Post #1073310
2026-04-11 13:07 UTC
Replies (30)
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@arrrg@kolektiva.social 2026-04-11 13:56
@angusm that incompetence permeates culture in the US. every where we turn there's someone doing their job poorly.
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@farah@beige.party 2026-04-11 14:38
@angusm The new coined term is “competence porn”
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@DeeLux_Fiat@todon.nl 2026-04-11 14:52
@angusm Also people working together for a shared goal instead of grifting for themselves.
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@manul70@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 14:54
@angusm No logic here.
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@pseudonym@mastodon.online 2026-04-11 15:35
@angusm Competence, and international cooperation on display.
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-11 15:58
@angusm Additionally, all of the good capable ones, behind the scenes, will be shoot in a leg, to be sure they don't make it again.
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@samiamsam@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 16:15
@angusm everything elon builds explodes or catches fire and everything he does costs massively more to actually fail and that money comes from taxpayers
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@zonkerh@mindly.social 2026-04-11 16:25
@angusm It was really nice to see a well planned and executed project. There were so many people and components involved that worked together the way they were designed to. It was so different from what we are used to seeing in this world today.
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@Scottj313@sfba.social 2026-04-11 16:35
@angusm You hit the nail on the head with that! I have a strong filter in place for dominant news cycles, and Artemis II passes through that filter cleanly!
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@rpmik@avgeek.social 2026-04-11 16:39
@angusm shows that civil servants don’t have to be the enemy
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@Son_of_a_George@thecanadian.social 2026-04-11 16:54
@angusm Exactly. Merit lives.
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2026-04-11 16:56
@angusm I was slightly surprised at the recovery method, which required the astronauts to mess around in rubber dinghies rather than have the capsule hoisted aboard a ship as is done for Dragon.
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@greensofshade@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 17:02
@angusm it was a distraction. Why did they even do this?
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@pthenq1@mastodon.la 2026-04-11 17:47
"La razón por la que la misión Artemis tiene a todo el mundo tan fascinado es que constituye una muestra de los esfuerzos de personas que son muy, muy buenas en su trabajo, en un momento en que el ciclo de noticias está dominado por personas que no solo son pésimas en sus empleos, sino también seres humanos detestables." @angusm
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@sunscream@mstdn.social 2026-04-11 17:52
@angusm I've seen plenty of people who were good at their jobs and also not good human beings.
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@winter@social.translunar.academy 2026-04-11 17:56
@angusm space exploration shows us what we are truly capable of
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@xs4me2@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 18:06
@angusm Spot on indeed…
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@atlovato@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 18:37
@angusm 👍
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@contrasocial@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 18:52
@angusm And their rocket didn't even blow up once
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@2legged@mastodon.ie 2026-04-11 18:58
@angusm Everyone? Really? For me, it's just yet more boys (and token girls) with obscenely expensive toys, gobbling up vast amounts of resources for a joyride and for research which will enable huge lots iof evil.
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@himbovoorhees@elekk.xyz 2026-04-11 19:37
@angusm It has gotten people in Houston excited about space travel in a way we haven't been able to be in such a long time - and it wasn't even launched here. Even a lot of the "space program" stuff we've seen in the past decade has been either SpaceX exploding test ships or 100% commercial for profit. It's nice seeing folks just so amazed and delighted by trained personnel going to space and acknowledging the work they put in, and the history of people who went up before them. Especially the people too young to have "Challenger trauma", even secondhand. They got to watch this mission and just enjoy something for once that wasn't war or hate or other trash.
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@KMWool@mstdn.social 2026-04-11 20:25
@angusm Well said!
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@LetoOfTheDesert@rivals.space 2026-04-11 21:08
@angusm it's funny because it's true !
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@lenzgr@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 21:16
@angusm Competency Porn at it's best. https://lizplank.substack.com/p/artemis-ii-is-competency-porn-and
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@NoOneSpecial1@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 22:33
@angusm Actually, it is so much about competence as it is about missing the collective pride we once felt in our country.
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@elebertus@eigenmagic.net 2026-04-11 22:37
@angusm and the hyper marketing of LLMs to replace skilled humans.
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@megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social 2026-04-12 02:28
@angusm I totally forgot to look at the moon while it was happening. Oh well, next one.
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@dacmot@sunny.garden 2026-04-12 04:12
@angusm thank you for putting into words what we're all feeling.
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@samueljohnson@mstdn.social 2026-04-12 09:22
@angusm "everyone" doing some heavy lifting here. Some of us are old enough to remember Apollo 8 and most non-Americans have long since wearied of American narcissism, ignorance, bombast and greed.
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@ginkka@mastodon.social 2026-04-12 09:39
@angusm https://mastodon.social/@bsletten/116383350980141607