I can't believe we're talking about this shit like it matters. She's a space tourist, not an astronaut. I think that the folks who are REAL astronauts must be appalled that a word that infers a great level of training, knowledge, and related experience would be applied to a pop star who has no understanding of space.
The original definition was applied to anyone who went into space. So regardless of how people feel about her, yes, she would be an astronaut.
I think that definition will need to change when we become a space fairing society (meaning when space travel becomes common travel for common folk). Since that has not yet happen, the original definition applies.
Those videos you see of the world moving below, what seems like superfast, are not sped up. The ISS, for example, which is further out, so it makes larger passes, passes the earth 16x in a day, and only takes 1 1/2 hours each pass.
@Linux this particular mission was not orbiting. The rocket is only big enough to throw the capsule at the orbital altitude and let it free fall back to Earth.
I read somewhere they did high enough to orbit, having it go once around, and come right back down. It is not hard to do, just have it circle once, and free fall back down.
They are astrotourists. They did no work, flew no rocket/capsule, and performed no experiments, they just fucked around at the edge of space for a few mins. It's akin to calling myself a pilot for merely flying in a plane.
Marci Bianco article:https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/blue-origin-all-women-space-flight-katy-perry-rcna201261Marci Bianco book:https://bookshop.o...
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I'm wrapping up a gentle work week and staring at cyanotypes of algae from the 1850s. I'd like to ease into this weekend equally peacefully, joining my friends for their Seder. May your weekend, holiday or not, be gentle.
Digital ID: 419703. Atkins, Anna -- Photographer. 1843-53 Source: Photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions. / Part II. (more info) Repository: The New York Public Library. Spencer Collection.
Leading Autism Organizations Release Joint Statement on Upholding Scientific Integrity and Supporting the Autism Community – Autistic Self Advocacy Network
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Leading Autism Organizations Release Joint Statement on Upholding Scientific Integrity and Supporting the Autism Community – Autistic Self Advocacy Network
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Leading Autism Organizations Release Joint Statement on Upholding Scientific Integrity and Supporting the Autism Community – Autistic Self Advocacy Network
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CNN — Gary Shapley, whom President Donald Trump named acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service earlier this week, will no longer serve in the role, according to a White House official and a source briefed on the matter.
The question “What is a woman?” has haunted politics on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean for a decade. In Britain, where I live, Prime Minister Keir Starmer
The decision by Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs to resume capital punishment aligns with a larger trend of death penalty states hiding key details about executions.
Precious little Doctor Who could be found with this, though. Precious little Doc Martin, too. I've found a Yankee substitute for the Brit-flavoured time traveler, and that's Alfred Hitchcock. I haven't heard a jail referred to as a stir in friggin' AGES, and I heard that in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents just last night.
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@George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 Another "masterstroke" was the Abraham Accords, which was the first of his accomplishments that got shot down but by his best buddy, Netanyahu.
That muddled post doesn't make any sense at all. Not only did he not "warp speed" vaccines, but if he had it wouldn't have been an "economic masterstroke". The vaccines were more about public health, and saving lives.
Even if he were responsible for warp speed, he was responsible for destroying the group in charge of pandemic preparedness so he opened the door to catastrophe, and once out of office he egged on the lunatics fighting the efforts to contain the disease. He could have saved thousands of lives but he chose instead to make it ten times worse, and the next pandemic will be nearly impossible to stop because of the damage he has done in the name of cruelty, narcissism and spite.
There is no doubt in my opinion; his parents killed any ability he may have had for original thought that did not conform to their prejudices and bigotries'.
How a Sydney scientist became enamoured with the ‘Ferraris of the crustacean world’ – and discovered a new shrimp species
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The Cold War, spanning from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, was marked by ideological, military, and political tensions between the Western bloc, led by the United States, and the Eastern bloc, spearheaded by the Soviet Union.
done, but still seeing some timeouts .. debugging an issue with the nginx configuration towards the streaming server.
I think the auto config is adding the streaming server as endpoint on port 3000 even though it's on 4000. it should be transient, nginx automatically tries a different node so it shouldn't cause problems on the frontend ... but let me know if it does.
welp, sorry for the brief downtime, but hey everything should be Really Actually Fixed This Time ™️ (no really I checked the config and logs and there are no more errors)
Norman Lear’s final completed project “Clean Slate” has been canceled at Prime Video after one season, the series’ stars Laverne Cox and George Wallace and
Close to Moscow but aiming to join the EU, Aleksandar Vucic appointed Duro Macut, a doctor with no political experience, as prime minister. Meanwhile, students blockaded the Radio-Television Serbia headquarters, demanding more impartial coverage.
when a dictator is threatened, they often begin imperialist ambitions for the "circle the wagons" effect that changes the topic and makes people reflexively support the dictator
And the Serbians didn't learn the essential insight: One of common human's properties is greed and instead of getting worked up about corruption in politics one have to get rid of (corrupt...?) politicians and learn, that there's nothing us citizens can't do, what currently only politicians do: Self-responsibility beats external responsibility (=cowardness!) _ a l w a y s _ !
Yes, and it's still a Federal crime to transport a kidnap victim across state lines. That charge may not be levied in this administration, but might be in the next. It remains to be seen is Trump's pardon shield will hold up, but in any case individuals may be prosecuted and convicted with a permanent record against employment .
I remember from reading the Gulag archipelago the centrality of "arrest ", both the term and the experience. I think it's worth considering whether you are "arrested" in an abduction, or if there is another word for the taking.🍸🐈
we mustn't lose sight of the fact that these kidnap victims are real people with real lives. The administration wants the public to believe these are non-people.
I made a printable (preferably not on a color laser printer) poster to try and connect with people offline that might not be paying as much attention to the anxiety rectangle.
