@cdarwin@c.imUnlike the race to the moon between the Soviet Union and the US,
the 21st-century competition is shaping up to be more like a marathon,
with a gargantuan effort to launch multiple missions over many years.
“What this is really illustrating is that it doesn’t matter who gets to the moon next.
It matters who gets to the moon the next 10 times,”
said Scott Manley, a Scottish astrophysicist and expert on rocket engineering.
“The nation that keeps going is goi…
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialI wonder how many people have gotten back into religion or at least are not as hardline of an atheist as a way to cope with this fucking guy just not dropping dead no matter what. Like the shit coming out of there you'd think they'd start getting worn out from all this but I guess the fuck not.
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldFootball Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back
From Super Bowl ticket shock to Oklahoma policy changes, this post reflects on football fandom, small-business fights, and why new transparency rules around asset forfeiture matter for civil liberties and everyday people more than most realize.
@cdarwin@c.imIt would take a small pickup for Democrats to gain control of the House, where they hold four fewer seats than Republicans, with three vacancies.
Winning back the Senate is a bigger lift; they would have to gain four seats, and this year’s map has them mostly playing defense of the ones they hold.
Given how many districts and states are safely in the hands of one party or the other,
the vast majority of congressional races will effectively be over when a primary win…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itThis is pretty much why I hate the two party system. You can talk to someone and they're CLEARLY a republican, and then they're like "and yes I'm a Democrat!"
I didn't vote for Eric Adams because HE WAS A FUCKING REPUBLICAN. It's not "vote blue no matter who", because "blue" is meaningless if republicans can wear that color.
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldThis week’s post jumps from Super Bowl ticket prices to Oklahoma’s new steps toward transparency on asset forfeiture—and then into a long-running fight over casket sales and licensing. Sports, policy, and skepticism included. 🏈⚖️
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/foo…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhile working through another last rites slew, I was thinking that back in the day there were a number of developers who believed they should add a lot of packages to #Gentoo, in the name of giving users a choice. Like, they were projects whose sole purpose of existence seemed to be to find every piece of software that roughly fit a specific topic, get it to build and package it for Gentoo.
Of course, the long-term effect of that is that there's a lot of unmaintained, often broken packages. "The choice" doesn't really work. Sure, users have a lot of packages to choose from — but they have to actually figure out which of these packages are actually useful (if any).
A few years ago attempting to remove packages also faced some verbal opposition. You shouldn't remove unmaintained or outdated packages, because they still work. You shouldn't remove packages that sometimes fail to build, because some flag combinations still work. You shouldn't remove packages that don't build at all, because the user can visit Forums and find some workaround to make them build 🤦. Or they'll have an ebuild handy to start working on it. And anyway, you shouldn't be removing stuff at all, but fixing it instead.
Sometimes the arguments were straight dishonest too: people literally said we need more packages to lure new users in. Like, it didn't matter to them that the packages didn't really work and that the people trying to use them will get a nasty surprise. They wanted people to say "hey, Gentoo has this software we need, let's start using Gentoo".
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaBackup Saturday with Clonezilla. In addition to my weekly data backups, every few months I make a clone of my laptop’s hard drive.
It’s not paranoia; it’s about trying to minimize downtime in the event of a disaster. When that happens, I can be back up and running in a matter of minutes.
You know the drill: you don’t just have to be prepared in case your hard drive dies—you have to be prepared for when it happens. And it will happen.
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Health advocates sound alarm as EPA works to loosen pollution standard"
#US #USA #America #Pollution
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca“Canada supports the United States…..”
these are the only words that matter and I’m sorry what? This is “our” position? No. I reject this!!
Canada has stood for humanitarian law and international peace and security for nearly a century.
We should be a “Middle Power” with values. Right? Wasn’t that the Davos speech?!
But here we are clapping meekly from the sidelines as the country that would love to annex us, now ruled by a Christo-Fascist Regime, and in partnership with a Judeo-Fascist Regime blows up people in a country ruled by a Islamo-Fascist regime.
We are basically back to the Middle Ages but with nukes in our back pocket.
These are the three most dangerous countries in the world all fighting amongst themselves. We should not be taking sides, except for the side of peaceful civilians of all religions in all countries.
This is not the way.
I am shocked at the shallowness, the naïveté and the cowardice of Carney’s foreign policy.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #canada #iran #usa #israel #palestine #war #genocide #fascism
