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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

A climate-friendly home starts with an energy assessment. Here's how my 100-year-old house did Our shelter accounts for one of our biggest personal climate impacts. How we heat and cool our homes, wash and dry our clothes, get our electricity and heat our water each has its own carbon footprint.

A significant share of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions comes from heating, cooling and powering homes — about 15%, according to one estimate by the Environmental Protection Agency. So if you want to reduce your carbon footprint, the home is an effective place to start.

AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day But there remain a few options to plug in your 56K (or slower) screeching modem into.

AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day

Exclusive: The Internal Revenue Service said Friday it wouldn't tell immigration authorities whether people had claimed the earned income tax credit, citing privacy protections.

Later that day, IRS Commissioner Billy Long was on his way out. — The Washington Post

On Vaccines, RFK Jr. Has Broken Sharply With the Mainstream While many officials and scientists embrace other parts of the secretary’s agenda, his stance on vaccines is alienating allies who fear a public health crisis.

While many officials and scientists embrace other parts of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda as health secretary, his stance on vaccines is alienating allies who fear a public health crisis.

With improvement, he was able to report that he had recently noticed new-onset facial acne and cherry angiomas, fatigue, insomnia, subtle ataxia, and polydipsia, further suggesting bromism. He also shared that, after reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet. For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning. Gradually, over the course of a 3-week admission, his chloride and anion gap normalized and psychotic symptoms improved. He was tapered off risperidone before discharge and remained stable off medication at a check-in 2 weeks after discharge. His bromide level ultimately was 1700 mg/L (21 mmol/L; reference range, 0.9 to 7.3 mg/L).

Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Jesus fucking Christ. How did we get in this mess?

Jesus fucking Christ. How did we get in this mess?

Coast Guard says Titan submersible deaths were preventable and faults company's CEO Two years after passengers hoping for a glimpse of the Titanic wreckage died in the Titan submersible implosion, the Coast Guard issued a scathing report, saying the tragedy shouldn't have happened.

Two years after passengers hoping for a glimpse of the Titanic wreckage lost their lives in the Titan submersible implosion, the U.S. Coast Guard issued a scathing report.

Wouldn’t they be better off without him?

Driver Dies in Crash During Racing Event at Bonneville Salt Flats Chris Raschke, 60, lost control of his vehicle while trying to set a speed record on Sunday, the event’s organizers said.

A 60-year-old man died on Sunday when his vehicle crashed during a land-speed racing event at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, the event's organizer said.

Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

Snowflake

Snowflake.

Broken altimeter, ignored warnings: Hearings reveal what went wrong in DC crash that killed 67 A long list of things went wrong in January and contributed to the collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines jet over Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.

A long list of things went wrong in January and contributed to the collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines jet over Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.

More than 20 Democratic-led states sue Trump administration over Planned Parenthood funding cuts A group of more than 20 states are suing the Trump administration over efforts to cut Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood.

A group of more than 20 states are suing the Trump administration over efforts to cut Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood.

I personally don’t get why people are getting their panties in a knot over this ad campaign.

The ad is about blue jeans, and it’s a play on words. Nothing more. It’s not promoting white supremacy for God’s sake.

Does Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle 'great jeans' campaign mark a shift for ads? American Eagle's ad campaign featuring the 27-year-old star captured the internet's attention. An advertising expert says that means it worked and may signal a shift away from more inclusive ads.

American Eagle's ad campaign featuring the 27-year-old star captured the internet's attention. An advertising expert says that means it worked and may signal a shift away from more inclusive ads.

Without federal funding, public media — and the truth-telling, community-connecting role it plays — is at risk.

Local stations may vanish. Millions could lose trusted news and vital information. If you are ready to join the fight for journalism, donate now: n.pr/458sOhq

The civil service can not recover from this without legal and criminal consequences for Trump, Musk and Republican members of Congress who let it happen.

A couple “good” election cycles won’t cut it.

Few adults (8%) say the false claim that “more people have died from COVID-19 vaccines than have died from the COVID-19 virus” is “definitely true,” but levels of certainty vary widely by partisanship, and an increasing share of Republicans is open to endorsing this false claim. About four in ten adults (43%) recognize this claim as “definitely false,” including one in five Republicans (20%) and more than three times as many Democrats (65%). While most Republicans lean toward this claim being false, four in ten say it is “definitely true” (13%) or “probably true” (27%), an increase from one in four in June 2023, when 7% of Republicans said this was “definitely true” and 18% said it was “probably true.”

40% of Republicans say the COVID-19 vaccine has probably or definitely killed more people than the COVID-19 virus.

the US Dept of Energy tweeted a photo of coal with little sparkles photoshopped on and the words She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment ✨

they wanna fuck coal now

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I reread this like three times and I don’t understand it.

Well, that’s nice and vague.

The intro to today’s Axios?