"Trump has lavished praise on Putin, obsequiously hosted him in Alaska, and attempted to give the Kremlin preemptive concessions while displaying hostility to Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government in Kyiv as well as toward America’s oldest allies." (from March) www.liberalcurrents.com/a-new-era-of...

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oh you are gonna like my next book...

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...this the reason for wanting to get Starliner up and running and trying to get the ISS replacements expedited. Spoiler: we will have a gap between ISS and the new stations. Was commercial space the cure for the disease of expensive space exploration? After all this time, the jury is still out. ###

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This venture into commercial space hasn't worked the way NASA had planned. It was hoped that they would create two companies capable of supporting low Earth Orbit while NASA did the heavy lifting and took on the risks of exploration. That blew up with F9/Dragon announcing their sunset years...

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I explained the weird AI company belief that their software algorithms are sentient and feel pain to my students today, and then briefly outlined the rationalists, so we could talk about theosophists without acting like they were weird because it was a century ago. They're weird because humans are.

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