Colleen

This thread made me happy.

Chill brand beverages nearby?

Ferdinand Zecca visualized pedal-powered personal airships as the future of air travel in CONQUERING THE SKIES (1901), one of the earliest science fiction films ever made.

Some of y’all are “technically, methanol and H₂S can combine on a tungsten catalyst to make dimethyl sulfide.”

But my question is whether we’re calling it Atlantea or Kelparis. K2-18b will not stand.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

Journalists should be insistently pointing out that tariffs are controlled by Congress, and they can revoke the President’s authority over them—and lots of other things!—the moment they grow a spine.

The abject gutlessness of Republican legislators is the real story here.

Republicans in Congress could make all of this stop. They have voluntarily ceded their constitutional authority over tariff policy. Trump is operating under emergency powers. They could stop this today. All of it.

ACA system rollout had glitches, and that project was not within an order of magnitude as ambitious as this, and was not inspired by an unvarnished impulse to destroy the US Federal Government.

In 1937 Harold Hersey, veteran editor of pulp magazines, wrote:

Ever the monster sits at my elbow—
the reader,
whom I must please.
I never forgot for an instant
I was dealing with a pinch-penny psychology.
If you have ever gazed upon the average citizen of the republic

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Probably no one is waking up in the middle of the night lately paralysed with anxiety, but just in case here's a mind-calming technique.

And ye maye aske yowerself, 'How do Ich werke thys?'
And ye maye aske yowerself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?'
And ye maye tell yowerself, 'Thys nys nat my fayre castel!'
And ye maye tell yowerself, 'Thys nys nat my swift goshawk!'

"Why did you choose that major, or that college?" None of us really know; we're different people now and have to do historical reconstruction to guess. Also the towns we lived in have been replaced by different towns. Nothing from our past survives except the constellations overhead.

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Here, the "mutuals" feed is good for that. I have more than one use for "social media" -- one is what I would call social, to keep in touch with IRL friends. The other is exploring content informally contributed by lots of interesting people, including celebrities. That is "following" or "discovery"

Great question! Reminds me to aim for genuine repentance, transformation, wisdom, and increased compassion. Sometimes though it is like those error messages I get in software dev: "an unhandled error occurred while handling an exception" Error: defensiveness and excessive fingers-in-ear LaLaLa

That felt warm to listen to this morning. I got a vibe of moving forward soberly but with heart.