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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 29 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (5 children)

the increase in trump gaffes correlates with the amount epstein file related news surfacing.

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[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Ironically consistent with him not relating to the real world down here on Earth.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They can't even take a strait, or maintain equipment, and have issues with feeding their people. So yes, the us should totally try to "take" over the moon.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 17 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Invading an undefended unpopulated rock might just be achievable by the current US military. Although I have some doubt that anyone in the current US administration knows about the lack of oxygen.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Please don't tell them, in fact maybe tell them that moon rocks can be eaten and that they hate trump.

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

I mean, it’s all made of cheese anyway. Just send them up with a bunch of Lactaid.

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[–] Thor_Whale@lemmus.org 3 points 16 hours ago

The moon Ivankia... drumft is imbecilic

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You think?

He's clearly lost the plot and is unfit to govern.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His cronies will try to keep him in power as long as possible, so that their schemes keep getting greenlit. Also, they have stupid fucking Vance prepped up.

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He should rename the moon america.

[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago

Fuck it, he should outlaw all proper nouns. Nouns are just like pronouns they’re woke and gay. Everything is either America or Trump.

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[–] dbtng@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Jebus. This sounds like the AI psychosis spiral.
Like, I didn't think trump was smart enough to use AI. He can't read.
He must have found one that talks to him. And feeds everything he says to his rusky handlers.

[–] joekar1990@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's got dementia and he confabulates. He's probably had it starting in like 2016 and this term they are trying to not to make him angry so they just show him shit he wants to see.

[–] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 day ago

He's also had at least one stroke in 2025. That ones pretty undeniable, and there's a lot of evidence he may have had more since.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Did you see that video of him talking to an AI Roosevelt and the dumb fuck was actually talking back to the AI thinking he was actually talking to Teddy. Absolute buffoonery.

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[–] SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

I wonder what would have happened if this imbecilic self-indulgence had come after China had successfully launched Chang'e 7. And by "wonder" I mean "dread".

Chang'e 7, whose launch has been delayed, is a highly ambitious and comprehensive (uncrewed) lunar mission incorporating four separate vehicles into a single launch and mission: orbiter, fixed lander, rover, and - an innovative "hopper", which has been previously implemented (by Japan) for landing on a small asteroid, but never a world as large as Luna, or as difficult to navigate.

This is definitely one of the most ambitious space probes ever to be assembled. One might even say the most ambitious, when you consider that the landing site is remarkably close to the South Pole - not the easier or safest region to visit, let alone properly explore. If this mission were going beyond Luna, I'd probably rank it in the same league as Viking or Cassini-Huygens - and in fact, depending on its longevity and science return, I ultimately might have to anyway.

Some have gone so far as to say that this mission represents the point where China's spaceflight abilities are challenging, or even exceeding, the USA's. I'll leave that debate to the side here while noting that the science return from Chang'e 7 looks to be phenomenal and possibly groundbreaking, if they can pull this off. This isn't a "flags and footprints" or purely nationalistic mission; China's already done those. From the science standpoint, this looks like the real thing.

Those who consider Lunar science a dead and settled issue have some shocks coming, both geopolitically - because of the potential for exploitation of Lunar resources and development of military applications) - and scientifically. The equatorial and mid-lat regions of Earth's Moon are not well-explored, despite what people think, with information about the origin and evolution of planets in general. And that's before you consider that the Lunar South Pole could be a repository for comet and asteroid debris that is second to none. Explore that properly, return those samples to your labs, and you could be gathering data on the ultimate development of the atmosphere and biology on Earth.

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[–] AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Gasoline is $5. Diesel is $7.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Per gallon? Holy shit, no wonder everyone buys gas guzzlers over there. Germany is paying nine plus dollar per gallon for gasoline.

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[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

At this stage he stopped having any shock value. It's the race to the bottom as Putin and Xi are prepared for the moment the US collapses.

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[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

“It’s a simple question, Doctor. Would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs?”

https://youtu.be/gQDqRlMeJ4U

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

Hard to tell if this is parody or not.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Sea of ~~Tranquility~~Senility

[–] BigBrownBeaver@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jrTug_2T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago

Ok, I'm not Adobe's biggest fan, but that file format really doesn't deserve what the terms of algorithmically-distributed content has done to it.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

You're being distracted by those cunts theatrical dramas while the feds are building modern surveillance and profiling. Trump is a plant.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a source other than rawstory? They tend to churn out made up copium.

[–] Vlado@feddit.org 3 points 17 hours ago

There are links directly to his profile on truthsocial.com in the article.

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