saying that 2 dozen people wasted a decade of their life training to be the best of the best so they could go to the moon, and then just what, sat in a bunker for a week and then said they went to the moon? And not a single one of those 24 men ever said it was all bullshit? Clearly you don’t understand American history or culture if you think that’s true. We like the big slamdunk, knock out drag out, victory. If that wasn’t true, someone would have blabbed about how they wasted their life for a fake crowning achievement.

Just because you don’t understand how something works doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Go play kerbal space program or read a book on project Apollo if you want to actually understand how space travel works. Watching YouTube videos is not going to educate you.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

What about the civilian right to repair.

Why can’t we all just be allowed to fix all of our shit. Sell me parts, let me open up things and poke around without illegals saying I violated the warranty.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (7 children)

We went to the moon.

If we hadn’t, the Soviet’s would have been screaming it from the rooftops. The soviets tracked all the Apollo missions themselves, and even had robotic missions going on at the same time as several of the manned US landings.

The Cold War was intense. You think if the US hadn’t made, the soviets would have just let it slide?

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Oh I’ll edit your latex

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Are you actually defending thieves?

Why can’t the pickpocket go get a job and buy his own damn iPhone. My stuff is mine, you try to take it and I’ll hit you. This is like basic human behavior.

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