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If we could wish away all barriers to food generation off Earth and replicate our terrestrial food system on the Moon and Mars, we'd still only feed a few billion humans.
Homo sapiens will remain an Earth-based species for millions of years to come.
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Taken in terms of light to land, Earth has more than 2/3 of the the accessible total.
And anywhere beyond Mars is effectively in agricultural darkness.
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Mars has 43% of the Earth's solar irradiance and 29% of its surface area. So 1/8 of its sun-to-surface and 43% of its sun-to-land (ignoring dust storms).
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Want to know what went wrong in City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation (2000)? And how RBG shifted aftwrwards?
Check out this article on Ginsburg & American Indian law from Carole Goldberg.
sct.narf.org/articles/fin...
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"More than any other case, [Ruth Bader] Ginsberg regrets her decision in Oneida vs Sherill (2005) — a case in which she drafted a majority 8-to-1 opinion that Native Americans have viewed as a callously racist denial of justice ever since." (May 2020) #RBG
buffalochronicle.com/2020/05/05/r...
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They reaffirmed yesterday that they're actually cancelling an Ebola program in Uganda, where an outbreak is ongoing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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They reaffirmed yesterday that they're actually cancelling an Ebola program in Uganda, where an outbreak is ongoing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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Statistical surveys of health indicators in 90 countries are at risk of closure, blinding decision-making for much of the world. And there are more even in this short article.
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The deaths will begin with children undergoing extreme malnutrition who will lose life-supporting care over the coming days, proceed through an ongoing Ebola epidemic in Uganda, and spread through epidemic diseases whose vaccination campaigns are abandoned.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/health/usaid-contract-terminations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.eAqs.C7rBAUKQa_CF
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This chart is clearer on the issue.
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Der Linke is running separately from the BSW faction, which is either just above or below 5%.
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And in a new NPR article (www.npr.org/sections/sho...), a guy from the Manhattan Institute falsely claims that:
"A temporary pause in publicizing or funding new grants in order to review them is typical for a new administration."
FUCK THAT SHIT. See below for receipts on that being wrong...
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Cities
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-probes-cases-of-antisemitism-five-universities