tessafisher.bsky.social
Postdoc researching exoplanet biosignatures, Univ. of Arizona | Astrobiologist | Trans Lesbian | Wife | SFF Writer | Lukewarm Ecosocialist | Union Woman | One Half of @asabpod.bsky.social | She/Her
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Dems are not actually starting at a deficit. It was 61-26 *against* the deportations to El Salvador, so if you're going to pick a fight that *has* to touch immigration (for reasons that go beyond electoralism), it's probably max EV to do it on this. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Po...
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DO WE TIMIDLY ACCEPT THAT THE TRAITOROUS COWARDS IN THE SOUTH DEFY THE BONDS OF BROTHERLY UNION JUST SO THEY CAN WRING RICHES OUT OF THE MEN THEY UNJUSTLY REDUCED TO BONDAGE? NO, WE BRING FORTH THE LIGHT OF LIBERTY, THE PURIFYING FLAME THAT WILL MAKE ALL MEN FREE
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Oh, man, I've been training my entire life for this calling.
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Honestly, in a better world the Hague would decide if he's too ossified or not.
Who knows! They might've decided it's not worth jailing him at his age. But the important part is that at least there'd be an acknowledgement and judgment of what's been done.
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With regards to Palestine, I'll concede your point, but I do think the *way* in which they are bad differs considerably--the Dems, for example, are hyperfixated on protocol and decorum, whereas the current crop of Republicans absolutely do not care--and this could have strategic implications
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Honestly, MoO2 might still work for my purposes
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I mean, they certainly weren't interested in joining *until* Russia started invading its neighbors. You'd think Putin would've learned something from that, and yet...
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It's certainly worth noting that, up until Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, Germany and France both vowed to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO specifically *because* it would antagonize Russia, so much Putin's flip-out is ultimately self-inflicted.
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I would argue at this point that both parties don't have the same overarching goals (mostly because the GOP's goals lately seem to have morphed into 'burn everything to the ground in order to make mediocre white men feel better about themselves'), though pre-Trump you're correct
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Eh, I don't know if contrition is actually all that necessary, but electoral politics usually requires building coalitions, and obviously that's easier if the potential coalition partners aren't constantly at each other's throats.
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Tbf, I'm pretty sure Putin was always going to flip out, but NATO did make it considerably easier to justify it (rightly or wrongly)
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With luck, we can all meet somewhere in between and get some shit done
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(admittedly, there are a few that actually do seem to be doing something--Chris Van Hollen, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, etc--but the leadership is definitely lagging behind the party, which is the *opposite* of how these things are usually supposed to work)
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Yeah, I'm more than willing to consider that, in principle, both parties aren't equally bad--or, if they are equally bad, they're bad in significantly different ways.
But *at the current moment*, that's immaterial so long as the Dems don't actually put up any real opposition.
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Yeah, I was about to say, Newsom *really* isn't the one I'd pick. There are plenty of other milquetoast corporate centrist Dems who at least are more consistent in being anti-right-wing.
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Apparently! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
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I don't know how much of it is that, and how much this is driven by just a gut-level outrage that someone, anyone, might ever tell these fools 'no'
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We had an Olympic hopeful, Sarah Brown, in my class in middle school. Even then, she was running 5 minute miles.
Whenever we had to run the mile, she would literally the entire class.
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Also, DMSO is ridiculous permeable to human physiology. If it makes contact with your skin, you will taste it in your mouth within less than a second (and it has a very, uh, distinct, garlicky flavor/smell)
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...oh, that's a good point, actually.
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I like the way this Mr. Burnside thinks!
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They weren't even doing anything useful! Hell, they didn't even make it into orbit! It was purely a vanity-driven joyride
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I remain convinced that all the polling numbers we're seeing right now are almost entirely the result of name recognition and not much else.
(With the possible exception of AOC, since she's actually going out and campaigning)
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Wait, hold the fuck up, HBO made an Earthsea adaptation? How did I miss this?
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Would NIRspec (or any other JWST instrument) be able to measure the isotope ratios of DMS? That's the only maybe-clear-cut method I can think of to bolster the claim of biogenic production.
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Probably, yeah--it's not designed for any real rigorous spaceflight, at all.
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@hedgehogsafety.bsky.social we got a live one
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My standing policy is that, if, by some chance, Fox News or some other right-wing media platform wants to have me on, I'll only agree to it if I'll be allowed to blow an air horn any time the interviewer starts bullshitting.
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How dangerous can Ms-13 be if their top leaders stand outside Home Depot looking for day labor?