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Galactic Journey
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It's Moon fortnight!
We are broadcasting LIVE coverage of the Apollo 11 mission (with a 55 year time slip), so mark your calendars. From now until the 24th, it's (nearly) daily coverage, with big swathes of coverage for launch, landing, moonwalk, and splashdown.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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“In the Big Rock Candy Mountains You never change your socks And the little streams of alcohol Come trickling down the rocks… …There's a lake of stew And of whiskey too You can paddle all around them In a big canoe In the Big Rock Candy Mountains”
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Benjamin Wittes
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I paid a visit to the Russian ambassador’s residence this evening:
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"You don't have to read my mind To know what I have in mind Honey you oughta know. Now you move so fine Let me lay it on the line I wanna know What you're doin' after the show? Now it's up to you We can make a secret rendezvous? Just me and you I'll show you loving like you never knew"
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"Four young chiquitas in Omaha Awaitin' for the band to return from the show I'm feelin' good, feelin' right, it's Saturday night The hotel detective -- he was out-a-sight Now, these fine ladies, they had a plan They was out to meet the boys in the band"
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It probably helps that the rock stars have written hit songs about doing exactly that.
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Just as a reference point, how does this compare to the amount of lead one could get from, say, a day's worth of typical tap water (assuming no lead piping)?
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Were they "wrong" or were they obviated by the massive strategic candidate withdrawals? (I honestly don't know).
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And one more "event" like the debate will probably doom him. It's an interesting conundrum. We may be in a position where if nothing else happens he's the best chance to beat Trump but if he has another "who am I, why am I here" moment he's toast. Makes the replace or not calc even harder.
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Chris Levesque
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.
www.zdnet.com/article/digi...
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Nicholas Grossman
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"It’s easy to tell yourself that not voting will somehow work magic, that literally doing nothing is not just a principled protest but even an effective strategy for getting what you want. But it’s a delusion." Declining to vote doesn't get politicians to chase you, it gets them to write you off.
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Nicholas Grossman
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How does blowing up a children’s hospital in Ukraine—which isn’t in NATO—protect Russia from NATO? How is killing a bunch of kids who were far from military activity about security, not brutal aggression? Do Putin defenders and apologists who ape the NATO excuse hear themselves?
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Yes, that one. I mean we even had a stand-alone horror short film in the middle of it! (“Do you have a light?”)
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Tim Pierce
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The lesson of the French elections really seems to be “only a united coalition can beat back the forces of tyranny” and not so much about whether leftism or centrism are inherently superior political philosophies.
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I know it won’t be your cup of tea but “Twin Peaks” season 3, episode 8 was stunning. One of the most amazing (and bizarre!) hours of TV I’ve ever seen.
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I'm still missing it :( Mint coin: $1bil appears in govt account, which it spends on workers/vendors. Net $1bil in money is added to the economy. Issue $1bin in debt: $1 bil comes *out* of the economy when investors pay for the debt. Then when govt spends the $1bil it goes back in. Net $0 added.
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Govt rolls over debt and issues net new debt for opex. When the old debt matures that pays out $ into the economy but that $ comes right back out of the economy when investors buy the new debt. The opex does go out into the economy, though. So it seems minting would be more inflationary. 2/2
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Still not grokking why it's not different. Govt mints the coin and deposits it in its account, uses those funds to pay maturing, net new debt, and opex That's all $ going into the economy - investors being paid cash in exchange for bonds, workers and vendors being paid the opex 1/
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Not to mention the immune erasure it causes and the SSPE time bomb in 1-in-600.
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The mashups that Bill McClintock does on YouTube. And many Postmodern Jukebox covers.
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WildGorillaMan
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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”
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But they were and are free to give softballs to one and heaters to the other.
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There was never any such thing as “equal time/same questions rules”. The only “equal time” provision was and is that over the air radio and TV stations (and only OTA stations) have to provide equivalent access to competing political candidates.
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For me Twin Peaks season 3 episode 8 is a very strong contender.
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Quite possibly Twin Peaks S3E8.
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I'm sure it was! :(. (That was a horrific read.)
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Though by choosing to marry Aragorn it'd be tough either way. Either she did what she did or else she chooses to be reckoned Eldar and while she can be with her elven family she is separated from Aragorn (and maybe her kids depending what they choose?) until the end of time.
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I think you mean how *Scarlett* was induced to the sign the NDA?
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Extra sad since she will be separated from all her family (other than Aragorn and kids) until literally the end of time.
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Right. Frodo has the Gift of Illuvatar and is not bound to the circles of the world. He'll have some healing in Valinor and then will die and end up with the same fate as all mortals. And that last will happen to Arwen too, as like Elros she chose to be reckoned human.
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Kinda tangential, but I only happened upon your readthru + commenting on TLotR practically at the very end :( and now I'm sad about what all I've missed. Is there any easy way to find all your LotR posts on bsky or do I need to scroll wayyy back on your timeline (how far back?) and manually search?
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Crew length socks here at age 6, crew length socks here at age 56.
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The other tell is they will virtually never respond to a direct “please tell us what you believe the FD explicitly did” question.
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I’ll give FD truthers one thing — they’re not as dumb as 9/11 truthers.
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No, it didn’t. The FD was, in fact, fairly explicitly NOT about news. It was about *opinion*. It said an opportunity had to be made available to present an alternate opinion. Which could be and often was something like a 2 min op-ed after the end of the 11pm local news that almost nobody watched.
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Why don’t you tell us, explicitly, with no handwavey vague weasel words, precisely what you believe the FD.
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1) they are cable channels which the FD would have been constitutionally-barred from applying to. 2) even if it did apply to them the FD wouldn’t have prevented them from operating like they do. Just what do you believe the FD did, anyways?
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*lived, even. 🤣
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And there are plenty of states that don’t ask for ID. I’ve personally loved in two of them.
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Yeah. Khan’s now a kid in our time rather than the Eugenics wars happening in the 1990s.
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Not to mention the many things that are "lies" but not lies. Like when a Tucker Carlson says that 10s or even 100s of thousands of people have died within a couple of days of getting a covid vaccine. Misleading as that is, it's actually quite true. (There's no causation of course, but it's true!)
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Yes, they sometimes do. Big time. On sexual assault related things even. Apparently you missed the huge debacle of their fake article on an alleged rape at UVirginia, for example.
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Sadly this sort of "we're not going to make it clear we're merely reporting someone else's reporting" thing is de rigueur in American media.
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We were a serious country once.
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A constitutional convention is only an alternative way to *propose* amendments. You still need 3/4 of states to ratify anything that comes out of it.
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I mean evil, black, matched swords that help but ultimately repeatedly screw over their wielders and that talks to the final wielder at the end?
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I was amused by the irony that, given how much Moorcock hates Tolkien, ol' JRR pre-figured Stormbringer a bit (though not by publication date, of course).
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rev. howard arson
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not sure why there's an expectation that you treat chapo trap house any differently than alex jones just because their sandy hook is in syria
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Engage some reading comprehension. CA is going to go for the Dem no matter who, making them completely irrelevant to whether or not Biden should stay in. Same for MA, NY, etc. Likewise lots of states are going for Trump no matter who the Dem is so they are also irrelevant to the Biden question.
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