Open post Christian Jensen @pianophile@mastodon.social · 2mo ago Replying to @zachweinersmith.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy Once again "there's aluminum" is not a strong argument for going to the Moon. If there were bars of gold on the Moon's surface, it would not be worth it to get them. Why don't these articles ever talk to an economist? Or just a boring person? fortune.com/2026/08/06/p... ‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk deta... @zachweinersmith.bsky.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr Agreed:
Open post Christian Jensen @pianophile@mastodon.social · 3mo ago Replying to @augieray@mastodon.social For all the right-wing griping about Democrats, socialists and communists, at least these are people who care about something other than themselves. Trump only cares about his pocketbook, the GOP in Washington only care about appeasing Trump, and Republican voters only care about their taxes and their bigotry. Give me someone who cares about others any day of the week. @augieray@mastodon.social Agreed; like John Kenneth Galbraith said, "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness"