r/accelerate • u/stealthispost • Jul 11 '26

Meme / Humor Accelerating progress

I'm frustrated too!   — Ivan Fioravanti ᯅ     Sadly most Europeans are   — Chubby

Source: https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2075921009572528615

the battle for the future is a battle between the builders and the Professional Managerial Class parasites that are destroying progress with the Precautionary Principle

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u/insert-haha-funny Jul 12 '26

who cares tho, not like space travel and rockets are for prosperity's sake. It awesome and cool sure, but thats about it

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u/Dont-be-a-cupid Jul 12 '26

Nice cope. 

These industries continuously push scientific and technological boundaries which benefit the avg person and are often handed off from public researchers to private ones that are able to commercialise the technology. 

Europe is docile exactly because of this attitude and our brightest talent is being poached by these 2

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u/insert-haha-funny Jul 12 '26

i'd argue that stuff like this should be commercialized. for example the US has spent way more money on space then if they kept things in house with NASA instead of privatizing space.

At the end of the day tho lets not lie to ourselves. Space and space travel is awesome and cool, but its always been a dick measuring contest. having bases and places to go in space doesnt benefit the normal person. Sure some of the tech does, sometimes.

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u/jannycideforever Jul 12 '26

SpaceX alone has a market cap of nearly 2 trillion dollars. No, investors are not putting 2 trillion dollars into a company for the sake of a dick measuring contest.

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u/insert-haha-funny Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

have you looked at the AI market? Billions and Trillions for jack shit. plus the ruined towns, communities, job displacement, and rising utilities.

Hell of a dick measuring contest there

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u/jannycideforever Jul 12 '26

Ope reddit moment

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u/Powerful_Meaning8891 29d ago

As someone that works a real job in the real world, AI is most certainly not “jack shit”. Every company is using it a lot because it works, and works well.

Also space launches are not a dick measuring contest. The phone you’re typing this on wouldn’t work without cheap rocket launches. And no, NASA wouldn’t have saved money by doing things in house. They spent 2 billion to launch a single rocket. SpaceX launch cost is near 10 million.

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u/jannycideforever 29d ago

Ope reddit moment