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It's part of a package called the KIDS Act, filled with digital ID and age verification and censorship.

MAKE THOSE PHONES RING!! CALL YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES ALL WEEK

202-224-3121

And the two people mentioned both times that Kirk records his posthumous highest commendations under the belief they all will or might die—

"Space Seed":

KIRK [recording a log while suffocating]: Stardate 3142.8. They have my ship, discarding their own worthless vessel. Only moments of air left on the bridge now. Commendations recommended for Lieutenant Uhura, Technicians First Class Thule and Harrison, Lieutenant Spinelli and, of course, Mr. Spock. I take full responsibility. I take full... [he faints]

"The Immunity Syndrome":

It has taken well over a YEAR STRAIGHT of Trump and his policies TANKING the good economy Biden handed him to even SLIGHTLY shake the general US public perception that the GOP is better at managing the economy than Democrats are. Despite ALLLLLLL the massive evidence showing that Dems are way better a job creation, budgeting, regulation, inflation, avoiding corruption, and so on. You know, all the charts routinely posted showing job creation under Dem vs. GOP admins, convictions of major officials under Dem vs. GOP admins, wage growth under Dems vs. GOP admins, and so on. All those facts have never made it through before.

Democrats MAYBE being better at managing the economy than Republicans is now a VERY NEW and VERY NARROWLY held idea by the USA at large. This is a fragile thing that obviously the GOP is looking for any sledgehammer to swing at (this is another reason they are yelling "communism!" beyond general red scare stuff, communist nations typically failed economically in a spectacular manner). Democrats MAYBE being trusted with taxpayer dollars and MAYBE being good at making the economy work for everyone is JUUUUUST starting to take root in peoples' minds. Which means it is very fragile as a notion and any major Dem publicly fucking it up (say a mayor or a major city, a big name senate candidate, or a Dem governor) will probably kill it dead for like another ten years.

Whatever you think of any individual politicians, the ACA (for all that it was sabotaged in its partial implementation) was a revolution for access to basic services via insurance. We need a whole lot more, but so many people are alive today - even comparatively healthy - who wouldn’t have been. People still have limbs and organs and lives.

Now, the thing about Wales is that *by law* all official government communication must be bilingual. Which means that in Wales, everyone got 2 alerts: one in welsh, and one in english.

Unfortunately, by law the welsh must happen *first*, and so the whole of wales got the fire alert in Welsh: A language that approximately 5% of the population speak well enough to actually understand what was going on.

So imagine, the emergency alert noise goes off. You open your phone. And the most *incomprehensible* collection of letters appear to you. You live in wales, so you know what Welsh looks like, but this is not the vocabulary that you usually see at the train station or on the letter from the council. And it's the emergency alert system. It's probably both Important and Urgent

So people all over Wales are using google lense or whatever to try and get a translations of this alert because this is clearly something Life Threatening. A frantic five minutes for the whole country.

And then the alert arrives in English.

Of course, now the joke is that this is how they force the Welsh Language on people: by making it clear that only Welsh Speakers will be saved from the atom bomb.

can we stop with this style of writing now please (:

Whatever the fuck is happening with that Shepard tone and that damn Albanian flute in the Troy track is terrifying. The twang of the bow being both diegetic and part of the soundtrack itself. Travis Scott and James Blake giving us a the eerie banger that is When I'm Home. That one leitmotif with the weird synths that plays whenever some utter carnage is happening. The drums in Laestrygonians sounding like massive footsteps, and then the vocalizations as the boats get wrecked. Agamemnon's leitmotif also having those giant footstep drums as he doth stride beside the narrow world like a Colossus, plus the way it overwhelms the listener in waves and echoes. The humming/harmonizing in the Hades track sounding like the wailing of the dead. The way Odysseus's theme just sounds like pure grief so much it makes you want to throw yourself off a cliff. With an aulos!

“Riddhi emerges from the Summer Palace. Once used by the Maharajas and visiting Heads of State to relax in between tiger hunts, now this is rightfully the tiger's domain.”

The whole metaverse can no longer be properly viewed without an account and I am definitely not making one just to see your contact info or opening hours.

