Think I’m out after today. Been a good five years news heads. Maybe I’ll jump back in if WWIII starts. Cheers

Realistically I think that was our one Luigi for like 10 years

Ah yes, the Endless Frontiers Retreat. My favorite retreat, personally!

Yeah very good point – imagine having a light society and a dark society, both with very different evolutions lol it’d be like all the crazy stuff at the bottom of the ocean except just…straight over there

I know AI sucks but this would actually be lame. I use DeepSeek basically just to search for info that I otherwise could through Google, but without seeing ads and actually giving me contextual info I need. Like I had a plumbing issue and it helped me solve that pretty quickly. Otherwise I’d just be Googling the same thing and having to either go through YouTube videos extended out to 10 minutes for no reason other than gaming the algorithm, or shitty content slop articles with the actual info buried under a mountain of SEO. Or sifting through the worst people’s comments on Reddit. Anyway, DeepSeek helps me avoid ads a least a little bit in this shitty internet society, this would be really annoying

The cool thing about this situation is that 1) even though the star is a red dwarf, K2-18b is within its relative goldilocks zone, which would provide the right conditions for life as we know it. 2) Scientists detected carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere a few years ago, which is cool but not a revolutionary thing. But now they’ve detected a LOT of molecules only produced by living organisms (that we know of), mainly phytoplankton, which would be the first detection of its kind in that amount and is a revolutionary thing. 3) Their confidence in the data is 99.7%, and they’re releasing the data to the community in a few days for people to verify. Like, unless there’s some crazy way for these molecules to be created that defies our current understanding of all of biology, there are living organisms on that planet

High levels of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide (DMDS)! Wow!

Uh huh. And when I did it, the judge said “it constituted a warcrime” (it didn’t) and that I’m “no better than Joseph Kony” (I am). BS

I think a comment like this is fun to write but honestly very far from reality. I don’t think there will be protests organized in a way that would invite this sort of cartoonish state hammer at all. It’s almost like going through the motions of a descent into fascism, but not really reaching any of the dramatic milestones because there just isn’t any resistance to it, and would be fascists doing it don’t really know what to do with that. And then the object not in very much motion continues to stay not in very much motion, despite the spectacle

I feel like that’s an appeal to the left, and I don’t think Dems are going to do that, with their new target political subjects concerned about immigration. I think they’ll sweep it under the rug and position themselves as “stepping in to do it the right way; not to look backward but from here on” type thing

Oh wait I’ve got a protest sign with a really witty play on words that’s just the thing to stop this

Well they are “Lib1” smdh opsec people, come on now

“Listen, the trains have been transporting the human-cattle to Poland since before we got into office. We can’t change anything without breaking the system”

Oh god

The admin argues that they are doing whatever they can to “facilitate”, but his return is ultimately up to El Salvador.

Yeah this is understood by all to be a farce

Is this officially the first Supreme Court order Trump is ignoring

Edit: also occurring to me there’s a small chance this guy is already dead / very fucked up and that’s why there’s all this “I’m powerless” theater. Much more likely Trump just doesn’t want to comply, but it’s a possibility

Now they’re angry that there are three blonde women characters who all look the same lmao it’s never enough

I know Iran is up against a wall here, but this is the same god damn thing over and over again. US says let’s negotiate, US breaks deal, more sanctions, more proxy violence, US says let’s negotiate, US breaks deal…etc etc. I guess Iran feels they need to go through the motions here to avoid immediate confrontation? But it’s also clear confrontation is inevitable. And if they’re not building nukes it doesn’t matter what they’re doing. Really sucks that there’s no power that would unite with Iran to counter the US. I honestly don’t see a point in even keeping up with these “talks.” It’s just theater to create the pretense of going to war

YIKES

I work with a lot of kids and have seen waaay more colds this year than in previous years. A lot more than just flu, as that was particularly bad this year. And have gotten more of them this year myself. Definitely more strep this year specifically too