Starlink is about to have more sats in orbit than known exoplanets, and with each launch, make it harder to do astronomy research
Imagine what astronomy (or any part of science) could do with the shittons of money that have been spent on occupying (and likely soon destroying) low earth orbit?
So I'm outside in the dark with the dog because this is our 10pm ritual, and look what just appeared on the bench next to me. Australia is so ridiculous sometimes.
/me takes photo and then screams and runs away! 😱🤣
@pixelcats I had a tarantula climb out of a cupboard a cousin gave me in Sydney. Called building maintenance and the guy, who didn’t believe me, walks in with Baygone and a broom. Opens my door, walks in, yells, “Woaaaaah!” And backs out. (Was size of softball) Eventually he went back in and after 20 minutes of banging, opens the door and my bedroom reeked of Baygone and spider was killed.
"Once national security is invoked, it gives almost unfettered latitude for the government to sidestep First Amendment concerns, because now this is almost like a wartime footing"
“It does feel in that sense that we’re going back to some kind of Cold War-like media environment, where we’re now going to erect boundaries in the service of national security"
@GQB@bunnytown the ban/divestiture issue has been Rubio’s project since 2022, like him going after Huawei and all things Communist. It then gained traction this past November because of Josh Hawley.
Hawley is the one who got neurotic about TikTok ‘radicalizing’ ppl who don’t support bloodbaths and how the US won’t have control/censorship capabilities.
@GQB@bunnytown there will probably be lawsuits but this might be why they pushed for divestiture. The reason behind the ban is driven by who controls and has access to all the data. And begs the ? Would forcing it to localize storage in US thru Oracle, be used by foreign nations to do the same with US platforms like Meta and Apple.
@Sheril My B-I-L lives in upstate NY and a neighbor's dog died from a tick bite. B-I-L mentions it's a result of warmer temperatures, changing climate and the guy whose dog died - anti science guy- insists there hasn't been any change in climate. My B-I-L is like dude, it's March. In upstate NY and your dog died of a tick bite. C'mon now.
Gonna repeat again: This is who the #GOP is. Their collective horror at this woman grimacing through her comfortable life is horror at themselves.
It came off as no worse than your average James Comer hearing, after all.
Daily Beast's Jake Lahut:
NEW on private GOP freakout brewing over Katie #Britt's #SOTU response:
“Everyone’s fucking losing it. It’s 1of our biggest disasters ever.” Being likened to Rubio water bottle moment & Bobby Jindal's infamous 2009 SOTU response.