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There is an important conversation that should be going on (maybe at the UN level?) about this, as it will become worse with time (as more satellites are orbited).

Nations worked together to build the Montreal Protocol to protect the Ozone Layer.

These constellations threaten all of that work.

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

YouTube video by Gian Laurel & Hardy - Dance Routine - Way Out West (1937)

Was it inspired by the dance of two other true friends?https://youtu.be/LXCwlO2jnYU?si=BTs7BXowSs154760

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

These towers surround Gaza's Roman Cemetery — an ancient intact burial site with 125 tombs that was discovered in 2022. @premiereurgenceint.bsky.social worked on the site before the war: www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/07/26/r...

Can see the site in a video from 2023: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VStQ...

Prijsverschillen kunnen, maar waarom wrijft de Hema het zo in? Te krenterig om twee labeltjes te maken voor de twee markten?

Hij bedoelt niet dat steden niet veilig zouden zijn maar te democratisch. Sowieso schrappen: straks worden voetballers en supporters nog door ICE opgepakt. Trump zelf bedreigt de veiligheid.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

That Time Ulysses S. Grant Met Otto von Bismarck in Berlin—and Talked About the Civil War The conversation between the former president and the Prussian prince was more than just pleasantries.

www.historynet.com/encounter-ul...

I am think here on what general Grant told Bismarck: " A great commander [...] might have organized an army and put down the rebellion in six months or a year [...]. But that would have saved slavery, perhaps, and slavery meant the germs of new rebellion. There had to be an end of slavery."

So without those "fire-eaters" there could have been a compromise, but would that have meant that by 1865 slavery would still not have been abolished? So perhaps these "fire-eaters" played the role Judas played in Bible: necessary actors fulfill what was coming.

De reactie van gematigd rechts op rechtsextremisme bepaalt hoe het de democratie vergaat In de VS wordt de cancelcultuur van Donald Trump geholpen door bedrijven. In Nederland is het de VVD die extreemrechts normaliseert.

www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

If not stopped. This will effectively finish killing the research and teaching infrastructure of universities in the US

Dutch late night TV has its take

Beelden van Chinees toilet gaan viraal: pas na bekijken reclame een paar velletjes wc-papier In Nederland vinden we het heel normaal om een reclame te bekijken voordat we een video op YouTube kunnen zien. In China is dit reclamemodel ook op andere plekken ingevoerd: een toiletpapierdispenser ...

In China wordt de term enshitification wel heel letterlijk genomen….

Beelden van Chinees toilet gaan viraal: pas na bekijken reclame een paar velletjes wc-papier www.ad.nl/buitenland/b...

Is it Bill Clinton?

"the promise of the 14th Amendment was derailed by white supremacist violence, congressional inaction, and hostile Supreme Court rulings. " Sounds familiar...

ERC Starting Grant voor astronomen Ziggy Pleunis (UvA) en Tim Lichtenberg (RUG)

ERC Starting Grant voor astronomen Ziggy Pleunis (UvA) en Tim Lichtenberg (RUG)

www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/erc-s...

@erc.europa.eu

The main panel of this graphic is Chandra data that has been selected to show the location of different elements in the remains of the explosion: silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green) and iron (purple). The blue color reveals the highest-energy X-ray emission detected by Chandra in Cas A, with the blue outer ring highlighting the expanding blast wave from the original explosion hundreds of years ago. The inset to the upper left zooms in a smaller region of Cas A. This reveals data collected by Chandra that picks up relative amounts of silicon and neon.

About 26 years ago, the Chandra X-ray Observatory released its "First Light" images. The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A was the highlight. All of these years later, Chandra is still delivering discoveries about this exploded star.
chandra.si.edu/press/25_rel...

Auteur is russisch, dus taalfout is van de vertaler. Gezien het anglicisme is het uit het engels vertaald. Des te erger eigenlijk, want een vertaler moet zijn vak beheersen, en daarna ook alles nog eens goed controleren ;)

Where is Sancho Panza when you need him?

The research on electric and magnetic fields made it necessary.

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

Ja Femke Wiersma schrijft de miljoenen nota, maar kondigt op prinsjesdag aan dat ze tot januari wacht om vervolgens de volgende Prinsjesdag door te schuiven naar 2036.

Nee dan de "continentale" filosoof Heidegger: na hem "is er geen Europese filosoof meer geweest die zijn statuur ook maar heeft benaderd." Heidegger was inderdaad geen (neo)liberaal, maar een Nazi.

"Volgens [Schuringa] is die de filosofie geworden van de neo-liberale gevestigde orde, die iedere vorm van ‘gevaarlijke’ en ondermijnende filosofie onderdrukt en koloniseert."

Slavery didn't end because of democracy or a system of government. It took a civil war to end it. The war itself started because southern states didn't acknowledge democracy.

‘Speciale eenheid van Israëlische leger belast met het framen van journalisten als Hamasstrijders’

‘Speciale eenheid van Israëlische leger belast met het framen van journalisten als Hamasstrijders’

Fascinating, but also very slimy: two leppard slugs mating. #slugs #mating