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Elon Claims Humanity Will Never Make it To Mars if Trump Loses
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I think he is suggesting he himself will come under legal scrutiny, threatening him: ergo mars, humanity and everything else.
It’s all about him
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Elon Claims Humanity Will Never Make it To Mars if Trump Loses
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I think he is suggesting he himself will come under legal scrutiny, threatening him: ergo mars, humanity and everything else.
It’s all about him
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What was something you learned too late in life?
Brushing teeth regularly, and flossing , is more important than I ever realized.
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Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do To Counter Fascism
All of these are good points, and good to do.
My fear is that most Americans do not talk to their neighbors , do not sit outside and mingle, do not go to church, mosque or temple, or to bars or places of sin, even. They sit at home, go to work. Back and forth, exhausted.
Two generations ago people had stronger community ties. Most people were still exhausted and exploited but complained face to face about it, to neighbors and people in the community they did not know. And that made all the difference to power social movements .
Something is broken here, in my community and I suspect other places, I don’t know how to fix it and have not seen any good fix proposed by others.
I think with time things will change for the better, but many things have to help
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draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024
- None of the Work may be used in any form as part, or whole, of an integration, plugin or app that integrates with Atlassian's Confluence or Jira products.
its just the apache 2 license with a restriction to not sell this project on one marketplace. Can still sell the code elsewhere. Its still totally open source, and honestly Confluence is not something I would loose sleep on. Jira has been a cash cow for a long time, and I have a beef with them anyway
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What the hell: Forbes advertising UN Human Relief Agency are terrorists
Forbes vets its own ads. Many people there had to think this was a good thing.
It’s not a random ad from another company
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Trial begins in alleged ‘Trump Train’ ambush of Biden-Harris bus in 2020
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Nobody charged because the perpetrators are wealthy and connected. I would be amazed if this civil action suit did not languish in court for years.
This occurred close by me, and I remember the chilling effect this had on all democratic campaigns hundreds of miles away.
The sheriff and other local law enforcement agencies helped prolong the harassment by not doing anything despite multiple 911 calls. This was a combination of complicity and fear.
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Republicans threaten a government shutdown unless Congress makes it harder to vote
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I don’t think they are conservatives, although they call themselves that. Democrats are conservatives.
Classic conservatives conserve: this is a mob who could not individually list one thing they want to keep from changing. They want as much change that makes them the most money
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Biden administration writes to Israel demanding it improve Gaza humanitarian situation
Literally a strongly worded letter
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White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor through door faces manslaughter sentence in Florida
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she had long running arguments with most of her neighbors and the person killed was not in “greater argument” than the many kids and adults who were verbally abused over years.
This is my mini hill I am standing on today: AP press normalized a neighborhood terror.
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RFK Jr's critics say his candidacy as top US health official is 'poke in the eye of science'
I think this guy will kill a lot of people, over decades, because what he tears down is not so easily built up again.
He is about to hollow out institutional knowledge, literally wreck physical systems, and disrupt distribution networks and supply chains.
It may even be that many replacements over the next decades might not be government run, but private enterprises trying to maximize profits
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What is a creepy or weird fact that would scare even the bravest person?
Each year, is about a 1/2 of 1 percent the sun will give out a flare so big, it will not only destroy all power distribution to the half of the earth exposed, and destroy the internet there, but cut off food distribution, starving most of the population in any county . Last time it happened was in the 1800s but no stuff to destroy then. And food was local.
It would be years before things were normal . Our current setup is literally doomed to failure for a random half of the earth
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Nobel winning Hiroshima survivor's Gaza comparison angers Israel
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It keeps happening in history: people using horror suffered in the past to give cover to their own crimes. Attacking others in the name of their own holy dead.
Sharing stories or pictures of a previous genocide to make others overlook a current genocide. Accusing others of being enemies to their religion and ethnicity when voices raise in protest.
Over a hundred times in the world, in the last few thousand years. It’s just particularly galling to me to see this, now, in my name.
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Forest coverage in each US state
Texas is nothing but trees in the east, and no trees in the west.
But none of it are the original ecosystems: all the trees in the east were cut down and now it’s more or less a mono-culture of pines, with many invasive species; the plains were destroyed with a few holdouts; and I have no clue about in the west but I suspect that was messed up too.
But even 150 years ago a lot of forests in the east were still multistory with different layers of canopy. If left alone, someone said it would takes thousand of years for them to grow back to that.
Right now it’s just dense small pines cut down every few years, all over the state, and hard to walk though. Much easier to travel through earlier.
I live in the east where there was fifteen thousand years of history here, and a few thousand years of villages and larger settlements and several languages. But most those are forgotten because of the genocide which ended in my great great grandfather’s time.
But even earlier a previous ecosystem was destroyed by hunting out the large animals, which fundamentally changed the look of area. Trees just grow differently when there are large herbivores. There were more open areas in the forests too.
And in another hundred years most of these pine forests will be gone too, thanks to global warming. Probably too dry and hot that will blow off the top soil, causing rapid desertification . And the current people will move , most of them, and once again the land will forget its nature and people, towns will be forgotten.
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TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal
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That and labor organizing, environmental awareness, and many other things where the absence helps the rich get wealthier .
It’s also just a blatant theft; there is a lot of money to be made here however it goes down , and that money goes to connected arseholes
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Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users
I spent ten years on Reddit. I can use that to compare for myself the amount of engagement then and now.
If most of the users are not bots I would be so surprised. I think they lost a huge percentage of traffic and are now knowingly faking live user counts
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Trump nominates Jared Isaacman—Shift4 CEO, commercial astronaut, and Musk friend—to be next NASA administrator.
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Yea, but he going to be really enthusiastic while he is shoveling money to both musk and perhaps himself. And he believes the moon landings are real.
It could have been a moon landing denier or even a flat earther.
There is a non zero chance he may actually be good for the space program in general? In the meantime the bar is lowered enough that this may be the best in a bad lot, even if this nomination redefines the term “industry capture”
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Your politics can affect whether you click on sponsored search results, new research shows.
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Non politically correct summary can be :
Bigots R dumb
Reactive personalities, who don’t understand their world , and have no curiosity to look, make great targets for scams etc. They are natural made victims in today’s world
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South Korea President Yoon declares martial law
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I read he is blocking the National Assembly building to avoid the martial law being lifted; both parties, including his, will vote to lift it should they get inside
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7 years later: Me and my 3 friends would like to rent the bottom part of an E....
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I tried to download an “e”, and I got two automatic cease and desist letters that used their own copyrighted font
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Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics
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The leaks that 2% of the population got very excited about for a while, but try not to think much about? The leaks judged by many on the reputation of an obscure man living in Russia? Those leaks?
I trust my government and not things only nerds understand. Also they sound weird and made up and very scary ( said most of the people)