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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5763205

One is attached to the International Space Station, and the other is collecting data as a stand-alone satellite. The latter would meet its permanent demise after burning up in the atmosphere if the mission were to be terminated.

A 2023 review by NASA concluded that the data they'd been providing had been "of exceptionally high quality."

The observatories provide detailed carbon dioxide measurements across various locations, allowing scientists to get a detailed glimpse of how human activity is affecting greenhouse gas emissions.

(Ex NASA employee) David Crisp said it "makes no economic sense to terminate NASA missions that are returning incredibly valuable data," pointing out it costs only $15 million per year to maintain both observatories, a tiny fraction of the agency's $25.4 billion budget.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34039842

Judge to consider halting operations at 'Alligator Alcatraz' over environmental concerns

Known for the eponymous reptiles that inhabit the nearby swamps, the migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" faces the possibility of being shut down over concerns about some of the area's lesser-known inhabitants -- the Everglades' bats, panthers, and storks.

A federal judge on Wednesday is set to hold an evidentiary hearing over whether to block operations at the controversial facility because construction of the site allegedly bypassed federally required environmental impact studies.

The hearing -- at which federal, state, and tribal officials are expected to testify -- comes amid heightened scrutiny of the facility, which was once touted as a "one-stop shop to carry out President Trump's mass deportation agenda."

Hackers tricked workers over the phone at Google, Adidas, and more to grant access to Salesforce data.

I got this message sent to me a while back, I guess because I signed up for a Trump rally to screw with him. Anyways, does this mean that these messages are actually monitored lmao?

Originally Posted By u/No_Replacement1772 At 2025-08-06 06:04:52 PM | Source

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On a thread about Germans not wanting to "fight for their country", some blames the rich, while this one idiot decides to become a nationalistic xenophobe. 🤦‍♂️

I'm so sick of half the country having their heads buried far up billionaires' asses. One orange man's in particular.

I mean do they really think he or any of his friends give a shit about working class success??? How in the world do they still think he wants to make middle class quality of life better? Misery & oppression is the only future I see for the middle class under his reign thus far...

This individual stiffed several contractors because he was too cheap to pay them after performing work then took them to court when the stiffed contractors demanded pay and he drowned them in court fees resulting in their bankruptcy, bitched and moaned about having to pay union wages as his tower in Chicago was being built and stole $$ from people in the middle class who thought they were going to receive an education at his university...what the hell is wrong with people that they hold him as some kind of working class messiah???

He and his billionaire friends have held us all in this seemingly unbreakable debt bondage captivity for decades while getting richer in the process...you think they actually want that to end???!!

C'mon America wake up!!!

Ignorance is bliss so they say...but it's about time people get slapped out of their blissful delusional state...

Originally Posted By u/WhereztheBleepnLight At 2025-08-07 07:16:04 AM | Source

BRASILIA, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told Reuters on Wednesday of his plans for a new national policy treating strategic minerals as a matter of "national sovereignty" in order to avoid exporting minerals without adding value locally.

"We won't allow what happened in the last century to happen again, where Brazil exports raw minerals and then buys products with very high added value," the president, known as Lula, said in the interview. "We want to add value in Brazil."

Lula's comments came as a new 50% tariff hit U.S. imports from Brazil amid a political spat between the two countries linked to an investigation against the South American country's former president, Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro, under house arrest since late Monday, is standing trial on charges of plotting a coup to overturn his 2022 electoral defeat. Bolsonaro has denied wrongdoing.

there is a more consistent alternative that makes exact same sound.

it's also already established and everyone will understand it.

capital letters make string parsing slightly more pain too.

on the topic of computers, systems with case-sensitive names just get confusing when capitals are involved.

meanwhile systems without it just make capital more unnecesary.

camelCase is the only practical situation to capital letters and most of the population won't ever use that.

useless

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When right wingers make up bizarre lies about the democrats or the left or the government, people often accuse them of projection: those are things they wanted to do and often end up doing. And while that’s true, I don’t think it’s the full story. It’s also a tactic for normalizing their horrible agenda, especially among their less rabid supporters.

For 4 years Trump complained about Biden weaponizing the department of Justice against his political opponents: specifically him. This obviously wasn’t true, in fact it was very lenient on him, but he complained about it anyway. This constant lie however normalized the idea that the justice department wasn’t neutral: that it couldn’t be. That it was merely a weapon to be wielded by a party. And so, when Trump won again, he promised to wield that weapon against the enemies of the republicans. Through this process, more moderate followers who may value a neutral justice system became willing to accept an openly partisan one as necessary.

We can see something similar on our side right now with gerrymandering. Most democratic voters are against gerrymandering, but are asking the democrats to gerrymander as much as possible now in response to Texas’ new map. We’ve accepted gerrymandering as a political tool to be wielded. Now in this case it’s a response to a very real threat rather than dumbass lies, but you can see how this logic works.

You can see this over and over again in Republican politics. Attacks on free speech on college campuses? Now republican policy. FEMA camps? They exist now with more enthusiastically being built. The government chipping everyone? RFK wants to do that within 5 years. Made up Republican lies become real policy because that’s how they normalize it, and any and all platforming of those lies helps to do so, even if you’re debunking them. I’m not sure how to deal with this tactic, but I think knowing it exists is useful at least, and can show us where republicans want to go in the future.

Originally Posted By u/LineOfInquiry At 2025-08-07 01:22:17 PM | Source

Mussolini: Son Of The Century

This has probably been the most under looked show in the US, but I'm telling you, this should be shown in a museum with the work put into making this an accurate telling of the slow decent of society with a dictator's rise to power while providing some of the best cinematography I've seen. The amount of parallels are utterly terrifying and it only deepens as time passes by. I'm surprised there is no traction, or even a discussion thread on reddit, given with how much we love Andor (me myself included).

It's a fucking shame this show isn't discussed more due to how little exposure it has, with lesser known streaming services being the only avenue to watch it. I'm telling, screaming from the top of my lungs, for anyone from the US to watch this show because it's goddamn amazing and deserves your undivided attention. And once you're done, tell other people about it too.

WATCH IT NOW, and learn how you could become a fascist too.

Originally Posted By u/Biohazardcookie At 2025-08-07 03:56:37 PM | Source

Seriously? Whoever expected Elaine to throat-punch a military leader and take his walkie-talkie away?

Sup, responding from the inbox tab seems to zoom out the app slightly? Gif of me replying to someone as post and gif of how it usually looks below

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