The US Senate passed a stopgap continuing resolution, 87 to 11, on Wednesday to fund federal agencies into early next year and prevent a government shutdown, sending the measure to Pres. Joe Biden for signature just ahead of Friday's 11:59 p.m. deadline. The bill was passed by the House on Tuesday with near-unanimous support...
In almost any other democratic country, if the parliament refuses to pass the budget bill both houses are dissolved and a snap election is called as the current parliament has proven it is incapable of governing.
Social media is one hell of a drug. It’d have you swallowing giant gummy worms whole at the back of a sip’n’strut. Oh sure, the catharsis is nice, but at some point you’ll need to ask yourself “why are we like this?”...
Because many people on social media are not here to experience a new perspective, they are here to lecture everyone else on how the world really works.
The reason for the bait replies are they want to be able to deliver the gotcha talking point they have heard somewhere else.
Why are people like this, mommy?
Often it is because the people involved have been shut down trying to lecture those around them on the same topics in real life but they still want to do it. They are not looking for conversation, they are looking for an audience to lecture at.
And why is daddy always drinking the unhappy juice?
Serious reply. Many people use alcohol to mask anxiety, especially men in societies that still hold on to the "Man must be stoic and strong at all times" horseshit.
Anxiety focused inward often manifests as depression.
Anxiety focused outward often manifests as aggression.
I feel it is important to publicise refutations of extraordinary claims widely.
The media generally loves to publish the extraordinary claims. especially ALIENS!! but is silent when the results comeback as "Sorry, they were wrong."
By July 2019, most astronomers concluded that it was a natural object, but its exact characterization is contentious given the limited observation window. While an unconsolidated object (rubble pile) would require ʻOumuamua to be of a density similar to rocky asteroids
On 22 March 2023, astronomers proposed the observed acceleration was "due to the release of entrapped molecular hydrogen that formed through energetic processing of an H2O-rich icy body",[33] consistent with 'Oumuamua being an interstellar comet, "originating as a planetesimal relic broadly similar to solar system comets"
Avi Loeb has suggested that it could be a product of extraterrestrial technology,[35] but there is insufficient evidence to support any hypotheses, "despite all [its] strangeness".
While basically every Astrophysicist agrees it is from outside our solar system. He is basically the only Astrophysicist who believes it is an artefact of alien intelligence and design.
While I have not read his book it sounds like a case of confirmation basis on his part.
I found it really strange as well. The whole story had me thinking conformation bias from the beginning.
It always bothered me that he was so certain that the spherules his team found MUST have come from the meteor.
Exactly. Especially considering there are at least 5 papers dating back to the 1950s describing magnetic spherules found on the seafloor and being from anthropogenic sources.
I feel it is important to publicise refutations of extraordinary claims widely.
The media generally loves to publish the extraordinary claims. especially ALIENS!! but is silent when the results comeback as "Sorry, they were wrong."
Sagan's Demon haunted world is great in showing that for many people, as science has advanced, Aliens have replaced The Gods as the catch all cause for shit I don't understand.
I feel it is important to publicise refutations of extraordinary claims widely.
The media generally loves to publish the extraordinary claims. especially ALIENS!! but is silent when the results comeback as "Sorry, they were wrong."
You get dropped exactly where you are now, just 500 years ago. All the European descended people not living in Europe are (very likely) in for a bad time.
So to my immense joy, Hexbear has started appearing on the front page again. Instance blocking is not available, and even the regular block feature sometimes fails (on certain communities?) for no clear reason. I've already tried blocking their "DuNk tAnK" and politics sub, it errors in a way that doesn't seem to happen...
US Senate Approves Stopgap Bill to Avert Government Shutdown (www.improvethenews.org)
The US Senate passed a stopgap continuing resolution, 87 to 11, on Wednesday to fund federal agencies into early next year and prevent a government shutdown, sending the measure to Pres. Joe Biden for signature just ahead of Friday's 11:59 p.m. deadline. The bill was passed by the House on Tuesday with near-unanimous support...
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Why are people so adversarial on social media? Why do I keep seeing people setting traps, or baiting people?
Social media is one hell of a drug. It’d have you swallowing giant gummy worms whole at the back of a sip’n’strut. Oh sure, the catharsis is nice, but at some point you’ll need to ask yourself “why are we like this?”...
Harvard astronomer's "alien spherules" are industrial pollutants (bigthink.com)
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
In which scenario would you last longer before being outed as a time traveller?
Being dropped 500 years ago into your ancestors’ community....
Hyundai to Be First Automaker to Sell New Cars on Amazon (www.wsj.com)
It's like a trance (startrek.website)
Can't block Hexbear communities - with workaround
So to my immense joy, Hexbear has started appearing on the front page again. Instance blocking is not available, and even the regular block feature sometimes fails (on certain communities?) for no clear reason. I've already tried blocking their "DuNk tAnK" and politics sub, it errors in a way that doesn't seem to happen...