GOP would know that any woman they put against AOC would get murdered in primaries alone. They would pick the most overtly misogynistic piece of monster-shit they can find, and sadly, it would probably work.

Between this and the Subnautica news, it hasn’t been a good year for highly anticipated indi-games going mainstream.

True caffeine addicts know that different forms hit different.

While I know rationally that the chemical is the same no matter the source, and I have studied the neural chemistry and could go on for hours about how adenosine and the neural transmitters work, I can also say with certainty that the caffeine buzz you get from tea feels a lot different than from coffee, which both feel a lot different from different brands of energy drinks and different from pills or shots.

With a democrat behind them frowning disapprovingly but not saying anything.

Ours will be Calvin & Hobbs, Doonesbury, The Far Side and Bloom County.

(We do not speak of Dilbert, the name and all it represents has been stricken from all the monuments, tombs and obelisks in the land.)

The internet is a dead wasteland of book deals being promoted.

There are likely areas we will never have any greater insight on and phenomenon that will never be explained, but my point is just that people use these kinds of short-attention-span quips to go on to say that we don’t know for sure about climate change and vaccines and such.

Shitty AI generated Dyson Sphere is off-center. Whole thing is going to destabilize and collapse.

I haven’t read any of Loeb’s recent anything because, and I cannot stress this enough, he is a crackpot trying to sell books and get media attention. I used to follow him because I liked the idea of being open to studying more areas of astronomy with an open mind to figuring out if there are unknowns we’ve been missing like Von Neuman probes in the asteroid belts and so on.

But since those earlier days of speculation, he has gotten more and more radical and “grifty” and disrespecting his own peers like the head of SETI and declaring anything that moves to be possible signs of aliens, to say nothing of his doubling down on recovering industrial waste from an expensive mission to retrieve ocean gunk on some longshot, hyperbolic narrative that he knew where an alien ship crashed. He does nothing but media and podcast tours and doesn’t take criticism. Not a scientist.

We can do better.

There are clear pictures of multiple nucleuses after it passed the sun, which is entirely common for comets, they are loosely held together balls of rock and ice. Some crackpots (Avi Loeb specifically) are now pushing the media-grabbing narrative that this is just the “spaceship now turning on its thrusters” despite no real dramatic, unexpected changes to its velocity or behavior.

We have observed some unusual properties from the comet, but this is more like “unusual for a long-range comet” and not “OMG ALIENS.” This is likely because it originated in another part of the galaxy a very, very long time ago and thus is made of different proportions of elements and may even have new compounds in it that react slightly differently to light and heat. In some other, better timeline, we would have probes stationed around the solar system to intercept and study interstellar objects and maybe we would make new discoveries.

For now, all we get are youtubers and sensationalist book authors flailing their arms in the air about aliens, because that’s what sells headlines.

A larger nation with a massive population like India or China will unilaterally employ some kind of geoengineering project long before it gets to that level of lost profits.

Likely it will be some kind of massively risky atmospheric particle seeding to reflect some percentage of sunlight, which could have unknown consequences down the line.

Death to by Oil

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We have simultaneously underestimated the massive force that is male sexual insecurity and how it fuels movements, and also way overplayed the minority of foul shits who scream their hate into the void.

If a woman is elected president, there will be no end to raging lunatics online, but not any more than we have now, and there’s not going to be any more or less real-world violence as a result. People generally fall in line with whatever tone our current “leader” sets.

It is very, very much on-brand for establishment democrats to ignore the multitude of well-respected, socialist or left-leaning politicians across our country, as well as the mandate that shows just how much people want inspiring leaders who want to help people, and go all-in on Harris/Newsom 2028.

This meme was circulated about 20 years ago by my reckoning.

It was clever back then, it’s far less entertaining now in an age when people are discarding science and factual knowledge wholesale.

We have very, very good models of each of those “things” listed. We have such good models for it, that even since this meme first made rounds, we have created new kinds of telescopes that can see gravity, we have created computers that can calculate using individual particles in superposition, we have built tools to view the edge of space and time and have imaged the event-horizons around black holes and we have created conditions close to beginning of the universe in labs and discovered new particles that validate decades or centuries of theorizing.

These models only break down in extreme environments or when they intersect in certain conditions. But by “break down” we don’t mean “scientists throw their hands in the air and become flat-earthers” we mean “we are missing some key data” to make different fields of science work together.

Yeah, when this meme was first cycled around over 20 years ago I didn’t like it then, I like far, far less now in an age of science denial and every fukkin headline on every fukkin major media site feed saying shit like “SCIENTISTS BAFFLED OVER NEW DISCOVERY OF UNKNOWN SIGNALS” or “SCIENTISTS HORRIFIED BY DISCOVERY THAT BREAKS THE LAWS OF NATURE” and so on.

This shit is the reason we have an anti-vaxxer with no qualifications leading the most powerful nation’s health and human services. This is the shit that feeds people deciding that horse-dewormer is as good as the accumulated knowledge of centuries of study and data. This kind of over-simplification is why we won’t see a dozen scrapped space missions and why people spit on scientific data about how helping people with their gender identity helps prevent suicide and on and on and on.

We have to make knowledge “cool” again, and I have no idea how to do that.

No it hasn’t. It broke up around the sun. It’s a rock with ice and shit.

Your language is daft. Words have meaning, so when you prescribe something “giving her a chance” that has meaning, it calls for something but you’re dancing around what that something means. And since you STILL are not making even an attempt to clarify that meaning, I will block you and write you off as a child or shill.

What does that even mean in this context? How does that address either your obtuse and childish point that I “like being outraged” or that I have suffered material harm? Are you just typing things? are you a bot?