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by maxglute 1y ago

minraws 1y ago
I would pay for Hubble cam videos lmao
ta8645 1y ago
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- raccomandoo 1y ago
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  - ta8645 1y ago
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- preisschild 1y ago
  So it should also be voluntary to "feeding and housing our fellow countrymen" and not having your money automatically "diverted"?
  - ta8645 1y ago
    Ideally yes. But if you're going to have a government with forced taxation, it should at least take care of the fucking people before it starts spending billions of dollars on non-essential activities.
    - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
      > it should at least take care of the fucking people before it starts spending billions of dollars on non-essential activities Let’s put aside that none of the current cuts have anything to do with helping the needy. Societies that focus on subsistence subsist. Societies that focus on thriving thrive. ROI is a real thing. Just taking care of people, paradoxically, short changes those folks in the long run. The most productive thing a government can do is long-term investments. JWST—and the skilled labour that goes into it—is one such investment. (Another is education, which unfortunately is required to understand how investing for the long run works.)
    - preisschild 1y ago
      And if those "non essential activities" result in economic growth and thus leading to more work places and fewer people living in poverty long term?
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > focus on feeding and housing our fellow countrymen, shouldn't have our money diverted to such things This has to be parody. JWST isn’t being cut to feed and house anyone. It’s being cut to give folks like me a tax break, so I can finish renovating my deck and buying artwork, and my neighbour so he can build a ski villa in Selkirk.
  - ta8645 1y ago
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    - junon 1y ago
      This isn't how government or the economy work! Like... at all! Where did our basic econ literacy go? I'm getting exhausted from blatantly uninformed "hot takes" like this comment and the GGP somehow becoming the majority. What is going on?
      - shawn_w 1y ago
        It fell victim to decades of the Republican war on education and learning.
    - deleted 1y ago
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    - tomhow 1y ago
      Please don't comment like this on HN. If it's an important topic, it's important to get your point across without all that rage and bile. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future, especially these ones: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Eschew flamebait. Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
aitchnyu 1y ago
IIRC Carl Sagan saw a spacecraft which had a potentially long life had it not run out of fuel. If he knew it was a Mercedes-level of money in advance, he would have raised it out of pocket.
- maxglute 1y ago
  Yeah, as non American, only indirect way I can contribute to NASA is to buy some official merch, but I would not mind throwing some $ to sustain/extend some ongoing programs operation costs.
  - Rooster61 1y ago
    Throwing money at government agencies is an exercise in futility. Trust us Americans, we do it every year in the form of taxes, and things aren't getting better.
    - sitkack 1y ago
      What you are parroting is been part of the Republican plan to erode government and our trust in government over the last 50 years.
      - Rooster61 1y ago
        It's not just a Republican talking point. The hem and haw of taxes from left to right, (just enough to keep the same two parties taking turns every election) for the past 50 years leaves both parties complicit. Cutting taxes on a broken tax system that disproportionately taxes poor and middle class citizens does absolutely nothing positive for the vast majority of the electorate in the long term. Neither does the reciprocal raising of taxes once the other side jumps in the drivers seat. Also, please refrain from suggesting posters are "parroting" arguments. It's an argument that doesn't really contribute anything to the discussion, and isn't in the spirit of HN guidelines.
    - ragebol 1y ago
      Every country throws money at their government and some actually do make things better or care for their people. This particular US administration seems especially keen though to simply delete anything that might be worth tax dollars.

Time to spin up a patreon... or onlyfans.

minraws 1y ago

I would pay for Hubble cam videos lmao

ta8645 1y ago

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raccomandoo 1y ago
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- ta8645 1y ago
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preisschild 1y ago
So it should also be voluntary to "feeding and housing our fellow countrymen" and not having your money automatically "diverted"?
- ta8645 1y ago
  Ideally yes. But if you're going to have a government with forced taxation, it should at least take care of the fucking people before it starts spending billions of dollars on non-essential activities.
  - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
    > it should at least take care of the fucking people before it starts spending billions of dollars on non-essential activities Let’s put aside that none of the current cuts have anything to do with helping the needy. Societies that focus on subsistence subsist. Societies that focus on thriving thrive. ROI is a real thing. Just taking care of people, paradoxically, short changes those folks in the long run. The most productive thing a government can do is long-term investments. JWST—and the skilled labour that goes into it—is one such investment. (Another is education, which unfortunately is required to understand how investing for the long run works.)
  - preisschild 1y ago
    And if those "non essential activities" result in economic growth and thus leading to more work places and fewer people living in poverty long term?
JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> focus on feeding and housing our fellow countrymen, shouldn't have our money diverted to such things This has to be parody. JWST isn’t being cut to feed and house anyone. It’s being cut to give folks like me a tax break, so I can finish renovating my deck and buying artwork, and my neighbour so he can build a ski villa in Selkirk.
- ta8645 1y ago
  [flagged]
  - junon 1y ago
    This isn't how government or the economy work! Like... at all! Where did our basic econ literacy go? I'm getting exhausted from blatantly uninformed "hot takes" like this comment and the GGP somehow becoming the majority. What is going on?
    - shawn_w 1y ago
      It fell victim to decades of the Republican war on education and learning.
  - deleted 1y ago
    [deleted]
  - tomhow 1y ago
    Please don't comment like this on HN. If it's an important topic, it's important to get your point across without all that rage and bile. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future, especially these ones: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Eschew flamebait. Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

aitchnyu 1y ago

IIRC Carl Sagan saw a spacecraft which had a potentially long life had it not run out of fuel. If he knew it was a Mercedes-level of money in advance, he would have raised it out of pocket.

maxglute 1y ago
Yeah, as non American, only indirect way I can contribute to NASA is to buy some official merch, but I would not mind throwing some $ to sustain/extend some ongoing programs operation costs.
- Rooster61 1y ago
  Throwing money at government agencies is an exercise in futility. Trust us Americans, we do it every year in the form of taxes, and things aren't getting better.
  - sitkack 1y ago
    What you are parroting is been part of the Republican plan to erode government and our trust in government over the last 50 years.
    - Rooster61 1y ago
      It's not just a Republican talking point. The hem and haw of taxes from left to right, (just enough to keep the same two parties taking turns every election) for the past 50 years leaves both parties complicit. Cutting taxes on a broken tax system that disproportionately taxes poor and middle class citizens does absolutely nothing positive for the vast majority of the electorate in the long term. Neither does the reciprocal raising of taxes once the other side jumps in the drivers seat. Also, please refrain from suggesting posters are "parroting" arguments. It's an argument that doesn't really contribute anything to the discussion, and isn't in the spirit of HN guidelines.
  - ragebol 1y ago
    Every country throws money at their government and some actually do make things better or care for their people. This particular US administration seems especially keen though to simply delete anything that might be worth tax dollars.