Man, I don’t know… the last few decades have shown humans to be surprisingly easy to “hack”

because IT sector wouldn’t have all it’s eggs in one basket that might break if one guy leaves or dies.

Whooooooooboy, that has not been my experience in tech!

“President Joe Biden will be remembered among the most consequential presidents in American history.”

He’ll also be remembered for his historically low approval ratings. Not even Trump dipped as low as Biden. And whether or not that rating is justified is irrelevant — those numbers matter when deciding what platform you’re going to run on.

It blows my mind that a candidate could looks at Biden’s numbers and then turn around and say they wouldn’t change anything. Literal insanity.

The entire DNC leadership needs to be shown the door and replaced with people who at the bare minimum know how to read a fucking graph.

What a garbage headline… The “pornstar” bit completely buries the lede for the sake of clicks by making people think this is another Stormy Daniels situation, but this is not that.

This dude is a German politician and literal Nazi, which is far more interesting and important than the fact he may have done some porn.

This is the worst kind of clickbait.

Yes, because inaction plays so well with Democratic voters…

I think the self-censoring was moreso out of concern for upsetting the Reddit admins than it was for companies like Nintendo.

Unfortunately that hairless elbow golem is exactly the kind of clueless neolib that voters just rejected.

I have, actually, and until you brought it up I had never heard that any witness were refusing to talk.

When the DOJ closed the case on Gaetz, it was widely reported that a “concern about witness credibility” was the reason why charges weren’t filled, but that story was never confirmed by the DOJ (they still haven’t commented, afaik) and instead was coming from “individuals who had been in contact with the DOJ”. I think it’s pretty safe to assume those individuals were Gaetz’ layers, so… yeah, best to take that story with a huge grain of salt. And anyway, that isn’t the same as a victim refusing to cooperate.

Now last week the lawyer of one of Gaetz’ victims has publicly acknowledged that his client did not what to testify at trial against Gaetz (which is pretty reasonable considering how MAGAts react to women accusing people in Trump’s orbit), but that’s still not the same as refusing to cooperate with the DOJ, and isn’t any reason to pin blame on the victim.

She’s welcome to try, but no universe exists in which Harris wins the Democratic primary. So unless the exact set of circumstance that led to her candidacy in 2024 are somehow repeated (fat chance), she has no path to the presidency.

Ever heard that old saying, a Republican is someone who would shit in their own mouth just so a liberal would have to smell it?

Rs will happily do something they don’t like (vote for a woman) if it means feeling like they “owned the libs”.

Bennett, who is 62, founded the hedge fund Key Square Capital Management. He previously was the chief investment officer at Soros Fund Management, working for George Soros on and off since 1991, per The Advocate.

As George Carlin said, It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.

Still better looking than the original

One thing you can always count on in cases like this is that people online will find a way to blame the women…

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I think Musk will go after SLS, the only in-house launch platform NASA has left.

Once that’s been axed, NASA will have no choice but to rely on SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicle for it’s prestige missions, include the Artemis Program which is supposed to put Americans back on the moon and establish some permanent infrastructure in lunar orbit before the end of the decade. Those contracts probably won’t be as lucrative as routine satellite launches and whatnot, but that doesn’t mean Musk won’t try to hoard them — if nothing else, landing people on the Moon will still spike his stock price.

My pleasure!

But I’m not sure Merrick Garland’s prosecution is going to get much sympathy from the left.

I mean… he’ll really only have himself to blame. Garland was better equipped than anyone else in the country to hold Trump and his criminal cohort accountable for their literal treason, but he decided to drag his feet and avoid making waves. And for what? To avoid the appearance of the DOJ being “political”?

Well he’s about to find out exactly how political it can be.

One big issue is that the term “free range” is essentially meaningless as defined by the USDA, and often gives consumers the false sense that products marked as “free range” come from animals who had a higher standard of living than non-free range, therefore making their farming more ethical. In reality, this is basically never true.

To qualify as “free range” an animal needs to have “continuous access to the outdoors for 50% of its life”. Sounds good on paper, but “outdoors” isn’t rigorously defined in this standard. This means that situations that no reasonable person would call “continuous access to the outdoors” still count. For example, you could cram 1000 chickens into a small barn to the point where they barely have space to move, but as long as there’s a hole in one wall that opens into a tiny one-foot-by-one-foot pen with no roof, it still counts. If that teeny tiny “outdoor” space can fit at least 1 chicken, then congratulations, all 1000 are now “free range”. As long as you cater to some very specific loopholes, you can get away with factory farming while still having the legal right to claim on your packaging that your animals were treated humanely.

Terms like “organic” and “pasture raised” are similarly deceptive to the point of being meaningless, and so it’s basically impossible to know what conditions your food was subjected to during it’s life based on the packaging alone. Of course you can always try to do your own research about individual companies (or if you’re lucky enough to have access, individual farms), but there are lots of laws on the books protecting them from having to disclose specific details to anyone but the USDA, so good luck getting any meaningful information. There have even been cases of farm workers and journalists being prosecuted for things like sharing pictures of farm conditions or publishing personal accounts of how livestock were treated on private farms. Fortunately the “ag gag” laws that allow these whistleblowers to be prosecuted are rarer than they used to be, but there are still a handful of states that have them (if you tried to guess which ones, you’d probably get most of them right).

In reality, the only way to know if an animal was raised to your own standards of ethics is to raise it yourself.

Hey, I’ve had this as my desktop background for almost a decade now! Easily my favorite picture of anything “space”.

As for your question, it looks like Pluto has an atmosphere in the picture because, well, it does. Although it’s very thin, Pluto’s atmosphere is primarily nitrogen, so if you stood on the surface during daytime the sky would appear a very familiar blue color.

Here’s another shot taken by New Horizons where you can see it much more clearly: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Blue_hazes_over_backlit_Pluto.jpg

Hey, if you wanna feel really old, look up how long it’s been since Pluto was demoted from being a planet.

spoiler alert: its been 18 freaking years