Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org
- https://flipboard.com/@ekorpela
- berkeley.edu
- https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/~korpela
I'm an astronomer specializing in #SETI, #UV #Instrumentation. #RadioAstronomy, #InterstellarMatter (#ISM), #VolunteerComputing, #BOINC, #SETIatHome, #retroComputing #retroGaming ...Wait a minute... That's not specializing!
Joined Oct 2019
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Vance pulled his mother-in-law out of the professional world: "A biology prof, PhD, drops what they’re doing to tend to the need of a new mother with her infant?" It never occurs that JD could have taken a work break to do the caregiving. https://www.salon.com/2024/08/16/jd-vance-isnt-just-out-to-get-cat-ladies--his-weird-plans-target-dog-people-and-grandmas-too/
The Riddler is worried that her breakfast was insufficiently balanced. #caturday #catsofmastodon
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@tchambers Have a good time in Chicago. It’s my old stomping ground. I still have family there & get back as often as I can. It’s a wonderful city.
But be sure to tell the MAGAs it’s a crime-filled cesspool. We don’t want them moving in.
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THE HEADLINES ARE FINALLY TARGETING TRUMP'S DEMENTIA
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/08/16/donald-trump-mental-issues-lost-his-marbles-republicans-kamala-harris-helicopter-ride-gene-lyons
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@rateexportpilot @LeftistLawyer @petergleick
hilarious:
'Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession. Capitalism is “boring,” he told me. “Devoting your life to it,” as conservatives do, “is horrifying if only because it’s so repetitious. It’s like sex.”'
1. capitalism is boring. ok, cool cool, weird flex for you bill but you do you
2. capitalism is boring... *because it's like sex*. and there's a cringe insight into the conservative mind i didn't know i didn't want to know
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I try not to wish or meditate on evil happening to another person, but occasionally, I will hope that they get back what they put into the world.
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Food company profit increases since inflation peaked:
Cheesecake Factory +471%
Cal-Maine +268%
Jack In The Box +213%
Chipotle +110%
Starbucks +47%
Sysco +43%
How much did they collectively spend on stock buybacks? Over $10 billion.
They used inflation as cover to get rich.
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I can get this printed on a yard sign, but will my neighbors get the joke, even this old joke?
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Press reaction to Trump campaign email leak starkly different from 2016, when Clinton was hacked
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BREAKING: Senate Republicans just voted to block the Right to Contraception Act, which would enshrine the right to contraceptive access nationally.
When people say, "They'll never take that away," They're WRONG!!!
No Rights are Safe with Republicans in Office.
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US pol: We need to investigate James Comer
James Comer has investigated many Democrats, currently he is investigating Walz for being a secret Chinese communist because he did some teacher trips to Chins. But, why has Comer sat on this uh information until now? What other secret communists and ner do wells does he know about but isn't saying the names of?
Why is he so well informed? WHO is informing him?
We need an investigation.
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Doesn’t my asshole have any rights?
-Salma Hayek on Black Mirror
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A year after the alarming and illegal raid on the Marion County Record, the paper is still struggling to recover.
You can support the Marion County Record by subscribing or placing a classified ad at the links below.
https://marionrecord.com/credit/subscription:MARION+COUNTY+RECORD
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@dangrsmind Trump is doing, what Roy Cohn taught him to do & what he's always been doing:
He's burdening U.S. courts with frivolous lawsuits, merely to evoke the false impression his legal meltdown outrage were in any way proof of his (fictional) innocence.
It's Trump's organized deception & open display of his contempt of U.S. Rule of Law.
Trump's disrespect for the authority of the United States & their people's Rule of Law is something rarely seen in the history of U.S. presidential candidate.
It must never become a regular phenomenon to be witnessed.
#RuleOfLaw #AccountabilityMatters #JusticeMatters #Trump #Espionage #Treason #Theft #Insurrection #ContemptOfLaw #ContemptOfCourt #DOJ #FBI
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#WompWomp, Trump! 👇🏼
Via Griffin:
New preliminary data from major U.S. cities shows a sharp drop in violent crime in the first half of the year — more than 25% in some communities.
The number of homicides in the 69 reported cities fell by more than 17% during the first half of 2024 compared to the last period last year.
The drop puts a serious dent in one of #Trump's most frequently used lines of attack. https://www.axios.com/2024/08/12/violent-crime-harris-trump-election
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CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION TODAY.
DO IT FREQUENTLY IF YOU ARE IN A RED STATE.
THEY ARE PURGING VOTERS!
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@dswinterton @BobLefridge @NZedAUS But, if they keep messing with Harris rallies, they WILL get Trump and he will help Israel return the land to its biblical borders.
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@jonahstein @nick_helmholdt @Sfwmson @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews That 'fact check' is crazy. It rates as 'mostly false' Harris's claim that Trump would cut Medicare and social security... based on Trump's own denials!
PSA: statements by a habitual liar are not 'evidence'!
- https://flipboard.com/@ekorpela
- berkeley.edu
- https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/~korpela
I'm an astronomer specializing in #SETI, #UV #Instrumentation. #RadioAstronomy, #InterstellarMatter (#ISM), #VolunteerComputing, #BOINC, #SETIatHome, #retroComputing #retroGaming ...Wait a minute... That's not specializing!
Joined Oct 2019
