@davepolaschek
Who's telling him that the attacks were a success? Our Intelligence? He doesn't believe our Intelligence.

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Welp, that's the equivalent of the iron ore removed from 69 Hull-Rust mines (the largest iron mine in Minnesota).

https://www.sustainability-times.com/markets/worldwide-panic-as-monumental-geological-find-disrupts-global-trade-and-triggers-market-turmoil-on-every-continent/

@lauren
#humor #programmer_humor

Incredible new #JWST deep field (120 hours!) released by folks from ESA/NASA Webb teams.

Not only is nearly everything in this image a galaxy (the two spiky stars are not), but those curved arcs are images of galaxies beyond this cluster, which are projected and warped into our view thanks to the power of gravity!

It's called a gravitational lens. To visualise what's happening, take a look at this diagram.

There are distant galaxies that we can't normally see. There's also a galaxies between them and us, with lots of mass.

This mass warps space-time and bends the distant galaxy light towards us so we see them.

I am amazed. You should be amazed. This is a really epic image.

Galaxy image and alt-text credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Atek, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

Diagram credit: NASA, ESA & L. Calçada

#Galaxies #GravitationalLensing #GalaxyCluster #Astrodon

@rationaldoge
Claiming salvage, is he?

@markdennehy
Five years into this, and I still am unable to understand what the origin of the virus has to do with defending against it. The (lab leak, anti-vaccine, "it's just a cold") Venn diagram seems to be a lumpy circle.

@bhawthorne
The first part of those videos - that show you what NOT to do? Yeah, just news clips, now.
@angusm @cstross

@lauren
GET AXE
THROW AXE
(repeat as needed)

@heidilifeldman
On the bright side, we may get to enjoy some more of Cecily Strong on upcoming SNLs.

"Your call is so important to us, we have fired all the humans and replaced them with a terrible automated system that cannot understand you.

Please hold while we pay our executives another bonus for some reason.

Did you know you can use the Internet to discover our website can't answer your question?"

@lauren
Missed the poll, but: pdp-11, XDS-940, Z80, 80.86, 68020, iWarp

Version 47 of the US government is the "cost-reduced" model. You know: fewer features, far less [institutional] memory, not as many useful services, assembled with inferior components, with poor customer service.

@evacide
The US govt will soon hit the debt ceiling, the GOP-led Congress will crap the bed, per recent historical precedent, and these code changes will crash in the face of the reprioritizations required by Treasury in that event. No time/need to read requirements if one is 20 and knows everything!

@davepolaschek
Does streaming media support the high-quality soundtracks of spectacle movies? That's why I like to buy discs.

@glennsills
Sure it is, but I think S/He's saying, "Don't rush it."
@godpod

@rationaldoge
Remember the photo about DDT, labeled on a woman's breast.

@rationaldoge
We recently did the 8-hour course, online. It took less time than that, but 4 is even better.

A fistful of helium • Minnesota Reformer

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/05/29/a-fistful-of-helium/

> It’s the people’s resource, and the new legislation saying so must be enacted with haste.

@DeanBaker13
I don't believe that Japan was "dumping" at the time, but were hella efficient (politicians of the day disagreed). Today, there is both industry to protect and dumping to defeat, so maybe both policies should be in play.