Fine: Sounds like there are four genders, and each should get equal protections under the law.

There’s no such thing as unbiased media.

The only waste in government is corruption. “Inefficiencies” are actually resiliency—a crucial trait of any social system.

that’s a page, not a site

you’ll have to tell us which one is the best :)

etc.

Several planets orbiting two stars at once, like the fictional Star Wars world Tatooine, have been discovered in the past years. These planets typically occupy orbits that roughly align with the plane in which their host stars orbit each other. There have previously been hints that planets on perpendicular, or polar, orbits around binary stars could exist: in theory, these orbits are stable, and planet-forming discs on polar orbits around stellar pairs have been detected. However, until now, we lacked clear evidence that these polar planets do exist.

Absolute banger-of-an-example-of-a-sentence that needs more hyphens.

You may not know it, but SSDs will lose data after a period of time if they are simply left unplugged, which can be a serious threat to your data if you store backups or precious files on unplugged SSDs. A year-two update on the how long can SSDs store data unpowered video series is another reminder about the importance of regularly refreshing your backups with a bit of juice. The tests consist of storing data on an SSD and then leaving it unplugged for years to see the impact on the stored data.

Reminds me of the flame wars in newsgroups about whether top-posting or bottom-posting (quote after or before reply) was holier.

What’s “Google”?

Back in the day being a thread necromancer was frowned upon. Now, it doesn’t bump the thread to the top of the forum, so who cares

I never even saw the problem back then. If new info made the thread relevant again (even if it was just that someone new had something to say), it was fine with me to see a thread pop back up to the top.

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It’s this exactly. It muddies the legitimate criticism.

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In fact, more than half of normal matter—half of the 15% of the universe’s matter that is not dark matter—cannot be accounted for in the glowing stars and gas we see.

New measurements, however, seem to have found this missing matter in the form of very diffuse and invisible ionized hydrogen gas, which forms a halo around galaxies and is more puffed out and extensive than astronomers thought.

The findings not only relieve a conflict between astronomical observations and the best, proven model of the evolution of the universe since the Big Bang, they also suggest that the massive black holes at the centers of galaxies are more active than previously thought, fountaining gas much farther from the galactic center than expected—about five times farther, the team found.

“We think that, once we go farther away from the galaxy, we recover all of the missing gas,” said Boryana Hadzhiyska, a Miller postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and first author of a paper reporting the findings. “To be more accurate, we have to do a careful analysis with simulations, which we haven’t done. We want to do a careful job.”

“The measurements are certainly consistent with finding all of the gas,” said her colleague, Simone Ferraro, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and at UC Berkeley who saw hints of this extensive ionized hydrogen halo in analyses published three years ago.

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offer me eternity,
and I’ll trade a cup of coffee and a dime looking for a handout
on behalf of those who have so little time

but who wants to live on just 70 cents a day? padding your pockets doesn’t make this a better place
“cereal and water” is a feast for some you say
your price-tag on existence can’t cover your double face

quality or quantity: a choice you have to make

dipping in the icing
bringing home the largest turkey from the field
breaking all the piggy banks, scooping up the booty
licking all the right holes, bolstering the payroll

why reduce life to a dollar amount per day?
and why let the world think this is the American way?
your uneaten greens are a feast for some you say
survival and living are concepts you can’t equate

quality or quantity: don’t tell me they’re the same

More than 1 million Californians and Texans are about to face a new level of financial surveillance from the federal government. Although cash transactions over $10,000 have long been reported under current law, now many transactions of as little as $200 will have to be reported in 30 ZIP Codes along the border with Mexico. Financial surveillance in the United States has needed reform, but this policy marks little more than another intrusion into the lives of Americans.

How about education should never be touched when it comes to budgets?

But what does POTUS stand for?