Nope. No matter where you look in the sky, on large enough scales it looks the same. There's no indication that things are significantly different in any particular direction.

There can't be a 'source' of a Big Bang that looks like that. It has to happen everywhere or the sky would show signs that it was all accelerating away from a single point.

What we can say is we don't really have much ability to figure out what happened early on. The conditions are too extreme and we don't have any way to model what might have been going on. That's not faith either, that's, "We don't know and might never be able to figure it out".

Maybe Brave respects my choices more, but I still install Ghostery and UBlock Origin.

>If this is true then wouldn't the Biden admin have wanted the BLS to hide or change the CPI reports during those first couple years in the supply chain crunch when those numbers were just destroying their approval ratings?

The difference is between 'spin' and 'outright lying'. Normal governments will show the stats you can examine until the cows come home without being able to say they're lying. They adjust the definition of who is employed or seeking employment, things like that. They can still look bad, because they're still reporting aspects of the real facts.

I think the measure I was talking about is referred to as the "Labor Force Participation Rate", but I'm not sure.

There's a stat - I forget the name for it - but it's basically "The percentage of hours worked out of all those who would normally be expected to be working".

If you're of working age, not prevented by disability, etc., you would be counted. It can't be fudged by not counting people who have just given up, it can't be fudged by counting part time employment. And you can combine that with the wage distribution curve, and then the wealth distribution curve to get a pretty good picture of the overall economic health of your population.

I've never heard of a government that wants that. Generally, economic reports are spun to make the government look more effective than it has been and to protect the wealthy against accusations of hoarding that might result in taxation. A really bad government might just give up on spin and, say, fire people who won't just tell whatever lie they want.

In space, the problem becomes apparent rapidly. You have to worry about every action having a reaction - and though the forces are always equal, the velocities resulting very much depend on the relative masses.

On a space walk, forgetting that can mean testing out your tether or losing hardware. Or maybe (though I'd think unlikely): getting caught between two massive things you can't just flick out of the way because they're 'weightless'.

I grudgingly concede the point, but I may or may not hold an actual grudge about it.

> Roman's primary mirror "is about the same size as that of Hubble's, but at 80% less weight

While accurate, it's not the right way to express the idea for something that will be in free fall. It's 80% less mass. Nobody has to hold this thing up over a significant gravitational source - it will have no 'weight', what it will have is momentum based on its mass.

It's going to be GTAV with nicer graphics and then degraded by attempts to maximize DLC and online subscriptions.

>the challenge for the rest of the country is to keep these about 33% utterly deranged people under control.

They're strong because they were tolerated. They came out from under their rocks and were not immediately chased back under them. They coordinated. They kept pushing and every time someone tried to be 'reasonable' instead of recognizing the pattern and putting a stop to it, they advanced.

They're not going to give up that perceived advantage peacefully. The ones in office will do everything they can to further corrupt the system, and if that fails they will straight up refuse to give up.

You can't actively tear down academia and scientific institutions and simultaneously advance in the space sector. You can't burn the economy to the ground and launch a lunar mission.

Space is difficult, and space is expensive. You need smart, educated, driven people and enough economic productivity to support them.

On the other hand, if you're trying to steal some of the glory of an existing institution without worrying whether it will even be able to launch a firework a decade from now without a fatal accident on the launch pad... yeah, go ahead. "Trump Science Academy" it is.

No. To your entire manifesto. Your path leads to us drowning in American propaganda, and right now we have an excellent example to the south of us showing the end game.

- An English Canadian

It's not that bad yet, but I think it is a lot closer than the average American believes it is. All the mechanisms are in place, they just haven't been fully employed yet because they're being pushed a little at a time so there's no big incitement to revolution.

It's too late for that, 'law enforcement' has unfettered access to Americans within the US. It doesn't matter what OS you use when they can just march in and disappear you.

Tech bros are difficult to classify. I think they might be the new version of the 80s finance bros; people who have control of an industry where money seems easy to make, influence and power come with the job, but who don't really have the expertise that should be required for the job... except mix that a bit with a toxic engineer personality instead of a toxic jock personality.

You need a national program pushing Linux right now. Windows is a backdoor into every company that uses it - Microsoft can install whatever it wants, monitor whatever it wants, exfiltrate whatever it wants.

365 is exponentially worse, because you can't even shut the computer off if you discover it's happening. Microsoft will tell you the data is, as per your local laws, in a data center in an approved region... but it's all accessible from the USA.

It's one call from the Trump admin away from being an active compromise. It's not like the Trump admin hasn't already been dumb enough, multiple times, to pull the trigger on things that only work once and then make everything worse for themselves going forward.