The article's lead authors are reputable scholars with numerous peer-reviewed articles under their belts.

Yes, it's a pre-print, but calling it "slop" is hardly warranted.

The headline (AND the summary, AND the article) literally says "surrounding areas," i.e., ocal warming, NOT global warming.

The only person claiming this is about AGW is you. Poor reading comprehension, or intentional disingenuousness? Folks can come to their own conclusions.

You're wrong.
A meteor is a piece of naturally occurring space debris that has entered and is traveling through earth's atmosphere. A meteorite is a portion of a meteor that has survived the trip through the atmosphere and landed on the ground.
The thing that "rumbled over Houston" was most definitely a meteor. The fragment that landed on the bed was a meteorite. The article and summary use the terms correctly throughout.
All meteorites start out as meteors, but not all meteors lead to meteorites.
It might be space-related, but it ain't rocket science.

The rare exception to the general rule that you can't win the lottery if you don't play.

Fun fact, but not entirely true. While Canada and the upper Midwest were devoid of earthworms at the time of European colonization, the Mid-Atlantic, including some of the earliest places the British settled like Virginia and Southeast Pennsylvania, the Southeast, the Southern Midwest, and all of the U.S. Pacific coast all had native worms present.
So the breadbaskets of the original 13 colonies, not to mention all of Spanish North America, were in areas that did have worms.
Now, the invasive European worms did end up outcompeting the native worms, so even in many of the areas that had them, you are more likely to find the European variety today, but there are still areas even in the U.S. where native species predominate
https://www.biorxiv.org/conten...

Uh, if you've been around here as long as you have and have trouble recalling the many, many idiots espousing the idea that the moon landing was a hoax over the years, it might be time to sign yourself up for biweekly Leqembi shots.

Your numbers are the exact opposite of reality. RacetotheWH, which aggregates several polls, including some ludicrously partisan right wing ones (cough, Napolitano, cough) has Trump sitting at 40.1 %. And most of these polls were taken before the scope of the disaster that is now quickly unfolding in Iran was apparent.Yougov/Economist, which is considered reputable with a mild right bias in the U.S., and whose survey period ended on the 16th has Trump at 36%. Granted, the pollsters aren't exactly the same now, with some having gone under and others popping up over the last 12 years, but Obama's aggregate approval at this point in his term was around 44-45%.

It's Slashdot. We're all old here.

BULL. FUCKING. SHIT.

The venues existed LONG before Ticketmaster/LN did, and they did just fine booking acts and selling tickets. And they did it without apps of any kind. Just because you are too lazy to pick up the phone and call the box office to purchase a ticket doesn't mean that everyone else is, too.

But wait, you can't do that anymore because LN, in the same contracts they use now in most cases contractually REQUIRES venues to sell exclusively through LN with their fees even at the box office. And that's only in the venues that aren't owned outright by LN, usually as the result of predatory and coercive tactics used to acquire them. And these days, that's most music venues that are larger than a bar and smaller than an arena.

LN is also so vertically integrated that even in venues they don't own, they prohibit independent concessioneers and even parking. And LN sets the prices for ALL of that.

And oh yeah, did I forget to mention that they also typically require the acts that sell tickets through them to sign exclusivity contracts as well? It's a devil's bargain - either sign with us or forget about 90+% of the venues out there. This means that acts that fall anywhere between local bar/college hoppers and Taylor Swift/Pearl Jam, essentially have to sell through Live Nation, or they simply can't put on a tour.

This is the definition of monopolistic, predatory behavior.

blah, blah, blah.

You are one of two things: 1) in the unlikely event you are telling the truth about your "muscle", an overinflated roid freak with shrunken testes and bacne, or 2) yet another liar on the internet bragging about how "swole" he is.

Your height/weight combo is neither healthy nor anything close to a "reasonable" size. The ideal weight for your height is 75kg, roughly HALF your claimed weight.

Yet you ludicrously come on here crying about how other people take up too much space on airplane seats. In the meantime, other people have to put up with your oversized ass, literally bigger than 99% of the other people getting on that plane with you.

Do yourself a favor. Tell whichever of your 17 doctors who is illegally prescribing you the Nandranole to prescribe you Ozempic instead. You'll likely live decades longer, and the people travelling next to you will appreciate not having your gorillalike body intruding into their seat, nor having to smell the disgusting roid BO you have

HAHAHAHA, Yeah, right.

Arnold Shwarzengger at his peak size in 1974 was 6' 2" (188cm) at "only" 107kg (235lb).

That looks like this:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/...

Sorry, that's not at all "reasonable" to sit next to in an airplane seat. 23kg heavier is even less reasonable. And 150kg at 195cm of "muscle" is larger than Hulk Hogan at his most massive (137kg), whose real height was 193cm, not the 200cm at which he was billed. And Hulk was positively enormous. Here he is absolutely dwarfing former heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali:
https://www.worthpoint.com/wor...

And even if we accept the dubious proposition that you are as large as you say you are, and it's just as much muscle as you claim it is, then you are making just as much, nay, more of a lifestyle choice than that "200kg" (440lb, surely a massive exaggeration) woman you complain about sitting next to did. She undoubtedly got to that weight due to a health problem, whereas getting to the "rather built" 130kg of pure muscle you claim really about from a combination of massive amounts roids, overeating, and huge amounts of gym time.

And now that GLP-1 drugs are widely available, that "200kg" woman probably now weighs half that, while you continue to elbow aside normal-sized people with your size.

Hate to break it to you, but you are just as much a "land whale" as the people you admonish. YOU are the asshole.

Is rhis a joke?

Hate to break it to you, buddy, but 150kg at 195cm isn't a "reasonably sized human." It's a massive outlier, and is in fact grossly overweight, whether it's "muscle," (yeah right), or fat. To the metric-challenged, that's 330 lbs at 6' 4".

That is heavier and similar in height to the average NFL lineman and would put you in the 99th percentile of all Americans by weight. And Americans are not exactly known for being particularly svelte.

Why half ass it? Go all the way and install noise activated ejection seats!

The largest exporters of Uranium fuel to the U.S. as of 2023 were close (well, maybe not quite so close at the moment) allies Canada and Australia, with Kazakhstan closely behind in third. What's more, the amount of Kazakhstan's exports to the U.S. are nearly identical to the amount domestic U.S. production has decreased since 2003, mainly because the U.S. International Trade Administration halted antidumping restrictions in the late 90s precisely because it was a convenient way to keep their Uranium from going to Russia.

There's nothing preventing the U.S. from ramping its own production back up to make up any shortfall if necessary, and it's not like Kazakhstan has a stranglehold on the U.S. market.

The dude wasn't "retarded." He was schizophrenic. And the fact that you are unable or unwilling to tell the difference shows that you are a real piece of shit.

And so are the other pieces of shit who uprated you.