I’m gonna make my own social media platform that has up and down arrows that generate random numbers next to a message like “At least some people probably like this.” And if you post too frequently a banner appears at the top of all the pages with your IP address. Also viruses. Just lots and lots of viruses.
It didn’t mention this in the article, but I believe that if the martian moons were getting closer to the planet, it would shorten the day (based on my understanding of the Earth/Moon system and how our day has been getting longer as the Moon has moved away). I wonder if they are.
I believe the moon must be orbiting faster than the planet’s spin for that to happen (both the moving closer and the spin acceleration).
And, looking it up, that is indeed the case for Phobos, the larger of Mars’ moons, and it is getting closer and will eventually either break up or crash into the planet, while also applying a force that increases Mars’ spin rate.
Deimos is orbiting slower, so won’t share that fate, though maybe it’s orbital radius will increase enough for it to escape the Martian system, though I doubt it since it’s already close to the Martian day.
This got me curious as to when and how fast Phobos is spiraling inward and found this on NASA’s website.
Phobos is gradually spiraling inward, drawing about six feet (1.8 meters) closer to the planet each century. Within 50 million years, it will either crash into Mars or break up and form a ring around the planet.
That’s $3895/mo to $4797/mo, so the median full time worker is earning an extra $902/mo in that time span.
I don’t know how he was calculating “typical household” or what quarter he was working with, my point is that the net dollar amount is pretty misleading for an article headline. It sounds like the typical household is $700 worse off, but they definitely are not.
We have an appropriate measure for answering this question, real wages. It’s below pre-pandemic numbers but it’s catching up as wages are currently rising faster than inflation.
The time period was over two years, not four. Two years ago it was $996/week in Q2 of 2021. That’s $4316/mo or a $481/mo increase in that span. Still not $700 a month worse off, but they are worse off.
I think you are reading the “stuck at 2019 levels” and reading that as the starting point of their assertion.
I'll have to go post this to the Wikipedia admin noticeboards to be dealt with, though it's likely someone else has already beat me to the punch if this is hitting the news itself.
As I thought, someone already did and the page has been fixed and temporarily protected to prevent another IP address doing this again. A lot more editor eyes will be on the article too from now on.
this is how it is for some people when there are non-white characters in movies, they consider it “pushing an agenda” when there’s nothing like that happening. it’s like they think people of other races just… don’t exist? therefore they should not be in movies? i don’t really get it
Because there is nothing to get besides racism. The very very few edge cases out there where race mattered and was miscast never get mentioned because usually the person who did it wrong says sorry and there is no story. You are giving the enemy too much credit.
And yes I don’t think she was miscast in Annihilation. The second book came out after they started making the movie (which is when that one line about her facial features was put in) and the fact that she had partial Asian ancestry wasn’t plot important in any of the 3 books.
My problem is the race switching. It is so stupid and is done in stories already told. There are tons of stories that have not been told about the race you are race swapping with. Why can’t we tell their stories instead.
Or when they put random people of colour in historical dramas. I get that they need to somehow include actors of all origins, but I can’t help but feel like it’s also a kind of white washing? Like, sorry but a black person would not be a noble at the Louis XIV court, how about you actually talk about what history was like from that perspective rather than just shoehorning the actors and pretend like everything was fine and dandy for people of colour in those days.
One time in school the teacher actually told us to go on Wikipedia to look something up for a report. I edited the page to change the information to something incorrect. I of course put the correct info on my report. I taught everyone a lesson that day.
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