And Lift Off! A glorious launch of #MMX, the start of an amazingly awesome 5 yr round trip to Mars' moon Phobos. 1yr to get there, 3yrs exploration landing on the surface (twice), then 1yr to get home with the bounty (2tbls of Phobos dust), arriving in the Australian outback in 2031! 🥳🔭🧪🛰️🚀

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My advice to Democratic candidates is simple: Don’t take advice from “Democratic strategists” who spend the two weeks leading up to Election Day running to the nearest television studio to bash Democratic candidates.

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they're building the map that perfectly covers the territory, from the borges story "wouldn't it be fucked up if there was a map that perfectly covered the territory"

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Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

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This is really the key political development of the last 15 years, and there are waaayyyy too many people working in politics and media who don't have the stomach to just state it plainly. A lot of the other conversations happening right now are just tangential to this

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