If your first email was some @ yahoo, @ hotmail, or @ msn address… you’re officially internet OG.
You survived dial-up screeches, AIM away messages, and Geocities pages that took 45 seconds to load. The rest of us are just guests in your timeline. Respect. 🔥
People are watching Scary Movie wrong, you’re supposed to get high, wear hoodies and big bags, sneak in snacks, and eat movie nachos and laugh at the nonsense of it all.
Wow Pam Bondi REFUSED to testify under oath today to the house oversight committee. Her lawyer told her to refuse to take the oath, and that's what she did. Fucking criminals, all of 'em
He’s right bc we tax income, not wealth.
Bezos takes out a tiny salary, pays the income tax, and lives off loans borrowed against his stocks, basically tax free. They all do this and now 935 billionaires hold more wealth than 170 million Americans.
It’s time to tax wealth.
The President just used his power to exempt himself and his family from audits on every tax return they've ever filed.
If that is not corruption to the highest degree, then what is?
There it is. With Massie’s defeat, If you’re against pedophiles and child trafficking, if you oppose illegal wars of aggression or even MILDLY criticize Israel, there is no place for you in the Republican Party. That is now a fact. The fascist terrorist imperialist death cult is doing what it does. The cult is culting.
RIP, Clarence Carter.
In 2023, Billboard ranked ‘Strokin’’ (1986) at #79 on its list of ‘The 100 Best Pop Songs Never to Hit the Hot 💯’, a track simply too filthy for radio to touch.
In December last year, a team of physicists in South Dakota ended a search that had been running for 417 days. They had buried a 10-ton tank of liquid xenon nearly a mile underground. The plan was simple. Wait for a single dark matter particle to drift in and bump into a xenon atom. None ever did.
It was just the latest miss in a hunt running for ninety years. Dark matter is the name scientists give to the invisible stuff that holds galaxies together. You, the chair you are sitting on, every star in every galaxy, all of it adds up to about 15% of the matter in the universe. The other 85% is something we have never seen or caught. We only know it is out there because galaxies would fly apart without its pull.
When Kaku says dark matter might be gravity leaking from a parallel dimension, he is offering a guess at a problem nobody has solved. He has been offering the same guess since his 1994 book Hyperspace. The math behind it came from two physicists, Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum, who worked it out in 1999. Imagine a flat sheet of paper sitting on a table. The paper is our universe. Most of the forces of nature stay stuck to the paper. Gravity might be the one that can drift off and travel through the room. If another galaxy is sitting on a separate sheet next to ours, we would feel its gravity without ever seeing it.
Most physicists today think dark matter is more boring than that. It is probably a particle, heavy and ghostly, the kind that almost never touches ordinary stuff. The best evidence comes from something called the Bullet Cluster. In 2006, astronomers photographed two enormous groups of galaxies that had recently smashed into each other. The visible hot gas got stuck in the crash zone. The mass kept going. You can map where mass sits by watching how it bends the light of galaxies behind it. The map showed most of the mass sailing right through the wreckage and settling into two clumps on either side. That is how invisible particles would behave. It is very hard to explain if dark matter is just gravity acting weird.
The second blow came in 2018. The Hubble Space Telescope found a galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 with 400 times less dark matter than a galaxy its size should have. If dark matter were just gravity acting strangely, every galaxy would show the same effect. This one does not. Hubble looked again in 2021 to be sure, and the galaxy was still missing its dark matter.
So we are stuck. The evidence keeps pointing toward dark matter being a particle. Every detector built to catch one has come up empty. Kaku says it might not be a particle at all, and nobody has a way to prove him right or wrong. Ninety years in, the most accurate answer is also the most boring one. We do not know.
Note that Star columnist @jstewartIndy believes that despite the GOP in Indiana representing 55% of Hoosiers they deserve 100% of representation in Congress.
The attempt to disenfranchise your neighbor is pretty gross, but that’s the Hoosier GOP, as it harkens toward Jim Crow
I told you this was the plan. Sue them for $10 billion, have them say no but we'll give you X amount ($10 million? 100 million?) This isnt an administration it's a criminal cartel. Most corrupt president of all time and it's not even close. This is just flat robbery of American taxpayers.