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@HoopyLoopyNaka @sunfellow Keep in mind Planet X has been going to destroy us any day now since the 1990's. I've survived 3 Planet X apocalypses, not counting the swarm of Oort Cloud comets that were never unleashed.

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@jimjoyer @breakingnorfolk We're all just guessing at this time. Nothing official has been said and there have been no leaks to any reporters with a reputation to support the wild claims. People are filling the information gap with noise, as always.

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@JinpingJoe @mikedizzll @breakingnorfolk And impact location. Land will be much more of a problem than deep ocean or ice cap. And, one strike or a broken up swarm.

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@voyagerstar10 @grok @breatheinunity @breakingnorfolk It would imply that every satellite we have pointed at the sun and every enthusiast with a solar telescope somehow missed it or is also in on this vast conspiracy. This is camera artifacting like when people thought bugs in flight were rods and only visible with digital cameras.

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@xVT66 @breakingnorfolk Also, the current solar cycle is past maximum. While it is true that the largest flares happen around this current phase the solar disk is pretty quiet right now.

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@xVT66 @breakingnorfolk Carrington Event fear goes around every solar cycle, but I can tell you from working around utility electrical engineers that a lot of effort has been made to harden the grid and comms systems for such an event. Things will go down but it won't be to the level of the doom posts.

[MNRick 🇺🇸🦅 @MNRick_v3]

A story of the Minnesota tater tot hotdish.

Tater tot hotdish is not just a casserole in Minnesota. Do not call it just a casserole. A regular casserole is something people in other states make when they have a recipe and a plan. Tater tot hotdish is what Minnesota makes because there is a funeral, a church potluck, a hockey tournament, a blizzard, or a Tuesday.
The formula has three parts and every Minnesota family that grew up eating it knows them without being told.
A starch on top, which is tater tots, arranged in rows by somebody with strong feelings about it. A binder, which is a can of cream of mushroom soup, occasionally cream of chicken, and if somebody uses both there will be discussion. And a protein, which is ground beef browned with onion, plus green beans or corn, and which vegetable you use tells everyone exactly how your grandmother made it.
That is it. A handful of ingredients, most of them from cans or the freezer, all of them available at the Cub Foods in Minneapolis, the Hy-Vee in Rochester, or the Walmart outside a small Minnesota town at ten at night.
The tot placement is where personality shows. Some people dump the bag. Some people line them up in tight, perfectly straight rows like they are shingling a roof. That second group is not doing it for aesthetics. They are doing it because their grandmother did it and they can still hear her telling them not to leave any gaps. The pan is 9x13. It has always been 9x13. It goes in the oven at 350 and comes out when the tots are golden brown, and anybody who pulls it early and serves pale, soggy tots has failed the household.
It travels. That is the actual genius of it. Foil over the top, dish towel underneath, straight into the back seat of a Chevy Silverado or an old Ford, and it arrives at the church basement still hot.
In small-town Minnesota, that matters.
When somebody passes away, food starts showing up before anyone has figured out what to say. When a neighbor has surgery, somebody brings dinner. When the high school hockey team has a fundraiser, folding tables appear and half the town shows up carrying something baked in a rectangular glass dish.
Nobody asks who organized it. Nobody needs instructions. Somebody just says, "I'll bring a hotdish," and everybody understands.
And every Minnesota family has that one relative who insists theirs is better because they add extra cheese, use a different soup, or put the tots in a pattern that looks like somebody measured it with a ruler.
There will be arguments about whether the green beans belong in it.
There will be somebody who says their mother never used cream of mushroom.
And there will always be one person scraping the crispy corners out of the pan before anyone else gets a chance. Thats me!
Every other state has comfort food.
Minnesota has a delivery system for grief, celebration, hockey season, and winter, and it comes in a rectangle.

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

High in the atmosphere, mysterious flashes light up the sky during thunderstorms. Unconfirmed until 1989, these Transient Luminous Events, or TLEs, have mythological names like sprites, TROLLS (Transient Red Optical Luminous Lineaments), and green ghosts. 👻

Now, NASA is on the hunt with a project called Spritacular, where people across the globe photograph and study these TLEs.

NASA’s Illuminate: Out-of-this-world images shining light on our Sun and solar system.

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@survivalfitness https://t.co/sj9maz1RKe

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@survivalfitness If it does then it might not be enough. Does Japan have the websites that let you drop historic nuclear bombs on maps and overlay general prevailing winds to estimate fallout spread like the US?

Ha ha I have anxiety, but it is a real website.

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@tatertotsconor It wasn't even that long ago he was arrested in Austin.

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@SomaKazima2 I know what I'm making this weekend. Maybe with a honey batter?

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@Espertma_

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@yZuQCnZul8xQ8F8 Between 6p and 7pm. Sometimes as late as 8pm.

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@drinkonsaturday There is a way easier way to do this with folding frozen puff pastry sheets to make pockets and baking them then filling them. Like way easier.

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@gbf_kanik I have bad news. We have that.

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@theheinekentom @SummerYuleRDN I heard that one was decent but not nearly as good as the restaurant.

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@MwRDkY @Gkhangknnnn @slmhktn Marathon Fusion, a San Francisco startup, announced in October 2026 that it successfully transformed liquid mercury into stable gold atoms using neutrons from fusion reactions. In theory they may be able to produce several tons a year, but details are not clear.

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@creamboy22 @ashitagawa_hrak If they ever try shrimp and grits they will understand.

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@Bober_smart Neighbor disputes are about to reach new levels of annoying.