For those who don't know: Worm is a complete web serial about characters with superpowers, but I think even people who don't usually like stories about superheroes may like some of it.

Isn't it defensible when trying to protect your home from invaders, like Ukrainian volunteers fighting against Russia, or Vietnamese volunteers fighting against the USA? Tho I think the majorities in both those cases (on both sides) may have been forcibly drafted.

Remove and prevent 4 GB Gemini nano install into Chrome, on Windows 11:

1. Start
2. regedit
3. Backup registry by exporting it
4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies
5. right-click Policies, New, Key
6. Google
7. right-click Google, New, Key
8. Chrome
9. right-click Chrome, New, DWORD (32-bit) Value
10. GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings
11. right-click newly created key, Modify
12. set value to 1
13. OK
14. Restart computer. https://pureinfotech.com/stop-chrome-gemini-nano-download-windows-11/

Or, you know don't install software from companies owned and operated by psychopaths, like Google and Microsoft.

Adding some sources, in case people think these quotes are satirical.

Edits: some longer quotes (which takes away from the punchy format by Linken) and non-chronological groupings.

• 2026-02-28 "When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take"

• 2026-04-01 "We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders' death — they're all dead [...] The new group is less radical and much more reasonable."

• 2026-04-01 "We are in this military operation so powerful, so brilliant, against one of the most powerful countries, for 32 days,"

• 2026-04-01 "We’re going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong."

• 2026-04-04 "48 hours before all Hell will reign [sic] down on them."

• 2026-04-05 "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."

• 2026-04-06 "Every bridge in Iran [...] every power plant [...] I mean complete demolition by 12 o'clock"

• 2026-04-07 "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again."

It'll be interesting to see a character following the teachings of Jesus Christ, like

• Luke 16:13 "You cannot serve both God and money."
• Mark 10:21 "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor"
• Matthew 5:39 "If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."
• Matthew 5:44 "love your enemies"

So there's no chance the character will be a capitalist, troop-supporting, neo-Nazi. Right?

22% inflation vs 700% increase for the CEO between 2016 and 2022?

I think the provocation was her reporting facts. Can't have that when most voters have chosen Trump.

Biggest sources:

• 7.6 Mt from macro plastics breaking down
• 1.3 Mt from paint
• 1.0 Mt from tyres

10-40 Mt released into environment/year, and increasing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/16/biden-oil-drilling-production/ :

As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold promise at a New Hampshire town hall, adding repetition for emphasis: “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” […] The Biden administration has now outpaced the Trump administration in approving permits for drilling on public lands, and the United States is producing more oil than any country ever has.

• rejection sensitive dysphoria
• pathological demand avoidance (PDA)
• autistic burnout, inertia
• sensory processing [disorder]
• alexithymia/emotional blindness
• hyperlexia/child's precocious ability to read
• connective tissue [disease]

Wouldn't an honest title state that a certain flu variant now seems extinct? Why spread a title that makes it seem like the vaccines are unsafe?

Please downvote distortions like this.

More likely to be local phenomena than stars, because non-polar stars won't stay in view of a stationary telescope due to diurnal motion.

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"The reform does not mandate two rest days per week. [...] create the conditions under which a four-day working week becomes practically achievable for the first time for a significant portion of the Mexican workforce."

Mexico is one of the few countries with only a 1-day weekend, along with:

• Colombia, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Hong Kong, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda, and India (Sundays);
• Djibouti (only 40h/w tho), Palestine, Iran, and Somalia (Fridays); and
• Nepal (only 42h/w tho) (Saturdays).

Why is it called "drink driving" and not "drunk driving"?

"Drink driving" sounds like something a very drunk person would say.

The crust is minuscule compared to the core and mantle.

The mantle makes up about 84% of Earth’s total volume. The temperature varies from about 1 300 K (1 000°C, 1 832°F) near its boundary with the crust, to 4 000 K (3 700°C, 6 692°F) near its boundary with the core. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/mantle/

The temperature in the Earth's core is uncertain: estimates at the inner core boundary range from 4 000 K to 8 000 K and at the core–mantle boundary from 3 000 to 4 500 K. https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfbdxa/pubblicazioni/nat.pdf

I've twice asked Christians to pray in Jesus' name asking for the immediate and permanent end to torture, rape, murder, and war. They prayed, and when I next met them they were still Christians despite none of those things ending.

I think religious people are dishonest and/or unable to differentiate between reality and fairytales.

Matthew 7:7-11
7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

Scientists didn't become pickier - they just later found that Pluto was in a belt of thousands of massive object (called the Kuiper belt), like the asteroid belt but much bigger.

When Ceres was discovered in 1801, it was thought to be a comet, later a planet, but after discovering it was one of many asteroids in the asteroid belt (which it wasn't big enough to clear), they realized it wasn't a planet.

When Pluto was first discovered in 1930, it was in a similar situation as Ceres and thought of as a planet, but when other Kuiper belt objects started to be discovered by 1992, they realized Pluto also wasn't a planet.

"Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities - and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, [...] you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here... like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The public sucks. Fuck hope.'" -- George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70

I don't completely agree: slavery is now illegal; so there's hope they'll one day vote to oppose omnicidal biosphere destruction, and genocides.

The party (1968)? Trailer.