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why is lake superior so dangerous? i cant find anything online that will give my access (not american!)

it's the largest freshwater lake on the planet by surface area, you could lose a couple of smaller countries in there and not even notice. (vs Europe)

on top of that, it's a Northern lake, so the water never really gets warmer than 50 F (10 C) even in the heat of summer, and it's famous for sudden violent storms that destroy ships and buildings alike. this thing has a MASSIVE body count because it's also a major shipping thoroughfare.

tldr it wants to eat you so so bad

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I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

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Horse colors are easy. For example, the left horse is flaxen liver chestnut and the right horse is silver dapple

Left is mealy and right is pangaré

Left is flaxen chestnut and right is dark palomino

Left is perlino and right is amber champagne

Left is dun and right is buckskin

Like I said, easy!

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Long-tailed Broadbills (Psarisomus dalhousiae).They are found in forests across the Himalayas, extending through Northeastern India to Southeast Asia.

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people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

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Randomly curious:

Everyone I know would know of these, and many would have some in their kitchens. So now I'm curious how far that knowledge goes.

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[Video description: Four videos that have been stitched together; the first three are captioned. One: A lawyer in a suit says smugly, "I sued a 9-year-old kid and won!" Two: A bearded person sits outside and says ironically, "I challenged a nine year old kid to a basketball game and won." Three: A person wearing a yellow bandanna as a sweatband says dramatically, "I challenged a nine year old kid to a bench press competition, and won." Four: A (presumably) nine year old kid walks across a lawn, shaking their head slightly and sounding out of breath as they say, "I had the worst day of my life." End description.]

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Hey, Ohio friends!

Please, please, please, I need you to call or email Governor DeWine before the 30th of June and tell him to veto the provision of House Bill 96 that requires libraries to rearrange and reclassify materials related to sexual orientation and gender identity so that they are not readily accessible to people under the age of 18.

This bill has already been passed as a part of the state busget, but Governor DeWine has until June 30th to review and veto it, which is why you need to call or email his office asap!

Call the governor’s office at: 614-466-3555

Email the governor’s office via this web form: https://governor.ohio.gov/contact

The Columbus Metropolitan Library system has a great bit of info explaining more about what the provision is and why it’s bad:

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evanescence bring me to life and britney spears toxic are sisters to me

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my issue with the argument that "disliking ai art is inherently reactionary" is that it acts like pro-ai art people are somehow less reactionary on their views on art, when like the majority of defense's of ai art as like a higher form art are indistinguishable from the arguments people use to defend the art of like. hitler

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the tiktok itself is funny but i’m deeply obsessed with this dog

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I don’t have that dog in me, I have that gator in me. Bask in sun. Bask in water. Eat fish. Run weirdly. Burry children in sand. Bask.

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But Sotomayor is concerned not just about this particular right: “No right,” she warns, “is safe in the new legal regime the court creates.” From this point on, courts will have to limit their relief to the parties, denying judges the ability to stop an unconstitutional policy dead in its tracks. The Trump administration will take immediate advantage of this decision: It currently faces more than two dozen nationwide injunctions, and it can now compel judges to severely cut back the scope of those orders. The president can resume implementing many elements of his agenda, including the illegal impoundment of appropriated funding, foreign-aid cuts, voter suppression, and immigration restrictions. Sotomayor decries this outcome, writing:

The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort. With the stroke of a pen, the president has made a “solemn mockery” of our Constitution. Rather than stand firm, the Court gives way.

“Such complicity,” she concludes, “should know no place in our system of law.”

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Jackson also penned a separate dissent that used even harsher rhetoric to accuse the majority of, in essence, crowning Trump a king. The court, the justice writes, has created a “zone of lawlessness within which the executive has the prerogative to take or leave the law as it wishes.” As this “lawlessness” flourishes, “executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.”

She condemns the decision as an “existential threat” to democracy and civil rights, one that “will surely hasten the downfall of our governing institutions, enabling our collective demise.” And she expressed her “deep disillusionment” with the court for giving Trump this immense gift.

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In addition to blatantly going against the 14th amendment, my understanding is that from now on federal court rulings will only apply to that plaintiff. So in order to find relief from an illegal law, everyone in the country would have to go to court. It's INSANE. ETA: More on that here.

Sotamayor: “Suppose an executive order barred women from receiving unemployment benefits or black citizens from voting. Is the Government irreparably harmed, and entitled to emergency relief, by a district court order universally enjoining such policies? The majority, apparently, would say yes.”

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Sotamayor: “This Court endorses the radical proposition that the President is harmed, irreparably, whenever he cannot do something he wants to do, even if what he wants to do is break the law.”

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If birthright citizenship isn't safe then nothing is. By the end of Trump's term, only white men may be allowed to vote. Hell, if the birthright citenship amendment isn't safe, then neither is the one abolishing slavery. The constitution is now meaningless. We are officially a post-law country. It's the worst ruling since Dredd Scott.

ETA: This is what history books will point to as the final straw in the downfall of US democracy. It's that bad.

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