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German astronomer Maria Kirch died #OTD in 1720.

She was one of the first famous astronomers of her period due to her writing on the conjunction of the sun with Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter in 1709 and 1712 respectively. Kirch observed a comet in 1702, becoming the first woman to make such a discovery. However, the discovery was officially credited to her husband, reflecting the gender biases of the time.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ma

#astronomy #womeninStem

This is a portrait of a young woman dressed in historical attire. She appears to be seated, holding a brush or pen in one hand and possibly working on a sketch or painting on the surface in front of her. Her gaze is directed toward the viewer, and the background is dark, emphasizing her figure and expression.
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@wkfry Indeed. And eating refried beans not made with lard is like eating mashed up cardboard. Only a small amount of lard is necessary.

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@randahl An oleaginous sycophant, maybe?

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@paul It wouldn't be the first time countries went to war over minerals.

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#TuckFrump

‘Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk’: Retired Army General Sounds Alarm in Scathing New York Times Op-Ed mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-is

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Lauren Weinstein

MAGA upset over half-staff flags for Carter

Already, we're seeing lots of bitching from MAGA about the fact that flags will be at half-staff for Trump's inauguration -- a symbol of mourning -- due to President Carter's death. They're also unhappy that there will be so many comparisons made between Carter -- who spent his post-presidency giving so much to the world -- and Trump, who cares about nobody but himself. Some MAGA are calling the flag being at half-staff Carter's "vengeance" on Trump. To make matters worse, the inauguration will be on Martin Luther King day, triggering even more comparisons that MAGA doesn't appreciate. Karma.

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@skry Great to see the rest of the world addressing real problems while approximately 50% of Americans voters want to find ways to make Billionaires richer!!

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Wendy Siegelman

Saudi Prince Alwaleed’s Kingdom Holding has now invested $800 million in Elon Musk’s xAI and in related news Elon Musk has just set-up a new company X.AI London Ltd as he aligns with Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform party, my latest:

#ElonMusk #Musk #PrinceAlwaleed #KingdomHolding #XAI #Farage #ReformUK #ReformParty

newstracs.com/saudi-prince-alw

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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:

Danger purrs!

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Studs Terkel interviewed an old guy who was a child when WWI broke out. He recalled that a mob broke into the local school, and burned all the German language textbooks.

Also all the French textbooks Because they couldn't tell the difference.

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Finnish police confiscated the Russian shadow fleet's Eagle S tanker suspected to have been responsible – it has now been successfully transferred to Svartbeck anchorage, Porvoo.
This is the only way to deal with Russia.

poliisi.fi/-/eagle-s-sailioalu

#Porvoo #EagleS #Finland #Estonia #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #nato #shadowfleet

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Phil Landmeier

@michael_w_busch @juliusgoat.bsky.social Yes it does. As mentioned, I was mainly referring to opinions and arguments expressed in personal correspondence (letters) between the founders in the years leading up to creation of The Constitution.

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@bjn @juliusgoat.bsky.social It's an interesting idea but it doesn't work. One of the problems, which you mention, they didn't see as a problem. There was discussion of only letting citizens that own land vote. (Can't vote wisely unless you have skin in the game.) But they realized that would never work. Some Founders thought it a good idea to place that same requirement (being a "landed" person) on elected representatives.

On the other hand I think the idea of making the states pay their own representatives has merit.

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@lovelylovely They're still not listening. What I get now in West Virginia is absolute refusal to engage. "I don't want to talk about it." "I don't want to talk about it."

I dunno what that means.

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THIS

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@europesays Finland, eh? Glad I'm not a Russian on that ship.

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@juliusgoat.bsky.social Well, you know, if you read what the Founders wrote in letters between each other, many things are clear. One is that they felt that no politician should get paid to serve by the federal government. If states want to pay their senators, fine. But serving in the House or Senate was unpaid.

Using your position to make money is, of course, criminal corruption, and would land you in prison or worse.

That's all forgotten today. Corruption reigns from town councils to the top of government.

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@Npars01 @cdarwin Haven't read the article but I already know. Some regions of the Central Valley have subsided over 100 feet and it takes thousands of years to replenish those aquifers. And even then, they won't be the same as before.

We humans are eating the planet.

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Home for the holidays? Help your loved ones install Privacy Badger to stop online trackers from following them around the web. privacybadger.org/

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@jesusmargar @michael_w_busch @johncarlosbaez I could add that the phenomenon of 'multiple surfaces' is not limited to the Sun. Looking at the Earth from space, under a cloudless sky the visual surface would be the land or sea surface. In the thermal infrared, at a wavelength of 11 μm, you would also look at the land or sea surface, as the atmosphere is transparent there. But at 15 μm, the center of the carbon dioxide absorption band, the atmosphere is opaque and you are looking at a level where the temperature (see the dashed Planck curves) is only 220 K, -53 C, some ten to twenty km up at the tropopause. So the Earth is some 10-20 km bigger for someone with 15 μm infrared eyes...

climatemodels.uchicago.edu/mod

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