"Ohh it's a different sugar than refined sugar" it's the same molecule.

"Ohhh my water filtering apparatus making beauty water and cleaning water and alkaline water" Water is H20. What you're doing is reverse osmosis, and if it's alkaline then there is a substance that's not water in there to make it alkaline. You can't purify water to a pH of 12, because pure water molecules have, by definition of how the pH system works and several phyics rules, a pH of exactly 7.

"Ooohh it has ~different~ sodium atoms." That's called an isotope and sodium isotopes aren't created by magic woowoo, and the magical ability of most isotopes is radioactivity.

"Low toxin" what toxin. Tell me their names. What are they doing. "They are endocrine disruptors" what part of the endocrine system? How? Do you have a source that doesn't try to sell you something?

"Just mix vinegar and baking soda to cleanse all the toxins of your fruits" you just created water molecules and CO2, and some calcium and acetate which don't have much chemical property. That's a science fair vulcano. And doesn't have acidic or alkaline properties to chemically influence anything. Just use tap water at this point. "My wood cutting board soaked in an alkaline solution from baking soda to clear out the toxins leaves a nasty looking soup" yeah because you were dissolving the wood with an alkaline solution. Congratulations.

"There is effective microorganisms in this ceramic bead and it can cleanse your laundry and dishes and prevent mold in your fridge and it works for years" what microorganisms exactly? How did you discover them? What are they eating? Are they resistant to 60 degrees and steam? Do they procreate in the fridge? Are they spreading out on all surfaces to prevent the mold or is it an air filtration system that works without airflow or is it just magic? "Put them in your flowers, they can reverse cavities, put them in your walls" what are they eating in my walls? What kind of microorganisms are they? Did you test the safety of those things in human bodies? Are they native to my biotope? How do they survive in those fucking ceramic beads?

I always assumed they were a scam because ions (an atom with an electron imbalance) really really hate existing and are hard to make.

Lots of ions are ok in water because water is super polar (oxygen hogs all the electrons so every molecule is like a tiny magnet) and therefore they'll soak up all the imbalanced charges.

Go pour salt in water right now. If it dissolves you've created negative chlorine ions! (And an equal number of positive sodium ions)! Good job on being a scientist.

But in air? Nothing polar to stabilise them.

Go pour salt on your table. It stays a solid? Good job. You've proven the atoms in salt prefer being bonded to each other than being free flying ions. You're half way to a chemistry degree.

The only way to force the creation of ions in air is a fuckton of energy. This can be electricity or radiation.

Go attach leads to a 9V battery. Put both into a cup of water. If you see bubbles you've successfully split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen will be on the positive lead because oxygen ions are negative. The hydrogen will be on the negative clip because hydrogen ions are positive. There will also be more bubbles because water has twice as many hydrogen atoms as oxygen atoms. These bubbles won't be ions though, because again, ions hate existing so they recombine into oxygen and hydrogen gas almost instantly. Still. You did technically make negative ions for a split second. Good job.

But most of those negative ion bracelets don't have batteries (which again, only make ions for a split second and require a renewable resource like water to do that with). So they must be a scam right? They're just rocks!

Nope. Remember the other way to make ions? It was radiation! Those bracelets and necklaces you're supposed to wear 24/7 to keep yourself healthy? They're made of mildly radioactive stone.

So they are splitting the air into ions (for a split second. You now know that ions hate existing so they recombine. Although sometimes they'll recombine into ozone (O3) rather than breathable oxygen (O2). Ozone isn't great to breathe in but you also presumably have been near a car so like... It's not a big deal in the scheme of things).

But more importantly!! They're also splitting your body into ions! Which are stabilised by the water in your body (remember the magnet analogy?) and therefore last a lot longer and can get up to more fuckery.

#where people simply do not understand what the creative process entails so they devalue and dismiss it

#striving to be a well rounded person educated on as many things as possible is good actually

So while I was taking this chemistry class I walked into a health food store one day and saw a bottle of "alkaline water"

Well I bought it and brought it into class the next day and asked the teacher if we could PH test it, since we were learning about acids and bases, and she loved the idea of IRL applied science so we took ten minutes to do a quick PH test on the alkaline water