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Nasa mission lines up to 'touch the Sun'

This is really cool, but it feels kind of insulting to call this equivalent to landing people on the moon in 1969. To bring humans to the moon and back alive and healthy, with 1960s computer tech, seems a much more significant feat. Plus the huge risk that astronauts took, made very real by preceding and subsequent deaths and close-calls. Sounds like this will be an important accomplishment and undoubtedly technically difficult, and the speed record part is particularly cool. Howevert it's ultimately still an unmanned probe, which seems incomparable to a manned mission imo.

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I think this is what makes for an interesting villain in general though across all media. That uncomfortable feeling of relating to them or seeing they have a point even though their actions are clearly reprehensible

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ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US

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I'd think the fact they've saturated the US market is exactly why it'd be too valuable to give up. They'd lose a ton of revenue, tanking their valuation. They may be better off selling. From there they could prob just clone it and promote a competing service in those unclaimed markets using a portion of the extra sale price they get for maintaining (and selling a product with) US market dominance

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Listening to the song all the way through can often be a cure for this. Just passing on something I read online and tried successfully after this driving me crazy many times. Apparently if you listen to part of a song without finishing it sometimes that can trigger a part of the song playing over and over in your head

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Anon lives on the margins.

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Yeah that's shitty, but he has abundant free time to go make more money elsewhere if he wants. I don't know anyone who can meet their basic needs on 25 hrs/wk without some sort of high-skill career experience or extenuating circumstances like nepotism, etc. I don't think that qualifies as trapped