It's still resources that could be spent towards something else, something ultimately more productive.
Building a house takes a lot of work, so why spend that effort into building a bomb that destroys many such houses, instead? What does this achieve for humanity?
I'm also picking and choosing from each side, which is why I'm a leftist. Does that make me a centrist?
For another very clear example, money is a social construct. But people live and die by the hands of it.
You know what combining DnD with kink in some way sounds fun
Extra immersion
A person saying kids don't want to join the military because they're too used to "instant gratification" is some of the most obnoxious shit I have ever heard lmao
If someone went up to me and said that, I'd tell them to go fuck themselves and leave, because fuck all of that.
I'd much rather have a smaller functioning social media than a larger, mainstream one that gets sucked dry for everything it's worth for capitalist gain
Growth is not everything
Do you know how research works? Nobody knows everything, and research very much assumes that fact.
Take modern computers. Do you think there exists a single person that knows how they work in entirety? From the most advanced software down to the intricacies of how electrons move through semi-conductors?
No. There doesn't. And yet we have computers, what gives?
Science is more than just knowing everything there is in a field. It's a collaborative effort. It's works that build upon other works. It's "we have done the hard stuff described in this paper that you can read, but our conclusion is..." and you operate based on that conclusion, if you don't need to know the full details.. and few people really need to.
You are completely clueless about how modern science, which drives and builds our entire world, functions.
It's not second semester physics, though. It's like middle school nature & science class. It's part of understanding the base foundations of our modern world.
Not to mention, we've known about and actively used electromagnetic waves since the invention of radio (if we ignore light bulbs and visible light, of course)
Then it sounds like growing as much as they did was a mistake.
I don't know where this was, but in most places this would be grounds for a serious report. It's unacceptable for a person in a position of power to act like that.
Speed limits are not bs. The energy of kinetic motion increases with the square of the velocity. Double the speed, quadruple the amount of energy. That matters.