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Yeah 😅 But if the bomb's instructions spelled it correctly, there would be no challenge for the diffuser. They should have gone with a sorta phonetic boo-zshwah-zee for the text in the comic.

Thank you!
It looks like jumble.top has a pirate feed for that podcast, so I'll subscribe to that and find it from there.

Do you happen to have on hand any article or even blog post or something that goes into detail about NYCrimes' evil stance on trans women? I have an older liberal (but very pro-LGBTQ for a boomer lib) relative who thinks it's the pinnacle of journalism and I'm going to start trying to convince her of what a wretched fascist-abetting rag they are.

That could literally be an alternate title for the bingo card, and is almost certainly the motivation for like 90% of the people who wish plants were conscious. And even if their flawed logic were true, it's just more testament to how morally bankrupt they are. Because all they're saying is "since we might be causing suffering on an incomprehensibly massive scale in this hypothetical case, that means it's perfectly fine to also keep causing suffering on an incomprehensibly massive scale in this other case where it for sure is happening undeniably. Gotcha, vegan!"

The picture is definitely just some artist's conception, but it's not claimed to be a photo or meant to be anything other than what it is, an artist's conception. You're right that for the most part, a star is needed for aurora, at least for the kind of aurora we have on Earth since it depends on the solar wind interacting with the planet's magnetic field. But if there is anything that can be said about what we've discovered astronomically in the last century or so it's that there are always exceptions to every supposed rule.

The authors attribute the auroras to SIMP-0136’s magnetic field being vastly more powerful than Jupiter’s (750 times stronger according to a previous study). Electrons (presumably stripped from atoms by internal processes) would flow with the field and hit atmospheric molecules fast enough to make them glow, they conclude.

• How Does Rogue Planet SIMP-0136 Have Auroras When It Has No Stellar Wind?

Aside from the aurora part though, none of this is exceptional or rare (and maybe even the aurora part isn't rare either). Rogue planets are probably extremely common, possibly even more common than planets that are gravitationally bound in a star system. And objects of this size, which is really around where we'd start calling it a brown dwarf, are also very common, with more of them than there are main sequence stars.

Yeah, a lot of the historical references and descriptions were good, but then when it got to the present day, essentially the "what is to be done" section, it just flopped hard. Paraphrasing: "a coalition of blue states can just ignore the federal government and do their own thing, boom, fascism defeated." It's not actually discussing anything about how fascism can actually be defeated even though the whole first half of it sounds like it's supposed to be a set up to do just that.

Instead it descends into ridiculous cringe:

California could request Canadian peacekeepers for "election security." New York could invite European observers for "financial transparency." Make it embarrassing. Make America's collapse visible to the world. Force the international community to pick sides.

This is your solution? That's how fascism is defeated? Any respect I may have built up for the author when they were accurately talking about how fascists slither their way into power using the liberal* political apparatus was nullified by this point.
*(even though the author always insisted on calling the fascist appeasers "conservative" at every turn rather than using the more appropriate word "liberal")

Every solution is just another form of "blue states should just pretend there is no federal government," even the last one which is titled "International Intervention" but that just means making all the other totally-not-fascist liberal "democracies" play ball with the new blue coalition instead of the liberal democracy that elected Trump.

No, the UN can't invade America. But they can isolate it. Sanctions work. Ask Russia.

Ask Russia? The country whose economy improved after "the mother of all sanctions" were imposed on it? Russia, who is indisputably winning the conflict that those sanctions were supposed to stop, all while Russia's economic ties with other enemies of the US have grown and blossomed? How about asking Cuba if sanctions work. Yeah, they work to starve the population and cause civilian immiseration and death, they don't and never have worked to depose rulers. This doofus has no fucking clue what they're talking about.

And even with the historical stuff, it left a big fucking gaping hole where the people and organizations that DID successfully fight fascism should have been. But nope, not even a mention. Clearly Christopher didn't want to admit that communism IS the cure to fascism, theoretically and in practice, historically and right now. This essay is just more cringe liberal drivel.

You ever fuckin' seen a homeless person? How about the miles and miles of tents along stretches of highways just outside the cities? That's one of many other forms of political violence. Remember how we stopped counting the death toll from Covid and were all told to get back to work? You know how many "incarcerated" "prisoners" we have doing slave labor? GTFO with your "have to be chronically online to see any political violence" bullshit. You're fucking steeped in it but you're too blind to see even what's right in front of you, even if it's a boot your tongue is apparently stuck to.

Even a ways back before that he got famous for making a movie about an AI apocalypse time traveling murderbot (Terminator). Also the movie Aliens was famous. And Abyss, but that was kinda about a boat too.

Are you genuinely that ignorant of reality, or is it a willful ignorance thing?

They’re fighting because they woke up to an invasion.

lol, right the Ukrainian nazi coup regime just suddenly woke up one day and that mean ol Putler was invadin! Ukraine hadn't been running an ethnic cleansing campaign in the east, bombing and murdering civilians who identified as Russian speakers for years. Nothing like that. The "invasion" just happened out of nowhere!

How did this absurd cringe comment even get 11 upvotes? Must be a lot of dipshit libs who think history started in February of 2022 still lurking around here.

And for the record, I am not against phasing out certain species (allowing them to go extinct by not giving them the opportunity to breed while providing and caring for the individuals during the time they're still around) for those species that exist wholly for human exploitation. I am not opposed to the extinction of, for example, cattle on some anti-extinction principle. I just fundamentally disagree with the position that domesticated animals can't coexist with humans in a mutually loving and compassionate symbiosis, since clearly they can.