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We’re at maximum of solar cycle 25; these Aurora are the direct result of Earth-directed CMEs which have happened in the past few days. This most recent one being an X-class flare.

Fabulous time for sky-gazers and amateur radio operators!

There’s still plenty of corporate greed to complain about, a la attempts to privatize the USPS, as a single example.

The issue is often framed as a burden: “the USPS costs American taxpayers x-billion/trillion dollars per year”, instead of the societal marvel that it is.

Try sending a standard letter across the US for less than $1 with FedEx or UPS.

The USPS was founded before the IRS, and even prior to the Declaration of Independence. That it’s technically older than the US, and one can still send a standard letter anywhere in the US for less than $1 is a service we need to protect.

Hurricanes.gov

fr. 100% free and already funded by your tax dollars.

They will unfortunately also get filtered. What I do is to direct important callers to ensure they leave a VM, or send an email or text.

Planned obsolescence hidden behind a “feature”.

In ten years, when they want to pull the plug on this game, they will cite dwindling users and “exorbitant” per-user maintenance costs.

They don’t want playable legacies. They want something they can leverage for nostalgia marketing in 20 years, and if you break out the original game, they won’t make any money. Production companies want you to buy what they are offering today, because it pays for new yachts.

If he can speed run to $1.6b, he can restart Three Mile Island.

The very first video on YouTube was 19 seconds.

Then videos got so long they created shorts.

Now shorts are longer than the first YouTube video.

We’ve come full circle.

A three minute short is not a short, it is a video lol

Corned beef, rice, shallots warm my soul. Love when my spouse makes it for me.

I’ve heard great things about these self-help tools from the Australian Centre for Clinical Interventions: https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself/Social-Anxiety

Just shy of a century since the last time this kind of propaganda was used.

Luden’s cherry cough drops for me. I can eat them like candy, and honestly they probably are.

Looks like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays

E: for the record, these are both lines from the same scene in the film Office Space