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Re:They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the futu... by itsanaccount on Thursday May 29, 2025 @09:02AM (#44125680)
Capitalism is undeniably useful, in some cases but so is a horse.

Yet theres a difference between hitching a horse to a wagon to move things vs joining a bestiality cult that worships horses.

A university is hardly the only place for terrible ideas to thrive, just look at silicon valley culture and this orange site.

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Re:They used Xenon to climb Everest in days – is it the futu... by philipallstar on Monday June 02, 2025 @01:02PM (#44160895)
> just look at silicon valley culture

Well, that is a similar place. If you have plenty of money sloshing about coming from some commercial process you probably disagree with, whether you're a SV day-in-the-life-of employee or a social sciences professor, you probably can have plenty of ideas that are never disproven because you're so insulated.

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