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EleventhHour

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Refugee from another, less-friendly instance. Please forgive the youth of my account— I’ve actually been around here for a while. Still, glad to be here!

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One very silly thing I often observe in these 50s-era depictions of space life is the absurd waste of space, as if (if any of this happens) every square millimeter wouldn’t be occupied by power or life-support systems (including, in this case, food crops).

Nobody’s gonna build a dome for your French Colonial revival house and giant lawn with, like, a couple of oak trees so that you can have your dog run around.

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Counterpoint: yes we can

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I dreamed a dream that would not die…

Until it was crushed by capitalism

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And I’m not arguing that there wouldn’t be, say, a bubble that was just an arboretum or something like that, just that such a space would be specifically designated and its size/resource requirements be limited.

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That reality is not defined by our wishes, but by observable, verifiable facts.

Sadly, a large amount of people cannot accept this.

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Yes, but rainbow capitalism has always been bullshit.

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Any company that would trade the dignity of a group of people for their own profits doesn’t deserve my patronage.

EleventhHour ,
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I do fine, thanks.

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Lol

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why is she Melinda French Gates now? it's not like anyone would suddenly not recognize the name Melinda Gates. Her name was on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Going by Melinda French Gates seems like something one would do if there was already another Melinda Gates, and one needed to differentiate from them.

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wouldn't that be Melinda French-Gates?

EleventhHour ,
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as i said in another comment:

wouldn’t that be Melinda French-Gates?

in the article (and others about this), her name isn't hyphenated, and when only referred to by her last name, it's just "Gates"

Gates said that she has voted for both Republicans and Democrats in past elections.

EleventhHour ,
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without the dash, it seems like it's her middle name

EleventhHour ,
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i don't particularly care what she calls herself. i was just curious

EleventhHour ,
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i'm not "trying to make it out" to be anything. i was just curious.

EleventhHour ,
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perhaps they'll buy hundreds of thousands of her albums and shoot at them?

EleventhHour ,
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some minimum-wage retail worker shouldn't be punished for the decisions of corporate. they have zero control over this, and their complaints will just be ignored by corporate anyway.

EleventhHour ,
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as a retail employee myself, i assure you that standing still and pushing buttons would be preferable to all of the added work that comes with restocking something.

and i said corporate would ignore their complaints, not that they wouldn't notice them.

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corporate pays attention to one metric: profit line go up or go down. walmart is famous for not giving a damn about their employees.

You’re really stretching to win an internet argument here

lol, no. i'm here to have a nice discussion. i'm not having an argument, certainly not one i feel needs "winning". if you're going to get hostile over nothing, then i'm done here.

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It wouldn’t shock me if Miami elected the fascist traitor.

EleventhHour ,
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These people would put Jesus on trial. Of course they’re attacking Dolly.

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I was into that app for a while, but, a while back, their development almost screeched to a halt. Now they’re behind everyone else.

Shame.

25 years of massive fusion energy experiment data open on the 'cloud' and available to everyone ( phys.org )

High-temperature fusion plasma experiments conducted in the Large Helical Device (LHD) of the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), have renewed the world record for an acquired data amount, 0.92 terabytes (TB) per experiment, in February 2022, by using a full range of state-of-the-art plasma diagnostic devices....

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awesome. nobody should "own" fusion technology.

EleventhHour ,
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don't forget Star Trek: The Motion Picture!

EleventhHour ,
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You’re right! Although, I have already heard the news. Hooray!

Thanks for sharing anyway!

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oh, that's useful info...

EleventhHour ,
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the difference (so i'm told) is that DOs are trained to take a more holistic, full-body approach to diagnostics and treatment rather than only focusing on one set of symptoms/treatment. They also do their residencies and internships alongside MDs.

Trump Once Promised to Revive Coal. That Was So 2016. | Now, he trumpets oil and gas, and hardly mentions the dirtiest of the fossil fuels. ( www.nytimes.com )

This is something of a measure of how successful the scale-up of renewables has been; it's now much cheaper to switch to wind, solar, and batteries than it is to burn stuff. Not to mention having the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, which shows up at state regulatory hearings to point this out.

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Oil barons have more money and influence than coal barons.

EleventhHour ,
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Don’t forget the stink of sprinklers spraying shitty hard water so it smells like diarrhea everywhere.

EleventhHour OP ,
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They very likely learned about it then, too. It’s not lack of education; it’s lack of intelligence.

EleventhHour ,
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If I give my toddler a choice between eating broccoli or liver, he'll eat the broccoli but he sure as fuck won't be endorsing it

Did you just rationalize your political position using the reasoning of a toddler?

Because it sure looks like you did.

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This seems to work, even on my 14 Pro.

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