RE: https://mstdn.social/@staringatclouds/117252765136015066
Why does Starlink need 42,000 (+15,000, +100,000) to provide the services that this company can provide with only 264 satellites? And why isn't anybody asking Starlink to show why they need so damn many satellites? (This is the right direction to go with engineering: provide your services with fewer satellites. Kessler is coming.)
It is secondary whether we choose belief or defiance. What is precious is that we are always able to choose.
- Ming-Dao Deng
Some powerful writing by Tom Junod about the Falling Man and 9/11:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/
California Propositions 3 & 40 - Rich people need to pay taxes; nobody becomes wealthy in a bubble. @dougporter506 https://dougporter.substack.com/p/california-propositions-3-and-40?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web #Politics
On this day, september 11, 1973, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile, Salvador Allende, was murdered in a military coup. A US-backed fascist government took power until 1990, murdering, imprisoning, torturing and driving into exile hundreds of thousands of people. Do not let this atrocity be forgotten
For some reason the weasels at Google have yet to change the name of New Mexico to New America.
#TrumpAndEpstein #NewMexico
@rameshgupta trump is terrified of Talarico.
This administration knows nutrition as well as it knows medicine. https://www.al.com/life/2026/09/snap-waivers-rescinded-in-5-states-after-court-ruling-sparks-reform-for-other-states.html?e=f4e0d1a2a65f5355187eb4a3dcba3950&lctg=5efe4c2042ce88753244f961&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter_politics%202026-09-10&utm_term=Newsletter_politics
@JamesWNeal @copter_chief Trump seems to be genuinely terrified of Talarico. Good!
Trump's “FCC has threatened me, threatened our show, our network, ABC, our affiliates, our local stations based on... guest bookings it would seem they don’t like”...
“My interview tomorrow with James Talarico will not air on tv... you will have to go to the Jimmy Kimmel Live #YouTube channel, where you will see it in its entirety...
because in the #America we live in right now, that is the best that we can do until November.”
https://meidasnews.com/news/kimmel-says-trump-fcc-threats-forced-talarico-interview-off-tv
Trump says gas is $1.99 in 3 States.
Those States are:
The state of DELUSION;
The state of DENIAL;
The state of STUPIDITY!
Gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast. The reason is alarming
How Melting Sea Ice Is Starving Whales
Gray whales are mostly bottom-feeders, scooping up mouthfuls of sediment and invertebrates as they swim along the seafloor. They trap shrimplike amphipods and filter out the muck through baleen plates attached to their upper jaws, leaving wallows and billows of mud—a nutrient feast for other organisms—in their wake. This buffet is intricately linked to the Arctic sea ice and the algae that grows beneath it.
When the algae die, they fall through the water column to the seafloor, where they feed the crustaceans that gray whales eat. But with Arctic temperatures skyrocketing, the sea ice is melting earlier and faster, disrupting the food web the whales rely on.
"It is an insult to Icelanders, Canadians and Greenlanders," Iceland's prime minister Kristrun Frostadottir said on Tuesday.
https://globalnews.ca/news/12050918/iceland-summons-u-s-ambassador-over-trump-map-post/
An ectopic pregnancy is not viable and we should stop pretending it is. Abortions save women’s lives, denying them creates situations where women die.
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