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Lyrl

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  • Sun God

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  • There was a time people thought Mercury would have some "twilight" acreage that was always at habitable temperatures. Then we learned that, while yes it is tidally locked with the Sun, it is locked in a 3:2 resonance so it does rotate with respect to the sun, and everywhere gets both scorched and frozen to uninhabitability.

  • Top Social Security official steps down after disagreement with DOGE over sensitive data

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  • People tried staying and being an "inside" ally during Trump's first term. In the end, it just helped his administration maintain a veneer of competency.

    Leave. Let the institution fall. Collapse of the systems people rely on is the only way to gather overwhelming popular support to contain Trump's destruction.

  • Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing cost

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  • It’s a slow day in some little town... The sun is hot… the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich tourist from back west is driving thru town. He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night. As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill at the feed store. The guy at the Farmer’s Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her services on credit. She, in a flash rushes to the motel and pays off her room bill with the motel owner. The motel proprietor now places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the $100 bill, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money & leaves. NOW,… no one produced anything…and no one earned anything…however the whole town is out of debt and is looking to the future with much optimism.

    That version from here: https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/01/an_answer_to_a.html

  • Algae Rock!

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  • It's not just the uptake, it's whether it stays at the surface, ultimately releasing the carbon back into the atmosphere via decomposition gases, or sinks to the ocean floor, thus locking up the carbon in oceanic rock.

    We have a good handle on understanding the uptake. It's the float vs sink part that has the critical uncertainty.

  • Algae Rock!

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  • To work as a carbon capture mechanic, iron fertilization-driven algae blooms would have to die and sink to the bottom of the ocean, thus locking up their carbon in oceanic rock.

    The concern is they would die and float, releasing all that carbon back into the atmosphere via decomposition gases. Then we would have all the effort of the fertilization, all the ecosystem disruption of the algae bloom, and maybe negative benefit as far as carbon since the ecosystem disruption could mess up carbon sinks that were actually working.

  • Americans favor deporting undocumented immigrants, until they're asked how

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  • People who were documented immigrants at one time, and served in the US military during that period, can become undocumented later. Military service can lead to citizenship, but the process has a lot of barriers and many people slip through the cracks. It is embarrassing as a country that we deport war veterans because they missed some obtuse paperwork deadline.

  • Americans favor deporting undocumented immigrants, until they're asked how

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  • YouGov does polls like this with email invitations. You fill out your demographics, and they send out invites as polls become available. It is mostly polling on brands, but a significant minority of the polls are on political topics.

  • be a good neighbour

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  • Also cultivate plants caterpillars feed on! We won't have any butterflies if the only food available is only edible by adults.

  • Fucking pigeons

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  • I sometimes come across a dead baby pigeon inside my work building, a large manufacturing structure many pigeons find their way into. Presumably the death is from falling out of the kind of nest in OP's image.

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    Love me for my bill, not my deadly neurotoxic venom!

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  • Parts of the feet are obscured by the grass and under the stomach, and the lens distortion affects perspective. I think platypus is the most plausible subject.

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    Love me for my bill, not my deadly neurotoxic venom!

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  • Only males, and primarily during the breeding season. Interesting biology.

  • Why Conservatives Are Now Obsesses with Raw Milk

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  • I think the foothold thought was that pasteurization destroys more than just bacteria, and milk might be healthier and/or tastier without having been changed by that process. Of course taste is largely culturally acquired - example A being Germans and UHT milk - but lots of people fancy themselves taste-o-philes.

    Then the mistrust of "them" kicked in, and if "they" said the risk of pathogenic bacteria far outweighed any marginal health benefit, the "truth" must be the opposite.

  • Life hack

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  • Grafted apple trees are often a flavorful top connected to a weak root. Weak root = smaller trees that can be planted closer together and are easier to pick. If you plant apple seeds, you will probably get a ginormous tree with fruit only useful for cider making (a la Johnny Appleseed's business model) because they don't taste good either fresh or in baked goods.

  • Life hack

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  • Could depend on what's in the local tap water (mineral content as well as pH), in addition to lighting as weeeeum mentioned. I have some scallions on my planted aquarium (no fish, but I lightly fertilize for the plants) with a grow light, and I can harvest one of the four plants once a week. So even with active grow light and fertilizer, the once a month per plant statement seems right. Also note I started with seven plants, all from the same store-bought bunch, but three of them died over the first couple of months.

  • Bat Drip

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  • Estrus in bats - some bloody discharge while in the fertile part of their cycle. Only great apes have menstrual cycles (shedding unused uterine lining at the end of a cycle, NOT fertile when discharging blood).

  • Powered by Native Voters, Ranked-Choice Voting and Open Primaries Survive in Alaska

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  • Primaries can have so many candidates the median voter is never going to learn about all of them. A primary is a reasonable way to down-select to a candidate pool where they all have a chance to make their case to voters without being seen as noise.

  • Powered by Native Voters, Ranked-Choice Voting and Open Primaries Survive in Alaska

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  • Partisan primaries tend to produce more extreme candidates. The hope is switching to a combined primary will result in moving candidates of more general appeal on to the general election.

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    Sounds like a threat

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  • It's important for vote counts to to be independently checked. Having who voted publicly available means an investigative journalist can prove the county clerk's claim that dead people voted and so they can't certify the election is false. Or catch attempts at fraud. Both as a double-check on government in the case of officials who are lying or have acquired false beliefs, or as outside help if the issue isn't caught internally due to under-resoucing.

  • It's... confusing.

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  • The usual interpretation is the director was trying to move the plot along with things happening during the sex scenes, but the penis was so attention-grabbing that the audience missed the plot points, which made them struggle to follow the rest of the movie (be confused).