First of all, genuinely happy for the both of you.

Second of all, I don’t think it’s mentally healthy to have such a negative view on such a large portion of a society - personally, I’m very picky with friends and acquaintances, but the “I hate people”-attitude is rather something I associate with edgy teenagers and people who never grew out of that mindset.

I mostly ignore that people who I don’t like exist and reduce my interactions with them to a minimum. Constantly hating just sounds exhausting, even if it’s so abstract.

You are obviously free to do as you please; I’m just trying to provide another perspective that maybe brings more peace of mind.

Maybe they do behave like real Christians in that regard, but not in others, which for a religion is enough to not be in line with it, it’s not a choose your own adventure

It’s fifty-fifty, either it will be or it won’t

I don’t think this thread is about whether the Bible is a valid moral/ ethical guideline nowadays, but rather if the actions of those who pretend to follow it match it. Which it doesn’t.

I can’t confirm that claim from a quick search:

Young men are less conservative than even women from any other age group, who tend to be more progressive.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/age-generational-cohorts-and-party-identification/

Don’t worry, someone is profiting off this

Man kann die Logik auch andersherum fahren. Warum sollte ich um jemanden werben, der sowieso konsumiert? Besonders bei der beschriebenen hohen Markentreue – die konsumierte Marke muss den Konsumenten nicht mehr gewinnen, die konkurrierende Marke hat wenig Chancen. Werbung zielt ja auf neue Kunden, und dem Text nach sind die Boomer gute Bestandskunden, aber eben nicht wirklich wechselwillig.

Davon abgesehen denke ich schon, dass um die geworben wird, wenn ich mir manche Werbung so ansehe. Wer außer denen interessiert sich denn für Gestalten wie Günther Jauch und Thomas Gottschalk (letzterer hat ggf. in den letzten Jahren an Popularität eingebüßt)? Die zu engagieren ist sehr teuer, wird also nur gemacht wenn es sich auch lohnt, und da geht es genau um die Zielgruppe. Oder wenn ich Werbung für deutsche Onlineapotheken sehe, denke ich auch immer, YouTube halte mich für einen Boomer. Total unansprechend und ich brauche eh so gut wie nix aus der Apotheke, außer es ist akut und dann gehe ich in persona hin. Für alles andere gibt es dann alle drei Jahre DocMorris. Also aus meiner Sicht auch eher ein Boomerding. Sonst? Werbung für Schmerzmittel, autonome Rasenmäher (eher für Boomer, da mehr Hausbesitzer…) aus meiner Beobachtung heraus würde ich sagen, da läuft schon recht viel.

Okay.

Funny because the German word “Kamin” means fireplace and chimney

Why would Biden / Obama do this

Well, they’re half right, but not in the sense they mean…

Winner gets a ticket to Mars

Jesus man like how can people be this dense

Like it doesn’t even affect me personally except some abstract way because I’m European but still. Is it ignorance? Stupidity? Like I get you can listen to Fox News all day or the even more fringe ones… but isn’t there a choice? Get outta here

The problem in the US isn’t lack of jobs, it’s lack of pay, crippling debt and rising cost of living. People have trouble fitting all those jobs into their lives. Normal people are getting squeezed and social protections are weak. More jobs won’t fix it

My original point was also that you’d need a real benefit compared to the currently available options. We did have faster air travel for a time with the Concorde (which looked a lot more like a spaceship than other aircrafts). It went away because it had a lot of downsides for only the advantage of being faster. Don’t get me wrong, I would have loved to use it one day just to witness it; but in the end, it doesn’t really matter if your trip takes slightly less time; keep in mind that it usually doesn’t start and end at an airport anyways, and this problem would be even bigger for space travel. So it isn’t really something for traveling on Earth. Which brings me back to the question what it would do for a layperson…

Apart from that, you need to time your departure and arrival with conditions on Earth, so while technically you could shorten that time drastically, you’d probably need to wait some months before you can take the trip.

Because necromancy is a forbidden art

With the small detail that failures in your backyard are in general much less catastrophic compared to mishaps in space

My argument wasn’t against space exploration in general, but rather the democratization of space travel as a commodity; as in as in we have already democratized it so far that the trophy wifes of billionaires can travel to space. I’m unsure of scientific advances that has brought and rather think this made someone money

But the question is – why?

In the end, it’s a huge investment of resources; you can’t cheat physics. There is a theoretical floor (and a much higher practical floor) for what you need to get out of Earth’s orbit. And frankly, there isn’t that much to do for you in space as a layperson (not talking about actual astronauts who are rather scientists) except flex on other people.

I’m German, but I do know about this from some years ago when I read up on drugs a bit.