C is unforgiving and… let’s call it “quirky” with anything that resembles UI. It’s just not built for it. C sits just above Assembly in low level code, and it has many pitfalls in that regard.

It’s not that it’s not valuable to learn, because it is. But learning C is more about learning about the backend of how programming languages work (pointers, heaps/stacks, memory allocation and cleanup, etc.) and the specific quirks and dangers of C itself than it is about teaching you good programming skills.

Modern programming isn’t about guarding against overflow, managing memory, or dealing with pointers and memory manipulation. Having a deep understanding of those things will do very little for your actual programming skills. It’s far more important to understand data structures and algorithms, and having some exposure to different paradigms is a good idea too.

Python is an easy entry point, and frankly, many have made their careers off of python alone. It is often slow at scale and has its own quirks, good and bad, but it’s far easier to focus on the logic than the quirks with Python than compared to C. It has built in tools for basically any paradigm, though it is built primarily for object oriented and procedural, but has some nice declarative tools like list comprehensions too. Java is also a common language in the industry and gives you more exposure to Object Oriented Programming. Try out Haskell for pure functional and prolog for logic/declarative. C lacks all of those things.

Fair, but that’s still plenty of land for massive amounts of solar without losing much at all

Cover the corn fields that are 95% being used to produce ethanol for fuel mixture into gasoline. Replace a one-time-use fuel that takes a ton of water to produce, contributes to pesticide usage, and requires a bunch more energy for processing (and makes your car run less efficiently anyway) with energy that can power homes, vehicles, industry, etc. starting now and lasting for decades with a one time investment into fully recyclable materials that is already pretty low cost and lowering all the time.

Fuck. Off.

The apollo program led to tech advancements including, among many of things, fire-retardent materials, improved parachute technologies, water filtration systems and insulin pumps, each of which has directly saved lives. Not to mention solar cells technology that will be instrumental in fighting climate change.

The moon is a big barren rock, yes. But it is one that has answers to our planets history and potentially its future. Funding scientific and engineering endeavors like Artemis is how we, as a species, advance, how we move beyond the status quo of today’s world. There are WAAAAAAAY more wasteful things we spend money on than science. And while you’re entitled to think otherwise, you’re just wrong.

Also that you think they timed a moon mission to be a distraction for a month old war… like the original launch wasn’t planned years in advance, and it was delayed anyway. There is something to distract from every fucking week now. That doesnt mean that anything else happening is a deliberate distraction or even remotely related to it. Too cynical to function.