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  1. We had another light dusting of snow here, but it cleared up after a day. Looks like we're in for a warming trend, so hopefully it's back to normal now.
  2. Hulu -- Lazarus Project. It's been pretty good so far, being about a time loop setting in a sci-fi, mission-oriented context. The team is working to prevent mass extinction events by setting up a loop baseline then jumping back to repeat events when things don't go right.
  3. Trump officials signal potential changes at NOAA, the weather and climate agency Speculating on what happens next: anybody and anything reporting climate change information will be scrubbed. Poof, just like that, climate change goes away. What a time to be alive...
  4. It is still mandated by a few private colleges, which shouldn't be impacted by the order. But I'd be more worried about orders impacting hospitals.
  5. KM3NeT Telescope Detects Most Energetic Cosmic Neutrino Yet A particle that rarely interacts with normal matter yet its "energy was roughly a 100 million billion times the energy of visible light photons..." Whoa. It's something called a cosmogenic neutrino.
  6. More news from the Mos Eisley administration: Trump administration set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas Hahahahaha...
  7. I'm off to donate blood again tomorrow. It usually just takes an hour of my time, and at least I feel like I'm contributing something. I have that universal donor O-negative blood that is much sought by emergency rooms. At my age it usually takes a few days to recover my energy, but at least I'm getting rid of more senescent cells. (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.) It's just in time too; there's more snow on the way in the forecast. We may get up to three inches by Friday. I think I'll plan on staying home and reading a good book (The Bookseller of Florence by Ross King).
  8. The judicial department sets the final word on what is legal, so yes they can rule on whether the executive branch actions are legitimate. Beyond that, the next step would be to see whether they are willing to ignore the judges, or take it to court.
  9. Okay, I recently found out about Starfinder Roleplaying Game, the sci-fi version of the Pathfinder RPG, and it has me interested. It reminds me of the old Star Frontiers game, which I had an opportunity to try back in the day. Apparently now Pazo is converting it to compatibility with 2nd edition Pathfinder rules so you can swap between the two. Currently they have published playtest versions of the rules, which sounds like a novel approach. They are planning to release the 2nd edition version of Starfinder early this year (2025), so I'm planning to pick up a copy for evaluation. Has anybody played Starfinder PnP? I'm curious to know your experiences. My sci-fi RPG PnP experiences are with Star Frontiers, GURPS, and HERO. For sci-fi, I've enjoyed the Fallout/Wasteland/SW:TOR/Rogue Trader video games. Some day I'd like to enjoy a sci-fi tactical RPG video game akin to Star Frontiers, and Starfinder sounds promising for that purpose.
  10. Wonder how long until we'll have to wait before the first terrorist bombing of DJT's Gaza Resort? Not sure I'd want to vacation there...
  11. It's becoming a government at war with itself, 7x24. I have no idea what we'll do in a crisis -- perhaps foreign powers will gamble that the USA is to distracted to respond? Certainly DJT isn't the President you want to have if the bird flu develops into a pandemic.
  12. The latter at least makes some sense (for once). Copper is an important commodity these days, and the value of a penny has dropped to nearworthless. Our state has a sales tax, and I would like to see them modify it to round to the nearest nickel (5 cents).
  13. I wondered if this is a Musk-motivated effort, since his wealthy family is from Pretoria? Anyway, the whites were European immigrants so presumably they can relocate back to their originating nations.
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