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by ck2 1mo ago
not just space weather, I am pretty sure the atmosphere is being disturbed by toxic human activity both by accident and on purpose I've run outside every morning for decades and used Garmin with GPS since 2015, I've never had so m
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Scientists Find Parasites in Almost Every Fish in a Tuna Haul, 96% Were Infected(sciencealert.com)
3 points by ck2 1mo ago|0 comments
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by ck2 1mo ago
good thing it's completely illegal for the federal government to interfere with state voting proceedure > For instance, the Postal Service has what the whistleblower claims is a "zero percent failure rate." > Mail wo
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Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems(cbsnews.com)
304 points by ck2 1mo ago|325 comments
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by ck2 1mo ago
ha, now imagine some hacker changing all the Flock firmware nationwide to do bird identification too would have been a great Mr. Robot episode
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by ck2 1mo ago
in this case there are actual photos of cars and residential neighborhoods with walls pieced by thousands of pieces of shrapnel are we arguing over "oh it might have JUST been a DOZEN innocent civilians" vs 21? US still hasn'
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by ck2 1mo ago
end the regime? what? how? we caused the replacement of an 80 year old dictator with a 50 year old dictator who is even more hardline the US is not saving a single life in Iran, it is literally accelerating the death of thousands as "c
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by ck2 1mo ago
not that there is anything ethical firing missiles into a civilian population but is this even "legal" in war? it's like an industrial level pipebomb filled with sharpened BBs? > The PrSM is designed to explode midair and
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New US missile left wide path of death and destruction in Iranian neighborhoods(apnews.com)
13 points by ck2 1mo ago|9 comments
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Painting one of three wind-turbine blades black reduces bird fatalities by 72%(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
3 points by ck2 1mo ago|0 comments
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by ck2 1mo ago
a great book or documentary idea would be a different angle on Einstein regarding all his amazing partnerships I found his partnership with Satyendra Nath Bose one of the most fascinating, when Bose couldn't get his paper published Ein
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by ck2 1mo ago
already talking about it here but yeah it's a big deal * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490870 * https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6983/
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by ck2 1mo ago
we went full authoritarian empire in less than a year imagine two more years by 2028 what this nightmare is going to look like even if the Dems get the Senate somehow it will barely slow them down Bush admin was horrible with Iraq War and e
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by ck2 1mo ago
yeah but we don't recover from this one like the 70s the illegal Iran War costs over $120 BILLION, has used over 1000 Tomahawks at $4 Million each (and 1250 patriot missiles) a BILLION was stolen from nuclear missile maintenance fund f
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by ck2 1mo ago
my brain is not what it used to be due to long-covid so it's very possible I made a mistake but 500 megabits per second to me is 500mbps? ie. my cablemodem is 100mbps which is 100 megabits per second? and that would [make Roman] 5.4 Te
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by ck2 1mo ago
I'm still holding my breath on this one, will be most amazing telescope in my lifetime parked in L2 a million miles away with 500mbps data transfer rate (1.5TB per DAY) we've made it past DOGE destroying it we've made it past
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by ck2 1mo ago
reminds me vaguely of "Sailing Stones" * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones
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by ck2 1mo ago
good old buffer packet size anyone old enough from dialup modems and RS232 to remember the trick of replacing the 16450 UART with 16550 if you were lucky enough to have it on a socket instead of soldered? that took it from a 1-byte buffer
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by ck2 1mo ago
right on cue for my meme of the three boxes this administration reaches into daily [chaos] [corruption] [cruelty] fine then, make mar-a-lardo and the ballroom into datacenters November and the "AI" collapse cannot come s
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by ck2 1mo ago
$2500 per pair btw TWO-THOUSAND DOLLARS like guns, tasers, pepper-spray I am sure they will only be used as last resort without initiating or escalating against unarmed people not resisting ha no opposite of that, they don't leave a ma
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ICE grants $16.7 Million no-bid contract to buy 6000 electric shock gloves(cbsnews.com)
15 points by ck2 1mo ago|4 comments
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by ck2 1mo ago
there is just one problem like everything else with the current US administration they deregulated nuclear safety * https://www.npr.org/2026/01/28/nx-s1-5677187/nuclear-safety-... * https://ww
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by ck2 1mo ago
Putin must be laughing his *ss off
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by ck2 1mo ago
um, they went from 100 ships per day through the strait to 3-8 per day for SIX MONTHS that most definitely causes shortages, not in US but rest of world the market is being manipulated downward until it pops click on YTD on this chart to se
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Why oil prices haven't gone crazy despite 6 months of US-Iran war(reuters.com)
7 points by ck2 1mo ago|3 comments
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by ck2 1mo ago
everything this administration does daily is from one of three boxes [CHAOS] [CORRUPTION] [CRUELTY] this is a little from the first box and the last box imagine what's tomorrow or next week meanwhile let's all enjoy th
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by ck2 1mo ago
how's that supreme court working out for you? how's all those cabinet members working out for you? that's 100% Senate, regardless what you think of its representation we can argue the details later if we somehow survive this
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by ck2 1mo ago
imagine the level of stupid that's going down if the Dems do not also get get the Senate this administration has three boxes it reaches into to sprinkle around daily [CHAOS] [CORRUPTION] [CRUELTY] hope everyone is enjoying the billion
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by ck2 1mo ago
Potbelly Hill in Turkey dates back to 10,000BCE and it is an amazing story * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe#/media/File:
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by ck2 1mo ago
There will be a next time and it will be even worse. I mean we just let over 2,000,000 people die from covid in this country and most people wouldn't even mask to spare anyone or themselves All we did was make vaccines taboo or difficu

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