Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

Good morning from #snowy #vermont . It is pretty, but I'm glad to be heading back to California where it is warm.

@BrianJopek thank you for including a photo credit for this stunning image.

@taylorlorenz As a subordinate, our company policies require management approval for some actions. I have discovered that phrasing my emails as "before close of business tomorrow I intend to close Non-confirmance Report x with y response unless you would like me to await further instructions." It is sufficient cya phrasing that legal is sort of ok with that also doesn't actually require a response from my very busy and email overloaded boss.

I know there are ways to set up college savings account for children, but is there a way to set up a therapy fund. I feel like my nephew will need years and years of therapy to work through the issues his dad, my brother, is creating for him this weekend.

@iquaanyin@mastodon.social @MissConstrue @sundogplanets that's complicated. Nature is an international publication, and while it might be difficult to win a case in the US, if the suit were brought in the UK it might have a good chance - lots of strong liable laws and no equivalent of a First Ammendment.

@StarkRG @sundogplanets to whom would those taxes be paid. LEO satellites like Starlink fly over most nations on Earth. Who manages low earth orbit the UN?

[Full disclosure this post made over the Starlink internet at this AirBnB]

@georgetakei primaries are less than 6 weeks out. If we had real primary elections instead of sham votes to give the 2-party system a false sense of legitimacy this would be an excellent time to be looking at polls for early primary states. Instead the two presidents with the worst incumbent approval ratings in history will face off when most people are like "Giant Meteor 2024!"

@helgztech@fosstodon.org @sundogplanets the City of Berkeley has an ordinance that prohibits any military satellites in the space above the city. Im sure EU regulations will be enforced equally. Maybe the UN could pass a binding resolution that is as effective as their resolution imposing a 2 state solution on the State of Israel. Or hear me out, an international treaty with all the efficacy of the Kyoto protocol. It will be a New World Order, I tell you.

@blacklight I finally got the chance to move back to rural America after 2 decades stuck in an overcrowded city. Nearly everyone in our small town has had to survive in the urban mess for at least some of their life - it is just a fact of being a small place. Some love it and stay, and the speak of politics just as you do, but those who hated the culture of city life with locked doors and unsafe streets don't want a world where we share nothing in common with our neighbors to the point where even greeting another person on the sidewalk is considered transverse.

I don't agree with the solution, but what these politicians are selling out here is not anti immigration as much as it is anti-urban. It surprises me that more political commentators don't engage with the clear anti-urbanism of which anti-immigration is only a part.

@Dianora people in overcrowded cities think that 99.99% of driving is done within the city. We how live away from cities know better.

According to the social security administration there is a **7.2%** chance that an 81 year old man living in the US will die in the next 12 months. I share this for no reason what so ever.

I have no why I felt like sharing this today, but the thought occurs to me that if I had a 7.2% chance of dying on my way to thanksgiving dinner I probably would not go, and might look for a safer *alternative*.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html#fn1

@TonyStark There is a big gap between things people support and thing people care passionately about. To me this sounds like, "Hey look, the government is doing stuff that the government has quietly taken cared of for most of the 20th century but has neglected the last 15 years."

When governments fail at such things people get upset, but much like good service when the government does infrastructure right no one should notice it at all.

I'm so frustrated with old, out-of-touch politicians who cannot see past their own party politics of longer than the next election cycle. It seems more and more like even a year out form the election it is already too late to get younger more broad minded candidates on the ballot.

I think I want to start a movement right now to support candidates in the 2028 election who were born after 1978. I feel like it will take 5 years of hard work to wrench control away from those who will not live to suffer the worst effects of the climate crisis.

@abuseofnotation

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@abuseofnotation Still more readable than most PERL code. (Am I old in that I remember coding in PERL?)