NEW: North Korea tested a “controlled rocket artillery shell and ballistic control system” on Sunday “to evaluate its accuracy and verify its superiority." READ HERE: https://www.nknews.org/2024/02/north-korea-tests-superiority-of-new-240mm-artillery-system-state-media/
Black Churches in Georgia Unite to Mobilize Voters in a Key Battleground
Two of the largest Black church groups in Georgia are formally uniting for the first time to mobilize Black voters in the battleground state before the November presidential election. #press
First Look at Asteroid Hints It's a Fragment of a Lost Ocean World : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/first-look-at-asteroid-hints-its-a-fragment-of-a-lost-ocean-world
"Donald Trump’s admission that he intends to give Putin a greenlight for more war and violence, to continue his brutal assault against a free Ukraine, and to expand his aggression to the people of Poland and the Baltic States are appalling and dangerous. Sadly, they are also predictable coming from a man who is promising to rule as a dictator like the ones he praises on day one if he returns to the oval office." - Statement from President Biden via his re-election campaign
What are Very High Throughput Satellites and Why are They Important?
#SpaceEconomy #NewSpaceEconomy #NewSpace #Space *
https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2023/04/07/what-are-very-high-throughput-satellites-and-why-are-they-important?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=wptb&utm_campaign=repost
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Meanwhile, in Idaho…
Gee, for some reason the White Nationalists, er, White Christian Nationalists, er, White Separatists, er, Idaho Republicans are afraid the cannibals are coming for the Other White Meat:
State Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, introduced a bill Thursday to expand the state’s cannibalism ban and told a legislative committee that she’s worried about the possibility that people are eating other people.
“This is going to be normalized at some point, the way our society’s going and the direction we’re going,” Scott said.
This is the weirdest projection ever… or IS IT!!1!?
Idaho is the only state to outlaw cannibalism, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica. Other states have laws targeting abuse or desecration of a corpse, according to Cornell Law School.
Totally scans that Idaho would already be discriminating against cannibals, but there you have it.
So what proof does Scott have to support this much-needed legislation?
Scott said she was on an airplane over the summer and watched a clip from a television show displaying a chef feeding human flesh in sausage to contestants, which inspired her to do something about it. The clip, which she sent to the Idaho Statesman, is from a TruTV prank show, in which they pretend to feed people flesh.
So Scott, of course, had more evidence…
Scott also sent a link to a video featuring a Chinese official denying that his country had sold canned human flesh to people in Zambia. The story was a hoax, spread with fake photos of butchery, according to news reports from 2016.
OK, so two fakes. What else ya got, Scott?
Scott additionally pointed to a North Idaho man who pleaded guilty to murder last year and was initially also charged with cannibalism after investigators found postmortem mutilation and a bloodied bowl at the crime scene. The cannibalism charge was later dropped, according to the Spokesman-Review.
Good Lord, A Cannibal in Idaho!
I need to know if the cannibal served his dinner companion with potatoes. Idaho, REPRESENT!
https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/02/11/news-that-will-drive-you-to-drink-2051/
YES! Must-Reads: Black History Now
https://www.yesmagazine.org/dear-readers/2024/02/06/black-history-month-reading
DELIGHTFUL & DELICIOUS
(h/t Donutage)
Vienna's Vegetable Orchestra Is a Feast for Your Ears https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/viennas-vegetable-orchestra
I needed to blank a hard disk and, while looking for the format command (it's slash p) I bumped into some drive wiping websites.
I am forgot how hilarious drive wiping can get.
Listen, if you feel the government might be after you such that you need to write 32 passes of random data to your hard disk drive, I'm going to suggest you're better served by using a hammer.
@earthlingusa@mas.to Yeah, I was able to see it. I actually went to Twitter & users confirmed my suspicions that Paramount is having issues. I will may cancel my subscription after this game is over.
#Superbowl, #Sports, #NFL, #Chiefs, #49ers
2017 UP2, 247m-552m in diameter, just passed the Earth at 16km/s, missing by 21,700,000km. https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2017%20UP2
#superbowl #advertising
...noteworthy on Paramount Plus are #bringthemhome ads placed by Israel which were just announced on Israel's #i24News ... which also announced that Moody's has downgraded Israel's rating.
Some proprietary streaming apps such as Prime Video seem to work well on #Waydroid over #postmarketOS. There are still bugs with media playback clocks sometimes, but the streaming itself is flawless.
This was emblazoned on the chyron of Israel's i24News all day yesterday and most of today.
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton
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https://www.europesays.com/1049830/ The Same Billionaires Behind the Super Bowl Are Also Behind the Climate Crisis | The Kansas City Chiefs’ current owner, Clark Hunt, comes from one of the most powerful oil dynasties in US history. #Climate
Winter storm system hits eastern New Mexico, headed next to Texas Panhandle and central Oklahoma
A winter storm advisory has been issued for eastern New Mexico including the city of Roswell, which got its first notable snowfall of the season. #press
G+ refugee and simply want my instance to work reliably.