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Johem , in Like a hot tub: Water temperatures off Florida soar over 100 degrees

You know what would really help? Not showing a nice happy vacation beach image with that headline. How about some dead fish, people sweating while doing manual laboue or bleached corals? For fucks sake.

(I know NBC doesn’t read Lemmy, just frustrated)

SheeEttin , in NASA loses contact with ISS after power outage in Texas, uses backup system for first time

I find it hard to believe they never tested the backup system. Maybe the first time it was used for real.

rehabdoll ,

They have most certainly done drills and tested the backup. This was probably the first time it was used for real.

dogslayeggs , in UNESCO calls for schools around the world to ban smartphones in the classroom

I’m going to file this under “No shit” but in the sub-folder “Good luck.”

homesweethomeMrL , in Ukraine MP under criminal investigation over Maldives holiday

“What, I can’t take sick leave and go on vacation abroad?”

Well, no. At least he knew enough to resign.

SeaJ , in Sinéad O’Connor, Irish Singer of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ Dies at 56

Holy shit. She had it rough. Sent to Magdalene laundries as a teen by her father who thought they were there to help. Instead it was a place of severe abuse. Spoke out about the church’s shit apology for the abuse and slave labor and was canceled because of it. She was booed off stage afterward which led Kris Kristofferson to try to comfort her after by telling her to not let the bastards get her down. Her career should have been bright but instead it never quite got back on track. And her son committed suicide last year.

SeaJ , in GOP abortion revolt swells against McCarthy spending bill

Where else should language about the abortion pill go other than the part funding the Department of Agriculture? /s

boeman ,

A certain growing number of people see women as nothing but cattle… I guess it fits their worldview.

Froyn ,

It's spelled chattel, they're just pronouncing it wrong on purpose.

candio , in Ukraine MP under criminal investigation over Maldives holiday

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  • SeaJ , in Colorado Cop Who Left Handcuffed Woman on Train Tracks Says It was an Accident

    Was the fucking railroad crossing sign not a clue that there may have been train tracks?

    keeb420 , in GOP abortion revolt swells against McCarthy spending bill

    I hate Republicans so much.

    NewsAutoMod , in Whistleblowers testify about recovered UAP craft under oath

    G’morning, Your title might not match the title of the article you linked! Could you please double check, and edit your post title if it indeed does not match? article title: “Whistleblower tells Congress the US is concealing ‘multi-decade’ program that captures UFOs” (Similairity: ~29%).

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    itsyourmom , in NASA loses contact with ISS after power outage in Texas, uses backup system for first time
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    Curious why the back up power didn’t come on till 90 minutes later though… seems like to me a long time if you’re supposed to be in constant communication with a crew aboard a space craft.

    YoBuckStopsHere ,
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    The backup is in Colorado. You keep your primary and secondary at two different geolocations in case of an emergency. 90 minutes to bring a system online and communicating is pretty good.

    NewsAutoMod , in NYC: Crane collapses after catching fire in Hudson Yards

    Hello! Your title might not match the title of the article you linked! Could you please double check, and edit your post title if it indeed does not match? article title: “New York Fire: Burning construction crane collapses into Manhattan skyscraper” (Similairity: ~36%).

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    dsemy , in Billionaire Leon Black faces lurid claim amid new flurry of Jeffrey Epstein developments

    I always wondered if they do this stuff because they feel powerful or powerless.

    Billionaires have a ton of power, an amount unimaginable to most people, but it probably also makes them acutely aware of how powerless a person is in the grand scheme of things.

    Though maybe they’re just psychos

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  • dsemy ,

    Yeah you’re probably right.

    OTOH you hear stories like how IIRC a special unit in Australia tortured people for years, with new recruits being made part of the crime, thus perpetuating this behavior. I find it hard to believe that all those who took part in that were evil from the get go. I might be remembering this totally wrong though.

    Edit: also, powerlessness personally just makes me depressed, not sadistic.

    CowsLookLikeMaps ,

    To amass that much wealth, I’d argue you have to be a psycho. You don’t get there without blood on your hands and exploiting others.

    dsemy ,

    It might be a gradual process for some though - they keep getting away with stuff so they keep escalating.

    SheeEttin ,

    People at every level do this. It’s just people being horrible people.

    SCB , in Whistleblowers testify about recovered UAP craft under oath

    This hearing was crazyballs and I recommend anyone who sees this watch it. You can find it on YouTube on the house oversight page.

    theguardian.com/…/ufo-hearing-congress-david-grus…

    Seriously a wild ride start to finish.

    PM_me_your_vagina_thanks ,

    With absolutely zero evidence, as per usual.

    hoodatninja ,
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    Huh

    sleepisajokeanyway ,

    No evidence, but what is different this time is an actual legal complaint with the IG with a lot of info the public can't see. Grusch's claims are fantastic and sound down right crazy, but his story has stayed the same. Plus with him being an intelligence agent for years with multiple government officials saying he's been trustworthy in the past.

    I look at it as either there's some faction if the government that for some reason wants us to believe there's aliens or he's not been fed lies and there's aliens and both are pretty interesting. It also was pretty bipartisan in the hearing, I was pretty surprised to see AOC there instead of just a bunch of right wing war mongerers looking to use it as an excuse to bump military funding a bit more, and she had some great questions for Grusch.

    Unfortunately if everything he says is true it would be all classified so we wouldn't hear it yet anyway making it convenient to lie, but why have a legal complaint with the IG if he just wanted to lie for fame? We've seen other UFO grifters make tons of money from people with way less effort. It's far more interesting than the normal UFO stuff just because everything seems to be handled so properly for an absolutely insane claim and either way it's going to be interesting to see what is going on, if we ever do.

    SCB ,

    If someone presents evidence in court that a reporter doesn’t get to see, there is still evidence submitted.

    Pohl ,

    If I had to make a wild guess, i think this dude got a hold of a bunch of misinformation that was meant to get to the Soviet’s in order to scare them into behaving in certain ways during the Cold War. It was bullshit built for another audience and somehow he got it handed his way as though it was fact. He isn’t lying, he has bad info and the fact that the info is bad is VERY classified.

    Is anyone from the CIA testifying, or is it all defense folks?

    SCB ,

    How would info from the 00s be “for the soviets?”

    I think you should watch the hearings.

    Pohl ,

    Yeah, I probably should be more up to date on what is being said before speculating. Not sure I have the patience but perhaps that means I should just keep my mouth shut.

    Sure will be interesting to see where this ends though.

    SCB ,

    I can save you two hrs (though it is a very interesting hearing). There are basically 3 possible options, given the paper trail/witnesses.

    1: There is a massive public/private embezzlement scheme going on, and “off the books” UAP funding is one of the many ways funds are embezzled

    2: UAPs are alien craft, past and present, and the US has some forms of these craft (some very old, some shot down or crashed recently) and studies them off the books

    3: There is a massive disinformation network that our own auditing got caught up in

    All 3 are pretty wild stories, from a government-transparency/constitutional balance of power concern.

    Pending evidence review in a SCIF (next hearings), it seems the most likely outcome is #1 or #2, both of which are fucking crazy and worth headlines.

    surewhynotlem ,

    #1 is hardly far fetched. Create an organization in the government with a top secret rating. Divert money. Avoid all questions or fake some answers occasionally. Grift for decades.

    SCB ,

    It’s not so much that it’s far fetched as something we really, really want to catch and disincentivize

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