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@rat_liker Nice! 😊

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@rat_liker Beautiful! 🤩

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

“Scientists don’t want you to know” is a phrase that cracks me up always, cause if you actually meet a scientist, they will be shaking and crying like an overexcited golden retriever, desperate to tell you everything they know.

[peggy quillman 🟧 she/her @peggybq]

@rat_liker 😂😍❤️👍

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The rock that wiped out the dinosaurs was about six miles across, taller than Mount Everest, moving at 45,000 miles an hour. It hit shallow sea off what is now Mexico at 60 degrees, which a 2020 Imperial College London study found was close to the deadliest angle possible.

The steep angle mattered more than the size. Coming in at 60 degrees threw the most rock and gas high into the sky, where wind could spread it around the world. And the target was the worst it could have picked, shallow seafloor made of sulfur-rich rock. The impact turned that rock to vapor and threw billions of tons of sulfur into the air.

The blast, equal to billions of Hiroshima bombs, was only the start. As the debris thrown into space fell back to Earth, friction turned each piece into a glowing hot pellet. For up to an hour, the sky over much of the planet glowed like the inside of an oven set to broil. Anything caught in the open cooked. The only land animals with a real chance were the ones that could hide underground or underwater.

At a site in North Dakota, nearly 2,000 miles from the crater, scientists found fish buried with tiny beads of impact glass still stuck in their gills. Those fish died within an hour of the strike, killed by a wave that sloshed out of an inland sea when the ground heaved.

What finished the dinosaurs came slower. The sulfur and dust wrapped around the whole planet and blocked out the sun, and with the light gone the warmth went too, dropping global temperatures by several degrees and keeping them down for years, in some models more than a decade. Plants need sunlight to make food, so in the dark they died. The plant-eaters starved. Then the animals that hunted them starved as well, and the loss climbed up the food chain until about three quarters of every species on Earth was gone.

Here is the part the joke gets right. Birds are dinosaurs. They split off from small meat-eating dinosaurs more than 150 million years ago and lived alongside the giant ones for over 100 million years. Most birds died in the disaster too, including every last one that still had teeth. The ones that made it were small, ground-living birds with beaks that could crack open seeds, and seeds can sit buried in the soil for years, waiting out a disaster.

Those few survivors became every bird alive today, more than 10,000 species. The pigeon outside your window is a dinosaur whose family lived through the single worst day this planet has ever had.

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[Covie @covie_93]

Republicans sunk a border bill in an election year simply because they wanted to help trump while Democrats help Republicans pass a housing bill in an election year because they want to help Americans.

That's the difference between the two parties.

[peggy quillman 🟧 she/her @peggybq]

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[peggy quillman 🟧 she/her @peggybq]

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[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The minimum wage should be set at a level that, if you work 40 hours per week, you can afford housing, healthcare, and groceries, no matter the job you are doing. And that is not a radical belief.

[peggy quillman 🟧 she/her @peggybq]

@rat_liker Looks luscious!😍

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@rat_liker @butleriano Very Midwest. Ate that stuff nearly every week in summer.

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@DrNeilStone ✋

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[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Now listen, nobody is “vilifying” rich people. They are actual villains. If you run a billion dollar company, give yourself millions in dollars and benefits, but pay your individual workers less than a living wage and give them pathetic insurance, what are you if not a villain???

[peggy quillman 🟧 she/her @peggybq]

@rat_liker 😂

[peggy quillman 🟧 she/her @peggybq]

@rat_liker Exactly right!

[peggy quillman 🟧 she/her @peggybq]

@rat_liker @meowingabyss He’s saying “wean me now!”

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[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Not surprisingly, these court cases often center on same-sex parents, that is, not parents who are divorced, or divorced and remarried, or have children out of wedlock, or aren't in comformity with Catholic teachings in many other ways. What about, e.g., denying an education to a child of a parent who committed white-collar crime? Or the child of a parent who is not paying a just wage? It's the selectivity of these cases that many LGBTQ people notice. Moreover, a child should not be denied an education for any perceived failings of the parents. If Catholic schools provided education only to the children of sinless parents whose lives were 100% in conformity with church teachings, the classrooms would be empty. https://t.co/yxShF9POUg