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The government should require vaccinations because parents are too stupid to keep their children alive
“D.C. attorney general’s lawsuit to expel National Guard could backfire Brian Schwalb is antagonizing the president as House Republicans consider curbing home rule.”
Fire everyone on the WaPo editorial board.
Hire an exorcist to cleanse their offices of evil spirits.
Let their names never again be spoken aloud.
This Life Is a Test
This life’s trials and tests are meant to ensure we do not ever decide to turn away from God.Pastor Darryl Hall
Iron Ore Set for Weekly Gain With Margins and Supply in Focus
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🎙️ New Primary Tech Show is (finally) out!
Instagram blew it on their iPad app, 100x camera on Pixel 10 Pro, ChatGPT saved Google Chrome, and we hear YOUR hopes for iPhone 17
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Broadcom Gives Upbeat Forecast in Sign AI Demand Remains Strong
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Can Britain have a proper Green Party?
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Can Britain have a proper Green Party?
Zack Polanski, the self-confessed eco-populist, won the leadership of the Green Party in a landslide this week. So Westminster Insider Host Sascha O’Sullivan finds out why the Green Party hav…Sascha O'Sullivan (POLITICO)
Nepal blocks Facebook, X, YouTube and others for failing to register with the government
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"Oggi due aerei militari del regime di Maduro hanno volato nei pressi di una nave della marina statunitense in acque internazionali. Questa mossa altamente provocatoria ha l'obiettivo di interferire con le nostre operazioni anti-narcos". (ANSA)Agenzia ANSA
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I met a skunk!
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Creatures of the Night, Cloaked in Black
I had a close encounter in the backyard a moment ago.reasonably.social
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REPORTER: What legal authority did the Pentagon invoke to strike that boat?
PETE HEGSETH: We have the absolutely and complete authority
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Got back Monday from getting one of my no-longer-kids settled in at her graduate degree program at University of Twente (and doing some sightseeing) in the Netherlands. Spent the first half of the trip in the on-campus hotel; this is the ceiling of my room there.
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NVIDIAのCEOいわく「AIとロボットの導入で人間はもっと忙しくなる」
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Many countries have established ecocide as a crime, and others are planning to do so. I am in favor of this. Declaring ecosystems to be "persons" is an absurdity, but fortunately we can protect them legally without being absurd.
Company directors who cause nature damage in Scotland could face jail
New ecocide bill in Scottish parliament aims to criminalise environmental destruction in line with EU directiveSeverin Carrell (The Guardian)
Dish (with a #lion , #dog , and #stag )
Ottoman: Iznik, Türkiye, c.1585-1600
Fritware (polychrome, painted & glazed); H 29.8 cm
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Dish, fritware, painted in colours with tulips, carnatiosn and saz leaves, Turkey, Iznik, ca.1585-1600Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections
Men and women both enforce this mindset. If a woman has also bought into toxic masculinity they will treat men who cage themselves inside of it better and want nothing to do with those who are free of it. Its part of why it took me until I was 30 to have a real relationship.
Toxic masculinity is bad for everyone. There is no one way to be a man, you don't lose you man card for liking certain things or doing certain things. You just might get treated like trash if you do and no longer be recognized by the toxic masculine cult as a man.
The people that matter will recognize you for who you are not for what twisted "virtue" signals you give off. I think toxic masculine infantilism is probably one of the worst natural logical conclusion to toxic masculinity.
Masculinity as we have it in the west wasn't even really a thing until sometime before WWII, what a gay scare was happening, and there was a fear of not enough men with fighting spirit, never mind the Spartans were gay as hell and could slaughter people with ease. Each generation the restrictions that define a man keep getting tighter and tighter to the point that having the vulnerability to make friends as an adult is too gay for men in the cult, leading to loneliness on a scale we have never before seen in history.
For the rest of the world being a man is all over the place on how you are defined as one. But the US especially can only look inward so most don't realize that men all over the world life outside of this cage and are still men. Are we against men or masculinity? No we want you to be able to define those terms however you choose and be treated as a person with all the respect you deserve due a person. But being a man baby or demanding a man abandon half of who he is for some stupid made up set of rules is hurting every including those who maintain it.
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I may be out of context, but true manliness is never toxic.
What enforced standards, for example? Can you name a few so I can understand you better?
I still find it highly remarkable that male is the only human gender which is convinced that members thereof are required to PROVE that they're the gender they were born as. Of course I'm speaking of the cis members. Nobody else has to prove anything to anybody else.
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Nice! Hawaii just joined the West Coast Health Alliance of Washington, Oregon and California.
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Things people don't understand about having a cognitive disability;
It's possible for the same person who presented a paper at an academic conference to spend whole days in bed, and for that to be a win. Because when I wake up, I usually feel like someone is driving a garbage truck through my head, and it takes a huge effort of will not to roll over and go back to sleep.
