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• Post #2886928

  The almond industry is also unfathomably lethal to bees.

• Post #2712343

  Try Go. Chess is at least quick—one mistake in Go and you get to spend the next 20 turns watching the territory you spent half an hour staking out shrivel away to nothing.

• Post #1047196

  Of course not, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. We go to space because it’s cool and we can, and that’s a beautifully human thing to do. As for the money, it’s a baseline fact of this world that enormous sums will be spent on things that don’t fix our problems, and space is as good a use as any for that wasted cash. If it were space or solving hunger, solving hunger is the obvious priority, but practically speaking it’s “don’t solve hunger and go to space” or “don’t solve hunger.”