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Is it weird for an immortal though? If you life forever then you can have as many backgrounds as you want.

NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon Cool, a fresh ray system. Is that cryptomare I see in the crater center?

Rubin Observatory launches 10-year cosmic survey

Just think, if one of them accidently sets off a Kessler syndrome in LEO, Musk can say goodbye to his orbital satellite kingdom.

I'm not convinced that his mental faculties are entirely rational, so who knows what cognitive sweaty turd he's working from? It doesn't have to make logical sense.

I hadn't realized that Pluribus on Apple TV is a sci-fi series, so I've been watching that. Spoilerish comments...

Yes, it's a positive from the perspective of the SCOTUS continuing to uphold the Constitution. I still think the USPS approach isn't a good one as it increases the likelihood of errors without providing a significant improvement in election security. This administration has actually decreased the security for this upcoming election, so their motivation is dubious. Hopefully, following the election, we will have better checks and balances between the three branches.

Not really; the money causes inflation and produces nothing but greater interest payments on the national debt.

Gotta love SWAGs with made up odds. Seriously, there's no way for anybody to know the actual probabilities; they just wanted to make a statement so they picked a number. It does appear that we're intrinsically unable to avoid the lure of AI. We're programming it to know exactly how to push our buttons and it is steadily wiping out our ability to think for ourselves. Even smart phones have been reducing our rate of reproduction. Why Today's Teens Are Having So Much Less Sex AI interaction is already making that worse. In the end, it won't even matter whether it wipes us out or not.

It's essentially a trillion dollar bribe. I guess stinky wants to hold the all-time record for corruption.

Just think, if stinky gets impeached once more after 2026 and the Republicans go along with his ouster, Vance could assume office then run for two more terms as President. That would potentially give him close to a decade in office.

They say that people usually get the government they deserve. What did we do to deserve a crackpot?

Perhaps. They have had 16 civil wars, but maybe this time they won't. I mean, who is going to supply them arms for a rebellion, just to stir up trouble for the US? Russia? China? Cuba? Columbia? Iran? N. Korea? Canada? Sure. 🤷‍♂️

Well those countries lean heavily toward the unstable side, so they are highly likely to change governments, nationalize industries, fight guerilla wars, &c. Once that happens we either commit forces to stabilize the situation or write it off; probably the former, since we'll be dependent on their oil by that point. Either way it'll be a burden on future Presidents.

My thought on hearing that is it essentially commits the US to future military actions over protecting their oil supply. Some Venezuelans are none to happy about this relationship, and we've linked ourselves to the current corrupt government. It wouldn't surprise me to see a future US President drop the deal.

Supreme Court lets White House continue construction on Stinky’s $400 million ballroom Looks like Nero's Dancehall project is back on. The wealthy can dance while the nation burns.

I originally interpreted the inflation under Biden to be a consequence of systemic shock resulting from the pandemic. But the inflation now seems entirely self-inflicted: massive tariffs, oil wars, AI over-investment, and mismanagement of the Fed. Somehow we're supposed to be better off? It's not a great situation for those of us on a fixed income.

Here's stinky's latest attempt to game the system in his favor: US Postal Service issues new rule for mail ballots, but its impact on the midterms is uncertain It's a fundamentally unconstitutional rule because it allows the executive branch to regulate who gets to vote (in states that vote by mail), something that the constitution delegates to the states and Congress. In reality, it adds little new in terms of security because voter eligibility is already checked during the registration process, and it creates a layer of fallibility and endless bureaucracy. This was made a requirement just before the election, and would need to be implemented flawlessly by the Postal Service. Worse case, this is allowed by SCOTUS and states either comply or get their election blocked. Fortunately I think there's a way out of this: contract parcel delivery services to ship the ballots to voters, thereby bypassing the federal government. This assumes it doesn't get negated by the courts (which SCOTUS has already indicated it might not). Either way, it going to cost millions of taxpayer dollars to address this. Yet another taxpayer money wasting effort by this power-hungry nutter.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has launched This telescope will have the resolution of Hubble, but with a much larger field of view. I look forward to seeing how well the coronagraph works.

Hard to say. It probably depends on who follows stinky and whether we get back to responsible governance. There will be a lot of bridges in need of repair, so to speak.

Sometimes stinky is a man. Now is not one of those times. Trump signs order renaming Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ in the United States

There have always been fringe beliefs. I particularly remember being on a bus ride where the driver spent nearly the entire trip trying to convince us that soft drinks cause formaldehyde to appear in the blood stream. The difference now is that everybody gets a low-cost media platform from which to spew their potty ideas.

Sometimes you've just got to rock

Heh, nope, not that I'm aware. It seems like the right has been diverging from reality for a while now, with stinky being a prominent example. My (admittedly unconventional) conjecture is that the party wants to increase its power by becoming people's only source of information, via FOX. But implementing that means diverging sharply from more reliable mainstream sources like scientists, doctors, broadcast news, and books. The more the party gets people to fall into the rabbit hole that is conspiracy theory, the more reliant they become on the party line. It's all very 1984 newspeak.