Located 1492 results from search term 'sun'
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Commented in LIVE: Annular Solar Eclipse (Great American Eclipse) - October 14, 2023
Wow! This was quite a spectacle! I truly enjoyed watching this. It's just amazing when the moon covers the centre of the Sun, creating that stunning ring of fire. If you haven't seen one yet, I'd definitely recommend checking out this video or looking for other videos on youtube. There's definitely a lot more videos that showcase the beauty of eclipses.
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Commented in HISD to eliminate librarians, turn some libraries into discipline centers at 28 campuses
You know you live in an oppressive state/country when curiosity, knowledge, creativity and the sources to explore the world are replaced by obedience centres. Anyways, for the rest I do not give a flying fuck about the USA and their ways/views. They can shove it where the sun doesn't shine. Room enough, I'd say.
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Commented in Sleep Simulation: The Future of Sleep?
What I get from the article is mostly: less hours of sleep, is more hours of "being productive", as in: more hours of (wage) slave labor. I refuse to trade my hours of dreaming, resting and enjoying the best part of my life for some underpaying, high earning boss. Fuck. That. Shit.
Being more connected to our technology: shove that where the sun doesn't shine.
Then this:Sleeping is a big part of our lives, and it’s no secret that the less we sleep, the shorter our lifespan would be. But if we could find a way to reduce the amount of sleep we need, it would stand to reason that our lifespans would increase as a result.
Am I the only one who sees the utter bullshit of that quote? First stating a truth that if we sleep less our lifespan reduces and right after that trying to state that if "we" reduce our hours of sleep we'll increase our lifespan.
I admire the effort of sounding all utopian, but this pure bullcrap of an article tries to make us believe that we need to be more productive. Work work work work work, till you drop dead. In this world of overproduction, unequal divided resources, depression as one of the main diseases and also thanks to all that producing a more and more polluted world with a climate about to go haywire, yeah, let's sleep less and produce some more of that unneeded and unwanted shit.
Anyways, it's always nice to read that this kind of propaganda tries to manipulate us towards a dystopian world masquerading it as some sort of paradise.
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Commented in Physicists Just Entangled A Pair of Atomic Clocks Six Feet Apart
That's a good question, but then another one comes up: our idea of time is based on our seasons, the sun, the moon and how we divide our planet in timezones. The civilisations two million lightyears away may have a completely different concept of time or even none at all (since time is an illusion and top most a description of change). In that light, the answer would be no or probably not. So, is time more contextual than a fact?
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Commented in Mark Zuckerberg doesn't like your scrolling habits: Social media is for 'building relationships,' not just consuming content
I don't like Mark Zuckerberg's data selling and snitching to authorities. But then again, I do not care about that knobhead and his useless websites. He can shove them where the sun doesn't shine.
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Commented in Mysterious Link Between Vitamin D And COVID-19 Reaffirmed in 'Striking' New Findings
This song came to mind while reading the article. :-)
#playitloud #singalong
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Commented in Google Futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks we'll all be cyborgs by 2030
What's with all those rich folks and their big companies and 2030? And like @Gozzin says: who can afford it, besides even willing to do that? Isn't it enough to be a human being? Being a cyborg doesn't make you superior, on the contrary, it makes a person more dependable on technology and their creators. Which, to me, is a clear sign of slavery and doesn't differ from any kind of addiction, where people also depend on dealers to satisfy their needs or wants. Not a boomer, but I really enjoy being just a human being and although life could be better, the improvements do not depend on technology or drugs.
They can shove their ideas for 2030 where the sun doesn't shine.
Edit: Really deep.
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Commented in Lyrebirds: Lyre, lyre, dancefloor on fire
Yesterday I skipped the newspapers/propaganda BS and listened to this podcast instead. My coffee tasted better, breakfast too, and in spite of the grey cold weather, somehow the sun shined all day long. Thank you. :-)
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Commented in Bill Gates Is Thinking About Dimming the Sun
I wish I was a bored as fuck billionaire. Dimming the sun is quite a far fetched thing, but think about this: thanks to that goddamn sun life exists. I think it is wiser to dim the actual cause of global warming, i.e. the use of fossil fuels and the use and production of petrochemicals. But then again, that would hurt so much big fat filled wallets, even his. No billionaire or millionaire ever proposed an idea that would make his/her riches less, so what's the idea behind this? The band Ministry made a song many years ago, Just one fix, and since money is a drug for people that rich, I think he's a low-life junky on top of that despicable foodchain. Anyway, I don't give a damn about that kind of people, the only thing I care about is what impact that behaviour has (again) on the environment and society. Asshole.