CNN — Gary Shapley, whom President Donald Trump named acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service earlier this week, will no longer serve in the
Since a few new and interesting people decided to follow me, I went back and looked at the #introduction I wrote years ago to see if there was any need for an addendum. Well, boy howdy, there sure is. I mentioned a few things in passing that if I expand upon, may help folks understand why my feed will always be politics heavy, but to start, the short version is, 'been there, lived that, damned near died because of it," so I get why some people would just rather not. Me? It's what I do. 1/x
Let's start with my father, because so many things get tied to our fathers, right? Mom gets credit for babying me, giving me money for doing chores, siding with me when he got pissed, but it was #journalist Dad and #journalism professor Dad that proofread my notes, was the first one to ever asked me not only what I thought about something, but introduced me to the all importan question, "so what makes you think that's true?" 2/x
And it's dear old Dad who insisted I go to college, and was royally pissed when I "wasted" his money by dropping out - twice - and never graduating. All I wanted to be back then was a DJ, but wouldn't you know it, that meant "Broadcast Journalism," and the privilege of taking one of my father's courses, History of Mass Communication. Still, I forget all that for years, and really did start out doing on air-announcing (& disco at nights) 3x
I don't know why people felt I needed to write. I did, but how in hell it became part of the job is just a cosmic thing. See. Radio announcers spent half the day on air, the other half writing and producing commercials, PSAs, cutting station promos, etc.
So I picked that up no sweat and next thing you know, I'm writing and producing for a TV station, and then for an ad agency and then . . . wait, what?
How'd I go from an ad agency to working for the Nebraska Dept. of Environmental Control. Well, during a period of non-employment, I'd sent dot-matrix, Apple II generated resumes to any employer with an opening I thought I could handle. I totally forgot about that one until I got a call one day.
And so there I am in Lincoln, putting together multi-projector slide shows and givng presentations across the state about unlicensed open dumps and . . . 5x
one day Grams (Everybody called Dennis Grams, the department's Director, Grams) says there's this meeting he needs to go to and he wants me to come along, "because I think this is something you need to make sure the public knows about."
So we hop in a plane, fly down to Atlanta and I learn about the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact and how siting critera was narrowing things down and how much land in Nebraska was under consideration and . . . 6x
Hell, they didn't even have all their data on a single set of maps for me to work with, so I got a graphics firm to work them up and published what I knew, and kept publishing as the land area narrowed and kept publishing as the reporters started calling and started giving interviews all over the state and then they up and did it. 7x
Nebraska got picked and despite all I and others did to try and get people to pay attention before it ever happened, I got a lot of "you guys were hiding this all from us. You are scum. The fix is in!"
Now the selection of a state was supposed to result in a communications transition. Instead of the regulatory agency talking about the project, the developer was to do it and . . . you guessed it 8x
I did the revolving door thing. In a day went from a Public Information Officer III, to Manager of External Affairs for USEcology on The Central Interstate Low-Level Radoactive Waste Project, and took on all that entailed - and also began drinking even more heavily because, you know people were calling my home to yell at me, and farmers were pulling their jackets back in public meetings so I'd see the sidearms and . . .
BTW, I can talk about all this now, but for years, I was a train wreck. 9x
@Doreen32128 It was and I'm glad too. It's hardly top of mind anymore. I may have just grown out of the mess in my head that came from it, but yes, I'm happy it really is behind me now.
Key developments on April 18: U.S. proposes leaving occupied areas under Russian control, easing sanctions, Bloomberg reports'You're fools' — US may 'take a pass' on Ukraine-Russia talks if either side stalls, Trump says'Not our war' — US may drop Ru…
"HUGE PROTESTS are the most impt thing we can do right now. As MLK said: “there's no noise as powerful as the sound of marching feet of a determined people.”
I’m talking🚨numbers so large they shock ppl -friend & foe & media alike.
I know it can feel overwhelming.
The lawlessness & extremism & corruption—the cruelty—all feeling like they’re accelerating week after week.
we need to stop framing these as protests. We are not protesting American government. We are trying to protect it. These are Protective Actions. We need to protect the Constitution from this coup, from unbridled fascism. Words matter. Framing this as protection puts this movement into a place where it can not be vilified by conservative media or discounted as anti American which is exactly the narrative the orange man will try to enforce next week with the insurrection act.
Americans can now live the American militant Hollywood movies they adore. Otherwise put, we have been desensitized to military measures and equipment in none war times, on home soil, directed at peaceful civilians.
February 1993: Štrpci, Bosnia. Paramilitaries stop a passenger train and arrest civilians. Of the 500 or so passengers, only one man puts up resistance. This film tells the true story of the man who would not remain silent.
the posting is titled, "the _new_ America". I'm amazed by the speed with which this sort of behaviour began. This suggests to me that it's not "new": it's just encouraged now (q.v. the Zimbardo prison experiments).
Such a grand room, however: -They are using the same 1950s card table my parents had. -The furniture is lined up against the walls as though awaiting a firing squad.
They probably shuffled the stuff for sale into a closely watched space. Really good stuff goes to an auction house, leftovers go to a yard sale or donation.
To be fair, any radio pirate's choice of this band is also limited by its propagation issues during certain parts of the day. They'd do better with a Chicken Band transceiver further up in frequency. Sure there are daily propagation issues with that too, but it would still be an improvement.
April 18, 2025 Techno Taras interceptor drones. Photo credits: Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation The Ukrainian military uses the Techno Taras interceptor drone to shoot down Russian reconnaissance …
United States President Donald Trump will walk away from Russia-Ukraine peace talks within days unless there are clear signs a deal can be done, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says.
Regrets: Actors who sold AI avatars stuck in Black Mirror-esque dystopia Is $1,000 worth being the AI face of obvious scams? Rueful actors say no. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/reg…
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