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Tennessee Senate passes bill banning chemtrails
  • I think also bans "coal-rolling" ... If that wasn't already illegal.

  • Is Ernest still here?
  • It would be more likely to be critically hit by an SUV or pick-up, just saying.

  • Alabama IVF ruling divides devout Christians: 'Fewer children will be born'
    • Dancing.
    • Tattoos.
    • Foreskins.
    • Shrimp buffets.
    • ...
  • Alabama IVF ruling divides devout Christians: 'Fewer children will be born'
  • I'm guessing this is a "leopards ate my face" situation for a lot of people.

  • Recently I saw a meme showing some poor crewman with his window facing the red glow of a warp nacelle, but I've lost it now.

    Recently I saw a meme showing some poor crewman with his window facing the red glow of a warp nacelle, but I've lost it now.

    Does anyone know where I can find it?

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    Levels of ambient air pollution according to mode of transport: a systematic review
  • Interpretation
    Proximity to traffic and high air interchange increased the exposure to air pollution of commuters using motorised transport. Larger inhalation rates and commuting time increased inhaled dose among active commuters. Benefits of active commuting from physical activity are larger than the risk from an increased inhaled dose of fine particles.

    I've often wondered about the net effect. Interesting.

  • FAA Adopts Carbon Limits For Airliners
  • I don't even know what the FAA counterpart for maritime is.

  • FAA Adopts Carbon Limits For Airliners

    The FAA has issued a final rule that will require most larger aircraft built after Jan. 1, 2028, to meet new efficiency standards designed to reduce their carbon emissions per passenger mile. The new rule will cover all subsonic jets with a maximum takeoff weight of more than 12,500 pounds and turboprops with an MTOW of 19,000 pounds.

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    Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services
  • Recently our county sheriff put out an Amber Alert (a forced alert on all mobile devices) but the obfuscated link resolved to Twitter.

    I wonder what portion of the public saw the Twitter login page and just closed the tab, never to see the details of the child abduction.

  • What's some common knowledge that you just found out recently?
  • Maybe this more of a misheard lyrics thing, but for a long time I thought "noxious gas" had to do with nitrogen oxides (NOx), and then spread to other metaphorical applications like "noxious weeds" and so on.

  • An idea to add some realism to your game
  • A very literal interpretation of a comic. You must be quite literate!

  • A nice list of 71 Sci-Fi movies

    And they rhyme.

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    Has also maintained an active playerbase for 1500+ years
  • "Butt bots... Sorry. But bots have become..." (Read in Ze Frank voice)

  • Has also maintained an active playerbase for 1500+ years
  • The map is 64-bit.

  • Daisy Ridley Recalls Director J.J. Abrams’ Advice After Star Wars Casting: “This Is a Religion for People”
  • This Is a Religion for People

    As opposed to a religion for droids?

  • Finland’s successful approach to ending homelessness catches eye of Quebec City
  • I think homelessness and despair cause mental illness and substance abuse. If we can prevent "normal" people from losing their homes, I think they would be more stable and able to take care of themselves long term.

    Allowing homelessness is far more costly to everyone else than preventing it.

  • Palworld embroiled in AI and Pokémon ‘plagiarism’ controversy
  • Setting aside the topic of generative AI, isn't it about time that Pokemon goes to the public domain?

    It's been a long time since I read Lawrence Lessig, but I think we would undo Disney's mods to copyright laws and allow more cultural remixing after a reasonable time. Like maybe 20 years instead of a century?

  • Primer's Sci-Fi Success Story Was an Anomaly, but Its Filmmaker's Fall Wasn't
  • I wonder how many Primer viewers first learned about the film from this comic.

  • L.A. Metro Shifts Funds for Transit to Expand Highway Lanes
    www.planetizen.com L.A. Metro Pushes for More Freeway Expansion Funds

    After the last expansion project, traffic on I-405 only got worse. Metro wants to try again.

    L.A. Metro Pushes for More Freeway Expansion Funds

    It should surprise no bros that Southern California still wants to add one more lane to fix traffic.

    > > > After the last expansion project, traffic on I-405 only got worse. Metro wants to try again. > >

    > > > Under the proposal, Metro will “add and shift Measure R (Metro 2008 countywide sales tax) Multimodal Highway Subregional Program funds to various projects, mostly freeway lanes/ramps expansion and arterial streets/intersections expansion, > >

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    Debugging in Production
    www.instagram.com Fernando Bequiman Araújo on Instagram: "Resolveu a pane! Excelente trabalho 👏🏽👏🏽 @cafeaeronautico ⬇️ Use nossa tag #apaixonadosporaviacao"

    7,089 likes, 70 comments - apaixonadosporaviacao on July 8, 2023: "Resolveu a pane! Excelente trabalho 👏🏽👏🏽 @cafeaeronautico ⬇️ Use nossa tag #apa..."

    Fernando Bequiman Araújo on Instagram: "Resolveu a pane!
Excelente trabalho 👏🏽👏🏽

@cafeaeronautico 
⬇️
Use nossa tag #apaixonadosporaviacao"
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    Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life: Technosignatures
    exoplanets.nasa.gov Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life: Technosignatures

    Signs of life beyond Earth could take forms that are clearly artificial – radio or light signals, or even evidence of large-scale engineering.

    Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life: Technosignatures

    > > > Signs of life beyond Earth could take forms that are clearly artificial – radio or light signals, or even evidence of large-scale engineering. > >

    I know this is pretty basic for many of you, but I'm happy to see this from NASA.

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    The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts
    journals.plos.org The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts

    The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological research has questioned this paradigm with evidence that females hunted (and went to war) throughout the Homo sapiens lineage, thou...

    The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts

    The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological research has questioned this paradigm with evidence that females hunted (and went to war) throughout the Homo sapiens lineage, though many of these authors assert the pattern of women hunting may only have occurred in the past. The current project gleans data from across the ethnographic literature to investigate the prevalence of women hunting in foraging societies in more recent times. Evidence from the past one hundred years supports archaeological finds from the Holocene that women from a broad range of cultures intentionally hunt for subsistence. These results aim to shift the male-hunter female-gatherer paradigm to account for the significant role females have in hunting, thus dramatically shifting stereotypes of labor, as well as mobility.

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    swope swope @kbin.social

    Aerospace engineer working to make aircraft greener & safer.

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