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TFINER is an Atompunk Solar Sail Lookalike
It’s not every day we hear of a new space propulsion method. Even rarer to hear of one that actually seems halfway practical. Yet that’s what we have in the case of TFINER, a proposal by [James A. Bickford] we found summarized on Centauri Dreams by [Paul Gilster] .
TFINER stands for Thin-Film Nuclear Engine Rocket Engine, and it’s a hoot. The word “rocket” is in the name, so you know there’s got to be some reaction mass, but this thing looks more like a solar sail. The secret is that the “sail” is the rocket: as the name implies, it hosts a thin film of nuclear materialwhose decay products provide the reaction mass. (In the Phase I study for NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts office (NIAC), it’s alpha particles from Thorium-228 or Radium-228.) Alpha particles go pretty quick (about 5% c for these isotopes), so the ISP on this thing is amazing. (1.81 million seconds!)
Now you might be thinking, “nuclear decay is isotropic! The sail will thrust equally in both directions and go nowhere!”– which would be true, if the sail was made of Thorium or Radium. It’s not; the radioisotope is a 9.5 um thin film on a 35 um beryllium back-plane that’s going to absorb any alpha emissions going the wrong way around. 9.5um is thin enough that most of the alphas from the initial isotope and its decay products (lets not forget that most of this decay chain are alpha emitters — 5 in total for both Th and Ra) aimed roughly normal to the surface will make it out.
Since the payload is behind the sail, it’s going to need a touch of shielding or rather long shrouds; the reference design calls for 400 m cables. Playing out or reeling in the cables would allow for some degree of thrust-vectoring, but this thing isn’t going to turn on a dime.
It’s also not going to have oodles of thrust, but the small thrust it does produce is continuous, and will add up to large deltaV over time. After a few years, the thrust is going to fall off (the half-life of Th-228 is 1.91 years, or 5.74 for Ra-228; either way the decay products are too short-lived to matter) but [Bickford]’s paper gives terminal/cruising velocity in either case of ~100 km/s.
Sure, that’s not fast enough to be convenient to measure as a fraction of the speed of light, and maybe it’s not great for a quick trip to Alpha Centauri but that’s plenty fast enough for to reach the furthest reaches of our solar system. For a flyby, anyway: like a solid-fueled rocket, once your burn is done, it’s done. Stopping isn’t really on offer here. The proposal references extra-solar comets like Oumuamua as potential flyby targets. That, and the focus of the Sun’s gravitational lens effect. Said focus is fortunately not a point, but a line, so no worries about a “blink and you miss it” fast-flyby. You can imagine we love both of those ideas.
NASA must have too, since NIAC was interested enough to advance this concept to a Phase II study. As reported at Centauri Dreams, the Phase II study will involve some actual hardware, albeit a ~1 square centimeter demonstrator rather than anything that will fly. We look forward to it. Future work also apparently includes the idea of combining the TFINER concept with an actual solar sail to get maximum possible delta-V from an Oberth-effect sundive. We really look forward to that one.
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...die Schmuckleiste der Küchenkredenz gesteckt. Ob es heute möglich ist eine Kutschenfahrt mit der Kreditkarte zu bezahlen oder nur Bargeld angenommen wird, habe ich nicht erfahren.schlagloch (Schlagloch)
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First Brain-Wide Map of Decision-Making Charted In Mice - Slashdot
In a landmark collaboration across 22 labs, neuroscientists have created the first brain-wide map of decision-making in mice, tracking over 620,000 neurons across nearly 280 brain regions.science.slashdot.org
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UberBlogr - Mehr Webring ist grundsätzlich nicht nötig
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Francia: il 10 settembre blocchiamo tutto, atteso il voto di fiducia per Bayrou
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Da circa un mese sui social e sui siti di movimento, ma non solo, è iniziato a girare un appello per una giornata di mobilitazione e di blocco per il 10 settembre. In questa giornata infatti, in tutto l’esagono si...
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Made a post about regulating my nervous system and getting better with somatic stuff RE my cPTSD. It's had a pretty big impact on my IBS!
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Chinese firms still want Nvidia chips despite Beijing pressure not to buy, sources say
Alibaba, ByteDance and others are eager to buy Nvidia’s H20 and Blackwell-based B30A processors, people familiar with the matter say.Reuters (South China Morning Post)
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“Reply: it’s not my fault you suck compared to bunnies.”
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Attaque israélienne à Sanaa : quelles conséquences pour la région ?
« Pourquoi cette attaque maintenant, et quelles en seront les conséquences possibles pour le #MoyenOrient ?
Nous en avons discuté avec Elisabeth Kendall, présidente du Girton College de l’université de Cambridge. »
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