/rant
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Commented in The Extraordinary Power of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Instagram Live
Except nobody claims the sun rises in the west
so keep pounding that strawman into submission
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Commented in The Extraordinary Power of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Instagram Live
truth
Some say the sun rises in the east, some say it rises in the west, the truth probably lies somewhere in between, eh?
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Commented in The Air Force Is Building a Spacecraft That Will Beam Solar Power to Earth
I thought the Sun already beamed solar power to Earth
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Commented in Solar-sailing satellite proves it can use light to propel through space
They will move us into the furthest reaches of our solar system either by the photons from our Sun, or by a light laser carried on the spacecraft itself.
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Commented in The Complete Guide to Roundup Exposure. Are you at Risk?
Even if they banned it Monday and all of it was shipped to the sun and incinerated,how the hell do we get this shit out of the environment and out bodies!? This is like DDT on steroids!
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Commented in The Shady Link Between Sunscreen and Your Health
If the sun was as bad as people in the US say, we would have gone extinct a long time ago.
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Commented in These 18 incredible products didn't exist 10 years ago
Either the author believes the sun rising in the sky is a product, or this listicle is sixteen products short of a full deck.
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Commented in Nasa postpones 'mission to the Sun'
Looking at the heatwaves we've had recently, the sun seems more eager to come to us.
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Commented in Say goodbye to black food, NYC. New ban prohibits use of activated charcoal
And when squid-ink is used? Anyways, another thing that came to mind is: what if charcoal or coal was white? Would it be banned then? It is so tempting to write down a rant about how crazy motherfuckers, scared of anything that is not according to their idea of safety, are fucking up the world into a large rock full of pussies and wimps. Cannibalizing each other since all other lifeforms are wiped out, thanks to other Einsteins who never thought that the universe would be bigger than their fucking backyard. Goddammit. Every single fucking time I open the damn newspaper, every fucking morning, even before coffee (black with one teaspoon of white sugar), there is an article about how unsafe the world is and what to do about it. So we destroy everything, including ourselves, just to be safe. How stupid can one be? You know what? Normally I would go outside for a walk, but today I don't. Because there are cars. And people. And there's pollution. And those goddamn mosquito's. Bringers of disease and other misery. Fuck mosquito's, they even have a fucking function in nature. They're food. Like fucking carbon makes up a lot of our bodies, something like 18.5%, but nooooo, says New York City, a metropolis in their hay-day, but for now they cry over something that is just part of their composition. Something good, also. One of those blackburgers, toss on whatever you like, the carbon is there to the rescue!! No more wet farts, away with stomachaches! But not for the city I visited in a time when a real New Yorker didn't care one fucking shit about carbon. Or the fucking world for that matter. That town and their safety can shove it where the sun also never shines. Stupid assholes. Dammit. Not even close to be worth a rant.
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Commented in Plastic-eating bacteria discovered by student could help solve global pollution crisis
Whuch will encourage the corporations to just make more plastic till the sun eats the earth.
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Commented in Germany's Attempt to Fix Facebook Is Backfiring
The failure of censorship to achieve its stated goals is one of the bedrock things you can rely on in this world. Right along with ridiculous side-effects and inevitable workarounds people use that destabilize the system even further. Like the sun coming up in the morning. It's a setup for the sunset you know will sort that all out.
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Commented in Now we know what will happen when the sun dies
Yep,the earth will be dead long before the sun dies.
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Commented in Now we know what will happen when the sun dies
Agreed, the human race is likely to be long gone by then, so I find it hard to care about the sun dying.
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Commented in Six Reasons Gun Control Will Not Solve Mass Killings
C’mon, like Strayans trust one another! If they did, I wouldn’t hear so much about WestConnex. Next you’ll tell us everyone turned over all their guns when they were supposed to, and we know that’s not quite the truth. Protection is sometimes prudent, licensed or not.
They say if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. Likewise, if gun reform were a Republican priority, every federal bill would carve away at arms rights in some way, no matter how slight. The budget would contain a provision that allowed federal gun registries to be computerized, instead of the pen and paper method current law requires. A bill declaring the sky is blue would have a rider that allowed the federal government to begin to consider doing science that in some way related to the possibility of gun reform in future. If need be, Congress would do nothing else for years but again and again pass gun reform knowing there was no chance of it being signed into law. You know, out of cynical determination, rather than cynical farce.
