I know everybody thinks that Terminator 2 was the best of the series (it's not, I'm sorry), but there's an element from it that has never been...
Yup.NASA Really Made Its Own Tabletop RPG for You to Play [img] NASA still has plenty of cool projects afoot in the real world—did you hear about...
https://www.reuters.com/world/what-is-space-based-nuclear-weapon-us-says-russia-is-developing-2024-02-15/ This is pretty weird. Nuclear weapons are...
Can I just say how much I hate that this thread needs to be a thing already? CA Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis is running for governor. Already....
“Please spend four years completing your Environmental Impact Statement.” https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/america-needs-a-bigger-better-bureaucracy...
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/14/1199555068/death-toll-soars-to-11-300-from-flooding-in-libyan-coastal-city-of-derna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008 One of the authors reportedly has 1500 citations in other papers (epistemically status: unverified), so this is not...
Dude was the baddest of the Egyptian gods. Fun fact*: Ra and Ammon were not always the same god. At one point, I think shortly after Akhenaten's...
Brokered by China no less. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/6/saudi-arabia-iran-agree-to-continue-efforts-to-establish-ties Can’t imagine the...
https://newrepublic.com/post/170542/maga-republican-rep-anna-paulina-luna-jewish-heritage-family-says-not-true
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/08/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-supporters-breach-congress/index.html Pro-Bolsonaro thugs have broken into government...
Developing… https://www.peruviantimes.com/07/president-castillo-declares-auto-coup-but-is-removed-from-office/32408/
Yep, another one of these. 7 props, usual slate of candidates, let's get this done with. Prop 1 - "CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM....
[ATTACH] He’s not wrong about ballot exhaustion. It may be better than FPTP, but IRV is the third-worst voting method, and ballot exhaustion makes it...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/mystery-pneumonia-kills-two-infects-six-argentina/ Mystery pneumonia kills three and...
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/08/22/emails-show-omaha-police-planned-deal-far-right-linked-gun-shop Not shown in the article:...
First BoJo, now Draghi in Italy, Kallas (Estonia), President Rajapaksa flees Sri Lanka for Singapore before emailing in his resignation while PM...
Twitter has changed what the API we're using returns and it's causing infinite console errors, unresolving freezes, and memory leaks in multiple...
[media] 10 years of names, genders, addresses, driver's license numbers, races, and criminal histories. And that from just one database. Several...
https://capitolism.thedispatch.com/p/americas-infant-formula-crisis-and How the formula shortage got so bad, and how we’re basically starving babies...
It's that time again. My masochistic streak and I go through the entire candidate list for all the offices. We've got a triple threat this year with...
Both ponds have red fish and grey fish. One pond has mostly gray fish, and the other has mostly red fish. The fish are otherwise identical. A man...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/202201/research-reveals-long-term-harm-state-pre-k-program Research Reveals Long-Term Harm of...
[media] https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2021/12/06/kamala-harris-is-bluetooth-phobic-495343 if you must read the original....
Got an exercise for all y’all’s critical thinking skills. Here is a CNN article about a paper about vaping and quitting smoking. Your job is to...
https://theprint.in/world/how-sri-lankas-overnight-flip-to-total-organic-farming-has-led-to-an-economic-disaster/728414/ Sri Lanka is headed for...
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20210817a/full/?af=R& TLDR: the National Ignition Facility at LLNL, the one that fires lasers...
It's election season in California, the voter guide is out, so you know what that means: another O2C voter guide. The good news: there's only one...
Somehow we never had a thread on Oracle v. Google, but it’s now over, and Google has prevailed....
And the KC Star has the hottest of takes: https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article250209005.html So, uh, any Republicans want to try...
Press release: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6192 Press release: Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel No. 32 -...
I just finished listening to this podcast episode,...
https://abovethelaw.com/2020/11/bill-barr-did-what-how-is-this-not-the-biggest-story-in-the-country-right-now/ Caterpillar was routing profits...
[media] Trump is making 11/1/20 a "National Day of Remembrance for US Citizens Killed by Illegal Aliens" 230,000 Americans dead from COVID-19, this...
What a clusterfuck this year. 12 statewide ballot props this year. Gonna start with a summary, and dive into the propositions as I think need...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53235909 Sure, maybe it collapsed into a black hole without a supernova. Or dust is obscuring it. But...
Biden and Trump have clinched the nominations. The LP has nominated Jo Jorgenson, and the Green Party will almost certainly nominate Howie Hawkins...
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/nasa-will-pay-a-staggering-146-million-for-each-sls-rocket-engine/ There are a lot of things one could buy...
Dual detector didn't tag him, and his IP doesn't match anyone. Posts a bit like Skrain, a bit like Castle, but it's not Castle, right? Anyone know?
They haven't been since March 8 or 9. I don't have time to investigate right now, but I'll get to it if I can.
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