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Bigger than Big Mac, it's yuuge!@Steve-Miller said in Bigger than Big Mac, it's yuuge!:
You want fries with that?
Those are good as long as they are fried in beef tallow. I know that to be the case because RFK Jr said so.
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Judges caught in the crossfireFederal judges who've ruled against Trump administration denounce threats against themselves, their familiess
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MTG is pissed (Political)Another view from Politico/Foreign Affairs.
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MTG is pissed (Political)I thought this was interesting, too.
Here's the non-paywall version of the WaPo article mentioned by the Times of India:
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MTG is pissed (Political)What I'm reading is that control is basically distributed in a network in Iran, and the death of even several key leaders won't fundamentally change the control structure there. But by doing what we've done, we've introduced an element of chaos and uncertainty into the whole situation.
I think @mik is right, that this will be a short intervention; my assessment is that Trump was just looking for another headline about how brave and great he is. He will hold up the death of the ayatollah as a huge success, nothing anyone else would have done and he will continue to call for the Iranian citizens to take back their country. If they don't, he'll just say he set the stage and they didn't take advantage of it and wash his hands of the whole matter.
I doubt that he's considered what happens next.
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Peach growing ain't what it used to beParts of the Del Monte business and brand, such as the stickers marking bananas and its red-and-yellow logo on cans, will remain on grocery shelves, as Pacific Coast Producers bought the remaining fruit inventory and brand licensing rights, which included packaging under the Del Monte and S&W brands.
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Good night, stars?I don't know if we're doomed, but we do seem to rush headlong into new technologies, often without considering their possible impacts.
Everyone is in a hurry, it seems. It would be good to slow down. Not sure where it is we are rushing to.
I'd love to hear what @mark thinks, too...
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Good night, stars?In the beginning, the Bible tells us,
God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night.
And so it has been ever since — until now.
Here in the 21st century, we humans are on the cusp of turning night into day — and bidding good night to the stars that have guided us home for thousands of years.
Two little-noted applications under review by the Federal Communications Commission would, if fully implemented, fundamentally remake the night sky. But the FCC, the satellite regulator, appears to have fast-tracked approval without much of a pause to weigh the benefits of these proposals against the harms they could cause to life on the planet.
A start-up called Reflect Orbital proposes to use large, mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to Earth at night, with plans to bathe solar farms, industrial sites and even entire cities in light that could, if desired, reach the intensity of daylight. At the same time, Elon Musk’s SpaceX wants to launch as many as a million satellites to serve as orbiting data centers — 70 times the number of satellites now in orbit. We could have a million points of light streaking across our skies at night.