[-] Wooster@startrek.website 16 points 9 months ago

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 18 points 9 months ago

Legit asking:

Up until relatively recently, the layman’s understanding of pollution was mostly focused on exhaust.

What caused the general shift in focus to microplastics, and by direct extension tire ware?

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 16 points 9 months ago

Cool.

Do Facebook next.

They are doing Facebook next, right?

Right?

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 15 points 9 months ago

The joint legal brief clarifies that it is indeed collusion. And continues to explain how this is a technological evolution of the handshake.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 17 points 11 months ago

How would it be split? Unless Trump is successfully removed from the ballot, Trump is the only candidate that republican voters actually want.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

I mean, it's not anything special to presidency. With concerts, it's the conductor that gets the praise… with companies, it's CEOs, with sports it's usually coaches.

We're not good in general at remembering the individuals, let alone acknowledging them and their cog in the machine. A flaw to be sure, but a universal one.

That said, I certainly agree with the sentiment, the wrong people do get the praise and blame for those under their authority.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Morgan Stanley sees two potential outcomes for housing prices next year.

One, if mortgage rates slide from their peak this year, the housing market could see demand ramp up, pushing prices up another 5% in 2024.

On the other hand, if mortgage rates remain high and the U.S. enters a recession, that will scare off homebuyers and home prices will recede more.

So effectively, either way, they will remain out of reach.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago

This.

It is easy, and justified to blame Trump for being anti-vax to have gotten as mainstream as it has…

… but that was only able to gain traction in the first place because people are being offered the choice between healing and going broke.

At some level, conscious or not, this is the masses rebelling against a system that has actively harmed them.

Unfortunately, the outlet for this rebellion actively harms them and is decidedly not in their best interests. It’s going to take at least a generation to rebuild that trust, and our medical system is going to fight tooth and nail to keep that trust ruined in the name of maximum profits,

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago

With my (admittedly limited) understanding of the topic, extracting the water from ocean water is a relatively simple process.

The problem is what do you do with the brine afterwards. The process featured in the article makes it harder for the brine to clog the system, which is admittedly an important step. But you can’t put the brine back into the ocean without risking killing local wildlife.

And I’m not under the impression that there are any practical uses for brine, at least not at that scale.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago

As a filthy casual with little to no knowledge of comics outside of a few cartoons…

… I’m incredibly confused and distracted by retro-cyborg’s design.

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

The unfortunate reality is that a not insignificant portion of US voters conflate modern Israel with biblical Israel.

Any stance other than full support of anything Israel does will stick Biden with the Right version version of being racist: an antisemite—and getting that label is enough to get apathetic right leaning voters to go to the polls.

Trump played the Israel card all the time and his base loved him so much for it that they would plug their ears whenever his crimes came to light.

Biden has the unenviable position where if he shows any signs of disapproval of Israel’s actions, he risks another Trump presidency. (Which is absolutely insane considering the whole insurrection thing.)

[-] Wooster@startrek.website 18 points 1 year ago

In layman’s terms, what is happening to the voided properties?

The fact that Trump is appointing the independent feels… conflict of interesty.

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