Tweet's kinda misleading. Scientists found sodium phosphates in ice particles in Saturn's E-ring, which is mostly composed of water ejected from Enceladus' ocean. We still don't have direct confirmation of phosphorus compounds in that ocean, and the relevant study points out that the phosphates in the ocean, if they're there, are probably unevenly distributed.

Lol I went home to a cold bed with no new digits, but I appreciate the thought.

Not anymore

Old Kurzweilian definition of singularity was the birth of true AI, the point past which any prediction of the future was inherently impossible.

Now, it's, I dunno, when you can run all society off some techbroified algorithm.

Went to a local pride month mixer on Sunday, ended up getting way too drunk and raving at the top of my lungs about how we're all fucked because no one can imagine (much less wants to build) a future outside capitalism and none of us are prepared for the collapse of our imperially-inflated lifestyles.

Lol, lmao even. I'm great at first impressions.

Shit, I'll take it. :connolly-shining:

spending literally any effort on people whose lives are fine instead of the actual acute points of contradiction is a complete waste of time, energy, and resources, and likely a reflection of profound myopia

He says, many article-length comments deep on a person whose life is fine.

I don't think it's fantastical for that urge to extend to outer space. People have been progosticating humanity visiting other planets since the 1800s.

B L E A K

People who call normal sedans 'vehicles.'

I blame god for making me both dummy thic and just a regular dummy.

worst fashion and music

I like Metallica tho

They're bringin back the 80s!

The 1780s

I got flirted with in the gym and was too startled and tired to even register it :deeper-sadness:

Oh so then this is just the feds throwing a temper tantrum

It's 1957, but it's 1968, but it's 1982, but it's 2003, but it's 2016

It's a new McCarthyism under a more desparate administration. The priority is to batten down the hatches and preserve the fed's degrading institutional legitmacy at all costs, including it and allied media institutions' monopoly on information.

Spot of hope? The first gilded age was succeeded by the progressive era, when we got speakeasies and revolutions and the birth of most modern welfare systems

:data-laughing: oh god a Hillary / Trump rematch would be too fucking good

That'll be their lawyers' defense probably, but I doubt it'll matter. Federal prosecutors have a leg up over defense attorneys from the get go, and any juror who hasn't been in cryogenic storage since the 1970s has been raised on a lifetime of China bad! conditioning.