I swear I’m not saying this just to be mean, but the other problem is that lemmy.world is really boring. Like, actually go through the .world front page and imagine having to respond - even positively - to the majority of these posts.

That’s fucked up and I’m sorry. Your thesis sounds much better than the same silly essay about Margaret Thatcher.

The Death Panel Podcast is really good :)

How would identifying with Palestinians make you less empathetic and rush to the defense of the US?

I can’t tell if you’re doing “both sides”, “all lives matter”, or “whataboutism”. Other people care about things outside of meaningless platitudes.

I kinda agree

What aspects do you agree and disagree with? This doesn’t tend to be a topic people are lukewarm about.

I think that the US should stop doing genocide

Sure, we’re not really organized in that way though. I’m just here for fun.

I sorta think it’s easier to reach people in person cause there’s an existing relationship with some level of trust, but people can do both.

Mr. President, sir, let me first say thank you for your commitment to the American people… Your administration has not yet released a statement regarding the new Esperanza Spalding album, Milton + esperanza, should such a statement be expected in the coming weeks? Taxpayers were concerned to find tracks from the album absent from Former President Obama’s 2024 summer playlist.

TANKIE!

Their corrupt state handouts

Our public-private partnerships

basically the military took fewer pictures and worse pictures.

So, scientists have observed Earth’s nightlights for more than four decades, first with astronaut photography and military satellites. Since the 1960s, the U.S. Air Force has operated the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), a series of 18 polar-orbiting satellites that observe clouds and other weather variables in key wavelengths of infrared and visible light. Starting in 1972, the DMSP satellites included the Operational Linescan System (OLS), which gives weather forecasters some ability to see in the dark.

While DMSP has been a source of nighttime images for decades, until fairly recently the data were classified, which meant that only a few civilian scientists could conveniently gain access to study the data. The atmospheric science community was eager to have a more accessible night-vision tool to better understand weather and climate patterns and phenomena. Finally, in 2011, a new source of unclassified satellite images of Earth at night became available—one that improved upon the capabilities of OLS. The new low-light sensor was called the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), and was launched in October 2011 onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite—a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Defense

– Earth at Night

Roll ball for fun

Maybe the play Hadestown? Prometheus stealing fire from the gods probably works. Most of Aesops fables are vaguely left-ish and can definitely be spun as so. The bible-related commie phrase is usually the pre-king-james lord’s prayer: “Forgive us our debts as we forgive those who are indebted to us.” There’s a theory about the axial age being a response to coinage. I wouldn’t say it’s airtight, but it’s a fun thing to believe lol. Honestly, I find myths more interesting without recontexualizing them because a lot of polytheistic stuff has regional and cultural aspects to it that doesn’t really get translated to "god of fire, goddess of death, etc.

Spill, Baby, Spill

fair enough lol

nice, thank you

This reminds me how “military-grade” tends to indicate the lowest possible quality