This is what Pavement singer Stephen Malkmus has bookmarked on his browser. So many on Twitter have been dunking on Malkmus for saying Chapo Trap House says obnoxious things. However, they do say obnoxious things. That's why I enjoy listening to them. It was in context of saying the fucking godawful Guardian is good that made Malkmus look like a lost cause shitlib. The rest of the interview is pretty good, although n+1 very rarely does shit for me. The Baffler is great.

Anyone who starts proclaiming their love for Smashing Pumpkins in reaction hasn't been paying attention to what our boy little Billy Corgan has been up to for many years.

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Vice President Pence Gives NASA Five Years to Put Americans Back on the Moon—or Else. Oh, that's not hard to figure out. They're going to kill NASA. Either the Republicans will sell it off or fold it into the military. There is no plausible way that NASA can make it to the moon with its current funding.

It’s important to note that returning to the Moon will be expensive—one estimate suggested $104 billion in 2005, or almost $135 billion today. Estimates calculate that the Apollo missions cost $120 billion in today’s dollars. Congress appropriated NASA $21.5 billion, more than its $19.9 billion ask, in 2019. The president’s proposed NASA budget includes cuts to scientific programs like the WFIRST telescope and NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement, but does offer over $300 million in funding for developing a lunar lander.

 This is a sad joke.