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uspol, and also politics in general 

For the rule of law to be respected by the people, the rule of law must first respect the people themselves.

Frankly, it's time to fucking riot. Donald Trump's -very election- should've been the last goddamn drop. Now they're rooting themselves in to make themselves completely impossible to get rid of through the system itself.

Let's not get wrapped up in decades of fascist dictatorship and likely make the rest of the world follow along, shall we?

tech bros 

did you know: when people ask for help with a thing, literally the least helpful response you can possibly give is "do not use [thing], use [different thing that I like better] instead"

update 

never mind y'all, got it back to work; required me to uninstall, restart, -then- reinstall

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tech gripe, help appreciated 

so I updated windows, and everything's okay... except dropbox, which magically stopped connecting to the internet.

anyone got any pointers to help me out with this other than waiting for an eventual update? I've already tried reinstalling and disabling anything that may put a proxy in the way, made sure it's allowed through the windows firewall too, still nothing.

*first moon orbiting a planet in another system, rather

hi I'm really tired

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sure it's literally the easiest possible object to find of its type (a neptune-sized gas giant orbiting a superjovian at a great distance), but the fact that we've found something like this at all is kind of amazing

also it's a fucking -small gas giant orbiting another, larger gas giant-. that may very well have formed in place. if that's confirmed that bodes super well for finding like, actual habitable moons around gas giants in the future

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so, we may have found our first moon orbiting another planet? advances.sciencemag.org/lens/a

it isn't confirmed yet (much like between the first detection of an exoplanet {1988} and the first confirmed one {1992, or '95 if we're talking main sequence stars}, this'll take years), but the evidence so far is well in favor of the object in question being a moon instead of a planet and honestly I'm excited as hell for this?

reminder to US folks, USpol-adjacent 

can't receive alerts if your phone is set to airplane mode, and if enough people do it you may just overload the system with bounceback messages

deeeeefinitely don't use this information or anything :thinkhappy:

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