For a country with more guns than people, there actually are things you suggest above. From the federal to state, county, and municipal levels of government, there are firearms licenses and permits and half-hearted measures of accountability and access control. It’s more a crazyquilt than a patchwork. It leaks like a sieve. For instance, the Confederacy still maintains an air force. These regulations are actively subverted and easily avoided in practice, but there’s far more regulation than you’d think if you saw only media play-by-plays. Marjorie Stoneman Douglas students have the best proposals for gun reform I’ve seen, if that gives you an idea how bad the rest are.
Yes, there are bizarre loopholes and indefensible carve-outs, but then there are also unhinged gun control proponents as well that constantly reinforce their opposition’s determination to stop any and all progress on the issue. I’d say offhand that’s true of the recent march as well. Come to think of it, the sun coming up in the morning appears to cement gun nuts’ determination to protect their proxy phalluses. I would say arms rights, but when push comes to shove, these same goofs will legislate that shit out of existence in a heartbeat.
Subjects like these are beyond the scope of a comment at Snapzu to cover, but allow me to make two quick observations. One, in Commonwealth countries like Oz, there may be a sense of the government as a benevolent protector that is not felt stateside. Two, if somebody gets too lippy about disarming Americans, they’re welcome to try it themselves, door-to-door. It’s like that fable about the mice that agree someone should put a bell on the cat. Nobody will even consider doing it themselves.
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Commented in U.S. says 'Pharma Bro' Shkreli deserves at least 15 years in prison
I agree. It's definitely time to put a stop to this nonsense and I hope lots of heads do roll in the process. I wish we could literarily do this and set up guillotines in Washington DC,get every one of the CEO's who have done the most damage over the last five years in this country ,line them up and whack their heads off. That would include the gop ,people selling fake cures for everything under the sun,and wealthy preachers.
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Commented in US stealth bombers in Guam appear to be readying for a tactical nuclear strike on North Korea
By "progressive", I was referring to the self-described status of our education system. It is a fact that most 4-year Uni professors here have political beliefs that range all the way from from left to hard-left. I'm experiencing it now, any classes that aren't directly STEM related are as much about indoctrination as education. Their views infect what and how they teach. My views in this discussion in a US history 1112 class would likely lead to my failing it.
I think our viewpoints are irreconcilable. I'm second generation career military. My early reading was 30 Seconds Over Tokyo and the Time-Life series on WW 1 and 2. I later got into my father's books, Ghandi, Arendt, Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz and Kipling were the topic of many dinner table discussions. I've read a bit of the actual source material that your links are based on. Lengthy reading lists were part of the 4 different levels of PME I attended.
Ike went as far as he could, and lost. But that's what military leaders are supposed to do. Do what your stripes or stars can carry, pick your hill to die on, then shut up and color if/when you are overruled. History is written by the victors, true. but it also evolves over time as society changes. People in any era disagree on decisions made, especially in war. Later generations latch onto those disagreements as proof of their own thoughts. Times, morals, values change.
War is the natural extension of failed diplomacy. As long are there are humans with different ideas or ideology, there will be war. Don't misunderstand me, I was a war fighter, not a warmonger. I saw more than I wanted in '91 and didn't retire in time to avoid post 9/11. (I was retiring that December and had orders in hand when they went to stop-loss...I didn't get out until '06). The two-dollar bits of colored ribbon they pass out afterwards are expensively bought. I lost friends.
The fetishization of the military post 9/11 is sometimes hard to deal with, but people who have never seen the elephant will never understand those who have. I can't read this without crying
Let's not confuse targets with valid targets,
Civilians became valid targets in WWII the moment a lost BF-110 jettisoned bombs over London. That likely saved Britain and probably the war, because it shifted Hitlers focus. Because of the limits of air power that became evident in Europe, that didn't change between theaters. Today, with our smart bombs and GPS, drones and satellite surveillance capability, one plane with 2 250-pound bombs (with a CEP of inches) can take out a target that 500 planes with 1200 tons of bombs might have taken out then. And when, with all our gee-whiz capabilities, we still hit a wedding instead of a high-level meet of the bad guys, it's an atrocity. And because it is so, we put that on people who didn't have those capabilities.
There were so many pressures at the end of the war. The US didn't want the Russians in Japan, it was already apparent they weren't leaving eastern Europe. They (and the western powers) were already fully mobilized for total war and geography didn't favor the west. There was a lot more real estate to push them back than there was for them to push the allies back into the Atlantic. Russia got some of Germany's rocket, and nuke program scientists , and Truman wasn't sure how far along they were. It was inevitable that Russia would have nukes, possibly soon and a nuclear stalemate would have put the allies at an impossible disadvant...