ThunderWhiskers

It's very likely that a gondola can actually hold double the weight it is rated for.

Please no. I like my flannel.

frankly, there isn't that much to do for you in space as a layperson

That you can think of. That doesn't mean it isn't worth exploring. Plenty of backyard scientists do some crazy innovation.

It's an invasion of people's privacy when they feel most vulnerable. It's no mystery why folk find it upsetting.

Fuck that. It's ok to be scared, but try to fight back.

https://generalstrikeus.com/

For Karl!

This doesn't really address the whole of OP's question though. They are asking why our schools are so underfunded if we are spending so much more than average per student. The maths don't math.

The are encouraging you and all other non-Americans to not fall asleep at the wheel like we have. The system that allowed this shit show to develop has been building for decades and we allowed it to happen.

Do not allow it to happen where you live, because the oligarchy is coming for you too.

I have been doing everything reasonably possible to prevent and unfuck my local situation in Texas, but the state as a whole is absolutely screwed. I would argue that a very large minority is aggressively uninformed politically, and has no desire to educate themselves. They want to be sucked into the gravity well of their bigotry and hate and Christian window-dressing. It's disgusting and depressing and you would not believe the amount of people that I respected before all of this mess that I want nothing to do with anymore because of the ideologies they are willing to espouse. I barely interact with any of my family any more because most of them wanted this situation and still won't openly admit that they did this.

I feel completely powerless and like my only option is to run as far away from the place I have called home for my entire life.

1. Someday soon, America will burn.

I think about this almost daily. I have young kids and I'm terrified of the world they are growing into.

That's kind've the point. Very few of these imagined deities are even worthy of worship despite being fabricated as the "ultimate" being.