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If you haven't noticed the chorus of coastal media types asking for people they disagree with to be prevented from speaking in any public forum, then you are truly oblivious.

Most people aren't capable of responding to anything the government does with anything but brain-dead snark. I've been feeling this problem has been getting worse on YC as of late.

I'm in the middle of building literally the exact same thing for myself.

Beyond privacy/security, the aspect of the app I worry about the most is giving oneself perfect memory and then never being able to escape the past. That last fight you had with your ex? Well now its recorded and you can listen to it, and dissect it, and wonder what you could have done differently, right up until you blow your brains out.

But, as always, its up to the user to use the technology in a healthy way. It would be, after all, a choice to remain mired in the past rather than taking healthy lessons from it to make your future better.

No, that's pork barrel spending, which is a different thing, namely, a policy decision (that you perhaps disagree with) made within the confines of the law. Stop trying to get the word corruption to encompass "all decisions I disagree with." It's what people do when they're trying to make their disagreement into an ideological judgement, because that's what's more satisfying and exciting.

The Saturn V also took many years to develop and there were several "rehearsal" missions before there was a landing.

NASA is not incompetent or corrupt and neither are its contractors. The people who work all their lives at those institutions don't do so because they love the idea of never going to space. You might consider that the process is subject to other pressures than corruption. The reason why things are so expensive and take so long is because of how our society demands that government act. The response to failure of any kind is pull the plug, and skin those responsible alive in the press, and treat it not as a setback or a problem to be solved, but yet another play in a partisan-ideological football game.

The people saying that they hope it fails so their preferred vision can be implemented do not understand that if this fails, then that's just more years away from the goal. There isn't some tiny group of people you can point to and say "its their fault." The enemy here is actually broader society reads about, talks about, and votes about its government.

Declaring that everyone (present company excluded) is conformist and everything sucks is the surest fire way to get a non-zero amount praise from any audience.

bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, yeah, the disappearance of "alt weeklies" is a sign of creeping hegemony. Because how could subversive messages spread in 2022 without low quality print magazines with diy stencil art?

Our culture is nothing but counterculture. The entire thing is copies of copies of copies of the author thinking that they and their friends are the first and only people to take a bold stance against power, or corruption, or whatever.