OmnipotentEntity

2025 - 2007 = 18, actually.

It's kind of crazy remembering 1) horrible Bush was, 2) how much better Bush was than the current administration in retrospect.

The point about the conspiricists now toeing the Republican party line was prescient.

Good article, thanks for sharing.

Shadi Hamid wrote Monday, "I’m more critical of Democrats precisely because I expect more from them."

Ok...

On the other hand, "Democrats consistently fall short of the very ideals they profess to champion."

With you so far...

Examples of Democrats' "hypocrisy," according to Hamid, include, preaching tolerance and inclusion "while marginalizing pro-life Democrats, talking down to Black and brown voters, ignoring religious conservatives and dismissing the growing ranks of Americans who felt the party had become too radical on issues such as gender identity. On policy, what was once the working-class party chose to prioritize things such as college debt relief, which disproportionately benefits the wealthy."

Who knew the problem with Dems is actually they need to be more conservative? Really what we need is there to be absolutely no distinction between parties at all, not even relatively minor ones. Instead of an ineffective resistance, we, the American public, demand Chuck Schumer to actually give Donald Trump and Elon Musk a blow job live on C-SPAN. Thanks Hamid. Fuck you.

"You mean I hitched my wagon to Grabthor The Wagon Destroyer, and he destroyed my wagon? This is an outrage!"

Bloom County was so great.

I also don't know, but from context it seems like they are associated with mental institutions.

They have not actually!

Lloyd has though, and Anya was very conspicuously absent from that interaction.

Also very recently Anya has met the older Desmond brother and found it unusual that she could not read his mind. Probably related.

Or instead of targeting tiktok specifically, they could have chosen to pass a data privacy law and actually did something worthwhile instead of pointless, unpopular grandstanding. Haha just kidding, they would never do anything to reduce even slightly shareholder value.

With Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk all leading Trump around with a $100 bill on a fishing line, you'd have to be profoundly naive or dishonest to actually take the stance that Republicans will do anything about Big Tech.

Well, you see, it was only a problem for him when it turned against him. When he actively supported it his entire career it was the obvious and natural order of things

6 times larger but 80 times as massive?

Per the paper the 6(.41) is indeed referring to the radius. Volume scales as R^3, so if the density of this planet and the earth were the same we would expect the mass to be 263 times as large as Earth's.

Neptune, for instance, is 3.8 time Earth's radius, and 17 times its mass instead of 54.9 time its mass as you might naively expect from the radius.

These ratios (54.9/17 vs 263/80) are almost the same. So the new planet is about as dense as Neptune.

https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/mathematical-methods-point-possibility-particles-long-thought-impossible

Link to original press release

The hottest year on record so far.