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[–] sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago (20 children)

Elon Musk pivots from mars colony tweets to moon colony tweets (xcancel).

I'm not quite clear on what "self-growing" means here given how inhospitable the moon is.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Self growing like a video game, for example a colony in eu4, initially it costs a lot of gold per month to keep sending colonists, and when you reach 100% growth it becomes a full province on which you can build things.

If only more journalists go: 'we don't know what this means either, and when we asked him he started shouting slurs at us'.

given how inhospitable the moon is.

You could even say she is a harsh mistress.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You could even say she is a harsh mistress.

what if the moon got mad tho

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Tell Luna you've been a bad boy/girl/etc and need to be punished and see what she does.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

on first reading I thought you were talking about a specific luna (who I shall not tag here) but who is definitely somewhat of a kinkposter

still might mean that, haha

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Luna is a very common transfem name

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, I’m aware :)

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