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Metallic snow (or maybe frost, depending on your definition of "snow") is radar-bright material at the tops of Venus’ highest mountains, such as Maxwell Montes (11 km high), possibly made of condensed lead sulfide and bismuth sulfide that sublimate at warmer altitudes and condense on mountaintops ❄️
December 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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man.
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.

I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B

The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead

(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Wow, this is GLORIOUS.
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine that dramatically BOOSTS the immune system’s ability to fight tumors- even WITHOUT targeting a SPECIFIC cancer type. It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery AND radiation treatment.
August 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Capitalism has trained us to view others as "the reason we're not successful" leading to us being less willing to help voluntarily... Removing that conditioning by making sure people are happy and comfortable regardless of economic output leads to people being more willing to use their time.
July 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.
July 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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i posted this more than a year ago because it was obvious by then that israel was trying to starve gaza, & i knew there would come a time in the future when a bunch of people who know better would pretend to suddenly find out about it
July 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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thinking about the GE Beetle tonight. wild to think that the USAF was for realsies going to build patlabor-scale mechs to handle the radioactive cores of nuclear powered bombers back in the sixties.
July 29, 2025 at 6:17 AM