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• brucecohenpdx commented on Reasons to be Cheerful
  I am also quite happy that there are active space programs outside the US; if we can't do it, someone should (and assuredly will). It just gripes me that all that ingenuity and determination has to be pissed away by a bunch of thieves....
• Charlie Stross commented on Reasons to be Cheerful
  Yes but ... so far (a) the shooter's primary target is still alive (albeit critically ill), and (b) the shooter appears to be a fruitcake rather than necessarily a political hitter. (Time will tell on that one.) Yes, it's bad, but this kind of thing happens everywhere, not just in the USA....
• Charlie Stross commented on Reasons to be Cheerful
  Greg, I should have added Down's Syndrome to my list of good shit that's happened in the past decade. Life expectancy isn't great; folks with DS tend to succumb to dementia some time between 50 and 60 years of age (with the prevalence of Alzheimer's hitting 75% in the seventh decade). But with the right educational facilities and support, quality of life and outcomes can be surprisingly high. Go back 30 years: the consensus was that trying to teach them to read was pointless, and life expectancy was 25 years. Today life expectancy is 49 years, and the high water...
• Charlie Stross commented on Reasons to be Cheerful
  Well yes but. "Don't have them in the first place" is good advice, but it's nice to know that if things go wrong, the wrongness isn't as bad as it used to be, yes?...
• Charlie Stross commented on Reasons to be Cheerful
  Nuked, thanks. (Am busy having a mad spring cleaning session in the library -- because I'm recovering from the chest bug, but not yet recovered enough to get down to work, so I get a little itchy -- hence not at the keyboard 100% of the time today.)...