But am loving watching mr Musk leading the charge ,
McFlock 4.1.1.1
That dude pisses me off.
I give him a 20% chance of creating indentured servitude on Mars or just creating an elysium satellite for rich people in orbit.
bwaghorn 4.1.1.1.1
Probably but the frontier is always a wild place .
Humans are expansionist to our core might as well accept it and get on with . Going way out west to chance your luck on mars has to be preferred to the lofty goals of getting a fucking huge mortgage and slaving your life away to pay it off .
McFlock 4.1.1.1.1.1
I heard years ago that the westward expansion in the US had only a third of settlers survive five years out there.
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Biden may be stuck with the cronies and allies Trump appointed to government boards
Biden’s team is looking into whether it can replace dozens of Trump’s last-minute appointments to boards and commissions. It won’t be easy.
Corey Lewandowski speaks outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Nov. 5, 2020, in Philadelphia. At left is Pam Bondi. | Matt Slocum/AP
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Before leaving office, Donald Trump appointed dozens of allies and former aides to a wide range of government boards and commissions and there s not much Joe Biden can do about it.
Pam Bondi is helping oversee the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Kellyanne Conway is primed for a posting on the board of the Air Force Academy. And Corey Lewandowski is set to serve on a panel that gives business advice to the secretary of Defense.
Case study - identifying myths and fallacies in Climate Science (Mis)Information Briefs
Posted on 28 January 2021 by BaerbelW
This short blog post and the linked PDF document is the result of a collaborative effort by Anne-Marie Blackburn, Dana Nuccitelli, Bärbel Winkler, Ken Rice and John Cook.
When the climate change (mis)information briefs pushed by David Legates and others started to make the rounds in January 2021 we wondered whether or not they would be worth spending any time to debunk. This is sometimes a bit of a toss-up as, on the one hand, you have to debunk misinformation often and properly, while on the other you don’t want to give it undue publicity while doing so. This is illustrated by this chart from the recently published Debunking Handbook 2020 outlining the strategic landscape for debunking:
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Two Trump appointees are being investigated for posting reports denying climate change. Source: By Lisa Friedman, New York Times • Posted: Monday, January 25, 2021
The Commerce Department’s Office of Inspector General said it will investigate an incident earlier this month in which two former Trump appointees posted debunked scientific reports denying the existence and significance of man-made climate change, purportedly on behalf of the United States government.
Senator Mazie K. Hirono, Democrat of Hawaii, along with four other Senate Democrats, had requested the inquiry into potential wrongdoing around the postings and improper use of government logos. In a letter Friday to the senator, the compliance and ethics staff of the inspector general’s office wrote, “After careful consideration, we decided to review this matter further.”