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[–] [email protected] 63 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

NASA is definitely a target. Musk wants to make SpaceX America's privatized space agency.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

1.ran 3rd party to try to hurt Harris but hurt Trump more 2.Ate roadkill bear and got parasites that ate part of his brain 3.Is a believer in various conspiracies including vaccines causing autism, HIV and AIDS being unrelated, that antidepressants cause school shootings, and that fluoride in water makes children transgender.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

Someone who didn't eat the Mona Lisa.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

RFK ran for president on a third party ticket before dropping out and endorsing Trump. He was running in the first place to attempt to syphon democratic votes because his father was a very popular democratic Senator and Attorney General who was assassinated and his uncle was John F Kennedy, a very popular democratic President who was assassinated. They thought democrats would vote for him on name recognition alone but the longer he campaigned the more extreme he revealed himself to be and it eventually became apparent that he was more likely to syphon Trump voters than Harris voters. He infamously became infected with brain parasites after eating a dead bear he found on the side of the road, he picked up another roadkill bear but got busy and was concerned it would start to smell so he dumped it in Central Park. He is anti vaccine saying that they cause more harm than the diseases that they prevent and believes that vaccines cause autism. He doesn't believe that hiv causes aids. He believes that antidepressants cause school shootings and that chemicals in the water (mostly targeting fluoride) make children transgender. He believes that 5g networks are a secret mass surveillance program and that the CIA was responsible for his uncle's assassination.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

People don't revere the framers, they treat our founding mythos similarly to religion. They embrace what they like and what reinforces their beliefs while ignoring things that they find inconvenient. Primarily they ignore that very little was universally agreed upon by our framers and that the Constitution is the result of significant compromise. When someone says, "The framers believed..." they are almost always wrong and actually only framing what they believe in a way that they think gives it more credibility.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Townhalls are a type of political event. They are typically small forum events held in places like town halls or school gyms and involve the politician giving a short speech typically limited to a single issue or current event followed by a longer period where the audience asks the politician questions. It's not limited to campaigning, legislators often hold these events outside of elections. Theoretically they give the politician the opportunity to hear issues and concerns that their constituents most care about but mostly they are used to drum up support for legislation that the politician already supports.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's much less than 50%. 2020 had the highest percentage of eligible voters actually vote in US history, it was about 67%. About 70% of Americans are eligible to vote and of that 70% about a third voted for Biden, about a third for Trump, and about a third didn't vote. So a little over 20% of Americans chose to vote for Trump last time. That number is still too damn high but it's not as bad as half.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I bet if we could see the itemized list of charges it would include a previous balance and delinquency fees. Either that or he's doing some serious hydroponics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Is it bad that I get most of my non-local news from foreign sources? I do look at the AP and NPR but I usually go to the BBC or Reuters first and I almost always check the CSM for international stories I want more information on.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

$100k is about the average household income in the US, the average single income is about $67k. So about a year and a half of the average wage. And median income is much lower (median household income is about $44k) indicating that high income households have a much larger effect on the average than low income households so the average middle class individual income should also be much lower than the average individual income.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

It's supposed to be less militaristic. By the time of tos Starfleet is pretty well established as being a space navy. The idea was that in the beginning Starfleet would be more like a band of explorers who were all experts in their own fields and everything, including the command structure would be less formal.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

If I were in the friend's position I doubt I would have gotten a close enough look to differentiate. The autopsy said the victim had "multiple chop wounds" including to the skull so it was probably a machete or ax attack. With lots of long deep wounds and blood there wasn't much chance he was alive when the friend found him so it's plausible that the friend didn't actually go into the campsite, just saw the blood and assumed it was a bear because what other animal could do that much damage.

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